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Let's close our eyes and let's just look to the Lord one more time and just thank Him.

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Father, we thank You. Holy Spirit, we thank You that You guide us and You lead us.

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That You show us what should and should not be done.

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We thank You that You teach us how to protect the anointing,

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how to protect the presence, how to respect You when You come.

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Lord, we are thankful for everything that You are doing in this church

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and I ask that as I speak today that You would just unveil our eyes

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to see that You would open our ears to hear what the Spirit of God is saying today.

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Let me just sit on that for a little bit. Holy Spirit, I'm asking that You would

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open our eyes to see and You would open our ears to hear

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what the Holy Spirit is saying today to the churches.

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Help us to interpret, help us to respond. You are our helper,

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so help us in that. In Jesus' name, I pray.

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If you agree with me, would you say amen?

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Open your Bibles up to Isaiah 66.

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I'm hoping to finish up this series here hopefully next Sunday.

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I'm hoping to wrap this up.

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Here's what I want to... I can't get too much into the message today

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just because I don't want to keep you here after 12.

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But here's what I want to emphasize today because next Sunday

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I want to get into some things. And then I also actually want to have

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a few people come up and share that have shared with me about some things

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that really bore witness in my spirit regarding the series that we're in.

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We're in a series that I've been leading us through called Revival Is.

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And I said this in one of the first messages.

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I said, I believe that a lot of Christians, and I speak this from experience

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because I've asked multiple, multiple Christians of what is revival

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and the answers I've gotten.

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I've come to the conclusion that we don't know what revival is

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in its fullness, so to say.

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We have ideas of it. Some of us have probably even experienced it.

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If you're 70 plus years old, that's not an offensive statement.

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That's a compliment. So take that as a compliment.

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But some of us have probably even lived through revivals of the past.

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I think the Brownsville Revival was in what?

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The early 90s, if I'm not mistaken? That was down in Florida?

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So some of us have been there and we've seen it.

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But what I'm really trying to emphasize is that at the root of it,

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I can't say that there is one individual that says,

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yep, I know what revival is through and through.

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We can find revivals in the scriptures.

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One of the greatest revival that we can find in the scriptures

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is recorded in the Book of Acts of the early church.

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That is literally the blueprint of what a biblical revival looks like.

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Which, by the way, I want to make this statement.

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There are biblical revivals and there are quote-on-quote revivals.

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There is biblical revivals and I feel like in the day and age

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that we've been living it in full gospel circles,

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because we so long to see and experience a biblical revival,

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that we will actually water down or we will desensitize

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what a biblical revival is and we call everything a revival now.

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We have churches that will hang banners on a Friday night

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and say revival meetings, and I come to the conclusion

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to say you don't even know what a revival is.

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Just because you put a banner and it says these are revival meetings

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does not mean that you are having a revival,

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nor, or I should be more specific, a biblical revival.

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There is a distinct difference between a biblical revival

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and what we now in our full gospel, Pentecostal circles,

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what we now call revival.

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And it's like on one hand it's, I love that we want revival,

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but I wish that we would want Jesus as much as we want revival.

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Let me say that again.

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I pray and I hope that we would want the Lord

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as much as we want revival.

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We so desperately want it, we put banners,

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but when it comes to the Lord being our master

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and he asks us to do something that is inconvenient

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and the reason why he's asking us to do it

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is so that we could know him more, we say no to that

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because it's inconvenient for us.

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If we could want Jesus and not just want him

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but to want to know him as much as we want revival,

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I promise you revival would be already here.

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I promise you that.

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You say, how can I make that promise?

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Read the book of Acts.

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Read what the early church experienced.

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They weren't even praying for a revival.

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They were simply waiting on the Lord

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because they so desperately wanted him.

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It wasn't even about revival.

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It was about you told us to wait

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and you said if we wait, you will come in a measure of power

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and you will bestow that power upon us.

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That's what they were doing.

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They were eagerly waiting for the Lord to come.

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So the reason of this series, there's many reasons

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but the reason of this series is not only do I want us

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to be educated in what a biblical revival is

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but I want us to be fully knowledgeable

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of what is coming ahead for the church

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according to what the prophet Joel prophesized

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and according to what Peter reiterates

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of what the prophet Joel prophesied in Acts 2.

