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So I woke up this morning with a very odd song in my mind. And this is one of the

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things... this is how it works for me. I don't know if it works for other people

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this way or not. But I always pay attention to what's happening as soon as

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I wake up or in that half-awake half-asleep area right away in the

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morning, because that's where God will oftentimes speak to me and say something

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to me. And I also know if I'm struggling in an area spiritually or if I'm doing

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well by the kind of song that's in my head when I wake up. Because see our spirits

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never sleep. Our spirits are alert and awake all the time. We're like God. He

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never sleeps or slumbers. That's going to be an adjustment when we get there.

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We're going to have a lot of time on our hands. We sleep a third of our life away

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down here. But it is one of the things that I judge things by, because if I

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have a secular song going through my mind, that's a red flag to me. When I

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wake up it needs to be something that is praising and worshiping God. If it's

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not, something's off in me. And I have to go pursue that. So that's how it works

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with me. So when I wake up I'm always listening. What's playing in the

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background? What's going on? This morning dates back to when I was a child. I

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never liked this song. And I'll explain to you why briefly. I never liked

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this song. I was never interested in singing this song. It's a childhood

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song. Haven't thought of it since. Onward Christian soldiers. Some of you old

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ones can remember that. Onward Christian soldiers marching us to war. Okay, now

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let me explain to you why I hated this song. It was a VBS song. And they

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made us stand up in front of everybody with either a Christian flag or a

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cross. And we were supposed to march and sing that song. And I was already a

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fifth or sixth grader. Old enough to know. This is very embarrassing. So I

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never liked that song. And I woke up and that baby's playing. I'm going,

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okay. There is no way that I'm pulling this out because I just like

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that song. So God, what are you trying to tell me? And I think what he was

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trying to say is, remind me and us that this is a battle. This is a war we're

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in. I mean, Scripture talks about that. And a lot of times we forget about it.

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But this is a battle. It's a war we're in. And our goal is to win every

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battle. But we don't always. At least I don't. But our goal, the price has been

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paid for us to win every battle. Now we know we're going to win the war. Jesus

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already took care of that. But the thing we have to remember, and with the

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events that happened this last week, this is not a reaction to that. I had

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this plan to speak back a number of weeks already. In fact, I spoke this up

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at Red Lake in more of a condensed version back a month or two. So this is

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not a reaction to what happened. And you'll understand that in a bit. But I

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think sometimes Christians who are trying to live by faith, who are trying

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to believe the full gospel and go after the promises, we can condemn

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ourselves or get in shame and blame ourselves when we're struggling to win

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some battles or we lose one or two. And it's like, what's wrong with me? Well, we

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have to remember we're walking by face, not by sight. That makes a huge

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difference. In fact, Paul said it this way. 1st Corinthians 1312. The King

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James says we're seeing things through a glass darkly. I've got the amplified

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here. For now we are looking in a mirror that gives only a dim, blurred

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reflection of reality. As in a riddle or an enigma. Then when perfection

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comes, when we're face to face, we shall see in reality and face to

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face. Now I know impart imperfectly. Once we're out of this body and gone,

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we're going to look back and go, wow, we really didn't see it very clearly.

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That's not an excuse. However, it can be a reason why sometimes we just

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don't hit the ball and bat a thousand. There's only one person who ever batted

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a thousand. And it was Jesus. And we're not him. The goal is to live everything

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that covenant bought for us. That's the goal. And Jesus said our job or our

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work is to believe. He said that in John 6. To believe and then be

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changed from glory to glory to glory. So if we lose a battle now and then this

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is not a success or fail scenario. This is war. And I don't know of any war

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that's ever taken place where one side won all the battles one hundred

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percent of the time. There's always some struggles and some give and

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give and takes. So I had this song going in my head this morning and I was

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trying to be like David. He talked about laying in bed and meditating. So if any of

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you like to lay in bed a little longer, just blame it on David. So I was

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being like David, very spiritual, and meditating for a while going, well, I

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wanted to know what is this about? Where is this going? And I was reasoning

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some things through. And I've got a list of 26 things this morning and what it

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actually is, is the 26 reasons why our prayers don't get answered. That's

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what we're going to talk about. Going through my mind, while I'm laying

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there, I thought of another one that I didn't put in the list. And I'm sure

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there's many more and some of you probably can come up with some immediately.

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But going through the concept of it's a war we're in and sometimes we lose

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some battles, the Holy Spirit took me to my mother and when she was alive, all

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her life, she struggled immensely with fear. Fear was just through the rough.

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And it's not that she didn't want to get free. She wanted to get free. She

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just didn't know how. We found out toward the end of her life that this

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was actually a spirit of fear. It was a demonic thing, genealogically, that

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passed down from her father and back, I'm sure. But they didn't recognize

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that because at that time, and I don't know where they're at now, but at

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that time in the Assemblies of God, they firmly believed that demons could

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not affect Christians at all, period. So there was no teaching on getting

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free from demonic influence or anything like that. It can't happen. If

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you're saved, it can't happen. It's just, no, it never happens. So she

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never got the information to know how to beat this fear thing. So she

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struggled with fear all her life. And it was strong fear, fear, fear

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stuff. Well, it's not a pass or fail. It's a battle. And we know we

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win in the end, even if we lose a battle now and then. Well, when it

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comes to the battle of overcoming fear in her life, she never won that

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battle. She lost that battle. Well, does that mean she went to hell? No,

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has nothing to do with it. We're saved by grace through faith. It's

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not how clean, squeaky clean we are that gets us to heaven. It's a gift

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of God that's given to us by grace through faith. So it has nothing

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to do with that. However, it tormented her. She struggled with it

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all her life. And boom, it went through my mind. And the reason was

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Hosea 4-6. My people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge. She

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just didn't have the information because it wasn't given to

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her. Now the scary part about that scripture, we quote the

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first part, but the rest of it for ministers, that's really scary

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stuff right there. Just read it. My people perish for a lack of

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knowledge, then he addresses the people who are supposed to be

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giving them knowledge. And he doesn't say a kind thing. It's

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like a warning. Because you have rejected knowledge. I also

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will reject you from being a priest or a minister for me, because

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you have forgotten the law of your God. I will also, or I also

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will forget your children. So when God tries to show us

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something or does show us something, and we reject it

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because it doesn't fit our box, as ministers especially, it's

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not just affecting me. It's affecting everybody I'm

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ministering to. So it was a perfect example. So if you want

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to jot that down, number 27, a lack of knowledge causes people

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not to get answers. So with that, I thought, okay, let's

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preface what we're talking about this morning with the

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understanding that all of us are battling with things. There's

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nobody here who's got it all together. I know Pastor Eager

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likes to present like he does. I'll talk over here. I'm just

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messing with you. There's nobody here that's that's got it

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all together. We all have battles. But this isn't don't

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let shame get ahold of you. To where it's like, oh man,

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I'm worthless. I'm good for nothing. I did it has

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nothing to do with that. This is just a challenge that God

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saying go after this and see if you can take it down is the

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battle. The war we win. Here is your battle. And when we do

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take some things down, you got shame on one hand. Be careful

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for pride on the other. But you fall into that and now

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you're strutting your stuff like you actually won a

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battle because pride goes before the fall in the next

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battle. So, you know, just just some thoughts there of

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going into what we're talking about. By the way, the P the

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PowerPoint will be available with the message after it gets

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edited and put online. There is a PDF of all my points

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available for those of you watching online. If you go

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to our website and then go to messages under that tab when

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that opens up, it'll say handouts and other resources. It's

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there and it should be under that title of prayers going

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unanswered and 26 reasons they're not answered. Well, now

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we could make it 27, but we're going to go on. So, the

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reason I'm doing this is I felt God told me to do it

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number one, number two to answer an ongoing question of

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we prayed and we believe God and it didn't happen. Why?

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Well, I'm going to give you some thoughts on that this

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morning and hopefully the thoughts will help prime the

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pump so that we get more prayers answered because we

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identify some things that are going on and maybe why we

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haven't gotten the answers. So, I have 26 points. If I

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spend two minutes on each point, it's over 50 minute

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message. So, with that in mind, I'm going to go fast

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because if I dwell on a point, then I have to just

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blow through a different one. So, let's jump in and see what

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we can do here on this. Number one reason we don't get our

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prayers answered is not working the process. Ask, seek and

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knock. There's a process to this. Asking is the simple

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request. Seeking is pursuing or getting revelation. So, you

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asked and nothing happened. Well, what are you going to do

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now? Or you asked and you got a little piece of

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information or what are you going to do with that? Either

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way, you've got to seek. You've got to pursue. You've

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got to go deeper and get some revelation knowledge on

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what you're dealing with. We have to engage. Once we

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get that revelation knowledge, once we get that

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reema, now it's time to enforce it. That's knocking. Door, you

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will open for me now because now I know. The Lord has

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shown me. Holy Spirit revealed to me what this is all

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about. Now you will open. Knocking is enforcing. So,

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there's a process there. If we're not working the

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process and growing in that process, we will get

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prayers that will go unanswered. And remember for

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you scholars, in the Greek, it's in the present,

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ongoing tense, ask and keep asking. Seek and keep

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seeking. Knock and keep knocking. It cancels the

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thing of, well, I tried asking God once and it

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didn't work. Well, if you had a broken arm and

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you went to the emergency room and they turned you

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away. We're too full. We don't have time for you. Go

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home. You'd just go home and never go to an

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emergency room again, would you? I tried it once.

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They didn't let me in. No, you'd go to a different

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hospital. You'd keep until you'd find somebody

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who lets you in. That's the concept. Keep after

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it until it happens. Number two, asking, talking

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about asking, asking with wrong motives. He

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explains kind of some of their hard attitudes. You

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lost and you do not have. You murder and covet, yet

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you can't obtain. So in other words, they're

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trying to get something. And their desire, lost,

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they have huge desire for it. You murder, you

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covet. That's mouth stuff, that's heart stuff,

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but you still don't have it. You fight, you

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war, probably with your wife or your husband.

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Yet you do not have, because you do not ask.

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However, you ask and do not receive. For those of

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you who say, well, I did ask. Well, you ask and

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you do not receive, because you ask amiss. That

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you may spend it on your pleasures. In

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other words, these are selfish requests. This

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has nothing to do with the betterment of

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someone else. This has nothing to do with

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the betterment of the kingdom. This is

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about me. I want this. He says, yeah,

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you're probably not going to get much. Okay,

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two minutes sidetrack. Little story.

