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You cannot try to be Instagrammable, cool, and have an encounter with God.

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You cannot be thinking about how do I look, how are people perceiving me?

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They're not.

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They're too busy obsessing over their own selves.

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So be set free.

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Get like Zacchaeus.

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I would rather be desperate and have a God encounter when things are pretty okay than

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have to have a God encounter when I'm, you know, behind the April and things are going

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really bad.

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Welcome to the CityLight Church Podcast.

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Thanks for joining us today, as we look into God's Word and discover the hope and truth

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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's 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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Hallelujah.

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So we had a phenomenal Easter service last Sunday.

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Easter services, I should say.

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We're celebrating the crucifixion and the resurrection, and of course, after the resurrection

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Jesus, He hung around for 40 days.

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He didn't go right back up to heaven, and He was seen in a 500 people, and He was teaching.

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That's also why I said that the resurrection is one of the most attested to historical facts.

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In historians, they at least have an analogy that Jesus lived, and then some may argue

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obviously about the resurrection, but the Bible isn't the only thing that records

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the resurrection.

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There's other first-century documents.

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There's the testimony of countless martyrs, and all of the disciples were martyred, but

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also thousands after them.

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And if it was some great conspiracy, they wouldn't have given their lives for a lie.

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He gives their life for a lie.

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Amen.

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Like if they were a part of some conspiracy, and Peter was in on it, and now historically

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Peter was crucified upside down because he wouldn't renounce Jesus, like as he's

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dangling upside down, and they're about to murder him.

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That would have been a good time if he was lying to say, guys, guys, guys, slow down here.

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I've admitted.

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JKLOL.

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I was just messing around.

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Now let me off this thing.

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They never did.

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You don't die for a lie.

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And we have some recordings of what Jesus was teaching about after his resurrection.

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And one of the last things, actually not one of the last things, the last thing he said

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before the ascension, was you shall receive power, it's Acts 1-8.

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You shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost has come upon you.

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So you're going to have this dunamis, that's the Greek word, power, where we get dynamite

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from.

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You're going to be empowered from heaven.

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Right before that, a few days before his crucifixion, he was teaching on the Holy Spirit.

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John, chapter 14, 15, 16, that was passed overnight.

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He was talking about the Holy Spirit being the comforter.

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The Holy Spirit being the one called alongside to help.

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He said, don't worry, I won't leave you like little orphans.

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And then he said something interesting.

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He said, I will send him and the third person, and then he said, I will come to you in the

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first person.

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And he vacillated between the third and first person.

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This is important.

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Why?

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Because the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Jesus, but I thought they were separate.

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They are.

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But now you're saying they're the same.

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I am.

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What's the answer?

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Yes.

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The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Jesus, and Jesus is among us here.

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He went bodily into heaven, but he's here, and he indwells all who believe in the person

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of the Holy Spirit.

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So I would think if his last words were about the Holy Spirit, that's an important topic.

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And he even told his disciples, think about this.

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His disciples had a front row seat for three, three and a half years to the greatest

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teacher of God's word, the world had ever known.

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Jesus Christ himself.

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You know, talk about a master class.

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Send $5,000, and you'll have this master class, we'll get on Zoom together, two hours.

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You talk about a master class, they walked with him, they ate with him, they studied

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under him.

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And even still, though they had a front row seat to the greatest teacher of God's word

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ever in history, still, Jesus said, don't even think of doing anything for me, don't

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even think of evangelizing until you're first in dude with power, power.

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A powerless Christianity is a dead Christianity.

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Go into Jerusalem, wait for the Holy Spirit, and be in dude with power from on high.

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So if the disciples had to be filled with the Holy Spirit, those who had once again had

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a front row seat to the very teachings of Jesus, if they had to be in dude with power from

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on high, how much more do we?

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Because we didn't get that privilege, we get it today through God's word.

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So an encounter with the Holy Spirit is really not optional for Christianity, a relationship

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with the Holy Spirit, it's not an option.

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It's oftentimes in the church treated like an optional thing, you know, you can, if you

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want, but we know that some of you are a little scared, so you know, for you who are scared,

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we just have form without function, religion, remember, it was religion that crucified Christ,

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you say, what's religion?

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Religion is the form of Godliness, but denying the power thereof.

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That's in the New Testament, a form of Godliness, but no power, and every century had its own

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version of it.

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For centuries, a form of Godliness was, you know, nice cathedrals, pretty steeples, giant

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bell towers, stained glass, you go in, there's no power, but you have the form.

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Today it's just changed, there's laser machines, fog machines, first impressions, steam outside,

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spinning signs, woo, can't wait to have you here.

