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For we are His workmanship, His own masterwork, a work of art created in Christ Jesus, reborn

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from above spiritually transformed, renewed, ready to be used for good works, which God

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prepared for us beforehand, taking paths which He set, so that we would walk in them

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living the good life.

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Welcome to the CityLight Church Podcast, thanks for joining us today, as we look into God's

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Word and discover the hope and truth that He has for us.

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If you want to connect with CityLight Church, feel free to visit us at citylightnyc.com,

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that citylightnyc.com.

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Pastor Boyan Jansik and his team believe that the power of the Holy Spirit is already

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working in our hearts and minds.

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As you listen to today's teaching, remember that you are deeply loved by God, that you

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are surrounded by His grace, and that He has a real hope and a future for you.

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Welcome to CityLight Auto Repair Shop.

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We're offering a special on oil changes this morning.

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And so expect fresh oil and expect the Lord to speak to you and to move on your life,

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which is what's supposed to happen when we get together every Sunday, whenever we gather

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bodily, and that's what that word corporately means.

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Whenever we gather bodily, it's so that we could receive in another way from the Lord,

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and the Bible, it gives space to us individually pursue the Lord, and the Lord can meet us

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when we're at home alone.

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And there's things you can get alone at home that I feel sometimes you can't get in

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a corporate setting.

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There's private, sweet, very intimate times you can have alone with the Lord, that you

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can't get in a corporate setting.

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But conversely, there's things that you can get in a bodily or corporate setting that

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you can't get alone at home.

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That's the way the Lord is, and that's how He built His church.

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The wine is in the cluster of grapes.

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The very word church means the assembled ones.

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That's where the assemblies of God gets its name from.

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A classia are the called out and assembled ones, that means you're actually assembling.

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You know, people try to have church without assembling.

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That didn't work.

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We're all different parts of the body, and we're celebrating the head, Jesus.

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And that didn't work, and doesn't work over Zoom.

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Doesn't.

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Those of you joining us online, I love you.

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But you know, I'm not telling you this for the first time, you know already.

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There's a limit to what you can get online, which is why many of our online folk, they

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can.

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They're physically far from us, and they drop in as often as they can.

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But there is something the Lord wants to get to you, corporately.

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And that's how church should be.

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Just know that.

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Too way.

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I love that verse in Galatians where the Apostle Paul says, now He who works miracles

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among you.

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That's the Holy Spirit's job.

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When we're gathered together, move up and down these aisles, I feel the anointing to move

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and work miracles among you.

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My life changed.

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An interruption.

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You're going one way, all of a sudden He speaks to you, you make the necessary adjustments

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on the inside, the anointing touches you and you come out, you're different.

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Your spiritual back was all out of alignment and out of whack.

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You came hobbling and you didn't know it.

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You thought you had it all together.

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But then the anointing came upon you, and God did business with you in an environment

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where He's welcome to do so.

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And He sets us straight that way.

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You know how many times I'd come into church one way and walked out another?

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That's why the Psalmist said, my foot had almost slipped.

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I had almost gone astray.

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But then I stepped into the house of the Lord, something happened in the house of the Lord.

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What happened?

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Came in contact with the presence, came in contact with the anointing.

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What a scary worst.

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My foot, because we've all been there, I've been there.

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My foot had almost slipped, I had almost gone astray.

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You know when you're teeter-tattering and you feel the world raging and Satan raging

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and it wants you back, but then I stepped into the house of the Lord.

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And first I was reminded where the real party was, oh yeah, it's here.

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And all those deceptions that were clouding my perception, they just, you know a deception

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can seem so powerful and so intricate.

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And you come into the house of the Lord and one drop of God's anointing to truth.

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You're like, oh, I was hypnotized for a few days there, wasn't I?

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I was believing a lie has nothing to do with what's good for me, what's real from the

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It was just going to take me, where every lie takes me, where sin takes me, much further

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than I wanted to go and much longer than I wanted to stay.

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But no, when we gather together, it's to experience the Lord.

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Amen.

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And if you're used to just going to church, that might be strange to you.

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Which we're getting guessed all the time and don't get nervous, but I can tell some

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people are just used to going to church because they look at you like you're on TV.

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I can look right at them and they're just like kind of a hundred yards there looking

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right through you.

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They're used to just being non-participatory.

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But no, this is for you to be engaged, don't you don't have to engage me.

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Engage the Lord because he wants to get you something.

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But if you're not expecting in your clothes, you'll miss out on him.

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I was speaking to some older gentleman from my new neighborhood of Rosalind, New York,

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a very Jewish neighborhood and they were all Jewish and they fascinated by me being a

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minister.

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They have all these questions about what I do and what is their church like and what

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is it that I share?

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What is it that I speak?

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And I shared with them some of our ministry philosophy, if you will.

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They were absolutely blown away and in so many words, this is what one of them said,

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said, you know, the temples and the gatherings at the temples are really waning.

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We can't get a hold of the younger generation.

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And I've said this, we've all said this for decades now, but as we're talking, he's

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realizing he's going, you know, it's a lot of work to get up on a Saturday and gather

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your whole family and go to temple to hear somebody speak for 30 minutes to 45 minutes and

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really just speak and share something from a historical perspective, something from

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a theological perspective, salt and peppered with little dash of, this is how you can

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apply for your life today.

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Like what he's really trying to say is I can get this on YouTube and it becomes very

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old and very dull every Saturday doing all that work to come to a place, to hear someone,

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just share with you what they were reading Monday through Friday.

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And that's why churches are in decline because if you're coming just to be a consumer and

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see what the preachers selling, that can't last, that's unsustainable.

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There's some people that's sustainable because they have a very high threshold of boredom.

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But for me, that's not sustainable.

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If I'm not receiving from the Lord, you know, after just a few times of that, I'm like,

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who am I and what am I doing with my life and my time, you know?

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Which is what makes the true Christian church different because you're not coming.

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You're not, I hope you're not to hear my deep thoughts.

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You're coming to experience the Lord.

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And the Lord, the Lord is free to move when his people are hungry, when they come with

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expectation and when the pastor is good at getting out of his way.

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And so some pastors are so married to their message that they got to get it to you.

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And then the Holy Spirit wants to move on God's people, but they're on point 14b.

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So I want you to raise your expectation level there is something that the Lord wants to

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get.