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When we were early in our marriage, there

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were certain things that I grew up on a

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farm. We had stuff we drove around on. We

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did stuff. We're early married. We're

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poor as church mice. We don't have any

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money to buy anything. I want to go

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camping and do some ATV and things like

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that. Well, we can't afford any of it. So

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we can't. Tap somebody on the shoulder

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and town to give me some money so I can

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do something here. He revealed a very big

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principle to me. And he didn't do it. He

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didn't speak it directly to me. He

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spoke it. I was at a minister's

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conference and the guy who was

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leading it said, this is what the Lord

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taught me and I feel like I'm

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supposed to share it. And I think he

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shared it just for me. He said, given

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it will be given unto you, pressed

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down, shaken together, running over,

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will men give into your bosom? He said,

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you and your wife are one. So giving

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it to you, giving it to her, is giving

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it to you, you're one. He said, would

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you rather have other men give

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things to your wife or would you

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rather do it? Okay. He said, set your

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heart that you want to bless your

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wife. Not have other men bless your

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wife. You want it to come through you

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to bless your wife. And he said, now

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your motives have to be pure. You

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can't play a game with this. He said,

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your motives have to be pure. He said,

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but if you will do that, God will

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get it to you so you can give it to

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her. Okay. So thank God I married

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somebody who's not big into, and

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there's nothing wrong with this, but

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she's not big into diamonds and

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jewelry and, you know, they look at

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the ring she's wearing and it's a

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Walmart for twenty bucks and it's

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like, oh, that's a massive rock.

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That must have really cost pastor

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a lot. Oh, yeah. It really set me

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back. She's just not big into that

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stuff. But do you know what she

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likes? ATVs and campers and boats

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and stuff. Trucks. Our first diesel

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truck on the back on the license

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plate had said my loves, because

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this was right after, oh man, this

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was, this is a good story. You

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got to watch a podcast. I talk

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stories there. It was right after

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the Lord had showed me this.

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Within two, three years. And she

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wanted a diesel truck. And I'm

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going, do you have any clue, woman,

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what this will cost? Why don't care.

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I think God is big enough. Well, he

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is, but he hadn't shown up with

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the bag yet. I mean, show me

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the money. We'll go do this

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thing. Well, I had just learned

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this. And we were, for two, three

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years, we'd be driving down the

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highway. Look at that truck. I want

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one just like that. And it just

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made me mad. It's like we knock

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off the truck stuff. We can't

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afford it. We don't have any

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money for it. So I learned this

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principle. I said, okay, God. I

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said, what do you want for a

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truck? Let's get real. So she

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listed it out. This is how we

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got our first diesel truck. I

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said, okay, let's agree in

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prayer. God, you get us the way

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to buy that. You'll get your

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truck. It didn't take long at

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all. Here we go. We ended a

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long story short. I can't keep

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going because I got other

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points covered. But a long

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story short, we ended up buying

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this truck. So I said, okay,

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well, we're going to have

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to celebrate this. So I got a

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license plate that said my

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loves. And everybody said, oh,

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isn't that sweet? She bought a

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truck for her husband. It's

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like, nope. This is flipped. It

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goes under this point. If you

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will honestly want to give

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to your wife, your husband,

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your God will give to you as

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the husband, so you're the man

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giving into her life. You

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become an avenue. It didn't

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take me long to figure this

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out. Honey, what do you want

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for an ATV? You wouldn't want

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a camper by chance, would you?

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And I can honestly say most of

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the stuff that came to us

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is because she wanted it and

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it came through me. Okay, God,

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she wants a camper. What can

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I say? It wasn't my idea.

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You bless her. Don't ask with

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selfish motives to spend on

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your own pleasures. You're

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asking a miss. Verse number

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four, at the end there,

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whoever therefore wants to

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be a friend of the world makes

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himself an enemy of God. He's

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talking about when you get

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selfish on your asking with

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God, you're actually in

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agreement with how the world

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does things. It's selfishness.

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It's wrong motives. You're

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verse four at the beginning.

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You're a spiritual adulterer,

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adulteress. You're not

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functioning how the kingdom

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functions. You've turned to

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how the world functions and

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it doesn't work. So he goes

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on and says, do you think

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the Scripture says in vain

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that the spirit is jealous?

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Therefore, now notice this

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because we usually take these

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next verses and we don't tie

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them in with the previous.

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The previous are, you've got

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to have the right motives

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when you ask God for

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something so that you

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don't turn ungodly. Here he

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says, God resists the

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proud, gives grace to the

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humble. Verse seven,

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therefore submit to God,

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resist the devil, he will

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flee from you, draw near

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to God, he will cleanse

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your hands, you sinners,

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purify your hearts, you

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double-minded. You know what

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he's talking about? Asking

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with the right motives. This

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whole section is about

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asking with the right

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motives. Resist the devil.

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Why? Because he's trying to

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turn you selfish. No, I'm

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not saying it doesn't work

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for other things. I'm

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saying in context, so this

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is what he's talking

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about. At the end, humble

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yourselves in the sight

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of the Lord and he will

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lift you up. So under

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this one point, there's a

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number of things that are

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listed why we don't get our

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prayers answered. Just

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trying to prime the pump.

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Number three, now we lost

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some time. We have not

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received a rama word. And

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without a rama word, we

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don't have faith. That's

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what Paul said. I'll give

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you the scripture here in

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a bit. What does it say?

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The word, rama, is near

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you in your mouth and in

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your heart. That is the

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word, rama. That's the

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Greek word, rama, of faith

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that we preach. There's two

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Greek words for that are

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translated into the King

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James version as word, W-O-R-D.

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One is logos, which means

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the rented, written,

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printed Word of God. And

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rama, which means the

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spoken Word of God. We can

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memorize the written Bible

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and not have faith.

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Faith doesn't come from the

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logos or the book. Faith

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comes when God speaks

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something from the book

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into your heart. And you go,

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whoa, I never saw that

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before. All of a sudden

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it became alive because

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the Holy Spirit spoke it

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to you. That alive is

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faith. Next scripture,

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whoever believes in him

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shall not be put to shame.

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I just throw that in there

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in the context. Don't have

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time to get into it.

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Whoever calls upon the

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name of the Lord shall be

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saved. We will win the

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war. The verse I want you

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to see is verse 17. So then

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faith comes by hearing and

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hearing the spoken Word

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of God, or the rama of

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God. If you have not

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received, if you're going

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after a promise and he

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hasn't spoken anything into

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your heart yet about it,

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I always call it, let God

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weigh in on what he thinks

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on this. Once he weighs in

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and speaks to you and says,

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this is what I want for you,

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there is an explosion of

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faith and ownership. And

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this is mine that takes

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place in your heart that

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you can't get talked out of.

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When it's just the book,

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well, I don't believe that.

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Oh really? Well, what do

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you believe? And then we

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go back and forth and this,

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that and the other. Once it's

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spoken into your heart and

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they say, well, God doesn't

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do that. Well, I'm sorry,

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you're too late. You got to

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me late. God already spoke

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to me and you know what?

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Nobody will ever talk me

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out of this. I know

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that I know. So we have

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to have that to have

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faith. If we don't have

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that, we need to ask,

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seek, knock, pursue until

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he speaks to us. And

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sometimes he gives me a

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rainbow word immediately

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for myself or someone else

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to believe with them. Then

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there's other times I've been

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on something now for two

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years, something that I'm

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dealing with. I'm going after

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by faith, asking God,

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give me a rainbow word,

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give me a rainbow word,

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give me a rainbow word. And

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nothing this last week.

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I finally got one word,

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one word and it's like,

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oh, here we go. We're

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going to war now. I have

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a word on it and it's not

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even a scripture. It's just,

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I won't tell you what it is

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because then we have another

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story and I don't have time

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for that. But sometimes you

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have to ask and pursue

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to hear God's voice. He

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really wonders how strongly

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we want to hear him and

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how strongly we want to

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know. So once you get

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that rainbow word, you have

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to call things that are

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not as though they were. So

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in other words, you start

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speaking what God told you

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he wants the outcome to be

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and you stop speaking what

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grandma said, what your

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dad said, what the doctor

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said, what your best friend

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online said. There's

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no power in that. The power

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is speaking what he said

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and aligning with that. For

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Moses writes about the

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righteousness of the law. In

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other words, righteousness

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is what is right with God.

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Things that are right with

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God. Verse 6, but the

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things that are right with

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God that come by faith, but

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the righteousness of faith

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speaks this way. How are we

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going to get this answer? Do

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not say in your heart,

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well, who's going to go to

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heaven and get this? Or

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who's going to go into the

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abyss to get this? How are we

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going to get this answer? What

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are we going to do? This may

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not work. You're going down

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the wrong direction. The

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righteousness of faith does

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not start questioning

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everything in doubt and

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unbelief. The righteousness

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of faith, what does it

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say? The word, that's

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Ramah, is near you. In

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your mouth and in your

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heart, that is the word,

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Ramah, the spoken word. So

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it makes sense. He says the

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word is near you in your

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mouth because he's talking

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not about the written word,

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he's talking about the

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spoken word. If he was

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talking about the written

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word, he said the word is

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near you, it's in your

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coffee table at home. It's

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on your night's end. It's

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laying on the passenger

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seat in your car. And

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he's not talking about

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the written word, he's

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talking about the spoken

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word. What comes out of

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our mouth? Starting from

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the very beginning of our

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salvation. Translator from

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the kingdom of darkness,

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kingdom of light. It comes

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by belief. What are we

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believing? What the Holy

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Spirit just spoke to our

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heart. People are sitting

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in a service, people are

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sitting in front of TV,

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people are sitting reading

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or in a conversation with

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their family, and the

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Holy Spirit speaks

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something in their heart

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and they go, I need a

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savior. I need my sins

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forgiven. That's a

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rainbow word. And if they

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will believe that, yeah

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you do, you need that. Okay,

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I believe that. What do I

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do now? Make Jesus Lord

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and you do that with

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your mouth. Confess Jesus

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as Lord. You'll be saved.

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So right from the very

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beginning it goes with

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heart belief, heart belief

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based on what? Verse 8. He's

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talking about rainbow words

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here. Heart belief and

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confession. Verse 10. For

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what the heart one believes

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under righteousness, see

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that's how God does it, the

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right way of doing it. And

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with the mouth confession is

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made under salvation. So how

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do we secure the promise?

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Same way. He will speak

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something to our heart and

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now we align our heart,

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our belief system, our

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verbiage with what he

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spoke to us. And we just

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like God we call those things

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that are not as though they

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were. Going back to that

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truck story. I heard this,

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if I heard this once, I

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heard this a hundred times.

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Oh, thank God we've got

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a truck. I don't see one

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yet. What's she doing?

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Calling those things that

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are not as though they were.

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Or be not as though they are.