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But if there's no power, and no lives are going to get changed, so you just have this

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paddock, paddock, paddock, it feels good, warped, really perverted Christianity, script of

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the power of God.

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And Jesus rebuked the Pharisees, He said, you know not the Scriptures nor the power of

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God, that's religion, that's why the Pharisees are the ones who crucified Him.

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You know not the Scriptures nor the power of God.

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So New Testament Church is biblically literate and experiences the Holy Spirit.

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They know the power of God.

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And I want you to know right now, everybody here qualifies.

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Everybody if you're hungry, if you're desperate, because you got to be hungry and desperate.

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You can't have the attitude of, well, God, if this is all true, and you want to touch

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me, we'll do it, you know, chase me, I dare you.

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If you look at the ministry of Jesus, there's nobody he touched with that attitude.

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He didn't chase people down and say, please let me bless you.

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Oh, there goes one, touch the hem of my garment, come on, no, they pressed in after him.

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They illegally pushed through crowds to get to him.

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They tore roofs off to get to him.

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Zacchaeus caught God's attention.

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You know what the Bible says about Zacchaeus?

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Not politically correct.

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And the Greek looked up, it says, you know, in the Bible, he was short in stature.

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And the Greek means midget.

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Bible's so rich, there's so many, and it says he was wealthy, and a wealthy people dressed

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apart.

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There was no such thing as stealth wealth back then, understated elegance.

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You're wealthy, you got the silk robes, you got the jewelry, people think they know what

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bling is today.

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You're all blinged out, and you're a midget.

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And he's like, you know, the Bible says thousands of people are trying to get to Jesus as

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Zacchaeus is like, I can't even see him, because I'm short in stature.

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So you know what Zacchaeus does?

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He climbs up a tree and dangles just to get a look at Jesus.

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And it's his whole procession, thousands of people, they all want to take a look at Jesus,

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all touch Jesus, and Jesus stops the whole thing and looks up and goes, Zacchaeus, I must

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have lunch with you today.

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What drew Jesus to the dangling midget?

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Well, first of all, Zacchaeus had to humble himself.

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This is not how wealthy people behaved, elite people, lofty people.

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He humbled himself.

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I don't care, people are going to talk about me.

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I look like a fool, I look ridiculous, it doesn't matter, my whole reputation, my image,

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all that now takes a back seat.

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The only thing that matters is Jesus, I'm climbing up this tree, you know how ridiculous

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that must have looked?

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I want to take a look at him and Jesus said, what an honor, he stopped the whole thing

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and said, I must eat with you today.

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Zacchaeus is hunger and his desperation drew Jesus to him and it is always that way.

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The woman with the issue of blood, it is very important to know that she was illegally

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pressing through that crowd she had an issue of blood, she shouldn't have left her home

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according to the law.

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But she did so anyway, why, she was so hungry, she was so desperate.

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And so we're having special meetings next week.

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They're only special if you get hungry, otherwise there'll just be another series of meetings.

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The power of God is activated via hunger, pursuit, desperation, hallelujah.

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And this nation, this wonderful nation has a long and rich history of revival.

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Before I even get to this nation, let me just show you that the church was birthed in

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the move of God.

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The church was obviously not birthed in religion, Acts chapter 2 verses 1 through 4 shows the

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birth of the church, this is 50 days after the Passover, the day of Pentecost.

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And let's look at how the church is birthed, because Jesus he spent 40 days teaching and

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talking about the Holy Ghost and then he left after 40 days so they had about 10 days of

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waiting and they waited in the upper room.

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You know what the upper room is, it's the same room that Jesus had the last supper in.

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There was only 13 of them having the last supper there, but 120 of them crammed in on the

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day of Pentecost, all the disciples, Mary, the mother of Jesus, and over 100 others that

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are unnamed.

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And it says when the day of Pentecost had fully come, because remember he said don't even

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think of doing a thing until you first endured with power from on high, so they're calling

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out, they're waiting, waiting doesn't mean, waiting means you're in anticipation, there's

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a pursuit there, and you're not waiting for the effiging to arrive, like I'm just, you

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know, and how you wait today, just scrolling, what are you doing?

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You know I'm waiting on the Lord, no, it's actually very beautiful in the Hebrew, the word

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weight.