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You say, what's something?

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Well, it depends on where you're at.

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Maybe you just need some of his love.

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You just need a revelation of his love because you're your own worst enemy and you're struggling

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under guilt and shame and condemnation and you need a fresh revelation of the blood of

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Jesus and what this new covenant of grace is all about.

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Maybe you're going one way and you think you have it all figured out, but actually that

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path leads to suffering and that path leads to pain.

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And he wants to speak to you right now and just get you to adjust a few things.

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Now I'm not even talking about a huge 180, although that can happen, but just tweak you

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a little bit so that you get into all that he has for you, which I assure you is far, far

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better than anything you can dream up for yourself.

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He is a loving God, a generous God and he's got your best intentions in his heart.

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Hallelujah.

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So we're going to be good sponges and good drinkers today and just once you just say that

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Lord, whatever you want to do, do it in my heart, do it in my life, I give you permission

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Jesus, whatever you want.

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That's a great, great opening prayer.

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He said, do I really have to give the Lord permission?

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Yeah.

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I mean, if you didn't have to give him permission, he forced you to get saved.

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He didn't do that, did he?

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He made himself pretty irresistible, but it was still something of you involved there,

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not that you can take credit for it, but I mean, if he could violate my will all the time,

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he would.

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I wouldn't have made the messes I made if he could violate my will.

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I mean, he seems like he tried.

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He was screaming in my spirit and in my head, stop, what are you doing?

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You're being dumb.

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I love you, but you don't, it doesn't start off that way.

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You know, it starts off with a, no, not that way.

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Come on Lord, don't go on that the right, you're, oh, it's Lord, I'm good.

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And you get a little bit more weight and it's like, no, I said, don't go that way.

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And you keep, son, daughter, I'm telling you that pain seems, that path, it seems right

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in your own eyes.

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There's much suffering on that path.

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Lord, I'm good.

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Until you're finally too far, God, and he's, what did I tell you?

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Come back to me now.

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You're too far, God.

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Come back quickly.

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Hallelujah.

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Some of you if you're hearing the loud voice of the Lord and now is the time to about face.

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Because guess what?

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It doesn't get louder.

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After that it just stops.

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When the Bible says the spirit of the Lord will not strive, will not wrestle with man

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forever.

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It's talking about something particular happening under the old covenant.

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But it still applies to how he deals with us today.

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Because he'll talk and he'll speak and he'll try.

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But if you're so stubborn that eventually you go this way, he stops speaking.

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And that's when people go, yeah, I knew it all along.

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The Lord has no problem with me living my own life.

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I don't even, I don't even get convicted.

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This is great.

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No, it's not that it's right now, it's wrong.

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You just have what the Bible calls a seared conscience.

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You've resisted his voice so long that now your conscience is like with a hot iron.

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It's seared.

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It's no longer tender and susceptible.

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Now God himself could appear next to you in bodily form beating two tambourines on a

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baste drum right in your ear and you still won't hear.

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Because of the seared conscience, you'll go, yeah, I knew it.

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I could do whatever I want when I want.

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The Lord doesn't even speak to me anymore about it.

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Because he's just because I'm different for others.

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The rules apply.

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Me and the Lord got a thing we worked out.

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I'm special.

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Thunder and lightning for everyone else for me is just a wink, because I got you.

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You're good.

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I know your heart.

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Hallelujah.

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So it's city light church.

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By the way, when I begin a sentence that way, I'm appealing to those who don't know

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what our church is about.

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Because I felt funny, felt like a commercial.

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Here at city light church.

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But at city light church, we stand strongly in the new covenant of God's grace.

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That is so vital.

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It is so important.

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There are two covenants that we read, note that.

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There is an old covenant, which in the old it said it was going to expire.

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And then the new, it reiterates that the old not only said it was going to expire, but

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it's now expired.

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And then there is the new.

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Both we need to know, but you can only live under one.

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And you cannot mix the two.

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And way too many Christians are trying to live under both covenants.

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No wonder they're so confused.

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No wonder they're so frustrated when it's like a tossed bowl of mixed nuts in their doctrine.

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And they're old covenant one day, new covenant the next.

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Then something bad happens and they get old covenant.

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Then they're mid covenant and they just mix the covenants.

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So we're doing this whole series on Galatians.

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The best book in the entire New Testament for us to get understanding of the difference

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of the covenants and why we should live under the new.

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And over and over again, Paul, he shows Jesus Christ and him crucified and all of our sins

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placed upon him, Jesus and all of our sins, all of your sins, thoroughly and completely

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punished in Jesus.

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So there is complete forgiveness for us.

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And we have been justified by faith, justified means not guilty.

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We're pronounced not guilty.

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And we're given this gift called righteousness, which means right standing with God.

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That means that we can come to God anytime we want.

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See, when you really get righteousness, your prayer life takes on a whole other dimension.

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in our heart.

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But when you really understand that you don't even, you know, we have this language, you

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come in.

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Let me come in to the presence of a Lord, you're there.

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You're seated in heavenly places in Christ Jesus right now.

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You don't need to, you don't need to pre-work out warm up.

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Let me get in to the presence of the Lord, show far, check, flags, check, golden dust.

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I got in that conference back in 2014 and a little Ziploc bag in my Bible check.

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You're there and you know he's always a breath away and you don't have to, some people feel

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they have to spend time, repenting and asking for forgiveness and slowly, you know, because

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you've had so many fights in your life and always with those fights, it's never the

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same afterwards you guys got warm up period, right?

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in again, right?

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No, you guys just forgive each other and I'm not talking about your spouse right now.

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We think with the Lord, he kind of forgives us 40% and then he's keeping an eye on us

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where I'm probation and he's saying, if we really, really mean it, but guess what?

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He's not that way.

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The moment you turn your face to him, he's like this and he's saying, I never left you,

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I never turned away from you, I'm right here.

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He's just so much bigger than us and his heart larger and grander than ours, it's difficult

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for us to relate to him sometimes because we put all these human attributes on him, like

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he needs a cooling off period and you've got to work your way back in, play nice because

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you've got some points against you, no, he loves you.

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And so we're beginning the series on Galatians, which is important because it is like the

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signature message, it is who we are, as a church, it is our DNA, we are a new covenant

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church that yields to the Holy Spirit and that sees lives transformed.