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Where for those that maybe you don't know your Bible

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the prophet Joel prophesized by the utterance

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that God has given him and he says that in the last days

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I will pour out my spirit on all flesh.

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Your sons and daughters will prophesy.

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Pastor Verner already said that today.

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All of us can prophesy.

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Don't be so emanured or don't be so...

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let me use a better word.

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Don't be so, oh my goodness.

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We all can do it.

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I'm not saying that in a dis...

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in a disrespectful way to the gifts of the Holy Spirit.

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No, I respect them. I have reverence to them.

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I want them. I operate in them.

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But we get so like, oh my goodness.

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I just prophesied.

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Wow, cool.

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I know somebody who just got saved that prophesied.

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What does that mean?

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That they're now the most mature person

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that sits in the church?

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But the purpose of the series is,

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I want us to understand

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what is a biblical revival

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and what lays core to what revival is.

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And if you've been tracking with the series,

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if you take the purpose of revival

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and you peel it,

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you literally break it down to the core of it

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and you get to the question of,

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okay, Lord, why are you sending your spirit,

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you're pouring it out.

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What is the purpose of the revival?

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Because revival is bringing something back to life.

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It is the reviving of something.

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Something was dead, now it's alive.

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It's being revived.

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So if you really boil it down to the core,

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Lord, what is the purpose of revival?

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What is the purpose of the outpouring

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of the Holy Spirit?

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I have come to the conclusion.

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Now some may argue with me,

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and I'd love to sit and talk with you about it.

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But I have come to the conclusion

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that the purpose of revival

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is God the Father,

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once again, by the Holy Spirit,

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is trying to return a people

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or a church, in other words,

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the bride of Christ,

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back to its first love.

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So that we would be so infatuated

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with the Lord,

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that we would be so in love with Him

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that nothing else matters.

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That is at the core of what a biblical revival is.

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Literally, that is the core of revival.

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The signs, the miracles, the wonders,

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those are, I'll even call them secondary

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to the main thing.

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God desires for a people

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to love Him with our first love.

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Now some of you are asking, what is first love?

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Let's open up first Corinthians.

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I'm just reading this in case

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you don't know your Bibles, okay?

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Being gracious to you here.

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First Corinthians 13.

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We know this as the love chapter.

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And it's a bit cringy that when you go to a wedding

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and they send you a wedding invitation,

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I said cringy, I know.

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You get invited to a wedding,

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and it seems like every other wedding invitation you get

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has first Corinthians.

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And it's like, I get it?

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But do you know what Paul is actually really referring to?

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Yes, this is love amongst a husband and a wife.

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Yes, this is love amongst brethren, amongst the saints.

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But it's more than just that.

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Paul is talking about first love

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is what Paul is talking about.

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So if you ever wondered what is first love,

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let's read it together.

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This is first Corinthians chapter 13.

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Let's start at verse one.

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He says, though I speak with the tongues of men and angels,

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but have not love, I have become a sounding brass.

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Let me just pause there in case...

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Yeah, I'm not going to go there.

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Kev, just for the sake of time.

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He says, if I pray in tongues of men,

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so in his native language,

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or if I pray in the tongues of angels,

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let's just call it the heavenly language.

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I just recently told somebody this week,

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I said, I speak four languages.

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You know what they are?

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Russian, Ukrainian, American, or English,

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however you want to call it.

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And I speak the heavenly language.

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Four languages.

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Did you know that if you're baptized in the Holy Spirit,

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you speak in two languages?

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Don't be so amazed that I'm the only one

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that can speak more than one language.

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Because it's like you're a foreigner

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and people come and they're like,

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oh, you speak multiple languages?

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I'm like, yeah, you can too.

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Let me pray for you real quick.

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It's that easy.

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So, tongues of men and tongues of angels.

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Paul is saying, listen, I can pray

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both in the spirit and I can pray

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in my native language.

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But then he says this.

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He says, but if I not have love,

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he said I'm just a sounding brass.

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In other words, I can come up here

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and I can pray up a storm in the spirit.

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But if at the core of me, in my heart,

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I don't have my first love

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onto the Lord and I'll explain what first love is.

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What I'm doing is all in vain.

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It's all in vain.

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Who cares that I just came up here

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and I prayed such a prayer

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that all the listeners were like, man,

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did you hear the eloquent words that he used?

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Did you see how long he prayed in tongues?

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Who cares?

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If at the core of me,

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I don't even walk in first love towards God.