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You know that Hebrews would have tassels, it actually means two strings of the tassels

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that are intertwined together, that's the root of the word weight, that means your soul,

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your spirit is reaching out to God, intertwining with His, there's a long, you can't actually

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teach someone how to wait on the Lord, because someone looks at you, really just does look

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like you're waiting, but what's happening on the inside is a yearning, a longing, you're

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reaching out, and so they're waiting, when the dead Pentecost had fully come, they were

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all with one accord in one place, and suddenly they came a sound from heaven as of a rushing

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mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting, notice that it doesn't

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say a gentle breeze, I just want to show you that God, He made an impression, and God

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didn't come quietly, in the amplified it says a violent tempest blast, He came a mighty

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rushing wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting, then they appeared

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to them, divided tongues as a fire, and once out upon each of them, and they were all filled

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with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance,

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so the church of the Lord Jesus Christ was birthed, obviously, with the outpouring of the

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Holy Spirit, this is day one of the church. The church of Jesus will only continue filled

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with the Holy Spirit, and you see this throughout the book of Acts, the book of Acts is the

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historical account of the first years of the early church, they were constantly getting

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refilled with the Holy Spirit. Again, two chapters later in Acts 4, they're filled again,

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there's an initial filling, and the evidence is speaking in tongues and they get refilled,

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and refilled, because we are vessels that burn oil, and oil will run out if you're just

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burning oil, you've got to be refilled and refreshed with oil, hallelujah. And so you never,

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ever learned this in school, I never learned this in school, but if you impartially study

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history, American history, you will see that I believe, to me, it's plain as day, more than any

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other nation, this nation has a rich history of revival that actually shaped and molded the

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entire trajectory of the nation. The way we relate to one another, molded civics, molded the

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culture of the nation, yeah, some of you, you know, you're just been in America your whole life,

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and so you think like this is just a default state of mankind, no, the default state of mankind

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is pretty barbaric, pretty rough, you still see it in the majority of the world today,

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we just came back from Guatemala, we've been going since 2009 in the mountains of Guatemala,

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and it never occurred to me, some things are just looking, you know, you go through life,

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you look, it never occurred to me until the Mike McCone, the head there, he said, because I said,

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why are there these walls around these houses, because if it's a house, any nicer than a shanty,

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there's a 15 foot wall around it, because well, you have to have a wall, because if you don't,

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people coming, steal your stuff, and it goes, you know, in America, you don't need giant walls

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around the house, I go, wow, never thought of that, I wonder what builds a nation where you don't

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need walls, and what happens to a nation where you need walls, the spirit of God, and the foundation

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of the spirit laid, oh yeah, so you had in the 1740s before America, even was America, the great

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awakening, and you really want a good time going study the great awakening, study a character,

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there's many characters studying one by the name of George Whitfield, who would ride around on

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horseback and preach to coal miners, 10,000 of them would come out, these, these were not

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metro-sexuals, of a soft disposition, it's a hard pioneering barbaric men,

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coalmen, 10,000 of them would come out, glaring at him, what do you got to say, preacher man,

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faces, these are the accounts, the written accounts, coal all over their faces, and George Whitfield

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will begin declaring the gospel, declaring the goodness of God, calling them to repentance,

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and thousands of heart and men, the accounts say just their black and faces with a colson,

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you would just see white streaks on their faces, they fall to the ground, worshipping Jesus,

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that shaped our country, it shaped you, this is stuff we don't learn in school, for example,

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slavery has been the default state of man since there ever was man, before man even mastered

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agriculture they were enslaving one another, it was normal, normal on every continent and every

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place, why in the world would great Britain be the first country to abolish slavery in the 1840s,

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and then the United States following 30, 40 years after that, why, because they just decided to be nice?

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In the early 1800s the saying was the sun never sets on the British Empire, the largest empire,

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wealthy, this little island on the east of the Atlantic, little island nation, wealthy, colonizing,

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slavery, and then all of a sudden they're the first to stop it at great economic detriment to

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themselves, why, do you think it was like today, like those protesters, purple hair, nose ring,

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with signs? No, why did they stop? There was a probe but not like that, because of the

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revivals that God said, look when they were in small busy enslaving one another, it was just the norm,

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they didn't know any different, we're just doing what we've always done, and then when revival comes

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wow, Jesus comes, he establishes his lordships, he adjusts the needle of what true morality is,

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and real Christians, not religious, real Christians then come alive, and the religious are gas,

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and real Christians start going hey, maybe this isn't good, maybe there's a higher level we can go

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to, and they're the ones who start pushing this, and great Britain is the first to abolish it,

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then the United States, and most people don't know that right now, right now, today,

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is today April 12th, April 12th, 2026, there are more slaves right now today than any other point in

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human history, over 50 million around the world, where in nations that haven't been touched by the

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breath of God, by the precious Holy Spirit of Jesus, so revival is fundamental, it's instrumental,

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not just the shaping of a nation, which is pretty important I think, but to the trajectory of that,

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do you think it's just by accident we ended up, the greatest nation, and when I say the greatest,

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yeah, there's some patriotic pride, I'm an immigrant, but I just mean by every metric right now,

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we're number one, and look, and maybe you're pumped up by the media, and it's incredible to me,

