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Real life presents the Jack Hibbs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim

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truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. Good is under attack today. The

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Bible says in Isaiah chapter 5 verse 20, woe to those who called evil good and

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good evil. Is this not our day? Who put darkness for light and light for darkness?

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Bittersweet, sweet for bitter woe to those who are wise in their own eyes. That is

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a two verses on pure confusion. Something to twist, something to turn, something to

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make untrue. Good is under attack today.

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You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to Jack Hibbs.com slash podcast.

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Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled

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life in Christ, then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. To us,

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listen. Now open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you. Here is Jack Hibbs.

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Number eight, the war against men. The war against men. I believe one of Satan's

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greatest attacks is against men. Keep men dumb. Don't let them lead. Have them

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take the back seat. Don't let them sacrifice. Don't let them do the things that God

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designed them to do. I believe Satan is against these things. A man was created

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a certain way, obviously. A woman was created a certain way. A man was created

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in a certain way for sure. And God knows exactly what he's doing. Genesis

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chapter 1 verse 26, then God said let us notice the Trinity. Let us make man an

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hour image. God says mankind. But he started with Adam. I tell this as often as

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I can. It's amazing to me. Eve is the mother of mankind. All people came from

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Eve. But Eve came from Adam. Is that wild? God put him to sleep, yanked out his rib.

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I don't know. He yanked out his rib, but he took his rib. The Bible says again in

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Genesis chapter 1 verse 27, next verse, so God created man in his own image. In the

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image of God, he created him. Male and female, he created them. Absolute symbionic

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perfection. God speaks, creates. Male, female. Completely different, but

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compatible. And they come together as one. What an amazing thing. But you and I live

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in a world of lies right now. Lies like this. Men cannot be strong. You're not

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allowed. So what do men do? They back away. Men are told they can't be leaders

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anymore. Men are told that they can't have an opinion anymore. If you watch the

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commercials on TV, honestly, go watch them. We don't know how to buy a battery. We

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can't shop. We don't know how to use our phones. We can barely walk actually. We have to

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use our knuckles to walk. And a man cannot possibly know what he should do with his life.

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There's a war on men. I find it interesting, by the way, in the world of biology, that

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you know that when a woman miscarries, you know the bulk of miscarried babies are males.

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Did you know that from the moment of conception, the male has a strike against them all along

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the way? How many children are brought into the world? More. Male or female? Female,

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by far. I think Satan hates men. Number nine is the war against women. The war against

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women. In Genesis chapter 2, verse 18, the Lord God said, it is not good that man should be alone.

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I will make him a helper comparable to him, comparable, comparable. Look what the Hebrew

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meaning of the word is. It's absolutely awesome. The word for the wife and the husband relationship

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for the woman in this and life period. When God says, I've made for Adam a woman, she is to be

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conspicuous. Think of that word. That's what the Hebrew word means. Obvious. She's to be obvious.

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In its obvious, that's Adam's wife. An ally, a woman is to be an ally. The answer, the mean,

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the word means one who encourages, informs, denounces, displays, explains, to give evidence to,

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to inform, to speak plainly. Now, I'm reading you, God's definition of why there's a woman,

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why God gives wives. And I love the reality of this. To be an ally, most of us men at times are

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tempted to reject the ally feature of the wife. That comes from insecurity. She encourages,

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she informs, she denounces. I don't like that. I know you don't like that because that's her saying,

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I think you're wrong about, you should have made a left turn back there. She says, you got not to be

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doing that. She speaks truth. She speaks plainly, she informs the power of a woman. I forget who said

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this. I'm just going from memory, but the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.

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And boy, that's so true. The power of a woman. Wife, be it a mother, the power of a woman.

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And friends today, we're in a world at war. Number 10, because I'm going quick now, is the war

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against children. We're all aware of this one. It's this one, though, that I have a hard time

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controlling my emotions personally. And I confess that at the front, the Bible says in Proverbs 22,

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verse 6, train up a child in the way that he should go or she should go. And when he is older,

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when she is old, they will not depart from it. Now this is an important passage of scripture.

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It's often misunderstood. When the Bible says train up a child in the way that it should go,

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now I need to handle this. Usher is locked the doors. Nobody escapes. This is pure truth,

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and here it comes right out of the Bible. You're pregnant, you have a baby,

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and you go home with the baby and your friends call you or whatever email tags I know. What you have?

