"Why Has the Church Lost Its Power?" Rescue Radio with Marjorie

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I have an emergency. What is your location?

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'Cause there's a war for your soul. Yes, indeed.

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I don't know, Lord God, if a lot of people really know that there's a

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war for their soul. I think, Lord God, that we have been so inundated by

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the lies that we have lost sight of the real, the real

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issues here. So Father, we declare that your kingdom come in us,

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in us, we are your kingdom, and through us, Father God, and that your purposes

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be accomplished in this place through your people,

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Father God, and and that your ultimate goals and goodness

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would prevail. I thank you, Jesus, for dying on the cross for us,

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for showing us how to love and forgive one another, how to be

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saved, how to walk in that salvation, that hope, that endurance, and not

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to grow weary in well-doing. I thank you, Jesus, for giving us courage to follow

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you. I thank you for giving us the Holy Spirit

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to guide us in following you. And we thank you, Lord God,

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that we have power and authority over all the power of the enemy. And we

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take authority over him right now and all of his lies and mischief

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and assaults, attacks, deceptions, deviant behaviors,

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that we bind him and command that he be exposed in the

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lives and hearts of your people, Lord God, whether your people know that

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they're your people or not, that his lies will be exposed and

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the truth will prevail. I thank you, Lord, for the divine promise also that no

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weapon, none, no weapons formed against us or our families will prosper. No word

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said, said, deed done, or action taken will be able to be used by the

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enemy to bring forth any shame, trouble, reproach, fear,

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setbacks. Uh, Lord, we know he is a spirit

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of resistance to the goodness of God, but we also command that those spirits of

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deception and resistance be removed from the hearts and minds of your people,

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Father God, and they be free to know the truth and walk in

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your freedom. In Jesus' name. Amen. Well, I've got

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a question and my question to you, and to all of us is,

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why aren't we acting like the church, the body of believers

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established by Jesus Christ? You know, Jerry,

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what has happened to the mandate, the command

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to heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out demons,

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and preach the gospel as Jesus Christ taught it to us?

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What's happened? There's a power vacuum.

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A power vacuum. Yeah, that's true. There's a lack

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of power, that's for sure, in the church. It's not because it's not available to

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us, it's just because it's not flowing through us. That's right.

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And we're not just looking for miracles

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necessarily, but here, let me— they should be coming

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though. They should be coming. Let me ask you, uh, share a little bit from

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Judges chapter 6 and just kind of breaking

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into the story of Gideon. It says, and the angel—

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uh, let's see here, Judges chapter 6

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and verse 12. And the angel of the Lord— well, let me,

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let me just go back one verse, 11. Now the—

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and now the angel of the Lord came and sat under a terebinth tree.

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It's like an oak tree, which was in Ophrah,

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which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite,

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while his son Gideon Threshed wheat in a winepress according

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to— in order to hide it from the Midianites. And the angel of the Lord

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appeared to him and said to him, the Lord is with you, you mighty

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man of valor. Gideon said to him,

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oh my Lord, if the Lord is with us, then why has all

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this happened to us? This captivity. They were being oppressed

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by the Midianites. And where are all his

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miracles which our fathers told us

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about, saying, did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt?

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But now the Lord has forsaken us and delivered us into

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the hands of the Midianites. Yeah, where are all the miracles? Where are all

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the signs, evidences of that God is with

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us? Because it looked like from the circumstances God had left them. And God

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had not left them, but they had really departed from the living

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God. They'd gotten into all kinds of Baal worship or

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A lot of us pronounce it Baal, worship of

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idols. And so they were oppressed by the Midianites.

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The Midianites were just basically stealing their crops,

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just overwhelming them. Well, so yeah, what we have going on

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here, um, is this is a spiritual battle over

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what is really important and what we should give our earnest attention

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to. So everything that is true Everything that God

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said is true from, from the beginning, from the garden to Judges to

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now. Everything that God said that is true and good and

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pure and holy and genuine and honorable before

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God has been challenged and despised and resisted and redefined

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by the kingdom of darkness. As a matter of fact, it is so bad that

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we don't even know how bad it is. We don't even recognize how far

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we have come from the true, pure, simple gospel

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of Jesus Christ. Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. And what he

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said as part of that repentance and part of his kingdom being with us is

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the signs and the wonders, the miracles, the confirming of God's gospel.