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See, what is the vision of city light church?

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visited a church, whenever they were going to talk about vision, they always brought out

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a table, a little larger than this right up to the altar and there was something on the

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table that was covered with like a cloth and the pastor was going to talk about vision

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and then he would, and guess what was underneath the cloth, right, an architectural rendering

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of a building because the vision was always a building.

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Is this just me and the churches I went two years ago must be, not feeling the resonance

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of the first service.

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What I'm saying is the vision was always brick and mortar and while a building is a good

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vision, it's not really the vision, it's a means and tools to attain the vision.

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The vision is to see God's people, blessed, whole, overflowing that they've been made

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disciples and now they're disciple making disciples.

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See this six week series on Galatians, I want you so rooted and grounded and you

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covenant realities that you could be sent up in an airplane, parachute attached to your

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back and you could get dropped off anywhere in the world and you're so full of God's truth

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that you could begin preaching whether they be total heathen or the other way in their

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Christian but bound by religion and tradition but you can come and bring the word of Jesus

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that will set them free, the depth of what he did on the cross, the new covenant and total

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forgiveness of sins that it just if you're poked it leaks out of you and that's our vision.

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To see a bunch of cups that overflow, hallelujah, hallelujah and in order for us to get to that

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place there's a person you can't leave out and that's the Holy Spirit.

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You can't leave them out.

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To try to do church, to try to see any kind of change apart from the Holy Spirit is nothing

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but frustration that eventually leads to some type of death and it's honestly, it smells

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rotten just talking about it, just imagining it smells to go through the motions and try

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to have the church of God without the presence of the Lord, the anointing which is why we're

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the middle of this series, the anointed one and his anointing because in order to be a

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new covenant church and really taking fresh ground in New York City what's been called

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a preacher's graveyard, we're not here trying to survive, we are thriving and we want

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to take new ground and the reality is is when you go after new ground Satan doesn't just

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step out of the way and go right this way sir, oh please come on in, I've had this place

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for centuries but oh you seem rather nice, here's some of my land, no, he fights and he

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fights hard and so how do you overcome the spirit of Satan which is the anti-Christ, the

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anti anointing spirit, you overcome any spirit by responding in the opposite spirit so you come

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in with the Christ, with the Christos, with the anointing, that's why God's people need to know who

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they are in hell and how to be good drinkers, how to receive daily from the anointing, the anointing

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is what gets the job done, it gets the job done, hallelujah, there is nothing that you're going

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through right now that one drop of his heavenly oil cannot fix, cannot heal, cannot undo, hallelujah

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and so in today's service there's no pressure, I just ask you to open up your heart and put a

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demand on him, place a demand that he would meet you, I would give the example last week I have

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to do it again just of my chiropractor and now in 2010 and 11 I started visiting this chiropractor

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at four herniated discs and he explained to me his philosophy of chiropractic and I said what I

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believe is that your body has an innate ability to heal itself, I said I've heard that back when I

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still lived in Yugoslavia as a kid, the peasants understood that, the peasants knew that, they were

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in tune with the harmony of their body, how God created it and there's things you can do to

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frustrate, it's own natural self healing ability, things you can do to frustrate it and things you

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can do to promote it and he said you know good chiropractic is your body is not an alignment and we

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get your body in alignment so that it can self heal so we're not just talking about the back, you

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could have a liver problem but we fix your body and get it into alignment and your body will

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self heal the liver and that immediately resonated with me because frankly that's exactly how the

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Lord works, the Lord loves you, the Lord is generous, the Lord is an ever flowing font of blessings,

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many of us we remain frustrated however because we're misaligned and we're not receiving all that

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Jesus died for us to have and what a travesty that is, you know in the book of Revelation it says

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that they all cried for about half an hour and then there was no more tears, he wipes it but I

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was wondering why did they cry for the half an hour, is it because is it because they were in

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heaven and they saw all that was available to them all along and they missed out and then they

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wept, they can speculate, we know at that point women weren't in heaven yet because in the same

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part it says there was silence for the space of half an hour in heaven

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Hallelujah come on that was a good one babe that was a good one no

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it was so funny in my mind

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in my mind she was going to be roaring and stitches high-tening me

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but hallelujah

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trying to remember where we were oh the crackers and cheese story we're talking about you know

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why they were crying and but it's the crackers and cheese story

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there was a young boy he needed to make a transatlantic journey via ship

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couldn't afford it somebody paid for his way all he had was a bag of his gold clothes and a bunch

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of stale crackers and moldy cheese and every day he would go by around the dinner hour and

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look peak into the dining room and he would see all of the other passengers just fairing some

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shissly crack in the lobster eating the steak and he would look inside deeply and go back into

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his little cot and eat stale crackers and moldy cheese and he did this the entirety of his journey

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until the final day the captain himself knocked on his door and he said sir just wondering if we

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have offended you in any way and he goes no why do you ask he said we just noticed you weren't

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ever in our dining room why didn't you ever come to the main dining hall

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he said oh no no no that's not for me and that's for the others I just have these crackers and

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this old cheese and the captain stood there a guest and he said but sir all of that was included

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in your ticket and that's my concern the too many Christians are going to end up in heaven

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and realize what they could have had and go Lord why look the picture of that is the older brother

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when the younger brother comes back to the father the father kills the father calf throws a big party

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older brothers all upset and he goes to the father with his attitude and the father says hey all

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that I have is fine nobody told you you didn't get the text all that I have is that all this is

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available for you and was available for you at any time but you're too busy being legalistic

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religious older brother you never made it withdrawal that's the ps in the prodigal son story

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that that older brother could have had the fat of Kathy could have had all that but he was just

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being a professional Pharisee so he missed out and too many Christians are going to go to heaven

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and realize I had all that you mean the 20 years that I suffered and I kept telling myself it's

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God that it actually wasn't it was Satan whom I could have resisted and bound and rendered

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powerless and I could oh well I'm in heaven now so I guess it doesn't bother for about half an hour

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and then he wipes every tear away so that's what these meetings are about so you can taste his glory

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see his face definitely I believe the Lord will be speaking to you outside of the words that I'm

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speaking to you outside of the preaching that you're going to hear that is going to whisper to you

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adjust you confirm things and empower you I believe you will walk out of here with a greater increase

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of the power and presence of the Lord hallelujah he's doing something in our church it's wonderful