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Many point what translation

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you read. See, that is how

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faith that has spoken into

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your heart is activated. If two

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or three will agree is

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touching any one thing it

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will be done for them. Watch

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that because that works both

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ways. Well, I went to the

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doctor and he said I'm

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dying. So I guess, I guess

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you are because you just

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agreed with them. If two

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will agree as touching

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anything that works both

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ways. Well, my husband said

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we're out of money and we're

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not going to have enough to

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make rent. So I guess we're

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going to be careful, careful,

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careful what you're agreeing

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to here. Well, I was

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just going to say, I guess

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we're going to not be

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able to pay the rent this

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month. Well, that's what

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you're believing for. You

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got it. Why don't you listen

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to God and say, God, we

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don't, I don't know where

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the money went. Maybe we

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need to check that first. But

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number two, we don't have

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enough money to pay the

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rent. You said you'd

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provide our needs. So talk

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to me. What's going on

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here? Let them weigh in and

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now talk his language, not

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the other. Not, not

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confessing the promises

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causes us not to get

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answers. Unconfessed or

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cherished sin. If I

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regard iniquity in my heart,

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the Lord will not hear. I

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naive he says, if I had

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cherished sin in my heart,

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the Lord would not have

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listened. So this is

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David talking now. So he

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knew the principle. If we

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regard iniquity or have

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cherished sin, what is

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cherished sin? Cherished

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sin are those things that

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we know are wrong, but we

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keep them in our life because

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we like them. It is a rare

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person that I meet who hates

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what's going on in their

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life, who doesn't get free

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of it shortly. God will

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give him the knowledge,

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he'll give him the

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understanding, he'll show

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him something. Somehow the

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connection will be made to

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get them free. It's rare,

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there are some, but it's a

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rare thing that they don't

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get that knowledge. My

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mother was one of those

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rare ones with her fear

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she didn't want it, she wanted

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it out, but do you know what

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she was serving? Religion.

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Because there was information,

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this was back in the 60s

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already, there was

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information coming through

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the charismatic move, those

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heretics, that Christians

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could actually have demonic

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torment. Boy, and they just

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cast that out because that's

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false doctrine, that is

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not good. Go to God and

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ask him to weigh in on this.

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Don't just go with your

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religion. Well, she went

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with the religion and she

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ended up staying bound. But

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it's a rare person who's not

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seeking to get free where

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God won't give him the

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information to get free. It's

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a rare person who hates

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their sin and is not getting

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free of it. Do you know

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when we don't get free of

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our sin? When we

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cherish it, we like it.

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Well, I don't want to stop

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doing that. Well, you might

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also just add on what you're

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thinking. I enjoy that. Well,

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there be the fly in the

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ointment. Now, here's the

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problem. When we have that

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in our heart, that's how we

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live. God says, yeah, I'm

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not going to listen to them

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until they change that

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attitude. Well, if God's

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not listening to your

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prayers, guess what? You're

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probably not going to get

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answered. Well, I don't know

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I'm believing God. Well, you

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might be. But he ain't

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listening because you have

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something in your heart that

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you're holding on to that

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you know you shouldn't be,

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but you like it. You

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cherish it. Got to deal with

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that if you want your

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prayers to get answered. Even

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in Jesus' time, they knew

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this principle. We know that

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God does not listen to

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sinners. He listens to

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the godly man who does his

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will. This was a guy coming

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questioning Jesus. How are

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you doing all this because

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they're calling you a sinner,

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but yet we know that God

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doesn't listen to sinners. Where

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did he get that principle? We

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just read to you. Number six

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reason why we sometimes

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don't get our prayers

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answered. We're double-minded

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or we're in doubt. Verse 6,

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beginning of it, and this is

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talking about asking about

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wisdom. Of course, the

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principle applies to

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anything. Let him ask and

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face, not doubting. Verse 7,

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for let no man suppose that he

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will receive anything from the

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Lord. He's double-minded.

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He's unstable in all his ways

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because he's doubting. He's

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double-minded. It's not

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going to work. You say, how

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do you get rid of that? Ask

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for a rainbow word. God weigh

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in on this. What should I

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be believing here? There is

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nothing that dispels doubt

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like God speaking to your

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heart and saying, this is what

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I want. Go after it.

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Number 7, lacking prayer and

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fasting. Sometimes we don't

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get our prayers answered

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because we don't like to fast.

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Yeah, you can say ouch there

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if you want. Jesus is

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talking. He's dealing with

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getting deliverance for

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someone here. And let's just

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read it. Lord, have mercy

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on my son for he's an

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epileptic. He suffers severely

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so he has a physical

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epileptic problem. Let me

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just say it that way. And

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suffers from it for he often

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falls in the fire and often

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into the water so I brought

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him to your disciples but

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they could not cure him. Then

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Jesus answered and said, oh

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faithless and perverse

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generation. You know, I'm

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going to say it now. I've

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got to written my notes

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later but it shows up a

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number of times. I don't know

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why certain Christians get

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so bent out of shape when you

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bring up the thought. You

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know the reason we don't

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always get answers to our

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prayers? We don't have the

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faith. Don't tell me I

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don't have the faith. You

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can't condemn me. I'm

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believing God. And they just

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okay. A little nuclear

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explosion here. That's

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not true. What in the

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world is Jesus talking about?

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Why can't the disciples

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cast them out? You don't

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have enough faith. Or you're

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not using what you got and

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you're perverse. It's like

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well, we've heard the

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faith part but have we ever

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looked up the perverse part?

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He said the reason they

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can't do it is they're

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faithless and they're

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perverse. Then the

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disciples came to Jesus

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privately and said, why

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could we not cast it out? So

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Jesus said to them, because

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of your unbelief. And then

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he talks to him about the

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mustard seed type of faith

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that can move mountains.

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However, you're not going to

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get this kind of faith

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except by prayer and

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fasting. So does prayer

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and fasting chase the

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demons out? No, prayer

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and fasting chases the

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unbelief, the doubt out of

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us so that when we

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speak, we're speaking in

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faith. Now they go.

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I've heard Christians say,

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well, I'm praying fasting

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for so-and-so because

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they've got demonic things

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and I'm praying that God

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chases them out. Go to

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Culver's and get a burger.

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You're wasting your time.

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You're praying and fasting

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is not going to make God

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chase a demon out of

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someone else.

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Prayer and fasting, Jesus said,

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changes us. The reason the

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disciples couldn't get it to

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move is their lack of faith

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and their perverseness. I'll

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touch that here in a bit.

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But their lack of faith.

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The cure all?

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Praying fast. You've got

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to address what's going on

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in here so that the faith

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becomes readily available out

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there. You can move mountains

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with just a little bit. But

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you've got to change what's

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going on in here.

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Perverse means to distort,

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misinterpret, or corrupt.

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That, I think, is funny.

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They could not cure Him.

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Jesus answered and said,

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verse 17,

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O faithless and perverse

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generation. So, in other

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words, you're going to

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distort things, you're

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going to misinterpret

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things, and by the time

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you're done, you're going

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to have corrupted it.

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This may smack a little bit,

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but that's okay. Don't say

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amen.

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When things don't work for

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us by faith, the first

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natural, how would you say,

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lever we grab is to distort

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what's going on, misinterpret

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what's going on, and

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eventually corrupt it.

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Well, I prayed that God would

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you fill in the blank.

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Nothing happened.

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So, here's my conclusion on it.

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Oh, here we go.

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We're going to distort it.

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We're going to misinterpret

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this whole thing, and by the

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time we're done, you'll have

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thrown it under the bus.

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Corrupted it.

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Well, I prayed for it.

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And I don't know if that's

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true in the Bible.

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I don't know if it means

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what it says.

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I don't know.

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I tried, and nothing happened.

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So, I'm just not going to go

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into it.

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You just did.

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You just went perverse.

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Well, I prayed and it

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didn't work.

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Try praying and fasting.

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That's Jesus' advice.

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Boy, you're all excited about

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this message this morning.

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Number eight.

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Not asking God according to

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His will.

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Now, this is the confidence

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we have in Him that if we ask

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anything according to His

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will, He hears us.

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And if we know He hears us,

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whatever we ask, we know that

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we have the petitions that

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we have asked of Him.

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So, the key here is,

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what's His will?

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Because if we ask according

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to His will, He hears us,

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and if He hears us,

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we're getting it.

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So, what is His will

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in your situation?

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We need to consider that.

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Whatever we're praying for,

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we need to consider,

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what is His will in this?

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What is the scriptural

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foundation for His will

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in this?

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What you're praying for?

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Will it support and fit

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your destiny?

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Why you're on this earth?

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What you're doing here?

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And I suppose I better add

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this.

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Why you're on this earth?

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What you're doing here for

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Him?

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Not for yourself.

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For Him?

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And then ask the Holy Spirit

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to instruct you.

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He'll show you.

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He'll teach you.

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He is the great teacher.

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Where is God at on this thing

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that I'm pursuing?

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Again, you're looking for

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God to speak.

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You're looking for a

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Ramah word.

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Once you find that,

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well, here is what God,

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the Father, wants in this

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situation.

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Once you find that,

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now you've got to turn

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that in.

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Now it's a Ramah in your

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heart.

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Now you've got to turn

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that into how you live,

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how you act, how you speak,

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because now you know

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you have it.

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According to that verse.

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That's Hebrews 11-1.

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You have the title deed.

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You own it now.

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It's mine.

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Because the Father weighed in

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and I'm in agreement with Him.

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This one will stop us

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from getting our prayers

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answered.

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Unforgiveness.

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If you do not forgive,

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neither will your Father

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in heaven forgive your

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trespasses, which means

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now you not only have

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iniquity in your heart,

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now you're slowly filling up

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with stuff because He's not

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forgiving you because you're

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not forgiving someone else.

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Remember the other principle?

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If there's sin in our heart

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and we know it's there

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and we're not dealing with it,

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He won't even listen to us.

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So if we're not forgiving

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someone, Jesus flat-out said,

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well, you're not going

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to be forgiven.

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Well, but the problem is

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this is going to cripple you

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from getting answers to prayer

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because you're going to put

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yourself in a position where

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the only thing you hear

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from God is you got to deal

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with that.

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You got to deal with your

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attitude.

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You need to talk to that

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person.

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You need to fix this.

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You need to straighten this.

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But God, I'm believing for

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this.

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You might as well let that

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go until you deal with this

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because He's not listening

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to you about that.

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He's dealing with this.

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Unforgiveness.

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It can stop us from getting

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prayers answered.

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Ignoring poor people.

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Whoever shuts his ears to the

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cry of the poor will also

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cry himself and not be

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heard.

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The thing of being heard by

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God is a big deal.

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There's some things he just

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chooses not to listen to.

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Not going there.

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Poor.

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Okay, let me give you the

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Hebrew definition behind

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this.

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It can mean materially poor

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or lacking resources.

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Like money or finances or

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food or whatever.

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In other words, don't shut

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your ears to someone who has

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a legitimate financial need.

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Like James said, don't just

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well, I'll pray that it all

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works out for you and you run

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off to the restaurant and they

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go home hungry.

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He says give them something.

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Help them.

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Put some work with your

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faith.

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That's in that context.

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Okay.

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But it also means people who

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are weak,

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feeble

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or thin

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physically or socially.

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So they might be physically

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weak, feeble or thin, or they

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might be socially

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weak, feeble or thin.

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Which I thought that was

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really interesting.

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Socially, they're poor.

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They're a poor person.

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People don't accept them.

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People don't want anything to

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do with them.

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People shun them.

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They're always standing kind

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of alone.

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Nobody's including them.

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He says, you don't knock

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that off.

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He said, I'm not going to

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listen to what you want.

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You're going to come to me

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and say, oh God, I need

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help.

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He said, talk to the hand.

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I'm not going to listen.

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Why?

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Because they asked you for

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help and you said, talk to

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the hand.

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You planted some bad seeds

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and now you're going to

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get the harvest.