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None of us ever took our kid on the way home, called our parents or grandparents. We're not sure

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what we have here. We don't even know yet. So take a look. Look under the hood. What's there?

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What do you see? I'm speaking what every five-year-old knew 20 years ago, maybe even last week.

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We live in a world that is so deceived with the war on truth and logic and everything else

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that we're talking about, that there are those who would argue with you about your own child if

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you were to say, hey, celebrate with us. We just had a little boy and they'll post on your

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site or something. How do you know? Don't even answer people like that. The Bible says never answer

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a fool in their folly. Did you know that? I need to text them back. I need to email them. Don't you

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dare. You don't answer a fool in their folly. You just let them be in their folly. Don't engage

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them. My point is this, friends. The Bible says, train up your child in the way that they should go.

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That means you check the plumbing. If they look, some people have twins, male, female, boy,

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girl twins, they look exactly the same at birth. It said body parts. Their biology is different.

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Their chemistry is different. They're different, even if they're twins. And the Bible says,

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even if you have twins like that, train them up in the way that they should go. You check the

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plumbing and you realize she's a girl and he's a boy. Listen, this is going to be hard truth.

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You're going to hate me for this. No, seriously. Without any intentions, without any preconceived

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notions, your four-year-old boy might grab your high heels and go down the hallway,

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clicking your high heels because it sounds cool. What are you supposed to do as a parent? Do you

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stand and observe? Or do you say, yo, dude, here's the deal. Those are for your sister and for

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mommy. Get your dad's boots and take a listen to how those sound. Let's put those on now. Put

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your dad's boots on and go down the hallway stomping. What are you doing? It's called parenting.

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Watch, watch this. Oh, but watch. The woke progressive world that we live in will say, oh my

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gosh, you're abusing that child. Oh yeah, what do you want us to do? Give them to us. We'll totally

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make them into our image. Isn't that funny? You're not allowed to parent, but they are allowed to

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groom. You can't. You brought that child into the world, but you have no authority over that

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child. The moment that kid crosses the property of the school, which you pay for, they'll tell them

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what their gender is. And immediately, your little kids, our little kids are being confronted with

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the philosophy of these of a dark world or a world of light, a world of lie or a world of truth.

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The reason why we're seeing so much going on in our culture today regarding this genderality

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stuff is because of a lack of parenting. If you, listen, if you don't want to be courageous,

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don't be a parent. If you don't want to grow up, don't be a parent. But if you want to be a parent,

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you got a parent. And listen, sometimes there's events with boy and or girl that doesn't matter,

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go out in the backyard with them, roll around in the mud, chop down a tree, change the oil in the

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car, get the son and daughter down there, get all dirty fun and sweaty. It's awesome. They love it.

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But there's certain things that God has preserved for women and young girls. And there's certain

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thing that God has preserved for boys and for men. And to mess with that, to mess with that equation

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is to destroy a child's mind. That child didn't destroy their mind. We either allowed it or we left

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them vulnerable to the powers that be. And the powers that be are diametrically opposed

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to the plan of God in our world around us. Children under attack. Good is under attack.

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Good is under attack today. The Bible says in Isaiah chapter 5, verse 20,

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woe to those who called evil good and good evil. Is this not our day? Who put darkness for light

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and light for darkness? Bit of a sweet and sweet for bitter woe to those who are wise in their own

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eyes. That is two verses on pure confusion. Oh, look at the beautiful sunlight out right now.

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That's not sunlight. Something to twist, something to turn, something to make untrue.

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Good is under attack. You do good today and you'll be probably ridiculed for it, getting trouble for

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it. And then finally, you guys is the war against the pulpit. And we'll end with this. In Revelation

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chapter 1, verse 20, it starts out by saying the mystery of the seven stars. By the way, this is

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Jesus speaking. The mystery of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand and the seven golden

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lamp stands. The seven stars are the seven angels, not angels that like Gabriel or Michael. These

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are angels. We would say pastors, messengers, proclaimers. The seven stars are the seven

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pastors, proclaimers, messengers of the seven churches, the Ecclesia, the congregation, the church.