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that now you have people living in America, all they have to do is say, all they want to do is talk

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negative things about America, and you're saying there's plenty of things we need to fix, plenty,

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but to anybody who that's all they want to talk about, I would love to launch you into another

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nation, spend six months there, I would take you, would love, make sure you get this,

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but put you in a giant slingshot, like in a loony tomb's cartoon, and go to my nation,

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go to former Yugoslavia, live there for six months, go work your tail off for 350 euro a month,

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and you'll be like, you come back with a little flag, an uncle Sam hat of God bless America,

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people are so fat and so spoiled here, and they go, I don't like we're doing this,

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I still like that, this is the most gospel saturated country, go to another, go to my

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form and say, I'm a Christian, I believe the Bible, and the look at you, like you have three heads,

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hallelujah, let me read to you an account from the second grade awakening, which was in the early 1800s,

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and here's what America looked like before these great awakenings, there were churches everywhere,

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but there were religious churches, see without a fresh fire, without a fresh outpouring,

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religion always comes in, and remember religion is a form without the power,

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there were dead churches, so God raised up revivalists to bring a breath of fresh air from heaven

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into these churches, so then that's not just nice quiet little churches, but we're actual

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transformation happens, a young man who attended the famous 20,000 person revival at Cane Ridge,

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Kentucky, look that out, the Cane Ridge revival, in 1802 captures the spirit of these camp meetings,

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James Finley, a Methodist circuit writer speaks of the revival, he wrote down his observations,

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he said the noise was like the roar of Niagara, Niagara falls, as he's approaching the

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meeting it sounds like the roar of Niagara, probably very different than his Sunday church experience,

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the vast sea of human beings seemed to be agitated as if by a storm, I counted seven ministers

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all preaching at one time, some on tree stumps, others in wagons and one standing on a tree,

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which had in falling lodge against another, I stepped up on a log where I could have a better view

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of the surging sea of humanity, the scene that then presented itself to my mind was indescribable,

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and one time I saw at least 500 swept down in a moment as if a thousand guns had been opened up

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upon them, can you imagine 500 people, they fall to the floor as if a thousand guns were unleashed on

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them, why do they fall? I have my masters in theology and I have an answer for you,

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it's because they couldn't stand anymore,

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that's it, have you ever put the wrong wattage light bulb in a socket, I have,

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and it pops, and so you know when you said God touched me, yeah he really he grays by you,

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because if he touched you without you having a glorified body your head would explode,

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all right he grays by you and you felt his presence and now your face is shining like a

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lighthouse for a week afterwards, but he didn't really really touch you,

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so he's describing that, God is so awesome, and he's alive and not dead, and this is your privilege,

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this is your right as a Christian to have a God encounter, no child of God should be without a

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God encounter, multiple God, you have the right, in Ephesians Paul said I pray that you would encounter

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experience the love of God which cannot be known through mere intellectual ascent,

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that's what he wrote, you have to have an experience, Moses had an experience, David had an

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experience, Elijah had an experience, Elijah had everybody God ever used had an experience,

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Paul had an experience, mine in his business, well I wasn't really mine in his business,

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but wasn't necessarily chasing, chasing to promote Christianity, I mean his business

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it was personally getting Christians and he got blasted off his donkey,

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that's an experience and now we have someone who wrote over half the New Testament,

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and even as our example Jesus had an experience coming up out of the water, he had an

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experience with the Holy Spirit, that's the service, in other words it's your birthright

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to have a God encounter, because there's people under the sun on my voice, I give you credit,

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you've made it this far, you've hung onto Jesus, yeah you've never had a real encounter with him,

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which is in that sense awesome, you really are doing it all by faith,

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but I gotta be friendly, I would not be here preaching after all these years if it was all by faith,

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passage, do you ever feel God, no, you ever have an encounter, no, well how do you do,

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what you do, you know, I'm just stick to it if this, I wouldn't, I would, I would have

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backed so you would have read about, I'd be one of those crazy, you would have read about me in

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the paper, if it wasn't for God coming to me, refreshing me, times when I wanted to quit,

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times when I was weak and he would breathe upon me, I would not have made it,

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Hallelujah, thank God for his faithfulness, thank God for his presence,

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hallelujah, and by the way when when when God comes,

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he he won't move upon a person who's full of pride,

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it's actually impossible, you have to come with humility, specifically what I mean by that is,

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you cannot care how you look, you cannot care about your reputation, your image,

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you gotta be like Zacchaeus and go climb a tree, and if everybody's making fun, you look at the

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mech, look at how his robes dangle, he looks like a little woodland creature dangling from that,

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from that branch Zacchaeus didn't care, let me read to you this this story, how many of you have