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God is not impressed.

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Let's keep going.

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He says,

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And though I have the gift of prophecy

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and understand all mysteries and all knowledge

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and though I have all faith

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so that I can remove mountains,

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but I have not love,

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I have nothing.

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That right there just described

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are full, gospel, pentecostal,

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charismatic circles.

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Friend, you can come up here

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and you can prophesy.

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Better yet, you could come up to me

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and you could give me a word of knowledge

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that would blow my socks off.

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Cool.

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But if at the core of you,

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you do not have first love onto God,

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what you just did is in vain.

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It's pointless.

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I know I'm making some real statements this morning.

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But I'm trying to emphasize to you

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of what a biblical revival

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actually is

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and the purpose of it.

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Let's keep going here.

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Verse three.

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And though I have bestowed all my goods

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to feed the poor

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and though I give my body to be burned.

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Wow.

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Paul just keeps going deeper and deeper

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with this thing.

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He says, though I bestow all my goods

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to the poor and I feed them

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and though I give my body to be burned

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but have not love,

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it profits me nothing.

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It profits me.

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I could go and open up

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a non-profit and call it

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Feed My Starving Children.

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I could go and open up a non-profit

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and call it Salvation Army.

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Whatever. You fill in the blank.

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You could go and create a business

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that is a non-profit business

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and literally change the world.

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Yet at the end of your life

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the biggest question that God

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is really going to ask you

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is what was at the core of your heart?

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Friends, I want us to ponder that.

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To make it more personal,

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we can build a building.

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We can fill that building

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with people like God promised

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but at the end of it as a pastor.

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If people that I am

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assigned to lead as a shepherd,

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if they are not falling

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in love with Jesus,

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if they are not walking

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in first love to the Lord,

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friend, I am failing you as a pastor.

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That to me has the fear of the Lord.

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That to me has the fear of God

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that I can be up here

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and I can preach something to you

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so well and I've tickled your ears

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and you leave this place.

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If you're not falling in love with Jesus more,

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my question is what am I doing wrong?

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That's not the only question I ask

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but that's where I start.

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That's where I start.

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Lord, what am I doing wrong?

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How am I not seeing you correctly?

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Because the way that I'm seeing the Lord,

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it should emanate off of me

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and it should affect the people

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that are under my influence,

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that are under my leadership,

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whatever you want to call it.

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Whatever I'm looking at

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or I should say whatever pastors

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are looking at,

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we as the congregation

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are going to end up looking at it.

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Have you listened to the podcast?

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A church is formed under its pastors.

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So whatever our pastors are looking at,

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we as the congregation

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are going to end up beholding it.

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Why do you think so many churches

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struggle with scrolling?

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Because the pastor probably

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spends more time scrolling

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than actually beholding the Lamb of God.

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Why are so many churches weak

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in areas that it's like you got to have this?

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Because the pastor probably is weak in those areas

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and he can only lead a people

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as far as he's gone or she's gone.

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Yes, I said she's gone

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for those that are listening online.

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So I want to make this personal to us.

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Examine your heart.

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We can build a building.

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We can fill that building

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with multitudes of peoples.

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I promised you we would even see

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signs, miracles, and wonders happen.

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But at the end of the day

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when my pillow hits

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or when my head hits the pillow,

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what lays at the core of me?

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What lays at the core of my heart?

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Do I love God

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with a burning desire?

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Am I willing to lay down

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everything for Him?

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And I said everything.

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Am I willing to give up my dreams

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and die to things

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that I may have worked my life for?

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If I don't have that type of tenacity

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or that type of love towards God,

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friend, I would examine yourself.

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Because at the core

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of a biblical revival,

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the more I study,

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the more I come to it,

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that same conclusion,

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the core of it is our first love

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onto Him.

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And out of that,

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everything else comes

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and you'll see as I walk us through.

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Let's keep going here.

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First Corinthians.

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Let's go to verse four.

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Now, Paul begins to describe

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what first love is.

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So he gives all these things

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from verse one to verse three.

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He talks about it.

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He makes these comparisons.

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You can prophesy,

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I have not love.

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It's in vain.

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You can give.

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Your body can burn

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with I got to fulfill the needs

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of people.

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But at the core,

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you don't do it

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because you love God.

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It's in vain.

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And then in verse four,

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he begins to actually describe

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what is first love.