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I welcome it wholeheartedly and I know that he's doing something again corporately together with us

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in general as a body marvelous to see but whenever he does that I had several waves like that come in

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21 years he always touches people on an individual level I feel this freshness on me listen my wife

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and I we just experienced the complete life over all he just invaded our lives

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I went to bed last night and we're on the second floor and I'm seeing tree branches swaying

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in the wind and I sat there and I went babe I didn't even know how stressful it was that last year

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in that underground basement which then when I do the math because you know I lived in a basement

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before I bought that condo and Williamsburg in the church basement and I bought a two-story condo

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which is awesome but half of it was underground so really since 2002 I've been like a hobbit sleeping

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underground in one manner or another and now I'm up there and I'm going babe I didn't even really

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this is the Lord has upgraded our life in every way and actually blew my mind overwhelmed me

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but whenever I turned to him to say thank you whenever I go it's the same thing he's making an

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example out of me for your benefit it's not for me to he's saying as the head turns so goes the

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body I'm doing this in your life and there will be something if you don't enter in through this

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then that door will stay closed if you enter in through this then the door opens up

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Paul wrote the Philippians he said you are partakers of my grace you are if you're if I'm your past

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if I'm your preacher that's a whole other story I know you got a lot of girlfriends you got a lot

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of preachers but if I'm your pastor if you actually have come to that place of maturity where you

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have a pastor and that's how you can tell right away for Christian is serious or not because you

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meet Christians throughout the city just ask them who's your not what church do you go to because

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they're just going to tell you the last one they visited on their list of 20 churches they're busy

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church hopping around ask them who's your pastor just just like I thought well you know I go

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where the fire burns no you're unsubmitted you're rebellious and you don't play well with others

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so you can't stay too long in any one spot that's a whole another sermon for another time

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different people drawing different things in this service

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where how did I land there

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what was I talking about yeah if I'm your pastor thank you

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not your preacher then you are partakers of my grace

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hallelujah so that's why it's also important who you submit yourself under when it comes to

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finding a pastor that is an important decision I mean you will always have the flavor of your

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pastor that imprint that the Lord put on him that spiritual DNA that runs through his spiritual

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veins that'll be on you the longer you're with him that'll be on you so if you have a pastor

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who really embraces poverty and believes that the gifts of the Holy Spirit stopped two thousand

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years ago and that it's God's will to torture you here so he can get the best out of you later on

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then that's gonna be on you amen hallelujah so we're clearing blockages

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we're seeing alignment happens so you can better receive Ephesians let's go to that verse in Ephesians

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let's read it out of the amplified Ephesians 210

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for we are his workmanship his own masterwork a work of art created in Christ Jesus

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reborn from above spiritually transformed renewed ready to be used for good works

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which God prepared for us beforehand taking paths which he said you know there's set paths God has

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you don't have to go down those paths you can take a secondary path you can take a tertiary path

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you are a free agent have you ever taken a secondary path or tertiary path I have

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just long enough to find out that God's number one path is better

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the further you move away from his will the more painful it is

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don't tell listen the Bible says the way of a transgressor is hard and full of sorrow so don't

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tell me that's the the better path it's hard and full of sorrow God took these paths he pre-set them

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he laid them out for you our time with him our time and as anointing is really so we can decipher

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what path to take so that we would walk in them living the good life somehow Christianity got

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associated with living the bad life but he's praying that they would understand

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and walk in the paths that God for ordained for them living the good life which he pre-arranged

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and made ready for us I don't know how you viewed Christianity maybe like my wife you were born

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into a Christian home I was not I was born into a Christian home and name only went to church

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probably five six times my whole life before I got saved at age 16 but my experience with the way

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the world presented Christianity to me was always not one not only one that was negative but also

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one that was a defeated faith for weak people who needed just a little bit of medicine it wasn't

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going to help them in any practical way but just a little bit of medicine to help them put one

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foot in front of the other and go on with their mundane lives because when I would see Christianity

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presented in the media first one of the first ways was some priest holding a crucifix rebuking

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the devil out of a little child whose head was spinning around and that's like that's oh this

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is Christianity or a vampire or a funeral scene whenever I'd see priest it was some 80-year-old

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looking priest looking like the crypt keeper at some sad funeral oh depressed ashes to ashes dust

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to dust you know then you read about or hear about monks and they're living up in the mountains

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and they've like surrendered all their worldly passions they don't they believe in poverty

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the way the potato sack and sandals and somehow Christianity got associated with defeat and

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poverty when Christianity is a faith of victory for Jesus died on the cross suffered a temporary

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defeat on our behalf to give us the ultimate victory and God's way is the good life

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yes trying seasons will come I have gone through them I have endeavored throughout the years to

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transparently share them with you is it always a mountain type experience seems to be not always

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but you know what whenever I'm there I endeavor by faith to stay there as long as possible

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amen and even if you suffer guess what you can suffer good there's a good way to suffer and usually

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when you suffer good the suffering isn't that long it's when you suffer bad and you're not in faith

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and you're whining and complaining and belly aching and there's no spark and you haven't come into

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contact with the anointing and forever but then you just now you're living on a rut now you've

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made your home in a rut and you wonder why change is so hard why don't you to seize that God

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for or danger to live the good life in Christ Jesus can you see that and what needs to happen in

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order to enter in and let him take you from glory to glory to glory is we need to get realigned

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we need to get the blockages that are blocking us the hindrance is blown out of our system

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and allow the anointing to come upon us hallelujah thank you Jesus let's read Isaiah 55 the great

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invitation to partake of the anointing hallelujah thank you so much Pastor James I didn't

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necessarily need it but I'd be looking at it all sermon long this is how you know

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that Isaiah was an American west coast charismatic you see how he starts in the original Hebrew they

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left out the words show up whoa but it's there in the original Hebrew you have no clue what I'm

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talking about you and consider yourself blessed that you do not know consider yourself blessed

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oh you know what I'm talking about that's also how you know Isaiah was white

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it's a very white you never see a black person oh but good any state where there's a lot of

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whites of bourbon nights show whoa oh consequently you never see a white person begin to dance like

447
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this but like I just feel the anointing on this when a white person gets touched it might be

448
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oh show but a black person doesn't get touched they get quickened cool quickened

449
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Erica am I right don't don't you get quickened you get quickened you don't get touched this is