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Don't shut your ears to

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people who are socially

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struggling or physically

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struggling.

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And the last one is, they're

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socially vulnerable or

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helpless.

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They're needy, powerless.

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They have a reduced status.

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Didn't the scripture say

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someplace something about

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defending the poor?

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Don't jump on the side of

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the group that's making fun

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of somebody.

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Because that will shut

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down your ability to get

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answers to prayer.

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Whether it's their clothes,

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whether it's the car they

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drive, whether it's how they

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do their hair, whether it's

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the nose they got from their

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dad, what, no matter

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what it is, be nice.

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Because if you want God to be

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nice to you, we have to be

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nice to the poor.

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That doesn't mean just

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financially poor, okay?

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Moving on.

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Not listening to wisdom.

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This is a heavy-duty one.

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Because I have called and you

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have refused to answer.

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This is wisdom talking.

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If you go back to Proverbs

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reading context, this is

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wisdom speaking.

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Because I called you, you

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refused to answer and have

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stretched out my hand and no

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man has heated it.

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And you treated as nothing all

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my counsel and would accept

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none of my reproof.

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So in other words, wisdom is

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trying to get us to change

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our ways and how we live and

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we're ignoring it.

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Verse 26, I will also laugh

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at your calamity.

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I will mock when the thing

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comes that shall cause you

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terror and panic.

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When you're panic,

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when your panic comes as a storm

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and desolation and your calamity

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comes on as a whirlwind, when

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distress and anguish come upon

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you, then will they call upon

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me, wisdom.

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But I will not answer.

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They will seek me early.

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So in other words, you're not

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sleeping well.

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And diligently.

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You mean business.

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But you're not going to find

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wisdom.

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Why?

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It's seed time in harvest again.

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You planted bad seed.

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God is speaking to you

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to fix some things, change some

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things, rearrange some things,

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do some things different.

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And you're just not listening.

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So God says, well, I know how

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to get your attention.

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When you come to me,

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not only is he not going to

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listen, he's going to laugh.

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Oh, you're in trouble now.

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Oh, here you go.

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You say God wouldn't do it.

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He would.

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He would.

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And when wisdom refuses to

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answer me, they will seek me

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early and diligently, but they

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will not find me.

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I'm not going to answer.

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I will not answer.

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You're not going to get some

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prayers answered.

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There's just some things that

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aren't going to get answered.

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So it's good when God tries to

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speak some wisdom to us about

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our cherished sins that we

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listen.

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Or about the poor that we

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listen.

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Don't shout me down.

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Number 12, not honoring your

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wife.

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I already gave an example for

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this so I can just read through

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it.

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Husbands likewise dwell with

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them with understanding, giving

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honor to the wife as to the

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weaker vessel and being heirs,

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as being heirs together of the

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grace of life.

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If you're going to inherit from

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God and you're married, you're

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going to do it with your wife.

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And you need to understand that

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and you need to give her honor

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in that or the last phrase

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there.

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Your prayers will be hindered.

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You've got to honor them so

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your prayers are not hindered.

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The health of your marriage can

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determine whether you get an

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answer from God or not.

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And all the women inside are

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going, oh, yes, get them, get

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them.

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But you're sitting there all

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calm, collected, while the guys

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are thinking, I hope he moves

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on quick on this one.

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Seriously, the health of our

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marriage affects whether God

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answers prayers or not.

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Unbelief.

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Jesus, this is that same

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section.

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Jesus rebuked the demon.

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This is just a few verses in

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from the Scripture we read

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earlier.

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And the demon came out and the

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child was cured from the very

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hour, the epileptic child.

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Then the disciples came to

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Jesus privately and said, why

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couldn't we do it?

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And he said, because of your

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unbelief.

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He'll say it again through the

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writer to Hebrews.

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It says Hebrews 319 below.

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That Scripture is coming.

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So he'll say it again there.

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Disobedience can keep us from

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getting prayers answered.

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For who having heard rebelled?

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Indeed, was it not all those

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who came out of Egypt led by

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Moses?

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Now with whom was he angry for

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40 years?

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He's asking questions they

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already know the answer to.

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Was it not with those who

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sinned and whose corpses fell

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in the wilderness?

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And to whom did he swear that

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they would never enter his

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rest or the promised land?

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But to those who did not

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obey.

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Disobedience keeps us from

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getting the promises.

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Then he makes an interesting

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statement.

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So because of their disobedience

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they didn't obey.

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They were in rebellion.

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So we see they could not

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enter in because of unbelief.

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Do you know that disobedience

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has its roots in unbelief?

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The reason we're disobeying

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many times is because we

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really don't believe what

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God said.

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Well, I don't know if it's...

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I mean, I don't know if it's

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like that, see?

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You're marking your unbelief

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for the excuse to do what

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you want to do, which is

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going to come out next.

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Why, there's a lot of

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Christians.

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Yep, here we go.

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There's a lot of Christians

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who live like this.

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You can't tell me they're

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all.

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Where are we going?

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We've got some cherry sin.

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We've got some disobedience

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because we don't really believe

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when God says all liars

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and those who love to make

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lies or falsehoods will

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be in the lake of fire.

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Well, not all.

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I mean, I know a lot of

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Christians.

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They're good people and

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they lie some too.

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Yeah, here you go.

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You don't believe it.

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You like to lie.

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So now you're going to cover

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your own disobedience.

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Well, I don't know why God

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doesn't answer my prayers.

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Well, I have an idea.

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That could be part of it.

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Since therefore it remains

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that some must enter it,

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promised land, and those to

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whom it was first preached

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did not enter because of

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disobedience.

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Sometimes we don't get the

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promises because of our

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own disobedience.

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Number 15.

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He's got something better

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planned for us.

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There are many plans

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in a man's heart.

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Nevertheless, the Lord's

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Council, it's the Lord's

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Council that will stand.

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I'll give you one more verse.

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The Lord brings the

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Council of the Nations

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to nothing.

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He makes the plans

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of the peoples of no effect.

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The Council of the Lord

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stands forever, the plans

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of his heart to all

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generations.

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So what God wants

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come to pass, just let him

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do what he wants to do.

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Because blessed is the

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nation whose God is the

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Lord.

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I mean just follow him

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and let him do what he

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wants to do.

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The people he has chosen

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as his own inheritance.

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They're the ones who are

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blessed.

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But many are the plans

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in a man's heart.

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Nevertheless, it's the

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Lord's Council that will

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stand.

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Sometimes God doesn't

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answer our prayers

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because he's got something

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better.

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I have a wonderful little

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example here.

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When we were starting the

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church up here and we

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realized we needed to do

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something so we bought the

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modular and put it on our

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property, I was trying

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really hard to talk the

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banker into a larger

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facility to where you take

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three or four modulars and

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they line them up and they

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make one big room and we

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could have sat like 150

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people and we could have

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had the children's church

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in another section of the

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building.

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It would have all been

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self-contained right there.

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It would have filled up

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at least half of my back

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yard maybe more between

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parking and that modular.

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I look back and I say

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thank God that did not

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happen.

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And I cranked on him

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because it wasn't that

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much, it wasn't that...

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I told him, I said,

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a new car and a truck,

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that's all I'm asking

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for financially.

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Well, it's a lot easier to

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repossess a new car and a new

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truck if it's not setting

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on your property like a

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modular.

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That was his excuse.

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And I couldn't talk him

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out of it.

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I tried.

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I look back and say,

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thank you, God, for not

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answering that prayer.

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Because we would have had

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enough room to keep growing

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there, we probably would

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not have bought this.

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We'd have missed this

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opportunity.

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Now we would be stuck

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because of my brilliant

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plans.

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And he just didn't answer

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that prayer.

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And there was a while there

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I was frustrated with him

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like, come on, God,

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let's do this thing.

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Nope, we're not going

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that route.

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You know why?

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He had something so much

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better for us.

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Not adding works to

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our faith, thus faith by

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itself, if it does not have

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works as dead.

59:10.350 --> 59:11.110
It's kind of self

59:11.110 --> 59:11.730
explanatory.

59:12.670 --> 59:13.570
We're believing God.

59:13.750 --> 59:14.470
What are you doing?

59:15.450 --> 59:16.490
We're not doing anything

59:16.490 --> 59:17.230
but believing God.

59:17.310 --> 59:17.730
Well, it's dead.

59:18.990 --> 59:19.610
You always got to put

59:19.610 --> 59:20.570
some works with your faith.

59:21.930 --> 59:22.890
I'm believing God,

59:22.970 --> 59:23.910
my arm gets stronger.

59:24.550 --> 59:24.970
It hurts.

59:25.410 --> 59:26.170
But what are you doing

59:26.170 --> 59:26.510
with it?

59:26.930 --> 59:27.790
Well, I'm not doing anything.

59:27.930 --> 59:28.250
It hurts.

59:31.290 --> 59:32.230
You ever think

59:32.230 --> 59:32.870
of maybe trying to

59:32.870 --> 59:33.630
move it a little bit?

59:34.870 --> 59:36.030
Well, that hurts.

59:36.930 --> 59:38.010
I'm believing God.

59:39.250 --> 59:40.150
Put some works

59:40.150 --> 59:40.950
with your faith.

59:48.530 --> 59:49.960
If you actually believe

59:50.390 --> 59:51.430
it's going to get better,

59:51.870 --> 59:53.110
start acting like it.

59:54.390 --> 59:55.830
Do something with it.

59:59.630 --> 01:00:00.490
Galatians 5,

01:00:01.810 --> 01:00:03.230
for if we are in Christ Jesus

01:00:03.230 --> 01:00:04.090
neither circumcision

01:00:04.090 --> 01:00:05.430
nor uncircumcision counts

01:00:05.430 --> 01:00:05.770
for anything,

01:00:05.970 --> 01:00:07.350
he's dealing with the Jewish problem

01:00:07.350 --> 01:00:08.330
of everybody's supposed

01:00:08.330 --> 01:00:09.190
to get circumcised

01:00:09.190 --> 01:00:10.350
and he's dealing with that.

01:00:10.650 --> 01:00:11.470
He says the only thing

01:00:11.470 --> 01:00:12.130
that counts here

01:00:12.130 --> 01:00:13.250
is faith activated

01:00:13.250 --> 01:00:13.810
and energized

01:00:13.810 --> 01:00:14.490
and expressed

01:00:14.490 --> 01:00:16.230
and working through love.

01:00:18.070 --> 01:00:19.950
Faith has to be energized

01:00:19.950 --> 01:00:21.110
and expressed

01:00:21.110 --> 01:00:22.270
and you've got to do

01:00:22.270 --> 01:00:23.390
something with it.

01:00:23.750 --> 01:00:24.390
There has to be

01:00:24.390 --> 01:00:25.390
works tied to it.

01:00:26.270 --> 01:00:27.150
Number 17,

01:00:27.690 --> 01:00:28.590
not living in faith

01:00:28.590 --> 01:00:29.710
and love as we ought.

01:00:29.910 --> 01:00:30.310
Now this is

01:00:30.310 --> 01:00:32.030
an interesting scripture here.