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Listen to this.

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He says love suffers long.

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Love...

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Man, I can't say that without weeping.

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Love suffers long.

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We suffer not because

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God desires us to suffer.

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We suffer because we love him so much

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and we're willing to sit

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and wait until we see

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his kingdom come

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and his will be done.

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First love suffers.

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Friend, if you're not suffering

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for the things of God,

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examine your heart

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if you're actually in first love.

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First love suffers

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for the things of God.

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It's willing to wait.

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It's willing to be patient.

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It's willing to persevere.

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It's willing to wrestle

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until it sees

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his kingdom come

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and his will be done.

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That's first love.

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He goes on to say

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love suffers long

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and is kind.

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Love does not envy.

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Love does not parade itself.

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He's describing first love.

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First love doesn't parade itself.

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It's not you

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living a life that you're so infatuated

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with yourself and how amazing you are.

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First love, according to what Paul is writing here

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that it's not...

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it doesn't parade itself.

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It's not seeking its own.

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First love is completely...

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now listen to me.

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It is completely selfless.

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Not selfish.

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That's first love.

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It's completely selfless.

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You're not seeking your own thing.

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You're only seeking

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what do you desire, Lord?

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What do you want to do today?

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In me and through me?

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How do you want to show yourself to me today?

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How do you want me to demonstrate

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your power today, God?

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We're not seeking of...

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well, how can I do this, that, and the other?

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It's God, what do you want to do?

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How do you want to do it?

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Ever seen a young couple

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just about to get married?

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It's like the dude's like,

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what do you want to do, honey?

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You want to go pick roses?

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I'll do it.

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As long as you want to do it with me.

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You want to go dance in the rain?

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I'll do it, because you want to do it.

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And then the girl on the other side goes,

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you want to repair your car?

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I'll do it, I'll even hold the ranch for you.

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Come on.

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I'll even get my hands dirty and greasy.

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See, that's first love talking.

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If you've lost that in your marriage,

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go back to that.

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Go back to that.

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Go back to that.

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To that love that you had with your spouse

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before you even got married,

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you were dating them.

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You want to go play golf, honey?

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I hate it, but I'll do it, because you like it.

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See, that's first love.

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We're not parading.

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We're not self-seeking.

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But we are doing whatever he wants to do.

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God, you want to build a building?

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I'll do it, because you want to do it.

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That should be the attitude of word of life.

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We should not look at this as a burden of,

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oh, man, we should look at this as God.

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You want to do it?

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Let's do it, Lord.

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I don't know how we're going to do it, but let's do it.

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I'll share with you something just to describe first love.

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When me and my wife, and we were still dating,

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she thought I was loaded and wealthy,

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because I had a BMW.

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What she didn't realize is I had $20 in my pocket,

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legitimately, at one time as we were dating,

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the only money I had was $20 in my pocket.

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And we wanted to go and do stuff,

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and I was like, let's go do activities.

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Let's go do whatever.

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I'd have no money to do nothing,

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but I said, I'm willing to do it.

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I don't know how we're going to do it.

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And we happen to have one of our dates,

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one of the cheapest dates,

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and it was the Lord that made a way.

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We went to, was it the Science Museum, sweetie?

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We went to the Science Museum,

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and it cost us a whole $2.

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But we did something.

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I say all that to say that

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I don't want us to be oblivious.

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Let's have some logic.

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But to be willing to have the heart attitude of,

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God, you want to do it?

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Let's do it, Lord.

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If you want to do it,

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you will make a way of how we're going to do it.

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That's where the logic, in some way,

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kicks in, the supernatural,

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and then the logic is kind of there.

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But it's more the supernatural.

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You following me?

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So first love doesn't parade.

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It doesn't parade itself.

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It is not puffed up.

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It does not behave rudely.

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It does not seek its own.

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It is not provoked.

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It thinks no evil.

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When you walk in first love,

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you don't think of God being this evil man

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up in heaven that's shaking his fists all the time.

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The reason why people have this perspective

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of God the Father being this mean grumpy old guy

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who probably came from the Vietnam war

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and hates everybody that he's talked to

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and is just shaking his...

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You're not in first love.

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I hate to break the news to you,

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but you're not walking in first love

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because you're not thinking any evil.

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When you're in first love,

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you realize, my God, you love me.

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You're not after to pour your wrath out

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and to condemn me and destroy me.