450
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I get touched he quickened me oh oh everyone who thirsts come to the waters

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and you who have no money come by and eat because the anointing is free for all yes come by wine

452
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and milk without money and without price why do you spend money for what is not bread you're

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concerned you're obsessed you're trying to buy something that'll never ever truly scratch that

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itch that's inside of you that itch that only God can satisfy and your wages you spread for

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what does not satisfy listen carefully to me and eat what is good and let your soul delight

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itself in abundance incline your year and come to me here and your soul shall live and I will

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make an everlasting covenant with you that flows in the channel of the sure mercies of David

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what is Isaiah talking about he's talking about the anointing the presence of God

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and different people will respond to the anointing in different ways however there will be a

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response and the more you come into contact daily with the anointing the more you will be

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open to receive from heaven the gifts that he gets you whatever it may look like on the outside

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it always starts with you on the inside he went that's why I want to put a divine deposit in you

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this is why I preach the cross why I preach the blood because you're not even going to think

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that you're worthy enough if you don't know the blood if you don't know the cross you always have

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a spiritual insecurity at least we get that out of the way and now you can get to that place of

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maturity where you go you know what I am God's child I am totally forgiven and even though I'm

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still a work in progress I deserve not enough myself but in Jesus I deserve to receive all that he

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died for me to have that's not being arrogant that's being healthy that's not heretical that is

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the spiritual confidence that his death burial and resurrection affords you now yes a spiritual

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conference you now expect good things legally they're yours hallelujah then now we're getting excited

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how legally they're mine how's God going to get me these things by the anointing he'll always do

472
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a work in you somebody got a brand new shift in their careers and now they're making twice

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such money but even more importantly they're more fulfilled and I'll interview how did that happen

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and tell me oh first he got you didn't he touched you and you have that time with him and

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he put it in you that's why it's important for God's people to be intimately acquainted with

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his anointing but yes different people they respond in different ways I did not know in 1994 I

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was saved in 92 I did not know I could have never imagined in 1994 that he was going to begin

478
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visiting me in my dorm room in my college and at nine out of ten times I would respond in what

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seemed to be uncontrollable after I didn't know that that surprised me I wouldn't have picked that

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I didn't even know that was available whenever he like touched me here and there before I'd cry

481
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was you know to really try to suck it in because I still hear my dad's voice real men don't cry

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and that's when you start ugly crying right you hear dad's voice saying don't cry the Lord is saying

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they're there do cry she's like oh

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obviously if you know me today you know I've gotten past my natural dad's voice hey man

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hallelujah but all of a sudden he touched me and I just started laughing and laughing and laughing

486
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and when I say seemingly uncontrollably of course you can most of the time at least control it

487
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but who would want to who wants to put a cap on joy the only time I would control it is I would

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go into these churches they were tight in the city no move put it you know there's a move of the

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Holy Spirit but you can tell and the Holy Spirit will respect there's very strict channels and

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parameters of how he's allowed to move so all to call he can move praise and worship he can move

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but no shakes no cries no you know there's the whole list our shores are keeping an eye out

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seriously I've been a church like that and then hit some song that would set off my spirit and

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I start feeling anointing and I start laughing but you got to respect the house that you're in

494
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so I would duck and between the chairs and I'd be I'd be like but enough about me let's talk

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about you I didn't expect that I would respond to the Lord that way there are those who respond

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in other ways all sorts of ways you know I'm using the word respond because the word manifestation

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it's too much for some people but yes we're talking about the manifestation of the Holy Spirit

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but already they're scared so manifestation now it's you're safe you're safe the Holy Spirit

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would never hurt you but when he touches you there is a response you look throughout the

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scriptures whether it was Jesus of course bodily ministering or after he ascended when the Holy

501
00:46:42.520 --> 00:46:49.640
Spirit was given there was always a response now that response might be a quiet warmth in your spirit

502
00:46:50.600 --> 00:46:56.120
lean into that that response might be a peace that response might be weeping that response

503
00:46:56.120 --> 00:47:01.720
might be a silence and you sense his love and finally you have clarity of mind but receive that

504
00:47:03.080 --> 00:47:12.760
don't allow the enemy to rob you of an experiential Christianity and he robs people of that because

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there's great power connected to that because a Christian with a real experience is never at the

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mercy of someone else with just a theory there's stuff you there's you know people try to it's

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00:47:31.240 --> 00:47:37.320
funny to me even people who know what I do they they try to stump me with questions that they think

508
00:47:37.320 --> 00:47:43.640
are gonna like dismantle my Christianity like we'll have you ever thought about evolution and

509
00:47:43.720 --> 00:47:50.680
what about carbon dating no I never considered that stop right now you're making my whole life

510
00:47:50.680 --> 00:47:55.480
to be alive please quit uncle mercy no more don't bring up the dinosaurs no

511
00:48:05.240 --> 00:48:08.920
so they try to they try to evangelize me to unfaith me

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and it's hilarious to me not just because the intellectual argument is hilarious and

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preposterous but it's like you coming to me too late you've got me too late I've had too many

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experiences you can gibber jab but you're too late you got to find an obvious to work on with

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the level you're operating at but I'm too far gone not not and not with doctrine not with teaching

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with experience and Paul Paul prayed he said I pray that you would have an experience and

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experientially know the love of Christ which he cannot he said he cannot be known intellectually

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it cannot you can hear poems about it you can see great artists renderings that move you

519
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and you can hear the descriptions of the love of God but I love looking at the faces of people

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who get touched for the first time and it's always the same look that's that look because when

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he touches you it's like no one else exists it's just you and him you become the center of his

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universe this is also why by the way one of the dangers of getting touched by the Lord is arrogance

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and pride this is a pitfall you often find that prevalent in churches with the Holy Spirit moves

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because when he touches you it's like no one else exists and you actually your God's favorite

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which is true you feel correctly you're his favorite somehow because he's God is able to have

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a billion of those amen but you you're overwhelmed you're overcome and you feel like

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the center of his world and that's an experience I see that look oh that's an experience

528
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that'll mark you I was just shared with my wife I said now I understand why Kenneth Hagen

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he said something that really confused me early on he said everything I did in my ministry

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is a result of 1948 and I thought I got that because I have a different relationship with the

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Lord and I was coming to me in a different way changes it moved there's obviously things that