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ever heard of Charles Finney, wait please raise your hands, you've heard of Charles Finney,

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all right thank you for those seven people who know a little something about revival history

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and the history of Christianity, there would not be biblical Christianity in this country if it

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wasn't for these revival meetings, do you get that? This stuff for you forgot or you were never

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taught it in school, how do I know because I forgot it and I wasn't taught it in school,

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and I'm studying it now for the last few years, do you know how crazy it was when we started to

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push westward, we had the original 13 colonies along the eastern seaboard and we had the

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bright idea manifest destiny, it's our destiny to push all the way to the Pacific Ocean, they

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had to push through thicket, they didn't have carnivore snacks that they could take with them

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in a sealed plastic bag, yet they had to get five to six thousand calories every single day,

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these were hard men and they would push and push and then different towns started to pop up,

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but quickly they became lawless towns, nobody to establish morality, do you know how quickly

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man devolves without that, why were they lawless, why was there no morality, because the people

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who came didn't have Christianity, didn't have Jesus, and then God blew his wind and sent revival,

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if that didn't happen it could be two countries, the eastern part called the United States and

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western something that resembles more like Yemen, more Afghanistan, with 50 different clans and

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tribes all hating and fighting each other, that's the direction we were heading in until the Lord

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came and moved on his people, Charles Finney, look him up, read about him for a real good time,

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find out about George Whitfield and read some of the accounts from his ministry,

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Charles Finney, one of my favorite conversion accounts is that of Charles Finney, born in 1792,

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he was a lawyer with little knowledge of the Christian faith, one day Finney decided he needed to

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read the Bible since so much of the law was based on it, but he had never read it, the more he read,

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the more convicted he felt over his sinfulness, one day he determined within himself to get right

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with God, so he went into the woods to pray, yet every time he started to pray, he thought he

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heard someone in the woods and he would stop afraid that he might be seen praying,

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he really wanted to protect his cool lawyer image, he was an intellectual,

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eventually he realized the great pride in his heart that it should bother him if someone saw him

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praying and that broke him down before the Lord and I'm going to continue to read the amazing

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encounter he had with God, but I want you to note that first he had to die to self,

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he had to die to his pride, he had to die to his image and you will always find that that's step number

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one, you cannot try to be Instagrammable, cool and have an encounter with God, you cannot be

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thinking about how do I look, how are people perceiving me, they're not, they're too busy

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obsessing over their own selves, so be set free, get like Zacchaeus, get like the woman with the

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issue of blood, look I would rather be desperate and have a God encounter when things are pretty okay

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than have to have a God encounter when I'm you know behind the eight ball and things are going

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really bad, Jesus said fall on the rock and be broken otherwise the rock will fall on you and

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grind you to a powder, I prefer to willingly fall on the rock and get the good broken as oh Lord

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I need you, I'm yours, you got me, then me doing my own thing and then God has to get my attention

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and the giant rock falls on me, grinds me to a powder, now the prayer is different, I go oh God

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I'm sorry, oh God forgive me, I straight away and I look at my life, it's in disarray, please come

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back and help and he does and he's loving but better the first way, that was Jesus's advice at

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least, he even said better to fall on the rock and be broken than a boulder to come on you like

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your wily coyote and grind you to powder, all right so he's in the forest, he's like I don't want

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anyone to see me praying, my image, my rep and then he goes that's so proud, prideful, so that breaks

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him down but that is only the beginning of his conversion story, he went back from the forest

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to his house where God met him, there was no fire and no light in the room, nevertheless it appeared

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to me as if it were perfectly light, as I went in and shut the door after me it seemed as if I met

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the Lord Jesus Christ face to face, it did not occur to me then nor did it for some time afterward

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that it was a holy mental state, on the contrary it seemed to me that I saw him as I would see

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any other man, in other words he's saying this wasn't going on in my mind but there was a radiant light

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and I saw Jesus and I saw him like I would have seen Bob if he came in through the door, any other

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man, he said nothing but look at me in such a manner as to break me right down at his feet, how

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many of you know what he's talking about, you know what he's talking about, you're not participating

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into it but I know some of you and Jesus has come to you and did he say anything it doesn't have to,

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one look from his eye and you get everything, you get the whole message instantly crystal clear,

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I fell down at his feet and poured out my soul to him, I wept aloud like a child and made such

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confessions as I could with my choked utterance, it seemed to me that I bathed his feet with my tears

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and yet I had no distinct impression that I touched him, that I recollect, as I turned and was

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about to take a seat by the fire I received a mighty baptism of the Holy Ghost, I love that because

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you know you still live in a body, you know you get uncomfortable in prayer, you got to adjust,