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You actually love me.

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First love doesn't have evil thoughts towards God.

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It does not rejoice in iniquity.

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We don't take joy...

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Let me make this more personal.

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We don't take joy in how cool our past life was.

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BC before the cross.

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Have you ever talked to people?

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I've talked to people, especially in the Slavic communities.

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You talk to somebody, you know,

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they come all tatted up and earrings

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and they just look like they just been through a rough life.

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And you talk to them and they're like,

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man, my life back in the day, brother,

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I was, you know, and they'll sometimes squat like this

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and they'll take half an hour.

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This is called the Slav Squad, by the way.

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When you squat like this, it's the Slav Squad.

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And they'll go half an hour talking about

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how cool they were in their past life.

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And then they'll take five minutes and they'll say,

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yeah, Jesus saved me.

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And you're like, wow,

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what I heard there is you just took joy in your iniquity.

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You took joy in who you were,

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your notoriety, your popularity,

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your influence, how cool you were,

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how many girls you had, this, that, and the other.

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But now I'm just saved.

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I just, yeah, it's kind of boring now,

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but I'm saved. Hey, I don't drink and smoke anymore, though.

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First love is like, dude,

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yo, I was in some stuff.

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Why do you think many of you have never even heard

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my full testimony?

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Because it's done with.

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I don't need to bring up things that I was involved in,

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just to, I don't know,

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glowed or to show how cool I was.

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It's all done with.

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What I need to talk about now

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is what the Lord did for me,

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and who I am in him,

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and what he's doing in me and through me on and so forth.

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First love doesn't rejoice in iniquity.

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We're not taking joy in the sin.

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We're not taking joy in the things

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that were maybe transgressions or whatever they were.

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We're not rejoicing in that thing.

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It's done with.

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I was a sinner, now I'm a saint on and so forth.

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Is this still good, by the way?

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Okay, you're still with me?

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Because we're going to go a little afternoon here.

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It does not rejoice in iniquity,

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but rejoices in the truth.

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Bears, now verse 7.

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First love bears all things.

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Believes all things.

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Hopes all things.

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Endures all things.

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Let me take a pause,

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and let me just reiterate that real quick.

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First love bears all things.

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We hold on to it.

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Until we see that thing come.

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And I'm holding on to it, God,

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because I love you with my first love.

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God, you said.

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Father, you said.

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And I'm going to hold on to this thing

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until I see it come through.

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Father, you made a promise to me as your child.

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I'm going to bear this thing

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until I see it come through

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to prove to you that I love you

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with my first love.

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It bears all things.

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First love bears all things.

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Your word says, God,

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that you're going to pour out your spirit.

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Your word says, Lord,

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that you're coming back.

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I'm bearing that truth.

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I'm holding on to the truth

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that I shall see salvation

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come to my family.

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God, I'm holding on to that.

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Bears all things.

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Believes all things.

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Not a doubt in my mind, God,

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you said it, I believe it.

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And any unbelief that's in me, Lord,

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rid me of it, Holy Spirit.

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Help me, Holy Spirit,

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to overcome any unbelief

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that I may have in my life

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so that I can walk in first love

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and believe all things.

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Hopes all things.

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Endures all things.

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And then he says here in verse 8,

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love never fails.

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Let me just say it this way.

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First love never fails.

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I have never met someone

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that has loved God

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with first love

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that God has failed them.

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And I know quite a bit of people

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just so you know.

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I have not met one individual

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that has loved God

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with first love

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that has seen that first love fail.

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I haven't.

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And I don't think I ever will

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because his scripture says,

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his word says, love never fails.

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He says, prophecies fail.

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He says, tongues will cease.

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But he says, love never fails.

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And then at the end of the chapter,

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he'll even say this.

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He says, these three remain.

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He says, faith, hope, and love,

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but the greatest of these is what?

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First love onto God.

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It's our first love onto Him.

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It's that burning desire

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of what do you want to do, God?

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I want to do it with you

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because you want to do it with me.

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God is not that employer

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that tells you, go and do it,

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and then he just leaves you.

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No.

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He is that business owner

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that says, I want you to do it

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and I want to do it with you.

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Let me show you how we can do this.

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Let me show you how this process

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can actually go.

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Isaiah 66, I didn't read it,

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but let me just make this

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and we'll come to a conclusion.