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never change but there's different seasons but in the early and mid-90s when I was 18 19 20 21 22

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he was coming to me and back then I didn't understand he kept showing me pictures of the church visions

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of the church molding me shaping me I didn't understand you know I thought am I just going to

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graduate college and start the church no he's just showing you sometimes we get excited but what

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is shown is we think it's tomorrow no but he's impregnating you and he's putting in you now what you

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need ten years down the road why am I saying this because some of you are being invited into an

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intimate relationship with the anointing with the presence of God you need this you need a

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season three months six months where you can do a deep work in you and when the deep work is done

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in you that'll manifest in your outward life you know how you know when it'll get manifest in your

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outward life great great barometer I found for gauging when because that's the ultimate you know

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when is my life right now gonna get better when am I gonna

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when you don't care when you'd actually stop caring yours now so enthralled with him

544
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and his person and being with him that you still care but not like you did before you like Lord

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I know you got that you're gonna fix that you're gonna and you're going to him on the daily because

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you actually enjoy spending time with him not because he's your mechanic that's gonna fix your

547
00:51:58.840 --> 00:52:03.720
busted up car called your life you actually like spending time with him and you forget and the

548
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moment you forget that you realized oh you weren't really joking when you said to make you my great

549
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quest and then all these other things would be added unto me do you meant that it was real

550
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is this hitting anyone are you catching what I'm serving up this morning amen

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so you hear that invitation to get into the anointing he says oh you got to say that first word

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right less to be misunderstood the people take sound bites and make you say all sorts of things

553
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these days oh is anyone thirsty is anyone hungry because we got to get to be good drinkers good

554
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eaters of his word and good drinkers of the Holy Spirit but there is a receiving problem

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we got to get to be better receivers better drinkers

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and so I your friendly neighborhood pastoral bartender I'm here to help you become a better

557
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lush for Jesus a better drinker

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00:53:23.480 --> 00:53:30.040
oh you're just walking around like this you haven't even taken a sip and forever

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the Bible is saying taste taste and see that the Lord is good

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I go no I've been reading about it it's very nice looks very nice we've been looking into it

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mmm lovely have a sip mmm I will later and no sipping no you got to get to be a drinker

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00:53:51.640 --> 00:53:58.840
heavy drinker of the Holy Spirit of God's new wine that's what'll fix you up on the inside get

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00:53:58.840 --> 00:54:03.880
you healed up on the inside get you empowered and get you living the good life which he prearranged

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00:54:03.880 --> 00:54:07.800
for you to have but it's always connected to a work of the Holy Spirit in his anointing

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00:54:08.040 --> 00:54:13.960
and so there's reasons why people aren't good drinkers they have these hindrances to good drinking

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one one reason that used to come up especially amongst those with an experience in Christianity

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is the whole decently and in order because you know the apostle Paul said let all things be done

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decently and in order so they feel they can't have any and nobody should have any kind of response

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to the Holy Spirit if they do that's all emotional sentimentality worked up hype and emotions

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and there's no fruit to it even though whoever touched Jesus whoever he touched

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they immediately had a response they weren't just healed they wouldn't you ever notice nobody got

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healed passively and was like oh cheerio good Messiah kind thanks for that divine healing who

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no there was always like ah they went walking and leaping and praising God

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they cried out the woman at the well he told her all her business you know how you know

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you know listen if I came and I just told you're all your business he'd be like pastor thanks

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but keep that down and we don't know really but there was so much anointing in Jesus' ministry

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that when he told that woman all her business she was excited he totally exposed her sin she runs

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back into town and goes hey come meet a man who told me everything I ever did this guy's awesome

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I've been married five times now I'm living with this guy he busted me on it he's awesome

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that's when the anointing is there you're like yeah I got busted lord do even more reveal all the

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secret parts of my heart to me and whoever else it doesn't matter lord I'm securing you

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hallelujah so decently and in order to some people it means that they cannot have a response

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and really what they're saying is controlled decently and in order means the Holy Spirit

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can never interrupt which should be his own service where preacher has to get through all his points

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and hit every note and there can't even be a 30 second space for the Holy Spirit to move that's

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not decently and in order decently and in order decently and in order with God's order

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you picture the demoniac being set free right his name was legion you know what a legionist

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it's a Roman garrison of three to five thousand troops that's a lot of demons that legion had

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and they were released into her to swine that when screeching and screaming and flying off of a

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hillside into the water imagine seeing that hearing that the whole town was in an uproar you could hear

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00:57:08.600 --> 00:57:15.320
that stampede does that look decently and in order to you but it's decently and in order with

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Jesus's order isn't it what about when the paralytic couldn't get in his friends can bring him in

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because it was such a crowd around Jesus and the house he was ministering in that they then spider

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00:57:25.320 --> 00:57:31.560
man did up the side of the house ripped open the roof just to get to Jesus and the Bible says I

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can just see the smile on his face is this and when he saw their faith not when he rebuked them for

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ripping that nice man's roof off when he saw their faith is that decently in an order no

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but it is with God hallelujah so really what we're talking about here is control

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people want to stay in control you're afraid I get that

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this is also by the way I said this in the first service I wondered if I'd say it in a second because

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it's being videotaped and people can just take what you say read into it in different ways but I've

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just found I've seen because I was involved in in new age not very heavily I'll put myself at

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the level of a dabbler but I was doing some enchantments doing some weird nonsense occultic and

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heavily demonic I'm not downplaying it but I've noticed people who come out of that world

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when they repent and they convert to Jesus it's much easier for them to get in the spirit realm

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00:58:42.920 --> 00:58:48.040
they're much more open to spiritual things that fear of crossing over is taken away

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not suggesting you dabble to open yourself up after

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but the Lord is calling you to cross over say how do I cross over no that that switches on the inside

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here is that switch that's gonna lower the gate of your heart so the Lord can come fully in

609
00:59:16.840 --> 00:59:23.000
and you're hanging on you want to be in control of your relationship with the Lord guess what it's

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not your relationship with the Lord it's his relationship with you he's come to you he's reached

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00:59:30.360 --> 00:59:38.840
out to you and we need to submit to the king hallelujah I'm really just wanting to make you better

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00:59:38.840 --> 00:59:44.920
receivers better this is a how to be a better drinker Sunday morning at city light church