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And so what we have— what has happened to us, I don't say we've done

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it to ourselves, but it has been done to us by the deceiver,

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the serpent, the dragon who has deceived Eve

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and us into doing things, believing things, seeking after things,

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chasing after things that are irrelevant,

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temporary, and that are material instead of seeking

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after the true power, authority of what is going

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on in the kingdom of God. What is going on in the kingdom of

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God right now? The power, the authority, the judgments, the justice,

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the truth, the goodness, the mercy, but also

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the fact, the truth that we are still Uh,

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you know, we're, we're not, we haven't landed yet. We haven't

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landed in the place of safety. We are standing on the rock, Christ Jesus,

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but we're still in the midst of the snake pit. But most people are content

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to just have a form of godliness. You know, they say,

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Lord, Lord, haven't we done mighty miracles and wonders in your name? But in fact,

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Jesus says at that point, who are you? I don't even know you.

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I don't even know where you're from. How can that happen? How can people

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be so deceived into seeing actual miracles? And then you

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ask, well, who's behind those miracles? If God doesn't know them,

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obviously it's not God. So we know then that Satan can do signs, lying signs

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and wonders also to deceive, and if possible deceive even the very elect.

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And we're at that point right now in our, in our timeline

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where we're at the point where the very elect are being deceived. Well, we got

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plenty of churches, churches everywhere. And there's churches that are closing.

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I know there's one denomination that closes more churches than they open.

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That's probably good, actually, for all of us. But then

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there's the multiplication of megachurches,

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multiple campus churches. Questions, questions. And I'm not saying that in

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itself is bad. Okay, but I'm asking you about these multiple everythings.

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How are they generated? How do they come forth? How do they spring forth?

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By a man, a man's ego, desire, what he

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thinks is his passion for God? Or do they spring forth through, as Jesus,

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Jesus didn't say build churches, build buildings of bricks and stones.

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He said that the kingdom of God is within us.

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So it's not in a building. And then he didn't say,

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okay, now this is what you have to do. Get yourself this. You know,

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he didn't give us a church management system. He gave us,

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he said, here, take a backpack. Here's the road, hit the road,

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take your gospel, go to those who are broken. If you come to

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a place of peace, you rest. If you're going to a place where there's not

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peace, Shake the dust off when you leave, tell them about the good news and

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get them saved. This is really so basic

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and so primary and so absent. Please open your brain.

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This is absent from what you mostly look at on your podcasts

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and on your reviews and on your Twitters. It has basically

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most of what we look at and indulge in or participate in has

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absolutely nothing positive to do with what Jesus

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said to do. And so part of the problem is we don't know what

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the true gospel is. Yeah, one of the issues too is that

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the church has been institutionalized.

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She's been sidetracked. It's been hijacked. Yeah, that's a good— sidetracked,

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hijacked into an institutionalized

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form of godliness and denying the power of the love. Right, right. It's interesting,

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I think if I'm not thinking of the exact verses right now,

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but in the book of Ezekiel, he says the people come—

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they come and want to listen to you. They come, they come to you,

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say, we want to hear the word of the Lord. But they come and hear

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the word of the Lord, and but they don't do it.

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And then Amos said, in the last days, there's going to be a famine,

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not of bread or of water, but of hearing the words of God.

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Now, and it says they're going to wander from sea

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to sea, side to side, to find the word

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of the Lord. Now, part of it is that, is it that

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the word of the Lord is not spoken? It's not really delivered?

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Where is the word of the Lord? The word

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of the Lord is kind of lost for sure in all of the mega

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amounts of information, communications,

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distractions, We can stay distracted

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all day long, just scrolling on a phone. And you see, the thing is,

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where's the gospel? Where's the message of salvation? It is buried among

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10,000, 10 million other messages that seem to

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be more urgent and pressing. And so we get caught up in the urgent

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and overlook the important. You know, it's like,

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where are the stunning miracles that were shown us

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in the book of Acts? These were people who were following Jesus, Peter, John,

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for example, stopping at the gate of the temple, and speaking to

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the lame man and saying, look at me. And Peter had

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him look and the man looked and Peter said to him, I don't have silver.