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I'll let you go this morning.

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Isaiah 66 verse 1 and 2,

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talk about the three things

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on whom God will look.

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He says, on this one I will look,

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on Him who is what?

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Poor, contrite spirit

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and trembles at my word.

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All three of those things,

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by the way,

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all three of those things

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are talking about first love.

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Because God will,

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and if you don't believe me,

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I'll read a few scriptures here.

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God will not look

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upon someone,

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nor will God come and rest.

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Because Isaiah 66 talks about

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God looking on those

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who do these three things,

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who have a lifestyle of it,

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and it says that they will create

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a dwelling place for God.

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God will not look

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upon someone,

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nor will God come and rest

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in a place

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where first love

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does not exist.

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God is not

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a man,

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or let me put it this way,

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God is not a father

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that will shortchange

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his son

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of what his son

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is actually valued at.

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God the father will not

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shortchange his son Jesus

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in giving him a bride

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that is half ready,

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or giving him a bride

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that half of her wedding dress

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is like dirty stains

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and she didn't use tide,

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and on the other side,

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she did use tide,

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and she's clean and beautiful.

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Is that an advertisement for tide?

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It just came to me.

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The father will not shortchange

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his son.

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He loves his son

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far too much to say,

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ah, sorry Jesus.

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It's the best that we could do.

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Darn.

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Only if we could do better.

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But that's all I can do for you son.

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I'm sorry.

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That's not the father.

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The father gave his spirit,

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and the Holy Spirit

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is preparing the church

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the bride

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with fragrance,

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anointing it with fragrance,

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and aroma and mirror and oil,

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and all these things

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so that the church

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could be arrayed in beauty

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and smell beautiful,

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so that when we come

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to be presented to the bridegroom,

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the father will say,

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look what I've prepared

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for you, my son.

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Go and get her.

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Go and get your beautiful bride.

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She is adored.

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She is beautiful.

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She has made herself ready.

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And the Holy Spirit

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was doing it with her.

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Now go and get her.

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She's ready for you son.

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She's been prepared.

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That's who the father is.

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So don't you ever think

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that God will come

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and rest in a place

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where first love

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does not abide.

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That's why I made the statement

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through this series,

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that if we can focus

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not so much on

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what we have a picture of revival,

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but if we can focus

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on God, we want to capture

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your attention,

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which I believe

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as a church we have.

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I believe that we have caught

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the attention of God.

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I do believe that.

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Otherwise I wouldn't be

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pastoring here.

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Just going to be honest

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with you.

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My wife and I did not come

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here to pastor

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because Pastor Vernon Mary came

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and said, we don't have

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any other young people.

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Would you please come

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and this?

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No.

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They just said we heard

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from God.

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And then my wife and I,

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we heard from God.

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And I knew that if I'm

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hearing from God

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regarding coming here,

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not because I'm so great,

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but this church has caught

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the attention of God.

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It has.

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Now, we've caught the attention

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of God.

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Now do you know where we're at?

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Where I believe we're at?

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It's to create a greater

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dwelling for him to come

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and rest.

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And I promise you,

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he will not come and rest

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if first love does not

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abide in this place.

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He won't.

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We can cry for it.

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We can call for it.

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We can believe for it.

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We can sing for it.

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We can do all these things.

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But if deep within our heart

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and in our spirit,

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first love is not there.

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He will not come and rest.

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I promise you.

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I promise you that.

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Isaiah 66 is talking about

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first love.

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To be poor in spirit,

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you've got to walk in first love.

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To be of a contrite spirit,

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you've got to be walking

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in first love.

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To tremble at his word,

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you have to walk

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in first love.

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Revelation 2,

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God addresses the first church

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out of the seven,

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and I've shared this before.

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The Lord asked me once.

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He said, son,

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He said, what is the first church

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that I addressed

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and what was the issue

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that I addressed there?

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And I said, Lord,

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I said, I think it was

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the Ephesus church

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and you addressed them

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of losing their first love.

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He said, you're correct.

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He said, now why?

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And I was like, I don't know, Lord,

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tell me.

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He said, because it all begins

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with that.

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Out of the seven churches

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that God addresses,

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He chooses to address

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this church with the issue

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that they had.

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It starts with first love.

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Why do people leave the church?

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There is many reasons.

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There is many reasons.

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But if you come down

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to the core of it,

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you will find

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that an individual

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has lost their first love

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on to God.

