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Hey man how are the saints doing this morning
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What
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you know I’ve made it my point
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to uh say that in the church all the time because sometimes we forget what the Lord says about us
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So
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you see you hear me say it a lot when I’m up on the when we’re singing But uh I’m grateful to be here amongst the saints And
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uh let’s let’s power head
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Lord We thank you for this day Father We
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thank you for all that You do father We thank you for your word Lord We thank
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you for the many
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people the saints your sons and daughters here Father I thank you that uh you love us and uh Lord you’re always with us and you want us to do amazing things
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through your son and Lord we thank you for the opportunities you give us father And I thank you for this church Life springs that brings forth life in Jesus name
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Amen
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So how’s everybody doing this morning
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Ok Awesome Well my name is Pastor Mike Um my name is uh pastor Mike I’m one of the
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pastors here at Life Springs Christian Church and I
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really love that we get opportunities from time to time to preach And it’s a it’s a it’s a it’s a joy for me to be able to do this And I was talking back in the back with um Pastor
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Dave about
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how a lot of times I feel I feel a kind of a call We all have a call right You guys feel a call when you got saved
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And I really feel
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lately the Lord’s really been just stressing with me about some things and uh really talking to me about some things and one of the things that I I feel like my part of this church is I wanna be if you guys ever seen me I always sit in the back over here right behind the front row God has always kind of told me I’m here to help I’m here to be uh somebody who’s behind the pastor to supporting him and uh and always um being there for him
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And uh I really feel like in this season of my life that Lord is really talking to me about some of the things that he’s had me do and how can I help the church in going out and doing some of the things that maybe I’ve I’ve gotten to or I’ve witnessed or the things that I’ve been doing And I really think that this church is a training ground
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and that’s really what the church we come for Great
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songs sometimes
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and music and then that’s great I love that but we also come here to get equipped And this one thing about the church that I really love about life Spring has always been a place where you can come and you can learn and to take whatever you’ve got in here
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Whats been deposited from the many men and women who’ve come through the church
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and to be a blessing out into the world Amen
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So it’s kind of where my message is gonna kind of start from and uh let me just gonna get into it
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So I’ve been enjoying our Bible studies that we’ve been having at my house
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I have to admit that they’ve been a little different than I have been
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a part of
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Usually someone would lead this lead the study and show us what they share
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about a verse or a chapter or we
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would use a uh some kind of workbook and follow it
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But how many of you know that
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Pastor Bill comes to our to our Bible study I really like that
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So what pastor Bill has been doing is is having someone read a verse of verses and then we as a group discuss what
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we all see
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or what relatable experiences we may have all had
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and the things that we’re talking about
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and we’re not afraid to go down rabbit trails
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That’s something you you if you come don’t be afraid to go down that Ok Now if you’re super structured like I used to be and I’m working on it on how to have Bible study This method may be a
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challenge to you
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But I really found it enjoyable I’ve actually found it life giving
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It’s really really cool guys
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But in my studies of the eastern cultures and rabbinical teaching this is something that was always done Students would uh come together uh with their rabbis and they would discuss what was said in the word
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and they’d come together and they would all talk about what maybe this word or maybe that word and and I really believe that when that that Bible from the verse from Matthew 18 says
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for where there are two or three gathered among
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us together in my name I am there in the midst of you
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It’s really kind of cool when I when we sit and we talk and we’re discussing some of these things I really feel the Lord’s heart on that as we’re discussing with each other And that’s really been a blessing for me
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My message for today was inspired by our discussions about the woman at the
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well that Jesus meets in the gospel of John chapter four but we’re still in John we’re still in the
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book of John We’ve been in four we just moved recently to five So it’s a verse line by line It’s really really cool guys if you haven’t Uh there’s room in my house you guys can con continue to come or if you haven’t come please come Plus my wife does pretty
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good desserts for
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y’all
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So many of you already know about this story and as are the rabbits trails and our dialogue amongst each other have been going on I want to talk about what