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I don't have gold. I'm broke, but such

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as I have, give I you. I've got something else you might be interested in.

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And that is, and then he said to him, in the name of Jesus Christ

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of Nazareth, rise up and walk, stand up. And the man could

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have said, you know what? That's ridiculous. I've never done this before. No, he walked.

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He's over 40 years old, we find out later. And he was born crippled.

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So what in the world is Peter thinking? This is 40

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years of evidence that this man is a cripple.

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He's been there for— it's established.

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It is who he is. What do you think? You're going to just

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pull him up onto a walking position, a jumping and leaping position?

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What in the world would have possessed Peter to think that

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that was even possible? And I know Peter had walked with Jesus a couple of

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3 years and they did some miracles and they cast out some demons and he

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saw Jesus do a lot of it. But now it's Peter's turn, John's turn.

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And so they're going to step into this, this calling.

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And you know, we have the same calling. We have a calling

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to do miracles. We have a calling to preach the gospel. We have a calling

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to cast out demons. But what are we doing? We're using our time

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to you know, pursue temporary

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things, a good meal, a nice

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Friday night off, an escape,

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paying bills. And also the other side of that coin,

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we're struggling with all of the demonic attacks against

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our lives and bodies, physical health issues, financial issues,

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relationship breakdowns. So we're all distracted with all the negative

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bad things. And we're not in that place where we're in control,

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or in command, I should say. I'm not in control, but I can be in

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command if I'm listening to the Holy Spirit who's commanding me to

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speak to that man and tell him to rise up and walk. Well, yeah,

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and there's a similar incident here too in Acts

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chapter 9, verses 32 through 35. Now it came to pass as

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Peter— here he is again, Peter, okay— went

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through all the parts of the country that he came to the saints

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who dwelt at Lydda. There he found

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a certain man named Aeneas who had been bedridden

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8 years and was paralyzed. Okay, so where are the miracles?

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And Peter said to him, Aeneas,

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Jesus the Christ heals you. Arise and

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make your bed. Then he arose immediately. And what was,

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what were some of the results of this? Verse 35. So all

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who dwelt at Lydda and Sharon saw him and

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turned to the Lord. So the miracle,

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you know, the miracles— I mean, in the last days we have signs

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and lying wonders that are going to be coming around. So, but there's

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true miracles, there's true miracles of God. And when the miracles of God come

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through the Spirit, they open the door for the gospel.

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It's not just miracles for miracles' sake. It's miracles to

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open the door to the gospel of Jesus Christ. Well,

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okay. So Peter got something, had something,

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understood something. And in his life, the conduit

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between him and heaven had been opened up. For many of us,

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that conduit, that passageway,

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your connection with heaven, your connection with the throne of grace and mercy, your relationship,

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our relationship with God, has been plugged up. Each one

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of us has that connection. And if your connection with God has

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been plugged up with fear, like say idolatry is

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a big one. Idolatry is like fear of man, putting other things, anything else

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in the place of God is idolatry. It can be fear of not having enough

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money, fear of man. It can be being overwhelmed.

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It can be being too busy.

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Distractions, all kinds of things.

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Distract us as they pull away at us for our time, energy,

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and attention. We don't realize that we're electric currents or conduits.

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And when the, when our mind, when I'm hooked up with the Holy Ghost in

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the throne room of heaven and he uses his,

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sends his message of healing and personal

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anointing or life down through the

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relationship I have with him into the person who I'm touching,

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Put my hand on them, heal, lay your hands on the sick. So that place

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of contact then becomes a place where

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God can use the charge from heaven to spark it all the way down.

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It's like electricity or something.

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But for most of us, we have become like

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frogs. We know how to swim. We can handle water.

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We know how to jump, but we are Fear.