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You will.

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I promise you, you will.

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Just sit down and talk with them.

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They'll tell you

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how this person heard them,

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how that person heard them,

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how this person

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misunderstood them,

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how this was misinterpreted,

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how they didn't allow me

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to do this, that, and the other.

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And they go down this list,

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but at the end of it,

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it's like, yeah,

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but you lost your first love.

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What about what God

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asks you to do in that church?

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Regardless of all the trials,

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the tribulations,

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the oppositions

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that we can even face

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amongst each other.

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The disagreements,

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he addresses

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the Ephesus church,

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and the issue

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he addresses them with

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is first love.

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That to me

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is a huge indicator.

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God, what are you saying?

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What are you saying, Lord?

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God will not come

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and dwell,

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God will not come

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and rest,

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nor will we catch

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the attention of God

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if we are not walking

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in first love,

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if we are not suffering,

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if we are not bearing,

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if we are not believing,

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if we are not hoping,

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if we are not rejoicing

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in the truth,

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but rejoicing

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in our iniquity,

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in our past

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of how cool I was.

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In Malachi,

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let me read one more scripture

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and we'll come to a conclusion.

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I just,

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I want you to understand

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the heart of God in this

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and how I believe

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how critical it is.

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In Malachi chapter,

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it's going to be chapter one.

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I'll read this

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and we'll come to a conclusion.

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Malachi is the Old Testament.

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It's the last book

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in the Old Testament.

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And God makes a statement here

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that I've,

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I've, I've read this scripture.

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I've pondered on this scripture.

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I've meditated on this scripture

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for many, many years.

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We actually,

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we created a whole

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gathering back in like

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2016, 2017.

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Yeah, 2016, 2017.

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I think it was 18 too.

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We literally created a whole,

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I'll call it an event.

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It was more than just an event.

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But we created a whole event

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around this scripture

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and another scripture

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out of Ephesians four,

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Awake, O Sleeper,

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and Rise from the Dead.

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But we literally created

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a whole event

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that we included.

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There was like

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five plus churches

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that were a part of this event

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because we wanted to,

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we wanted to do it right.

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We wanted to do it right

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in the sight of God.

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We wanted to give God

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what he's worthy of.

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Now listen to what the prophet

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writes in Malachi chapter one,

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verse six.

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He says this.

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A son honors his father.

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Now again, this is a,

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this is evidence

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that God will not come

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and rest, nor will we catch

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the attention of God

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if we are not walking

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in first love, nor,

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or if we don't have

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first love.

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This is just evidence,

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and scripturally that

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this is a true statement.

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God just won't

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because he values his son

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far too much.

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Okay, let me read it

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and then I'll make a statement after.

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He says a son honors his father

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and a servant his master.

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Then he continues to say,

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if, if then I am the father,

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not a father,

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he actually says the father.

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Where is my honor?

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And if I am a master,

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where is my reverence?

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Says the Lord of hosts.

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To the priest who despised

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my name, yet you say,

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in what way have we despised

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your name?

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Verse seven.

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You offered defile food

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on my altar,

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but say in what way have we

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defiled you by saying,

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the table of the Lord is contemptible.

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Am I pronouncing that right?

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By saying that the table

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of the Lord is...

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that word literally translates to

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to have disrespect

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to the things of God.

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That's one way that

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that word is described.

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Is to not have the respect

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unto God that he actually deserves.

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In other words,

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God deserves

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and he will not receive anything

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but first love.

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You're saying that's a harsh God.

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No, that's not a harsh God.

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That's the type of God

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I want to serve.

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That's the God

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that understands value.

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Let me read on here

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for a little bit more.

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Are you still good?

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Verse eight.

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And he says,

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when you offer the blind

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as a sacrifice,

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is it not evil?

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Let me bring this

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to New Testament language.

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When I have now spent myself

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for the world

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and the things of the world

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and now I come to God

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and I'm like,

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well, this is the best I have, God,

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so...

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take it, I guess.

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I know some of you

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I just feel the pressure

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just coming through the room.

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Don't look at this

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as a pressure

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of I got to perform more.

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Look at this

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of how much more

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I need the Holy Spirit

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to walk in first love.

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Friends, I'm telling you,

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I said this in the series,

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it takes God to love God.

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Without the Holy Spirit,

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you can't love him

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with first love.