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you got to move, if any probably got cold, so he's like oh let me, this is an incredible encounter

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but oh fire place let me go by the fire and as he's doing something natural the Lord says one more

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and he gets a mighty baptism and the Holy Ghost speaks in tongues for the first time, those of you

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have gotten kind of you know exactly what he's talking about, I know when I get up off the floor

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God hold over me but you gotta blow your nose and I'm going over to get a tissue and guys,

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one more, thank you Lord, now it's all over your face, you don't care, more Lord,

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thank you Lord, as I turned and was about to take a seat by the fire I received a mighty baptism

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in the Holy Ghost without any expectation of it, without ever having the thought in my mind that

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there was anything, any such thing for me, without any recollection that I had ever heard the

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thing mentioned by any person in the world, the Holy Spirit descended upon me in a manner

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that seemed to go through me, body and soul, I could feel the impression like a wave of electricity

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going through and through me, indeed it seemed to come in waves and waves of liquid love,

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what is he like, he's love and he loves you and he heals because he loves and he fixes your

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life because he loves and he will fulfill the destiny he placed upon you because he loves and he

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will fulfill his promises to you and his word because he loves Hallelujah, you know somebody might

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read this and say this sounds like a modern day charismatic, you know one of those really

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effeminate ones, always talking about love, glory, liquid, honey, cloud,

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yeah this is 200 years ago, this is a staunch attorney and how else could he describe the presence

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of the guy that goes it was like liquid love, it's exactly how I hear people describe it to me,

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that's exactly how I would describe, what's it like when you gotta touch you, it's like waves

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of like tangible love, for I could not express it, he said liquid love for I could not express it any

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other way, we hear you Charles, it seemed like the very breath of God, I can recollect distinctly

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that it seemed like a fan, like that it seemed to fan me, like immense wings and again some you know

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exactly what that's like with the presence of God, waves of liquid love and one way, another wave

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and it's like there's angels fanning their wings, you kind of catch your breath in between the waves

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braced for the next one, no words can express the wonderful love that was shed abroad in my heart,

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I wept aloud with joy and love, just notice something, he's not sitting there with his

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legs crossed on quiet, there is a manifestation and I get it manifestations make people uncomfortable

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and I get it, there are religious people who are a little weird, I get it, there's people who get

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in the flesh, there's people who get in the emotions, so you know there's people who use their

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iPhones for crime, I don't stop using my iPhone, right, there's people who use Bitcoin for crime,

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I definitely don't start stacking Bitcoin, you can find anything and find an excess and go oh that's

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not good, anything, you know some people use cars and subways for evil deeds, you need to boycott those

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things, oh you don't throw the baby out with the bath water and so I get it, there's always going

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to be excess, there's always going to be flakes, there's always going to be weirdos, but it doesn't

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mean that we don't pursue the real because there's a counterfeit, hallelujah,

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so the manifestations have been and you need to be okay with that, you look at the new testament,

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the gospel accounts, when people touched Jesus, they did not do it politely and quietly, they did

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not seeing like a British butler, oh thank you Lord, Charlie good, sir, it says they went walking

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and leaping and praising God, the woman with issue of blood fell down trembling,

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when demons left the madman of Gadara, it wasn't quiet, an entire herd of over 5,000 swine,

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fell over a cliff, when the paralytic was healed, they ripped the whole man's roof off, they're

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a manifesto, you know what by the way that's in Luke chapter 5, do you know what it says concerning

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Jesus's meetings in Luke, read Luke chapter 5 where it starts off by saying the power of the Lord

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was present to heal and Jesus has this amazing miracle ministry there and then the people who

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were there, you know what I love this, it says quote, we have seen strange things this day,

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you know what things that city light have gotten too normal and too safe and not enough people

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are leaving going we have seen strange things this day,

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YouTube is not threatening to shut us down not since COVID anyway

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and that's not good you know Jesus said we'll want to you when everyone speaks well of you

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there has to be a healthy amount of persecution and speculation

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so Lord may you may you bring more strange things hallelujah hallelujah

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we have seen strange things this day if you ever see something you don't agree with you don't

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like whatever that's great keep it to yourself and pursue God yourself that's it's as simple as

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that well I think that person is emotional in the flow okay what about you they might be they

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might not be don't worry about it if anybody gets real wacky we have leadership here we have

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enough trained leaders we'll get to them I found I've seen that in the presence of God

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things kind of sort themselves out over time you know I the way I was when God was calling me to

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ministry when I was first starting my relationship with him I was what what today I would consider

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like a flaky person I was I was 18 19 years old had no like training and God started to touch me

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so like it would be dead silent in the church service and I would start laughing hysterically

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the only one and to to pass your hall of hands credit he never rebuked me that's why sometimes