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We have become overloaded. We're slow to move. We're being slowly

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killed and cooked. Cooked and killed. The water that we're sitting in is

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heating up a degree at a time. Oh yeah. And the temperature's

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unnoticeably rising every day. So people are not noticing

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it. And that's the problem when things go so very gradual with Satan,

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has lots of time. So he just, he's been working this thing for,

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you know, thousands of years, literally. Um, and, and,

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but now it's interesting that the difference between now and then, was now

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because of the instant communications and all the opportunities

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to look at things and read things and hear things and post things, that the

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hidden works of darkness are no longer being that

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hidden. I mean, before they could have been hidden, and they were, they were absolutely

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hidden, buried, whitewashed, pretend like it never happened.

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But now we can see the

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bad, we can see the corruption. If we want to look at

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it. And so the hidden works of darkness are being exposed. And that's exactly what

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God says. And I believe God has to do that because he wants to wake

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us up. He wants to shock us into understanding that these things

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that are all around us that we've taken for granted, that we thought were simple

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and benign and no problem,

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are becoming— are cooking us, destroying us. You have

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to stop. You must get out of the kettle. You must jump out of the

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kettle. What does that mean? That means go to the place where

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you restore your own connection and relationship with

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Jesus Christ so that he can pour out his Spirit in you.

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And part of this is what happened to the church at Laodicea.

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He says in verse, uh, Revelation 3:17, because you say,

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I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need

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of nothing, and you do not know that you

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are wretched miserable, poor,

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blind, and naked. They thought they had it good. They had

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a good church going on. Everything was fine. Yeah, really. The coffee was hot.

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The bagels were good. Everything was— and that's nothing wrong

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with having coffee and bagels when you meet together, but they're,

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they're, they're in a place where they think they're in a

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mode. They're in an institutional mode of,

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of entertainment, putting them to sleep and so forth. And where are

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the things where Jesus is calling us is

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into the guts of this world where it's messy.

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Trenches. Where we're going. Tunnels. Going where

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most people don't want to go. And that's what Jesus was called to

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do. To the homeless and to— but seeing everybody,

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whether you're homeless or you're in the hierarchy of a

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major corporation. You can be just as lost. You can be just as lost.

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And that's where Jesus calls us. And with,

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with the presence, with his presence, we're the light of the world.

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We're the salt of the earth. That's what we're doing. But our problem is we

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do not know who we are. We don't know we're the light. We don't know

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we're the salt. We don't know that we, we count. We don't know we matter.

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And we just believed everything the world has told us about all of it.

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Um, so we're being killed by these invisible bullets,

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um, the towers, the frequencies, the webs of witchcraft, the demonic

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nets, webs and nets, very well, very well named,

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um, that have pulled us into a place of immobility

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or passivity or distraction,

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uh, from using our spiritual authority, forgetting that

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you are, you have an identity and an authority as

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given to us by Jesus Christ. We are his sons

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and daughters, but we have been programmed to believe,

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um, That God is a God afar off and he can't

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be pleased and our efforts will never be good enough. See, that's the lie of

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the gospel. The false gospel is that Jesus is not happy

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with you. You gotta be good to get to heaven and you're never going to

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be good enough. And you're not good enough for sure to tell anybody about Jesus

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or to raise them from the dead. Don't even get that presumptuous

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in thinking that's who you are because they're still making it all about you.

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But if you've died and have been crucified with Christ, then you're no longer— it's

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not I that live, but Christ lives in me. Then it's not me, it is

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him. And I just have a hand. I give Jesus, lay my hand on the

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sick person, let Jesus touch them through me. Um, you know, and we also

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forgot that we have a Father in heaven. Many of us are wandering and hurting

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because we don't have fathers on earth, but your father on earth wasn't enough for

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you. He wouldn't be enough for you even if he was a perfect father.

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He wouldn't be enough because you have a heavenly Father who is the one

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who has created us. If a glass is empty,

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there's no overflow. If the glass is

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partially filled, there's— it's harder to overflow. But when

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the glass is full to the brim,

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it's easy to overflow. And that's the thing with us.