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I promise you.

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That's one of the reasons

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why he was given to us.

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He says,

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you offer the blind

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as a sacrifice,

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is it not evil?

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And when you offer

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the lame and the sick,

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is it not evil?

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And then he even says this statement.

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Offer it to your governor.

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Would he be pleased with you?

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Would he accept you favorably?

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Says the Lord.

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Come to work for a month

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nonchalant.

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Just try it.

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Just show up late to work

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for even two, three days.

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Just try it.

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See if they'll keep you around.

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I'm being honest with you.

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Just try coming late to work

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for two or three days.

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If they don't let you go,

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they will talk to you about it.

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The boss, the manager,

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whoever they'll come

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and they'll talk to you about it.

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If we would have the same attitude,

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I'll conclude with this.

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If we would have the same attitude

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that we have towards our jobs

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and our businesses,

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if we would have that same attitude,

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now I'm talking about the people

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that understand work ethic.

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Let me just make that real quick.

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The people that understand work ethic

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and the importance of accountability

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and character and all that stuff.

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If we in America could have the same attitude

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towards God, and I'll,

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let's make it more personal,

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towards church,

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because this is the house of the Lord.

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As we do towards our jobs,

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we would create a greater dwelling place for God.

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We would.

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We would.

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If we would stop being so nonchalant

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and wake up in the morning and say,

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it's 9.30, church starts at 10,

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if I arrive at 10.15, that's not a problem.

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What if I told you, listen to me,

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and I know I said we'll conclude with this,

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but we'll conclude with this.

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Yeah.

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Once you get a Slavic person going,

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it's like a motorboat.

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Come on, shut them off.

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Put the choke or something.

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What if I told you a day is coming

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that there will be a people

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that are going to be so hungry for the Lord?

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We're already seeing a little bit of it,

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but people will be so hungry for the Lord

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that they will line up at the doors

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before the doors even open.

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And if you're somebody right now

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that says, ah, 10.15, that's all right.

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You may come and find yourself

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not having a seat where God is doing the work.

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You're saying, but God wouldn't do that.

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Are you sure? Read history.

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Are you sure? Read the history.

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I remember being a young kid, a young lad.

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Yeah, it's a new word that I'm working on here.

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Matt's over there laughing at me.

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I remember being a young kid.

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I don't know, maybe 9, 10,

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and going with my parents

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to a Benny Hinn crusade in Minneapolis.

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I remember standing in line like,

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oh, are we for real? For like over an hour.

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But man, was I happy when I made it into that room

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because God was there.

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You're saying, well, God wouldn't do that.

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Are you sure? Because when I read the scriptures,

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God will rest in a place geographically.

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He will.

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Let's stand for prayer.

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Do you want to say anything after,

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or can I dismiss them after?

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Father, we thank you.

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Father, we thank you

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for your precious Holy Spirit.

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Father, we thank you

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that your Holy Spirit is our helper.

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He is the one that works in us

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and with us.

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Holy Spirit, you are the spirit of truth.

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You're the spirit of the fear of the Lord.

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You're the spirit of wisdom and knowledge.

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And we thank you that you put up with our immaturity.

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We thank you that you are working on our character.

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You are, you are molding us.

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None of us have arrived, Holy Spirit.

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And you are bearing, you are suffering with us

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because you love us.

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So I pray, Holy Spirit, and I ask

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that as we leave this morning,

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that we would lean on you

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like we've never leaned on you before.

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That we would look to you

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knowing that it is only by you

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and through you and with you

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that we can love our God with first love.

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We recognize that, we confess that, we believe that.

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Holy Spirit, help us to be a people,

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to be a church that would walk in first love

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and continue to do so in the days ahead.

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That we would burn in our hearts.

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That we would burn in our hearts.

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That we would burn and behold the Lamb of God

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who takes away the sins of the world.

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That excitement.

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I feel like excitement has left the hearts of people.

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I pray that excitement would once again

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come to the hearts of people

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and we would be excited about the things of God

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and what he's doing.

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That we would once again find joy in the suffering.

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That we would once again

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look at the road ahead of us.

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That may be long and we'd say,

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God, you're walking us, you're walking us through this road.

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You're walking with us in this road.

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You are a way maker.

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Help us to recognize that Lord.

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Help us to live in that Lord.

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In Jesus' name, I pray.

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Amen.

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