01:00:32.570 --> 01:00:33.210
Take a little bit

01:00:33.210 --> 01:00:33.810
to go through it.

01:00:33.810 --> 01:00:34.790
For this reason

01:00:34.790 --> 01:00:35.610
I bow my knees

01:00:35.610 --> 01:00:37.510
to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ

01:00:37.510 --> 01:00:38.490
from whom the whole

01:00:38.490 --> 01:00:39.930
family and heaven and earth

01:00:39.930 --> 01:00:40.390
is named,

01:00:41.390 --> 01:00:42.770
that he would grant you

01:00:42.770 --> 01:00:43.810
according to the riches

01:00:43.810 --> 01:00:44.630
of his glory

01:00:45.310 --> 01:00:46.490
to be strengthened

01:00:46.490 --> 01:00:47.250
with might.

01:00:47.470 --> 01:00:48.110
That word might,

01:00:48.170 --> 01:00:48.790
there's dunamis.

01:00:48.990 --> 01:00:50.630
It's normally translated power.

01:00:51.030 --> 01:00:52.930
Here it was translated might.

01:00:53.850 --> 01:00:54.670
That he would strengthen

01:00:54.670 --> 01:00:55.730
you with dunamis

01:00:55.730 --> 01:00:56.530
or might

01:00:56.530 --> 01:00:57.650
through his spirit

01:00:57.650 --> 01:00:58.510
in the inner man.

01:00:59.730 --> 01:01:01.190
So Paul is praying

01:01:01.190 --> 01:01:02.010
for these people

01:01:02.010 --> 01:01:03.910
that the power of the Holy Spirit

01:01:03.910 --> 01:01:05.290
would change them

01:01:05.730 --> 01:01:07.410
on the inside of this body.

01:01:07.570 --> 01:01:08.370
They're inner men.

01:01:08.550 --> 01:01:09.670
They're spiritual men.

01:01:10.770 --> 01:01:11.330
For what?

01:01:12.430 --> 01:01:14.430
That Christ may dwell in your hearts

01:01:14.430 --> 01:01:15.330
through faith

01:01:16.010 --> 01:01:17.350
that you being rooted

01:01:17.350 --> 01:01:18.510
and grounded in love.

01:01:18.650 --> 01:01:19.330
There's the two things

01:01:19.330 --> 01:01:19.850
he's praying.

01:01:20.590 --> 01:01:21.830
I pray you change

01:01:21.830 --> 01:01:23.330
by the dunamis power

01:01:23.330 --> 01:01:24.430
of the Holy Spirit

01:01:25.610 --> 01:01:26.710
that you,

01:01:27.670 --> 01:01:28.270
that Christ

01:01:28.270 --> 01:01:29.210
or the anointing

01:01:29.210 --> 01:01:30.590
dwells in your hearts

01:01:30.590 --> 01:01:31.170
through faith

01:01:31.170 --> 01:01:33.250
and that you get more grounded in love.

01:01:34.170 --> 01:01:34.650
Then he goes

01:01:34.650 --> 01:01:35.470
and talks about love

01:01:35.470 --> 01:01:36.450
verse 18 and 19.

01:01:36.610 --> 01:01:37.690
Comprehend with all the saints

01:01:37.690 --> 01:01:38.430
the width, the breadth,

01:01:38.670 --> 01:01:39.190
the length, the height

01:01:39.190 --> 01:01:40.450
to know the love of Christ

01:01:40.450 --> 01:01:41.470
would pass his knowledge.

01:01:41.790 --> 01:01:42.430
Verse 20,

01:01:42.970 --> 01:01:43.550
now notice,

01:01:43.730 --> 01:01:44.170
he's not done

01:01:44.170 --> 01:01:44.850
with his thought yet.

01:01:45.650 --> 01:01:46.190
Now to him

01:01:46.190 --> 01:01:47.870
who is able to do

01:01:49.430 --> 01:01:50.350
exceedingly, abundantly

01:01:50.350 --> 01:01:52.370
above all we ask or think

01:01:53.130 --> 01:01:54.770
according to the dunamis

01:01:54.770 --> 01:01:56.030
that works in us.

01:01:56.410 --> 01:01:57.890
Oh, the power, the dunamis.

01:01:58.250 --> 01:01:58.950
Well, he just said

01:01:58.950 --> 01:01:59.990
something about that.

01:01:59.990 --> 01:02:01.370
He said,

01:02:01.450 --> 01:02:02.230
I'm praying

01:02:02.990 --> 01:02:04.630
that something change

01:02:04.630 --> 01:02:06.290
on the inside of you

01:02:06.290 --> 01:02:08.170
through dunamis power

01:02:10.530 --> 01:02:11.370
that

01:02:11.990 --> 01:02:13.850
your faith gets changed

01:02:13.850 --> 01:02:15.270
and your love walk

01:02:15.270 --> 01:02:16.290
gets changed.

01:02:18.450 --> 01:02:20.390
And according to

01:02:20.630 --> 01:02:21.350
the change

01:02:21.710 --> 01:02:22.690
of your faith

01:02:22.690 --> 01:02:23.890
and your love walk

01:02:23.890 --> 01:02:25.390
by the dunamis power

01:02:25.390 --> 01:02:27.870
he is able to do

01:02:27.870 --> 01:02:29.310
way beyond

01:02:30.270 --> 01:02:31.890
what you can ask or think

01:02:31.890 --> 01:02:34.450
according to that

01:02:35.650 --> 01:02:38.030
dunamis, that power

01:02:38.030 --> 01:02:40.230
that is working in us.

01:02:40.430 --> 01:02:41.370
Well, what is it working

01:02:41.370 --> 01:02:42.210
in us to do?

01:02:42.570 --> 01:02:44.330
It's changing our hearts,

01:02:44.490 --> 01:02:45.470
our inner man

01:02:45.470 --> 01:02:47.370
to faith and love.

01:02:52.550 --> 01:02:53.370
The meter

01:02:53.370 --> 01:02:55.510
of how much God will do

01:02:55.510 --> 01:02:56.510
in verse 20

01:02:56.510 --> 01:02:58.770
is tied to our submission

01:02:59.790 --> 01:03:02.190
to the inner man

01:03:02.190 --> 01:03:03.150
changing

01:03:03.150 --> 01:03:05.370
in faith and love.

01:03:07.970 --> 01:03:09.090
They work together.

01:03:09.770 --> 01:03:11.230
That's why he used

01:03:11.230 --> 01:03:13.170
the same word, dunamis.

01:03:14.350 --> 01:03:15.610
I'm praying the dunamis

01:03:15.610 --> 01:03:16.530
changes you

01:03:16.530 --> 01:03:17.750
because as the dunamis

01:03:17.750 --> 01:03:18.590
changes you

01:03:18.590 --> 01:03:20.370
according to that

01:03:20.370 --> 01:03:21.930
the dunamis will flow

01:03:21.930 --> 01:03:22.670
through you.

01:03:24.410 --> 01:03:25.350
See it?

01:03:27.190 --> 01:03:28.050
Well, what if we're

01:03:28.050 --> 01:03:28.790
one of these Christians

01:03:28.790 --> 01:03:29.310
that

01:03:30.150 --> 01:03:31.430
we're not changing?

01:03:32.690 --> 01:03:34.130
We're the same, you know,

01:03:34.270 --> 01:03:35.730
we were five years ago.

01:03:42.010 --> 01:03:43.290
That could be a problem

01:03:43.290 --> 01:03:44.230
with getting prayers answered

01:03:45.610 --> 01:03:46.710
because we're not growing

01:03:46.710 --> 01:03:47.690
in faith or love then.

01:03:48.070 --> 01:03:49.450
Our inner man isn't changing.

01:03:50.310 --> 01:03:51.250
Which means

01:03:51.810 --> 01:03:53.530
the dunamis that's at work

01:03:53.530 --> 01:03:54.530
in us is kind of

01:03:54.530 --> 01:03:56.470
capped down by us.

01:03:56.670 --> 01:03:57.730
We're not letting it

01:03:57.730 --> 01:03:58.930
free to do what it wants.

01:03:59.410 --> 01:04:00.470
Well, in proportion

01:04:00.470 --> 01:04:01.930
to how that's capped down

01:04:01.930 --> 01:04:04.130
it can operate through us.

01:04:05.330 --> 01:04:06.510
Let it free

01:04:06.510 --> 01:04:07.870
to change your inner man

01:04:07.870 --> 01:04:09.390
and it will be free

01:04:09.390 --> 01:04:10.710
to operate through us.

01:04:11.250 --> 01:04:12.230
Above what we can

01:04:12.230 --> 01:04:12.930
ask or think.

01:04:16.430 --> 01:04:17.590
Thank you, Brother Mix.

01:04:18.770 --> 01:04:19.810
Not guarding our heart.

01:04:19.850 --> 01:04:20.690
Everybody else is thinking.

01:04:20.890 --> 01:04:20.990
They're going,

01:04:21.070 --> 01:04:22.170
I'm not sure.

01:04:22.550 --> 01:04:23.710
Sure what I think about that.

01:04:24.170 --> 01:04:25.130
Well, there it is.

01:04:25.810 --> 01:04:26.910
Not guarding our heart.

01:04:27.270 --> 01:04:28.390
Proverbs 4.23

01:04:28.390 --> 01:04:30.150
Keep and guard your heart

01:04:30.150 --> 01:04:30.630
with all built

01:04:31.190 --> 01:04:32.650
vigilance and above all

01:04:32.650 --> 01:04:34.010
that you guard

01:04:35.870 --> 01:04:36.770
reading too fast.

01:04:36.950 --> 01:04:38.070
Keep and guard your heart

01:04:38.070 --> 01:04:39.850
with all vigilance

01:04:39.850 --> 01:04:41.470
and above all

01:04:41.470 --> 01:04:42.850
that you guard.

01:04:43.570 --> 01:04:43.970
In other words,

01:04:44.250 --> 01:04:45.530
guard your heart above everything

01:04:46.070 --> 01:04:47.630
for out of it flow

01:04:47.630 --> 01:04:49.690
the springs of life.

01:04:51.650 --> 01:04:53.410
Jesus touched that this way.

01:04:54.430 --> 01:04:55.570
A good man out of the good

01:04:55.570 --> 01:04:56.650
treasure of his heart

01:04:56.650 --> 01:04:57.590
brings forth good

01:04:57.590 --> 01:04:58.490
and an evil man

01:04:58.490 --> 01:04:59.610
out of the evil treasure

01:04:59.610 --> 01:05:00.210
of his heart

01:05:00.210 --> 01:05:01.150
brings forth evil.

01:05:03.770 --> 01:05:05.030
So guard your heart

01:05:06.570 --> 01:05:08.290
because it's like a spring

01:05:08.290 --> 01:05:09.450
and out of it come

01:05:09.450 --> 01:05:10.590
I think the King James says

01:05:10.590 --> 01:05:12.070
the issues of life.

01:05:13.570 --> 01:05:14.810
So guard your heart

01:05:14.810 --> 01:05:16.070
because out of your heart

01:05:16.070 --> 01:05:18.090
can come good or evil.