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We're called to be— he says, don't— in Ephesians, he says,

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don't be drunk with wine, Jesus, wherein is excess,

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but be filled with the Spirit. In other words, So what happens

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is with alcohol, takes control of you,

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right? And it affects your behavior. He says, be so

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full of the Holy Spirit that you're gonna overflow. And you'll

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probably look like you're drunk, like Peter in the book of Acts.

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Yeah, but the thing is too, is some people say, well, I don't

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know how to share about Jesus with somebody.

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Well, if you're full of the Lord, The Spirit of God

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is going to guide you. Paul said, it is the love of God that

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constrains me. So as I am full of the love of God,

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full of compassion, full of the fear of the Lord that, you know, if I—

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that this person needs to know about heaven, needs to be

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taken away from the plan of hell.

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Um, but, but, but so Satan, however, doesn't want

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us to know that God is a Father that pities his children. Psalm 103:13.

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He says, we've, we really don't know God. We've been programmed to believe

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that, He's not a God that can be pleased,

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that we're forgotten, or he never knew us,

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that he only has mercy on a certain few,

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that God is distant and he's uninvolved.

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He created us kind of like a wind-up toy and left us kind

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of go off on our own, abandoned us. That's not God.

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But the thing is, Satan, because God doesn't jump in on every

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issue to immediately do something because

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he's allowing you time and space to use your free

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will to make a choice. So we believe, well, God's not there, but God is

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there if you will just ask him,

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just get desperate enough, surrender enough, lift up

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your eyes to heaven enough to say, God, have mercy upon

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me. Yeah. And part of it is We tend to freak

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out about so much.

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We tend to live more in fear than

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in authority, than in faith or love or authority. And so we think, well,

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what's gonna happen? We get crises. I mean, everybody faces crises

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and hard things and attacks. People say, well, okay, I'm under attack, I'm under attack.

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Well, what do you expect? You're in a war. And so the thing is to—

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But people don't like the idea of war. They don't want to be in a

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war. Well, yeah, and part of it too is that We're the ones that are

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to be the aggressors. Right, the church. For the gates of hell shall

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not prevail against it. The violent shall take it by force. Yeah,

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that's just it. So sometimes— But we're not. So many

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times what we do is we live on the defensive, okay? Like the armor of

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God, a lot of it's for our defense, right?

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The whole armor of God. But the sword of

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the Spirit is our offensive weapon. And there it's the sword of the Spirit,

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it's the word of God spoken. And it's the shoes too, the footing.

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Your footing has to be really firm or you don't have— your sword won't help

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you much. Yeah. You know, but we've been taught in the pews of the church

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to sit there and watch and receive and believe

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and be fed. And we're being fed poison. Enjoy the show,

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folks. Yeah. Well, there's no show to enjoy. We need to get off the bench

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and get out in there because the church was created by God, not as

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a building, but as a force. It's a force to be reckoned

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with by hell. And the church is meant to stand in having done all to

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stand in having done this in the evil day to withstand by standing and

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declaring and taking out that sword of the word of God, which is able to

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separate even to the dividing of bone and marrow, thought and intention, soul and spirit,

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and do something. You know, we've been taught to do nothing, sit there,

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get— if your church doesn't motivate you to get out and

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do something, then get out of the church. Go to a place where you're challenged

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by God, by his Holy Spirit, not to do something for the sake of doing,

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like, but, but to, to, to take on the passion

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of the urgency of this hour that we're living in and,

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If they don't send you out, go out yourself. Let the Holy Spirit send you

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out. And a lot of churches have a lot of activities. Yeah, that keeps us

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too busy. And it keeps us busy. We're just, we're just on the, on the

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church machine. Run, run, run, do, do, do, do. And a lot

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of things in there can be really, really good. But the thing

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is, Jesus called us to go into the places.