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And the seven lamp stands which you saw are the seven churches, chapter 2, verse 1. And to the

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pastor of the church at Ephesus writes, seven times Jesus will say, and to the pastor of the church

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at Ephesus, to the pastor of the church of Thyatira, to the pastor of the church of Laodicea,

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to the pastor of the church at Sardis. Are you with me, everybody? To the pastor of the church

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of Philadelphia, and he speaks to them. Listen, this is the 21st century, and this is 2024.

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The world around us has fallen apart, and yet it's the glorious hour for the church to stand,

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but listen, the church won't stand unless it's got pastors in the pulpit that are more afraid of

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the judgment of God than of the government. You've got to fear God.

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I'm going to quote myself here on this if it offends you than that's on me, but

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the pastors to be a man of God called to be the voice of God to the church and to the culture to

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which he's been called. The pastor's real estate matters. Location, location, location is his pulpit,

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where he has been placed, and those who are influenced by his calling will be witness of it.

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In other words, there are no pastors in America unless they've got Bible open and they're

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teaching the flock of God to look to God, to know God and to know God's word.

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And this year is going to cause a great shaking, and you're going to see, I don't know what,

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pretend pastors from real pastors. And don't be surprised by the end of the year that the

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pretend pastors will be gone, but the real pastors will be standing bloody cheeks, swollen eye,

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misinitive, warmer, dented, but thank God, armor was used.

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But church, according to the Bible, the pulpit is the place where the truth is to be proclaimed

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without apology. According to the Bible, the pulpit is the place where the church is trained

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in righteousness. According to the Bible, it's the place where faith is ever increasing and developed.

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And according to the Bible, the pulpit is the place where biblical doctrine has and is the final word of

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God. We are living in some very perilous times. I'm going to ask you to stand as I read to you these

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last final scriptures here regarding the pulpit. First verse, Jeremiah chapter 3 verse 15,

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God says, I will give you shepherds according to my heart who will feed you with knowledge and

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understanding. Just think about that for a moment. Ask yourself this question, is this happening

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in the pulpit of America? In some places, yes, the by and large, no. Next verse, Jeremiah 23,

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4, I will set up shepherds over them who will feed them and they shall fear no more. Why? Whatever

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food the shepherds feeding the sheep of God, the result is they don't have any more fear. They

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do not dismay it anymore. Nor shall they be lacking, says the Lord. That's powerful stuff.

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You don't need to be afraid. It's flu season. Happens every year.

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Klaus Schwab announced the other day that the X virus is coming. Did you see that?

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It's called the X virus. It's not funny, by the way. The X virus, it's a designer virus.

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No, I mean, it's made. Don't be afraid. Why? You have this word. And he himself gave some to be

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apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastor teachers for the equipment of the saints

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that's you. That's us. For the work of ministry, that's what we do. For the edifying of the

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body of Christ, that's why we love on one another. That's what it's for. It's called church.

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I'm going to ask you to lift your hands in dedication to God. Halfway through this prayer,

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if you're chicken out, put your hands down. Heavenly Father, we stand before you with our hands

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outstretched and we dedicate our lives to you today. We ask you Holy Spirit to possess us,

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to fill us, to baptize us afresh in the renewing power of your Word. Heavenly Father,

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declare the name of Jesus. We may be standing with hands raised high, but we proclaim before

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heaven as our witness, our hearts are bowed low. Our knees are bowed low. We proclaim him and him

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alone, Lord and Savior. We dedicate our lives to the Lord now. We pray that every step of our

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lives from this moment forward and this year to come now, that God, we would be ministers of the

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gospel of Jesus Christ, for God's soul of the world that He gave His only begotten Son that

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whosoever would believe on Him would not perish but have everlasting life, that you would trust

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Jesus and that the world would hear the gospel through us, that Christ died for us and rose again

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from the dead. So Father, here we stand. We ask you to fortify us and to galvanize us,

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to cause us to speak up and to stand up and to show up, God that we might honor you

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as husbands, as men, as wives, as women. Our children would be blessed and God, we pray,

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we pray, I pray selfishly, starting from Chino Hills, the pulpits of America might catch fire

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with the Holy Spirit's presence like this nation has never seen before until it reaches the tip of

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Maine into the keys of Florida, into the islands of Washington State and everywhere in between.

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We dedicate ourselves to you dear God. We pray in Jesus' name and all God's people said,

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Amen, God bless you.

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