01:05:18.310 --> 01:05:19.830
Jesus talked about both of them.

01:05:20.250 --> 01:05:21.350
Coming out of the heart.

01:05:21.930 --> 01:05:22.810
Well, in Proverbs,

01:05:22.950 --> 01:05:23.750
he goes on and explains

01:05:23.750 --> 01:05:24.690
how to do that.

01:05:24.830 --> 01:05:25.610
How do you guard your heart?

01:05:26.850 --> 01:05:28.070
Put away from you

01:05:28.070 --> 01:05:29.450
false and dishonest speech.

01:05:31.010 --> 01:05:31.950
Stop lying.

01:05:32.270 --> 01:05:32.850
Stop deceiving.

01:05:35.030 --> 01:05:35.890
Because it's going to affect

01:05:35.890 --> 01:05:37.150
what comes out of your life.

01:05:38.570 --> 01:05:40.130
And put away willfully

01:05:40.130 --> 01:05:41.210
and contrary talk.

01:05:41.430 --> 01:05:42.890
This again is perverse.

01:05:42.990 --> 01:05:44.030
I believe in the King James.

01:05:45.050 --> 01:05:46.890
It talks of actually the

01:05:46.890 --> 01:05:48.830
the Hebrew definition

01:05:48.830 --> 01:05:50.970
means talk of departing

01:05:50.970 --> 01:05:52.590
is the definition.

01:05:53.090 --> 01:05:53.870
Let me read it again.

01:05:54.130 --> 01:05:55.050
Talk of departing

01:05:55.050 --> 01:05:56.110
or turning aside.

01:05:57.230 --> 01:05:57.990
So in other words

01:05:57.990 --> 01:05:59.210
to guard your heart

01:05:59.210 --> 01:06:01.990
you never leave a back door open

01:06:01.990 --> 01:06:04.770
of well, if this doesn't work out

01:06:04.770 --> 01:06:05.850
we're just not going to

01:06:05.850 --> 01:06:07.030
we're just not going to serve God

01:06:07.030 --> 01:06:07.690
that way anymore.

01:06:08.610 --> 01:06:09.970
Oh, you're not guarding your heart.

01:06:12.530 --> 01:06:14.230
You know, this doesn't go the way it should.

01:06:14.370 --> 01:06:15.510
We'll just find a different church.

01:06:15.690 --> 01:06:16.850
We won't go to word of life anymore.

01:06:17.470 --> 01:06:17.990
Yep, careful.

01:06:19.550 --> 01:06:20.350
Anything where

01:06:24.030 --> 01:06:25.410
we are willful

01:06:25.410 --> 01:06:26.970
and contrary

01:06:28.930 --> 01:06:31.190
to what God is wanting us to do

01:06:31.190 --> 01:06:32.990
put it far away from you.

01:06:33.290 --> 01:06:34.010
You got to get it out

01:06:34.010 --> 01:06:35.250
because if you don't

01:06:35.250 --> 01:06:36.270
you're not guarding your heart.

01:06:37.590 --> 01:06:39.250
You say, well, if I don't guard my heart

01:06:39.250 --> 01:06:39.870
what's going to happen?

01:06:40.030 --> 01:06:41.250
You're not going to get your prayers answered

01:06:41.250 --> 01:06:42.730
because it's rather than good

01:06:42.730 --> 01:06:44.410
coming out of the issues of your heart

01:06:44.410 --> 01:06:46.350
you're going to have evil coming out

01:06:46.350 --> 01:06:47.850
because you just chose evil.

01:06:49.110 --> 01:06:50.530
As a man thinking in the heart

01:06:50.530 --> 01:06:51.210
so is he.

01:06:51.750 --> 01:06:52.850
Out of the abundance of the heart

01:06:52.850 --> 01:06:53.590
the mouth speaks.

01:06:53.790 --> 01:06:55.350
I mean, there's just a lot of things

01:06:55.350 --> 01:06:56.030
tied to this.

01:06:56.550 --> 01:06:58.650
Let your eyes look right on

01:06:58.650 --> 01:07:00.190
with fixed purpose

01:07:00.190 --> 01:07:02.690
and let your gaze be straight

01:07:02.690 --> 01:07:03.550
before you.

01:07:03.550 --> 01:07:05.610
In other words, don't start

01:07:05.610 --> 01:07:07.490
when God says, I want you going this way

01:07:07.910 --> 01:07:09.350
that's all you need to look at.

01:07:09.450 --> 01:07:10.750
You don't need to look at any options.

01:07:12.730 --> 01:07:13.950
Well, that doesn't work out.

01:07:14.070 --> 01:07:14.610
We could always do

01:07:14.610 --> 01:07:16.270
wait a second, God said do this

01:07:16.270 --> 01:07:17.190
that will work out.

01:07:18.030 --> 01:07:19.490
You might have taken by faith

01:07:19.490 --> 01:07:21.010
you might have to pursue it some

01:07:21.010 --> 01:07:21.970
but that will work out

01:07:21.970 --> 01:07:22.890
because that's what God said.

01:07:23.210 --> 01:07:24.970
Well, I'm just keeping my options open.

01:07:25.130 --> 01:07:26.430
Yeah, you're not guarding your heart.

01:07:27.890 --> 01:07:28.890
You're opening it up

01:07:28.890 --> 01:07:30.230
for unbelief and all kinds of stuff

01:07:30.230 --> 01:07:30.850
to get in there.

01:07:31.430 --> 01:07:33.170
Consider well the path of your feet.

01:07:33.930 --> 01:07:36.470
And let all your ways be established

01:07:36.470 --> 01:07:37.830
and ordered a right.

01:07:38.910 --> 01:07:41.270
Watch what you do in life

01:07:41.270 --> 01:07:42.870
how you live

01:07:43.450 --> 01:07:44.970
because it affects your heart.

01:07:46.210 --> 01:07:48.490
Well, I can't see where

01:07:49.310 --> 01:07:51.170
hanging out with a bunch of guys

01:07:51.170 --> 01:07:52.390
who are just kind of

01:07:52.390 --> 01:07:53.910
rough around the edges

01:07:53.910 --> 01:07:56.170
and crude and rude

01:07:56.170 --> 01:07:57.490
and don't have any use for God.

01:07:57.550 --> 01:07:58.930
I can't see how that will affect me.

01:07:59.310 --> 01:08:00.650
Are you there to witness to them

01:08:00.650 --> 01:08:01.210
and get them saved?

01:08:04.600 --> 01:08:07.540
Are you pouring from your vessel into theirs?

01:08:07.900 --> 01:08:09.240
Or are you just hanging out

01:08:09.240 --> 01:08:10.280
like Psalms 1 says

01:08:10.280 --> 01:08:11.400
standing in the wave center

01:08:11.400 --> 01:08:12.980
sitting with the cedars.

01:08:14.000 --> 01:08:14.980
What's your posture?

01:08:16.160 --> 01:08:18.580
Because if it's not to pour into them

01:08:18.580 --> 01:08:21.240
you're going to absorb from them.

01:08:22.580 --> 01:08:24.820
And when you absorb from them

01:08:24.820 --> 01:08:26.560
it affects your heart.

01:08:26.720 --> 01:08:27.720
You're not guarding it.

01:08:28.720 --> 01:08:30.620
Watch how you live your life.

01:08:31.620 --> 01:08:33.140
Who you associate with.

01:08:33.800 --> 01:08:35.320
What did it say in the New Testament?

01:08:37.980 --> 01:08:38.420
Evil...

01:08:38.420 --> 01:08:40.280
What is it? Evil corrupts good character?

01:08:41.860 --> 01:08:43.220
Evil ways, evil manner,

01:08:43.360 --> 01:08:44.780
something like that corrupts good character?

01:08:45.340 --> 01:08:46.740
If you're there to get them saved

01:08:46.740 --> 01:08:47.320
that's good.

01:08:47.960 --> 01:08:49.440
If you're there to hang out

01:08:49.440 --> 01:08:52.500
and just be cool with your ungodly buddies

01:08:54.060 --> 01:08:55.140
they're going to affect you.

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And now it's going to affect your heart.

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And now you're not guarding your heart.

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And it's the wellspring of life.

01:09:02.800 --> 01:09:04.660
Now your life is not going to start going

01:09:04.660 --> 01:09:05.860
as well as it should be

01:09:07.600 --> 01:09:09.140
because you're not guarding your heart.

01:09:09.760 --> 01:09:11.620
Turn not aside to the right or the left

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to remove your foot from evil.

01:09:12.940 --> 01:09:13.700
In other words, again,

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if you know something's wrong

01:09:15.080 --> 01:09:17.840
just kind of don't even walk that direction

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just pull back.

01:09:20.200 --> 01:09:22.140
Not confessing our sins to each other.

01:09:22.300 --> 01:09:23.080
I preface this.

01:09:23.360 --> 01:09:24.940
Don't cast your pearl before swine.

01:09:26.360 --> 01:09:27.780
However, there's a principle here.

01:09:28.420 --> 01:09:30.520
Therefore, confess your sins to each other

01:09:30.520 --> 01:09:31.400
and pray for each other

01:09:31.400 --> 01:09:32.480
so that you may be healed.

01:09:32.720 --> 01:09:33.720
Do you know what he's dealing with here?

01:09:33.980 --> 01:09:34.200
Pride.

01:09:35.540 --> 01:09:37.300
Well, I ain't going to tell anybody what I'm into.

01:09:38.000 --> 01:09:39.280
Well, then you may not get healed.

01:09:39.800 --> 01:09:41.220
Well, I believe in God I get healed.

01:09:41.660 --> 01:09:43.960
Well, until you confess your sins

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your prayers may not be very powerful and effective.

01:09:51.200 --> 01:09:52.680
Praying religiously or traditionally

01:09:52.680 --> 01:09:55.260
but not engaged with our spirit, soul, and body

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we talked about this last Sunday.

01:09:58.220 --> 01:10:00.360
Again, it's that same scripture

01:10:00.360 --> 01:10:01.680
the one I just read here.

01:10:01.820 --> 01:10:02.520
It's in the King James.

01:10:02.920 --> 01:10:04.420
The effectual fervent prayer

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means energized, energized, energized prayer.

01:10:10.060 --> 01:10:10.520
Energized.

01:10:10.600 --> 01:10:13.480
You are throwing yourself into that prayer

01:10:14.080 --> 01:10:14.540
fully.

01:10:14.760 --> 01:10:15.620
You're energized.

01:10:16.000 --> 01:10:17.080
Spirit, soul, and body.

01:10:17.480 --> 01:10:18.620
You're in that prayer.

01:10:20.440 --> 01:10:22.160
Well, we like to do silent prayers.

01:10:22.280 --> 01:10:23.680
We just fold our hands, close our eyes.

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Well, now you're violating a number of principles.

01:10:28.740 --> 01:10:30.940
Specifically, the word of faith is in your mouth.

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You better open it.

01:10:33.720 --> 01:10:34.780
You better say something.