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I mean, that are hard. Your workplace is a mission

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field. You say, well, I don't have— there are no Christians there. Well,

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you're there, right? And it doesn't mean you have to go in there and pound

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on them and hit them over the head with the Bible. It means you go

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there as a light. You go there to shine the righteousness

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of God and distinguish between their negative darkness

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choices of evil that look like light and the true light so that there will

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be a conviction. That light is to bring a conviction. When you

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turn the light in the room, it convicts you who's looking at the room through

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the light, convicts us of the mess in the room. The light does not

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clean up the room. The light doesn't grab you around the neck and say,

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you're going to straighten out your room. It just convicts us so

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that we have an urgency or a motivation to change

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and to become more closely aligned

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with who we really are. Because the truth in reality is

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that you have been created by and authored by God who authored your life,

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gave you your life. Um, and that he,

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He wants us to find out who he is by walking,

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following that path.

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There's a path. How do we do life? Life is a path. Jesus said,

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follow me. Jesus is the path. He is the path. He will,

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you know, we will follow him. And when we follow him, we will not wander

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in the darkness that appears to be light because there's a lot of

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false light out there. Uh, and the life of, of,

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deception, um, and fake

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peace that ends in eternal darkness.

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So God wants us to use his words and his commands

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and to bring forth his truth and his salvation. Exactly. And there's 3—

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Proverbs 24:11 says, deliver those who

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are drawn toward death and hold back those stumbling

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to the slaughter. And he, he says, so our

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mission really, I think of these 3 Rs, there's a lot

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of Rs we can put together, but I think is to rescue.

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The, the, we're, the church is called to

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a rescue operation. Rescue people from sin,

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darkness, and death, and the future hell of eternal

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damnation. Rescue recovery, which is

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discipleship, right? Rebuild. And then, and then

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release, right? So release people,

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to train up people in the way that they should go in

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the ways of the Lord and release them. And so the church is to be

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multiplying, not just, you know,

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adherents or members, but— that's not

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even the, the point. It looks like would be the point, oh, add more people.

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But what really needs to add is we need to add intensity to

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the truth of who we are. You know, God, we have changed.

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The word of God has been changed, modified. We've modified his commands.

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We've shrugged them off. We've redefined them. We've whitewashed them,

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watered them down, you know, removed. What have we all

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done? We think that we're smart, smarter than him, and that we can

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find this way ourselves. But when, what, what will happen in the end when

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I, when I use all of my freedom to rebel, against God.

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But when I come to the last of my breath, the last breath allotted

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to me here on the earth, what will I do to arrange

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for another minute of life when I am called

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before him to give an account of my life? This is serious, people. This is

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not, you know, we're, you know, life is full, is great.

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Jesus wants us to have an abundant life. He wants, but that abundant life is

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in his peace. It's in his will. It's in, It's in the glory,

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the joy of leading people to Jesus, the joy of healing people.

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That's the abundant life. Not, oh, I just won the lottery or,

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you know, just got me a new whatever. Um, so why

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aren't we acting like the actual church?

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You know, God has given us, like I said, very specific jobs to do,

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but we are not in a spiritual position to do them if we're

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living in hardness of heart or rebellion.

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So let the Holy Spirit examine our hearts, my heart, your heart. Are we

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in hardness? Are we in unbelief? Are we in unbelief?

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Do we really believe that if we had to have a miracle right now,

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we could believe God and get that miracle? I mean, or are we just going

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to melt away in doubt, double-mindedness, fear,

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and unbelief? Um, you know, if we're not

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living in the truth, we're not living in obedience, don't expect that

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conduit to be open, there has to be— now that doesn't mean you have to

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be a perfect person. As a matter of fact, God used everybody in the Bible

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and nobody was perfect. Nobody there was perfect. They were all except Jesus, of course.

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Um, but we don't want to live in the lie or in the illusion of

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the truth anymore. The church, um, Jesus said,

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if the light that is in you be darkness, how great is that darkness?

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So if what you're believing to be true is not true, it's a bigger lie

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than the guy who lives on the street and knows for sure that he's sinning.

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And the straight sinners who are convicted for their sin are

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closer to the truth than those who call themselves believers and Christians

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who are walking in a fake gospel, a false

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gospel, and think they have the truth. Because the guy on the street knows he's

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a sinner. The guy in the church doesn't have any idea that he's wrong because

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he's been so mesmerized by his good deeds or his

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attempt to be good. Or on the other side of that coin, he's totally given

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up now and he's done. And he's just going to forget it and do the

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best he can, or judge God as being unfaithful and unfair.