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that'll happen here and I'm like man you know usually it's done like in you know like there's a

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move away and it's going to be 5 6 7 8 but I just like God's going to store whatever out

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so why was I laughing and start because God was touching me maybe I could have laughed a little quieter

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but I'd be laughing I'd be weeping I'd go to Times Square church where I knew they didn't allow

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that stuff and so the no one thing would hit me but they had amazing worship amazing everything they

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just didn't allow that there was a big deal back in the 90s didn't allow you to like manifest

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anything you know you know who supported who got support from Times Square church to the

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two and a one million dollars a year Heidi Baker do you know who Heidi Baker she told me this story

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personally you know how she goes holy she was actually she would be manifesting and Times Square

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church called her up and said if you keep doing that we're going to cut back your support

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because she would go oh like the Lord with touch and she would just be preaching oh and they said

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you know you're you saw you look insane and we don't believe in that and if you keep doing that

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we're we have no choice but to pull back support so she would get hit with a hug and she'll go

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holy holy so to this day like 30 years later she'll go holy but that's the story of why she says

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holy because she didn't want to lose a million dollars a year

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you can't make this stuff up

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you know what I have more to read here but in in in in the early 1900s got sent another mighty move

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of God that was known as the Azusa street revival anything about that that was in 1901 1902 1903

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that was like less than 40 years 30 years after slavery was abolished 30 years

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Jim Crow in full effect racism rampant and you know who the leader of the Azusa street revival was

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a black man by the name of William Seymour I'm making a point of this specifically because you

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look at the photos where they're in a barnyard a stable and it's and it's William Seymour black

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with a sea of white faces do you know how crazy that was in 1901 1902 1903 do you know what those

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racist white people had to go through in order to submit themselves they had to die to pride in order

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to receive that is always the door there's a door called humility in other words those people

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had to be so hungry and so desperate for fresh move from God that they would be willing to put

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themselves under the authority out of someone that they were told or the lives was inferior to them

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in the 1950s you have the voice of healing revival 70s Jesus movement and in the 90s

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God did something very special and he poured out his spirit through my old pastor my current pastor

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Rodney Howard Brown other other voices but he did something really special in Toronto

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in Toronto four million people came in through those doors if I didn't go to Toronto I don't know

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if I would have ended up in full-time ministry that one week there so marked me it was such an

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outpouring of God's presence and the mark of that outpouring was intimacy with the Lord you don't

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even realize you're still enjoying music that's a result of that revival in the 90s you know it's

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speaking of time square church because I used to go there when I wasn't in college and come here

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and I remember I'd bring lost people unsafe people the songs were never too God there were always

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about God there was a song we are the circumcision who worship God in the spirit in the spirit and all

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the woman go in the spirit right like what is that like you have to be a theologian to understand

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that song I brought a friend that was female with me and I'm like what is she she's going we are

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the circumcision who worship God in the spirit there was no direct singing to God that were these

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weird songs but then this revival where God revealed his heart and his love and you're no longer

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singing about God you're singing to God that was brand new and today if you were the Hillsong

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elevation Bethel name anyone there's still reaping from the harvest they've got produced during that

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revival in the 90s and we have we have really a phenomenal opportunity because John and Carol

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are not the senior pastors of that church in Toronto where for 10 years they had meetings six days

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a week twice a day where it felt like a bubble from heaven was there where people were crawling out of

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their cars through the parking lot to get into the meetings they're going to be with us next weekend

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Friday Saturday and Sunday and they carry something when I'm with them it feels like really I'm with

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Jesus it's tangible it's palpable because the anointing is stuff good stuff and that stuff will get

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on you that stuff will change you that stuff will heal you and John is 85 years old now I don't

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know how old Carol is I'll never ask then no one says but you know what that means I mean just

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practically statistically speaking we don't got decades left with them so I always treat every

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meeting like it may be our last with them and this is a once in a century mantle that they carry

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so I want to get whatever I can get from that precious mantle it is absolutely absolutely

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scriptural there is an anointing an impartation by association if I was some swayed patched

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pipe smoking theologian but completely dead that's how you would be in about a year's time you

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then come in all alive and out fire but you put yourself under me and I'm like that you're going

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to end up being like that why because there's an impartation by association

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Elisha got a double portion of Elijah's mantle how because he followed him wherever he went

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you know what Elisha was to Elijah it says he poured water over his hands he was his water boy

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you've heard of Chaiwala this is a waterwala just being a system got to wash your hands

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and basically he was his valet but because he spent so much time with him when Elijah was caught

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up into heaven his mantle fell upon Elisha because there's an impartation by association

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you know what the bible says about Joshua it says he was full of the spirit of wisdom because