01:10:36.120 --> 01:10:39.060
And when you do, energize it.

01:10:41.360 --> 01:10:42.100
Don't just,

01:10:43.380 --> 01:10:44.100
well, God,

01:10:45.660 --> 01:10:47.380
we know you're an awesome God.

01:10:49.300 --> 01:10:50.520
If it be your will,

01:10:50.620 --> 01:10:51.700
well, if you don't know his will,

01:10:51.960 --> 01:10:53.220
we already covered that principle.

01:10:53.420 --> 01:10:54.220
You're not going to get nothing.

01:10:55.520 --> 01:10:57.020
You got to know what his will is.

01:10:57.780 --> 01:10:59.600
See, there's so many ways

01:10:59.600 --> 01:11:01.760
we cancel our own prayers.

01:11:02.660 --> 01:11:04.200
Giving up and not persevering.

01:11:06.500 --> 01:11:07.840
You need to persevere.

01:11:08.260 --> 01:11:09.460
Don't throw away your confidence.

01:11:09.660 --> 01:11:10.980
It will be richly rewarded.

01:11:11.140 --> 01:11:13.480
You need to persevere so that when you've done the will of God,

01:11:13.580 --> 01:11:15.540
you will receive what he has promised.

01:11:16.600 --> 01:11:18.760
Hold unswervingly to the hope we profess.

01:11:19.020 --> 01:11:20.620
For he who promised is faithful.

01:11:21.620 --> 01:11:25.420
The answer is going to be in God's timing

01:11:25.420 --> 01:11:27.280
on some requests.

01:11:28.140 --> 01:11:31.240
Now, I'm not going to throw a blanket over everything we pray

01:11:31.240 --> 01:11:34.240
and say, well, we're just waiting for God's timing.

01:11:35.480 --> 01:11:38.640
Yeah, some things you can't wait long and it's over.

01:11:39.400 --> 01:11:40.700
God's timing is now.

01:11:40.960 --> 01:11:42.380
Today is the day of salvation.

01:11:43.080 --> 01:11:45.300
But then there are other things you pray for

01:11:45.300 --> 01:11:46.280
and you believe in God for.

01:11:46.340 --> 01:11:48.660
There's stuff that Mary and I prayed for 20, 30 years ago

01:11:48.660 --> 01:11:49.540
that are happening now.

01:11:51.640 --> 01:11:53.760
Hang on. Don't throw away your confidence.

01:11:53.760 --> 01:11:56.900
You have to learn how to persevere.

01:11:57.920 --> 01:12:00.760
Once God speaks to you, stay on it.

01:12:01.000 --> 01:12:02.540
Don't back away from it. Persevere.

01:12:03.240 --> 01:12:05.840
Here's another scripture kind of goes with that timing thing.

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For let us not grow weary in while doing good.

01:12:09.100 --> 01:12:12.440
For in due season, we shall reap if we don't lose heart.

01:12:13.040 --> 01:12:14.920
There is a timing to some things.

01:12:15.020 --> 01:12:16.660
There's a destiny to some things.

01:12:16.840 --> 01:12:20.760
And if he gave us some of the things we were praying for today.

01:12:21.640 --> 01:12:23.280
We're praying for him. He gave it to us today.

01:12:23.280 --> 01:12:24.220
We'd lose it.

01:12:25.040 --> 01:12:27.920
We wouldn't have learned the lessons we need

01:12:27.920 --> 01:12:30.020
to maintain it and hold it.

01:12:32.020 --> 01:12:33.260
So there's a timing.

01:12:34.380 --> 01:12:37.140
So keep praying. Stay on it.

01:12:38.020 --> 01:12:38.680
Number 22.

01:12:39.820 --> 01:12:41.780
Not discerning the body of Christ correctly.

01:12:42.300 --> 01:12:43.980
This comes out of 1 Corinthians 11.

01:12:45.040 --> 01:12:48.300
Not handling other believers and those in the church.

01:12:48.440 --> 01:12:51.980
This isn't just only church, other believers also

01:12:51.980 --> 01:12:53.460
and those you go to church with.

01:12:54.060 --> 01:12:55.780
Not handling them correctly.

01:12:55.920 --> 01:12:58.620
Verse 18 talks about there's division in the church.

01:12:59.440 --> 01:13:01.380
And then at the end of the section there

01:13:01.380 --> 01:13:03.900
he talks about giving preference to each other

01:13:03.900 --> 01:13:07.220
which love prefers another person.

01:13:08.480 --> 01:13:11.440
So verse 18 there it shows

01:13:11.980 --> 01:13:14.040
there are divisions among you.

01:13:14.160 --> 01:13:15.180
It's the bottom of your screen.

01:13:16.160 --> 01:13:17.580
There's problems here.

01:13:18.980 --> 01:13:21.160
Therefore whoever eats this bread

01:13:21.160 --> 01:13:22.220
drinks this cup.

01:13:22.360 --> 01:13:23.960
In other words you're taking communion

01:13:23.960 --> 01:13:26.320
and there's divisions in the church.

01:13:27.420 --> 01:13:29.160
Don't do that. Don't do that.

01:13:29.340 --> 01:13:30.480
You've got to fix that first.

01:13:31.420 --> 01:13:33.480
If you don't, for this reason

01:13:33.480 --> 01:13:35.280
many are weak and sick among you

01:13:35.280 --> 01:13:36.080
and many sleep.

01:13:36.260 --> 01:13:38.480
That word sleep there is speaking of physical death.

01:13:39.360 --> 01:13:41.020
For if we would judge ourselves

01:13:41.020 --> 01:13:42.120
we would not be judged.

01:13:42.240 --> 01:13:43.120
But when we are judged

01:13:43.120 --> 01:13:44.260
we're chastened by the Lord

01:13:44.260 --> 01:13:46.140
that we may not be condemned with the world.

01:13:46.560 --> 01:13:47.440
Therefore my brother,

01:13:47.580 --> 01:13:49.460
when you come together to eat, take communion,

01:13:49.460 --> 01:13:51.380
wait for another, one another.

01:13:51.460 --> 01:13:52.320
Of course they had a meal.

01:13:52.600 --> 01:13:54.620
They did a meal and did communion with the meal.

01:13:54.760 --> 01:13:55.800
It was their tradition back then.

01:13:55.960 --> 01:13:57.160
And that's fine. Nothing wrong with it.

01:13:57.200 --> 01:13:58.720
So he says when you come together to eat

01:13:59.300 --> 01:14:00.520
wait for one another.

01:14:00.900 --> 01:14:02.340
That's preferring each other

01:14:02.340 --> 01:14:03.600
because what they were doing

01:14:03.600 --> 01:14:05.560
is there were poor people there

01:14:05.560 --> 01:14:07.340
who would go to the front of the line

01:14:07.340 --> 01:14:09.900
and grandma who brought the casserole

01:14:09.900 --> 01:14:11.980
said, hell will freeze over

01:14:11.980 --> 01:14:13.560
if they're going to eat all my casserole

01:14:13.560 --> 01:14:14.440
before I get some.

01:14:15.100 --> 01:14:16.660
And she jumped in front of them.

01:14:18.320 --> 01:14:20.100
And Paul says, what are you doing?

01:14:20.980 --> 01:14:22.660
You're doing more damage than good.

01:14:24.300 --> 01:14:26.500
Prefer, wait for one another.

01:14:27.000 --> 01:14:29.680
If they're hungry, bring two casseroles.

01:14:30.360 --> 01:14:31.840
Believe God for the money.

01:14:33.040 --> 01:14:33.780
Have some faith.

01:14:35.000 --> 01:14:36.080
Hide one in your car.

01:14:38.020 --> 01:14:39.820
You can go out and eat afterwards.

01:14:40.580 --> 01:14:41.920
Feel so good about it.

01:14:42.000 --> 01:14:43.680
Oh, I got my casserole at least.

01:14:47.650 --> 01:14:49.090
No, this is actually serious.

01:14:49.210 --> 01:14:49.890
Better get serious again.

01:14:50.890 --> 01:14:53.030
For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy matter

01:14:53.030 --> 01:14:55.150
eats and drinks judgment to himself.

01:14:55.570 --> 01:15:01.640
Sick, weak, and some died.

01:15:03.820 --> 01:15:05.000
Prefer each other.

01:15:06.000 --> 01:15:08.520
And if you're hungry, go to the casserole

01:15:08.520 --> 01:15:10.340
in your car or eat at home.

01:15:11.480 --> 01:15:13.020
Because if you're going to come together

01:15:13.020 --> 01:15:14.940
and start elbowing your way

01:15:14.940 --> 01:15:16.000
to the front of the line

01:15:18.800 --> 01:15:20.240
and then take communion,

01:15:23.380 --> 01:15:24.880
it may not go well for you.

01:15:25.700 --> 01:15:27.280
You may not get your prayers answered

01:15:27.280 --> 01:15:28.540
when it comes to your physical health.

01:15:30.960 --> 01:15:33.700
Being too casual, let's back up.

01:15:33.900 --> 01:15:35.780
Being too casual about how we live

01:15:36.620 --> 01:15:38.500
and the devil or the mnemonic.

01:15:39.360 --> 01:15:41.860
Be well balanced, temperate, sober of mind.

01:15:42.020 --> 01:15:43.920
Be vigilant and cautious at all times.

01:15:43.920 --> 01:15:45.440
Why? Because there is an enemy

01:15:45.440 --> 01:15:47.180
trying to take us out.

01:15:48.340 --> 01:15:49.200
Realize that.

01:15:50.100 --> 01:15:51.200
Don't get too casual.

01:15:51.440 --> 01:15:53.200
Don't get too sloppy in your Christian life.

01:15:53.900 --> 01:15:56.120
There is an enemy waiting for an opportunity.

01:15:57.540 --> 01:15:58.420
Withstand him.

01:15:59.060 --> 01:16:00.220
Be firm in faith.

01:16:01.160 --> 01:16:04.940
Faith ties in with winning this little war

01:16:04.940 --> 01:16:05.820
or this little battle.

01:16:06.960 --> 01:16:10.080
Here's another way that Paul talks about it.

01:16:10.120 --> 01:16:11.120
When angry, do not sin.

01:16:11.260 --> 01:16:13.120
Do not let your wrath, your exasperation,

01:16:13.120 --> 01:16:15.500
your fury or your indignation

01:16:16.080 --> 01:16:17.680
last until the sun goes down.

01:16:18.460 --> 01:16:20.580
In other words, deal with your anger correctly.

01:16:20.780 --> 01:16:23.160
Leave no such room or foothold for the devil.

01:16:23.460 --> 01:16:25.280
Give no opportunity to him.

01:16:25.860 --> 01:16:27.980
That's what he just got talked about.

01:16:28.060 --> 01:16:30.340
He was talking about there in Peter when he said

01:16:30.340 --> 01:16:33.740
there is an enemy looking for a way in

01:16:33.740 --> 01:16:35.760
to damage you, take you out.

01:16:37.040 --> 01:16:39.660
Realize that and don't be too complacent on that.

01:16:40.760 --> 01:16:42.480
He's talking here about forgiveness.