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because if you can get good at drinking some of you you'll stop drinking if you know what I mean

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hallelujah you gotta be a good drinker

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listen some of you won't receive because your harsh your critical your judgmental

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01:00:13.480 --> 01:00:20.280
so somebody's getting touched by the Lord in the surface and your first thought is what manner

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what manner of spirituality is this you need to not just read the Bible you need to read the

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Bible like pause and imagine how it actually went down on the death panakost

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and no movie can cover it accurately you know we got the passion of the Christ and we were like

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all finally the crucifixion covered accurately because before the passion of the Christ that show

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like three little whip marks one drop of blood like a tear drop tattoo but in blood and they never

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really right that's when made the passion it was like no he's really he got medical experts to

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recreate the resurrection the crucifixion and but nobody has done the death panakost I would

624
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should be done the Bible way they always make it all clinical and sterile and basically they cast

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right the death panakost the death panakost imagine right there in the middle east

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hot sticky they've been waiting we know they've been waiting at least 10 days because Jesus was

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taken up 40 days after his resurrection and the death panakost is 50 days after Passover so

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somewhere they can wait around a week 120 of them in an upper room mashed in they're pretty good

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shfitzing hot waiting not really knowing remember not really knowing what they're waiting for

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then there's the God and God but the concept of the Holy Spirit living in them that was too

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mind-blowing they couldn't wrap their brain around that they couldn't wrap their brain that this would

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forever end the old covenant and launch the new covenant of his grace and that would be the day

633
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that the church was birth and then suddenly they came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind

634
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I love the amplified Bible because it says a violent a violent tempest blast we want a sterile

635
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clinical church no he'll sometimes break the door down and come in violently and flex a violent

636
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tempest blast clothing tongues like as a fire appeared on each one of them they were all filled with

637
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the Holy Spirit of God and began to speak in other tongues in other languages as the Holy Spirit gave

638
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the moderates and then and they definitely don't show this in the Jesus movies they were so overwhelmed

639
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this is in the Bible in Acts chapter 2 they were so overwhelmed no one even had a discussion nobody

640
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even said you know we should take this good news and let's go outside and share with the Lord

641
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no they just ran out of there you know why because they got touched by the Lord today getting

642
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touched by the Lord is this controlled hallelujah oh he really touched me oh that was nice that

643
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was a nice service you know I really I don't want nice when I've been touched guess what you

644
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can't even say what's happening day of Pentecost God feels mankind for the first time that's like

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oh that's the killer

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run right out the room 120 of them now going around Jerusalem and

647
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something about them warranted the Jerusalem people saying they are drunk

648
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why would the Jerusalemites say they're drunk 120 of them freshly filled with the Holy Spirit called

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drunk that's in your Bible and to anyone who was raising an eyebrows you heard laughter

650
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earlier this is especially for you what kind of a church is this and people laughing some people

651
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crying some clutching their pearls so to speak oh oh you know what you always hear in the

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spirit once they do that uh who is here I've never seen this and like I've never seen this

653
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so every way that God can move you've already seen so if it's outside of you've never seen this

654
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it never crosses their mind that maybe this is the Lord and it's different than how I have seen

655
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him my whole life oh what they're really oh this doesn't fit into my grid of preconceived ideas

656
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and notions the only way that God's allowed to move so they get out of the upper room and they're

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all called drunk this isn't that but you know who was in that group because it specifically

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names her and I'm so glad Mary the physical mother of Jesus I love that she was a part of that group

659
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I just picture her Jesus was 33 so she was anywhere from 45 to 53

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imagine her getting filled with the Holy Spirit she was the chosen vessel to give birth to Jesus

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but still totally human and totally not a virgin after she gave birth to Jesus just throwing that

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out again there's something about the gift of offense that moves in this ministry time

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why is that so hard for people will fight you on no she is the virgin married no she she was

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we all agree she was when she gave her but why does she you know be no way I don't like that because

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somewhere in there no she stayed a virgin is that like sex within the confines of marriage will defile

666
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you that's the message that no she had to have stayed a virgin first of all the bible says Jesus

667
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had brothers and sisters all right and God is not so cruel to put Joseph with Mary and just

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have him watch for the next 56 years whatever he had to do Jesus had brothers Jesus had sisters

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and I don't like the message that she had to know we know because we don't worship Mary we

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venerate her and in order to venerate her properly she had to have stayed a virgin

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no after Jesus was born it specifically says he did not know her until they were wed and then after

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they were wed he got out his bluetooth and put the sweet jams on the sonos

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I just he got that first century Barry Manelow out

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he was like you are the only one for me

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my baby my baby I love you

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I am what's my point my point is that Mary was in that crowd Mary the mother of Jesus

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with the hundred and twenty in the middle of Jerusalem and everybody saying you all are drunk now

678
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why were they saying you're drunk why why everybody will then so it's because they were speaking

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another languages have you heard that why have you heard why they drunk why you know what I'm

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down my right extra after two they go out why do you think they were called drunk

681
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say loud they believe they were mad yes no I speak British I know what you mean when you say

682
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I didn't think they were they were mad they were mad

683
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they thought they were crazy why do they think they were crazy

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yeah listen usually you'll hear it's because they were all speaking another languages

685
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but we live in Queens 161 nations in Queens you go down Steinway you're going to hear other languages

686
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you never think what a bunch of drunken fools walking around Steinway all speaking another

687
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that means there was something about their behavior they had just come out of literally

688
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the first church service ever that's when the church was birthed on the death penalty cost

689
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the first church service ever they come out everybody says you are old

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out of your mind and drunk why there was something about their demeanor there was something about

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they had a total loss of inhibition they had a joy they had an exuberance yes I believe there

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was laughter there yes like how drunken people laugh yes they were laughing with joy unspeakable

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and full of glory hallelujah and Peter then with the cherry on top gets up and says this is a good

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time for sermons since they're asking why we're all drunk he starts off by saying friends he

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bruised countrymen lend me your ears these men are not drunk as you suppose it didn't just say

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they're not drunk he said they're not drunk like you think but they are drunk just on the divine

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new wine the good stuff hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah we're going to surrender control

698
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lord can do whatever he wants to do hallelujah you know again my job is to make you good receivers

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but what people love is to do lists

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did you know and we're going to get this into Galatians the apostle Paul calls the system of the