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So it's time to repent. In other words, change your

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mind, change your direction. And, and really, the thing is to don't

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accept substandard what

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we call Christianity. I don't even like that word Christianity anymore.

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I really don't even like the name Christian anymore.

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Followers of Jesus, believers, believers,

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followers of Jesus Christ. And so there is

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a higher calling, higher calling, a higher standard.

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And it's not due to our own efforts

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or getting more religious or fasting 40 days,

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you know, or, or, you know, just doing

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more, more, more, more, more. It's a matter of getting the right

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stuff. It's about being, not doing, right? To get the being

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who we are as the light of the world, as the salt of the earth,

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as ambassadors for Christ. We are here to represent

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heaven, represent Jesus to the world and the

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world to Jesus. Jesus is the truth. He called himself

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the way, the truth, and the life. So he is

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the truth. His words are the way. His way brings

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life. It is very simple and profound, but it's

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still been covered over by Satan. I tell you what, guys, Satan is good

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at what he does. And he's very— he looks like an angel.

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He comes— that's exactly what Jesus said he would do. He would actually use

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the gospel and use the image of Jesus and the

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words of Jesus to turn people away from Jesus by just tweaking it just

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a little bit. So the answer is

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to go back to the Word of God and fall on our

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knees, fall on our faces, surrender to God, say, God, I repent. I'm sorry.

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Remove my hardness of heart and allow me to learn,

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to follow, to be used by you, to lay hands on the sick,

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heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, preach the gospel, raise the dead, cast out demons.

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Let me do those things before I die in Jesus' name.

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And we pray like with the early church, Lord, that they said,

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stretch forth your hand to heal,

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give us all boldness. They prayed

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in the book of Acts, they prayed for boldness. I think it was Acts chapter

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4. They prayed for boldness that they would speak the word of God,

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and they prayed that signs and wonders will

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be accomplished by Jesus Christ. So they didn't

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back down under persecution. They didn't back down under distress.

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They didn't back down under, um,

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resistance. They, they said the more resistance they

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got, the more they prayed for strength for them to go

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forward. Amen. And that's it. So let us do that here now. Let us not

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be wimping away in some dead church, in some dead,

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weary way, substandard life, that when God

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has called us to have life and life more abundantly, and that is

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you know, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, healing the sick,

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raising the dead, casting out demons. Freely we receive,

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freely give. And Father, we pray that you'd help us to discern truly the

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truth from the lie, because the lie looks like the truth a lot. Give us

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discerning of spirits and let us walk in the Spirit and, and be

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guided by your Spirit as your Spirit is imparting to

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our spirit what's really going on. In Jesus' name,

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amen. Amen. So we're in this war, honey. Spiritual warfare

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and how deliverance can change your life. How deliverance

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really is essential, isn't it? It's not just,

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well, that maybe I should, maybe I should do that, or maybe not. I can,

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or maybe I don't need that, but I'm a good person. Really,

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it's essential, right? Well, deliverance is being

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unhooked, being the tormenting spirits, the controlling

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spirits of fear, whatever it is that's held up in your life,

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that's in the strongholds, that those things would be exposed and

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removed. And only the Holy Spirit can really bring

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those things to light. You can't bring those things to light. But when

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the Holy Spirit does bring them to light, let's respond. And so yeah,

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spiritual warfare and how, and you know, a lot of people don't talk about warfare.

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They don't want to talk about it. They want to talk about nice things,

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but okay, there's nice things out there, but this is one that will help you

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if you're caught in a war and you really want to win. If you're a

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soldier, you're built and trained for war and how to win.

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So how do they get that book? Oh, they can go to liferecovery.com,

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which is my website, liferecovery.com,

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or Amazon, and they'll take care of you. And there's lots

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of books in the bookstore. Life Recovery, a lot of things we don't ever talk

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about, but they're there and they're very helpful. Things on anxiety and confusion

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and deaf and dumb and eating and

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all kinds of things are there for your training

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and enjoyment. God bless you.

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Have a great day.

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I have an emergency. What is your location?

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Rescue Radio, 'cause there's a war for