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Moses had laid his hands on him what happened impartation by association there's a bigger

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impartation by association when you're in close proximity physically to somebody you can get an

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impartation by association reading a book sure you can watching a video sure you can

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totally different than when you actually see them see the pores in their face get physically close

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they lay hands on you don't don't tell me it's the same oh yeah

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and they're going to be here with us and i want you to come hungry i want you to come expecting

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because what we got to do here and who you need to become in order to get the job done in

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New York City requires an amazing fresh move of god and for you to have a new and fresh god encounter

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hallelujah hallelujah can we just play that video do you do you have it they made this little video

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hello there all you wonderful friends in New York City we're so excited we're coming to see you

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again yeah we got a great weekend coming a city light church in april 17 18 in 19 and so we're

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expecting the Holy Spirit to show up in power and in love aren't we care we sure are we're

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expecting him to come down just it is glory his healing his love oh it's going to be a great weekend

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and don't miss it especially we want him to touch your pastors and so fire on you all

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fire on you there boy in in Jesus wonderful name and bless you all you're a wonderful church family

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you are hello there i actually never saw that part i've never watched it that far actually stopped

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70% in because they were too cute it was i was like i got to stop there too and that's how they are

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all the time that's actually how they are like i picked them up at his hotel room last time and Emily

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still reminds me of this he goes hey boy it which is by the way why i go by book because even my closest

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friends can't pronounce my name right goes hey boy what do you think the chances are that i could

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get a Starbucks you know i've picked up evangelism they're got like two years under their belt and

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they're like take me to Starbucks and this this amazing world class minister hey what do you

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think the chances are per chance perhaps maybe if it's okay with you it's so sweet so humble

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hallelujah i want you to get under his ministry i want you to have him lay hands on you i want you

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to have a different kind of week this week you can't get something new by always doing the same old

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same old you got to do something different so this week however you know how get hungry i'll be

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praying for you to get hungry to get desperate pray differently jump out of bed and just go god

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do something new you said i've never prayed like that exactly surprise god if you can

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surprise your wife surprise your roommate do something different you know what i did i shaved

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off all my hair yeah in college i went full telly savalas for boo

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don't make me get into it it was weird it wasn't scriptural i just read an ax that Paul he was doing

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some Hebrew thing he took a vow made an oath and shaved off all his hair i'm like that's how we

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got god's attention so i shaved off all my hair later i learned oh that you know i don't really

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have to do that but god responded not cuz shaving off the hair is a key it's that i did something

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ludicrous you have to be willing to do something ludicrous to get the miraculous i'll say that again

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you have to be willing to do something ludicrous to get the miraculous what was the name of that

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Syrian general naman naman filled with leprosy this is in the bible filled with leprosy

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he hears Elijah can heal you this is a bridge story for revival so this great Syrian general

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goes to find uh Elisha actually and Elisha sends his servant Gehazah he doesn't even want to see

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the general why because he's messing with him he's offending him intentionally god will always

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offend your pride to expose your heart so this is this is like the president rolling in imagine the

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president maybe some of you right now be like nah i'll send my sister to we won't get into that

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we won't get into that what happened it was so beautiful it was all good just a week ago and now

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all right you know there is no you just have to come to the decision that you know that you're

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only going to find Jesus in Jesus amen that's it you know so he sends his servant

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and the the general's offended but he's like all right i still want to get healed

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and Elijah says tell him to get healed he's got a dip in the Jordan river seven times now

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the Jordan river is not a pretty river it's a muddy river that overflows it's not it's not pretty

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and this general's like he wants me to dip in that filthy river what about Damascus what about

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back home in Syria there's these crystal clear rivers i could dip in that what was he doing

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offending his pride to expose his heart so he the general filled with leprosy was about to say forget

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this but one of his assistants said hey hey if you if you would have asked you a difficult thing

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you would have done it here's really asking you an easy thing can't you just do this so he does

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it and he dips down one time he was told to dip seven times full of leprosy not even a hint that

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anything was going to be different and the seventh time he went up it says that the leprosy was

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all god and he had baby skin this is how the Lord works with us he will ask you to do something

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preposterous ludicrous in order for you to get the miraculous he will expose your pride or

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offend your pride to get to your heart worship team come on up i want to sing a song together i

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want you just to lift your hands right now don't forget we have to vote we got to get out there

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and rock the vote but that's in about a few minutes we're not rushing this this is important

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thank you Jesus thank you lord rama ke la la vata sa pala rama darar esh da supporta canana

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manta darara hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah say this lord jesus

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help me to be desperate make me even more hungry

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help me to surrender i want say this with your whole heart i want to see your face

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i want a fresh anointing i want a fresh encounter thank you jesus

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