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law that he calls it the elementary principles if you look in the Greek what elementary

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principles is it's a term it's a long multisolabic Greek word which if I don't have my notes I'm

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going to mispronounce and it means listen I got the definition still memorized it means the ABCs

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of the universe he's saying that the law is what people are most familiar with it's how we were

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raised it's what we innately know as human beings do good get good do bad get bad it's what makes

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sense to us it's the ABCs of the universe it's what man always gravitates to so what makes sense to

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us is a bunch of rules and regulations Christianity comes in and says yes there are rules and we will

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have them in writing but the Holy Spirit will live in your heart and he will cause you to walk in

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the written statutes he will cause you from the inside of that now causes people's mind to go

710
01:11:40.440 --> 01:11:45.400
because what they really want are rules and regulations but God has called them to a heart

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01:11:45.400 --> 01:11:52.520
relationship and so when it comes to receiving the anointing I'm not going to tap into that sick

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desire for to-do list it's a sick desire that's why so many churches this morning the pastor

713
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has structured the whole thing to be around wait your breakthrough is coming but first you need

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the eighth key see you only got seven keys because you only made it to the first seven Sundays I'm

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going to finish my eight week series on the eight keys the eight keys that'll bring you to the

716
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ten doors what's behind the ten doors the twelve different highways to greater increase and abundance

717
01:12:21.000 --> 01:12:29.560
and prosperity in God and you're just to do to do no this is to receive to receive you know people

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like rules we learned that in 2020 didn't we the people love people love what I what I knew that

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already what I didn't know was how some people if properly lied to and then properly empowered

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people in our own church who are sweet and loving the Lord overnight were turned into

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must not what what what what what what what what what what you want to come into the city light

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you must wear in the mask and see

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you

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don't repeat a bit

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that happened look at them uncomfortable after no I don't want to pretend like that didn't happen

726
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that happened because they're trying to do something else again and that won't happen again

727
01:13:32.040 --> 01:13:37.800
I actually I'm not going to memory hold this I actually lived through what appeared to be normal

728
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healthy well-adjusted people get terrified terrified of what we knew was a virus we're 99% of the

729
01:13:48.280 --> 01:13:53.400
people survived but fine you're terrified the media is non-stop pushing it so you got terrified

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but then you heard if there's someone not wearing a mask tell them report them do point them out point

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the grandma killers out and all of a sudden a bunch of what's we're seemingly sweet

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harmless people got empowered to be little eight-offs

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what's this what's this what's this

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sprainsy COVID

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look if you got duped yeah by the way look now now here we are and some people can

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chuckle about it but here we are over halfway done with 2023 and at least now we can say you know

737
01:14:43.560 --> 01:14:49.080
that was crazy wasn't it I mean they try to do what's never been done in all of human history which

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is mitigating an airborne respiratory virus with little cloth surgical masks and telling you to

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stay six feet apart well people died pastor I know people died people died what they should have

740
01:15:05.560 --> 01:15:10.760
been told is not to wear a mask that's gonna do you know good and stay six feet apart what those

741
01:15:10.760 --> 01:15:18.120
people who died should have been told was hey I'll get to the gym lose some weight stir up your

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01:15:18.120 --> 01:15:23.400
immune system go get some vitamin D go get some sunlight in fact we were told the exact opposite

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01:15:23.400 --> 01:15:30.920
stay indoors stay away from sunlight can't work out go order grub hub get fat get even weaker

744
01:15:30.920 --> 01:15:38.360
but wear a surgical mask because that's what's gonna help you and then hop if people died yeah

745
01:15:46.440 --> 01:15:47.400
a little derailment

746
01:15:53.640 --> 01:15:59.720
somehow we went from the anointing to an eight-off impersonation

747
01:16:03.160 --> 01:16:07.400
but let's let's let's bask in this because it's a very real world issue right now

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01:16:08.120 --> 01:16:10.200
and let's just come to terms with some things yeah

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that we as humans are this is a fact we're easily programmable

750
01:16:19.000 --> 01:16:25.160
you's not me yeah you maybe a little not as easy but there's people who know how to program you by

751
01:16:25.160 --> 01:16:34.760
the way your phone knows you better than you know you all I had to do when we got that new house

752
01:16:35.400 --> 01:16:41.880
what's all I had to do was look at two not even three two places that sell furniture my whole

753
01:16:41.880 --> 01:16:46.600
Instagram changed every ad change all of a sudden I'm buying things I didn't even know I needed

754
01:16:47.240 --> 01:16:51.640
because my phone now knew me it knew it knew the moving things that I needed better than me

755
01:16:52.520 --> 01:16:57.880
and that phone studies you it knows you it knows if you've been good it knows if you've been naughty

756
01:16:58.600 --> 01:17:03.240
it no no it knows what you like it knows what'll trigger you it wants to keep you triggered because

757
01:17:03.240 --> 01:17:08.040
that's how it keeps you a consumer and a customer plugged in can you believe it doing this now

758
01:17:09.000 --> 01:17:18.600
and we are easily programmable as people and we need to stay rooted and worded and God's word

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in his truth and not allow media hype media manipulation along with politicians from all sides

760
01:17:27.480 --> 01:17:33.960
of the spectrum with their fake smiles looking at you lying to you fly above that thunderstorm

761
01:17:34.920 --> 01:17:41.800
come up hither come up higher come up with its 2020 vision from heaven with Jesus and his word

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and make a decision I will not be made a fool again amen hallelujah yes he is yes he is

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thank you Lord Lord you are good you are an ever-flowing fountain of goodness we receive from

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your worship team come on up thank you Lord retas de la levanta na na maqueta la la resenta go

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ahead right now just begin to drink begin to drink you're not pouring out you're letting him pour

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in receive in Jesus name receive the Bible says there is a stream there is a stream

767
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that makes glad the city of God the old King James says there is a river the streams where

768
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off shall make glad the city of our God hallelujah there is a river the streams where off shall make

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glad the city of our God do you know who the city of our God is who is Jerusalem it's you you are

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Jerusalem you are Zion and the river is the Holy Ghost and the Bible says there is a river

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the streams where off shall make glad the city of our God may your heart be filled with gladness

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the devil's plans rendered useless and broken over you

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be blessed be blessed

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today that you have been reminded how much God loves you and that you are surrounded by grace

775
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