01:16:42.480 --> 01:16:43.500
You have to forgive.

01:16:44.540 --> 01:16:45.540
Verse 11,

01:16:45.760 --> 01:16:47.800
Less Satan should take advantage of us

01:16:47.800 --> 01:16:50.060
for we are not ignorant of his devices.

01:16:51.960 --> 01:16:56.080
Don't be complacent with how we live our Christian life

01:16:56.080 --> 01:16:57.320
because we're under grace.

01:16:57.440 --> 01:16:58.380
Well, I'm under grace.

01:16:58.480 --> 01:17:00.080
I can kind of be sloppy and it's fine.

01:17:01.100 --> 01:17:01.680
Sloppy agape.

01:17:02.460 --> 01:17:03.740
Yeah, you might be sloppy

01:17:03.740 --> 01:17:05.320
and you leave a big door open

01:17:05.320 --> 01:17:08.040
and the demonic comes in and levels you.

01:17:09.100 --> 01:17:10.460
And it's like, well, I don't understand

01:17:10.460 --> 01:17:11.660
why God's not answering

01:17:11.660 --> 01:17:14.000
because you let the enemy right in.

01:17:15.320 --> 01:17:18.000
You need to shore up some things, close some doors,

01:17:18.120 --> 01:17:19.760
close some windows, keep them out.

01:17:20.460 --> 01:17:21.780
24, we're almost there.

01:17:22.480 --> 01:17:24.300
Not being prepared for what we're facing.

01:17:24.560 --> 01:17:26.820
We're in the fire before we have the fire suit on.

01:17:27.300 --> 01:17:28.700
You've heard me say that many times.

01:17:29.300 --> 01:17:30.280
What do I mean by that?

01:17:30.420 --> 01:17:32.380
We haven't developed the ability to hear him,

01:17:32.460 --> 01:17:33.220
be led by him.

01:17:33.520 --> 01:17:35.640
We don't understand faith or how faith works.

01:17:36.020 --> 01:17:38.260
We don't know what it means to fight the fight of faith.

01:17:38.640 --> 01:17:40.380
We haven't learned patience, perseverance,

01:17:40.380 --> 01:17:42.440
the ability to stand up under something,

01:17:42.580 --> 01:17:44.120
having done all the stand, stand.

01:17:44.240 --> 01:17:47.300
Just basic growth Christian stuff.

01:17:47.460 --> 01:17:49.160
We're not living in our purpose or destiny.

01:17:49.300 --> 01:17:50.520
Our life is all about us.

01:17:51.080 --> 01:17:52.280
We haven't conquered fear.

01:17:52.860 --> 01:17:55.120
We're still living in disobedience and willful sin.

01:17:55.240 --> 01:17:58.080
We haven't grown beyond the believer child stage.

01:17:58.240 --> 01:18:00.560
We haven't come to what First John 2 talks about,

01:18:00.900 --> 01:18:02.840
you've got the child, you've got the young man

01:18:02.840 --> 01:18:04.700
where he learns to overcome the evil one.

01:18:04.780 --> 01:18:07.440
We've never learned how to overcome the evil one.

01:18:07.440 --> 01:18:10.860
And then something big hits us.

01:18:11.780 --> 01:18:17.120
And we need to really be able to turn the power on

01:18:17.120 --> 01:18:17.960
to deal with this.

01:18:18.820 --> 01:18:20.280
It's not going to be there.

01:18:21.120 --> 01:18:24.540
We're not prepared for what we are facing now.

01:18:25.180 --> 01:18:28.740
We're in a fire and we haven't even prepared for this.

01:18:28.860 --> 01:18:30.720
We don't have the fire suit on at all.

01:18:31.560 --> 01:18:33.600
Number 25, not understanding,

01:18:34.100 --> 01:18:36.400
binding and loosing in our identity in Christ.

01:18:37.260 --> 01:18:40.480
I may come back and deal with some identity in Christ stuff.

01:18:41.040 --> 01:18:43.420
I won't do it today and I put this at the end

01:18:43.420 --> 01:18:45.020
because I didn't know how much time I'd have left,

01:18:45.140 --> 01:18:47.860
but we had too much fun so I don't have any time left.

01:18:48.540 --> 01:18:51.020
He's talking about, I'm giving you the keys of the kingdom.

01:18:51.880 --> 01:18:52.760
Here are the keys.

01:18:53.680 --> 01:18:56.060
Whatever you bind on earth has to be bound in heaven

01:18:56.060 --> 01:18:58.100
or whatever you loose on earth is loosed in heaven.

01:18:59.460 --> 01:19:01.940
That's actually the wrong translation.

01:19:03.100 --> 01:19:06.100
The right translation, the amplified hits it,

01:19:06.220 --> 01:19:07.420
a number of others hit it.

01:19:08.040 --> 01:19:11.560
Whatever you bind, declared to be improper and lawful on earth,

01:19:11.900 --> 01:19:16.280
must be what is already bound in heaven

01:19:16.280 --> 01:19:17.660
and loosing is the same thing.

01:19:18.340 --> 01:19:22.820
So it's not about we bind something and heaven responds.

01:19:23.680 --> 01:19:27.660
It's about heaven has set the standard and we respond to heaven.

01:19:27.880 --> 01:19:30.880
It's already set there and we go in agreement with it

01:19:30.880 --> 01:19:32.280
and say, yep, I'm in agreement with that.

01:19:32.600 --> 01:19:34.080
That has to take place on earth.

01:19:34.840 --> 01:19:36.800
Here's how it says it in chapter 18.

01:19:37.040 --> 01:19:37.700
It's the same thing.

01:19:38.560 --> 01:19:40.660
It already has to be bound in heaven.

01:19:42.360 --> 01:19:44.260
So here are some simple questions.

01:19:44.440 --> 01:19:46.180
If we're going to bind and loose

01:19:46.180 --> 01:19:47.800
according to the way it really is,

01:19:48.160 --> 01:19:49.580
not us coming up with an idea,

01:19:49.740 --> 01:19:51.720
I'm binding it so now God's going to take care of it.

01:19:52.040 --> 01:19:55.260
No, it's the concept of God already took care of it

01:19:55.260 --> 01:19:56.680
and I'm getting in agreement with God

01:19:56.680 --> 01:19:57.780
and I'm binding this.

01:19:58.740 --> 01:19:59.940
To make that happen,

01:19:59.980 --> 01:20:01.940
there's some basic things we need to know.

01:20:03.060 --> 01:20:04.000
Who are we?

01:20:06.800 --> 01:20:07.960
Who are we in heaven?

01:20:08.100 --> 01:20:08.880
Who are we on earth?

01:20:09.040 --> 01:20:10.000
What gives us the right?

01:20:11.640 --> 01:20:13.300
What is heaven declaring?

01:20:13.820 --> 01:20:15.520
Has to be already bound or loosed in heaven?

01:20:15.660 --> 01:20:17.580
Well, what is already bound and loosed in heaven?

01:20:18.900 --> 01:20:20.960
What are our rights and authority in Christ?

01:20:22.940 --> 01:20:25.180
Who am I really in the kingdom of God?

01:20:26.340 --> 01:20:27.540
If we don't know,

01:20:28.140 --> 01:20:30.300
it's going to be very difficult to bind and loose.

01:20:33.980 --> 01:20:35.900
So we may come back and revisit that.

01:20:36.180 --> 01:20:37.020
Here's the last one.

01:20:38.220 --> 01:20:40.020
We are not saying amen to the promises

01:20:40.020 --> 01:20:41.500
either because we don't know how

01:20:41.500 --> 01:20:43.480
or we're choosing to stay in unbelief.

01:20:45.080 --> 01:20:48.140
For as many as the promises, as many...

01:20:48.140 --> 01:20:49.400
Slow up.

01:20:49.660 --> 01:20:52.160
For as many as are the promises of God,

01:20:52.900 --> 01:20:55.660
they all find their yes,

01:20:55.660 --> 01:20:59.060
their answer in him, in Christ.

01:21:00.540 --> 01:21:02.860
Please circle that, underline that,

01:21:03.020 --> 01:21:05.280
mark that up, do whatever you have to in your Bible.

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There is, well, you know, some things

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just might be the will of God that we don't get that.

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Is it a promise?

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If it's a promise, he already said yes.

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There is no no.

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He already said yes.

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That's right.

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So if it's a promise, he said yes.

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I mean, you got to take that to the bank.

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If it's a promise, he said yes.

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Well, maybe it's his will that I suffer.

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Is it a promise?

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Well, yeah, the Bible says I should.

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Then he already said yes.

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He wants you to have the promise.

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For this reason, we also utter the amen

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or so be it to God through Christ

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to the glory of God.

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Amen.

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What does amen mean?

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We utter the amen.

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Speaking with your mouth.

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Confessing with your mouth.

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When we say amen, when we understand amen,

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it means we understand the promise.

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We understand that Jesus already fulfilled the promise.

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His work is already done.

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We are coming into agreement with what he already said.

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And amen literally means be done or so be it.

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And from our heart, we are saying,

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there is the promise, now be done.

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There is no subjecting it to God's will.

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We already know his will.

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If it's a promise, it's yes.

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So let's wrap it up.

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All of these things we have to discover

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by the Holy Spirit leading us.

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Everything is by the Spirit.

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Please keep that in mind.

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And always remember,

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when the word or the promises

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seem like they're not working,

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it's never on God's side.

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It's always on our side

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because for as many as are the promises of God,

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they all find their yes, their answer in Christ.

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All the promises are yes.

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That's the answer.

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Yes. In Jesus.

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So don't put it on God.

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It's got to be someplace we're not connecting some dots.

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And don't get all frustrated

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because we will lose a battle now and then.

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But the more we understand the less battles we will lose

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and we will win the ultimate war.

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Don't make excuses.

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Well, that's probably not God's will or God's sovereign.

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He chooses.

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He already said, you want this?

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Yeah, I'd like it.

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Well, yes, I gave it to you.

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Yes. Take it.

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Well, it might not be your will.

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Yes.

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Grab this thing.

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Well, I don't know.

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You're sovereign.

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And I'm saying yes.

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Don't blame God.

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Well, his word might not know.

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It's yes.

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If we're not living in what Jesus bought,

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it's on us, not him.

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Don't go into shame.

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Don't go into pride.

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This is a war.

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This is a battle we're in.

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This is what we're after.

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And he wants us to win in every point of it.

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That's his will.

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If we don't win every point, there's no condemnation.

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Just keep fighting.

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Keep swinging.

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That's the goal.

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So Lord, help us to help this to somehow get inside of us

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that we become more effective, more productive,

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more efficient as Christians.

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Holy Spirit, I pray, even as we looked at it this morning,

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some things were pointed out to some of us,

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saying there it is.

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That's what you have to fix if you want the answer.

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So Lord, help us grow in this.

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Not with condemnation, not with fear,

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not with shame, not any of that.

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Just help us grow in this and become another level of glory

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more like Jesus, from glory to glory.

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In Jesus' name, amen.

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Amen. Be blessed. Have an awesome day.