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I see in scripture that takes place that alters a person’s life that brings about a significant action or change In other words a catalyst
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How many of you know that everyone in here is a catalyst
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I’m gonna I’m gonna break that down here in a little bit But the Bible says that we are light
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and we are salt So that means something that means you’re something and you’re you’re you’re doing something you’re making something that be because
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of you
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being wherever you know salt is a change agent you know that you can put salt on ice and it will break it down
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That’s pretty pretty amazing So when the Lord calls us the salt and the light we are made to make an impact wherever we go we’re we are uh uh we
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bring light to situations and
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God can use us very very powerfully And so we are in here I’m gonna talk a little bit about what it what it is a catalyst
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a catalyst is an agent that provokes or speeds significant
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change or action
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Now there can be other ones you know you’re adding certain
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chemicals and things like that will break down stuff But maybe you maybe we’re the chemicals maybe we’re the things that need to be added to speed something up
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An agent is one who is authorized to act for or in the place of another such
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as a representative uh emissary or official of a government
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So what if God is trying to use us
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We you know you know we’re in a kingdom right The Kingdom of God is here It’s not some day down the road is actually here and we are ambassadors of that kingdom So where everywhere we go we’re taking the kingdom with us It’s not a light thing that we walk around and or the responsibility that God gives us And so when God placed that on when
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we got those of you of us have been saved
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It was just yeah I mean I I talk about this a lot Sometimes we weren’t just made to sit around
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and wait around for uh Jesus to come back We were called to go do something right And um so I’m gonna kind of break into that I where where I see the Bible how it talks about it
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So I’m gonna discuss several encounters that people in the Bible have with God including the one I mentioned in my introduction I believe that before any encounter with God there was a small
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nudge that was present in a believer’s life Have you guys ever thought about before you got saved
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You ever sit and think about it
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I know a lot of times in my life I had a nudging
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you know I didn’t know the Lord I mean I grew up in church um a as a small child and at some point you know I stopped going but
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there was always something in my heart that I believe God wanted me to do and
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and you know quite frankly I wasn’t
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ready for that or I wasn’t even thinking about it because I was gonna live my life I was gonna do what I wanted to do But there had always been a nudging before I had that that that encounter with him And and
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many of y’all know I’ve told my uh
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testimony here a lot and if not I’ll do it some other time again But I had a very powerful um encounter with the Lord It
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got me out of where I was at and to become who I am today and I’ll never forget it And one day I’ll share that again But
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in the account of Moses’s life we read about how Moses was confronted with the situation that
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he witnessed and how he handled it
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So I’m gonna
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talk about in the Bible verse I’m gonna read this Bible verse and I’m gonna give you the first
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component that I believe of the catalyst and it’s called compassion OK
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So on one day this is out of Exodus 2 11 is from the amplified Bible One day after Moses had grown into adulthood it happened to be when he went to his countrymen and he looked with compassion at their hard labors and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew one of his countrymen
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He turned and looked around and seen no one He killed the Egyptian
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and he hit him in the sand
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Boy talking about compassion killing somebody here
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Quite a quite a big
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thing Now I know that the act of killing someone was not a good thing I’m not trying to downplay that but something in our path to encounter God may have done We may have done things guys that
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uh we’re not proud of
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Some of us have come out of some crazy
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things I know I have But along your way in your encounter God may pull you out of some things like that because there’s a stirring in your heart And then when you come out of that just like Moses when he had this encounter there was a compassion for his people for and notice how I said for for his people
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Something that he did Maybe he didn’t do it without I mean we know that he didn’t maybe he didn’t think about it Maybe it was all emotion and what he did he didn’t have God with him in a sense So he hadn’t really met him like he’s going to meet him But there was something
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stirring in his heart that was going on Something was always
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stirring in my heart and I’m sure it was stirring in your heart before you got saved
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So God may um God likes to take something like we were reading listening tonight today You wanna go just a couple of songs the couple of things that maybe the things you’ve come out of There’s amazing turnaround
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stories that are in store for that for in store for people who haven’t met him And for those of you who have met him and those of you who have who God has brought brought out you guys got some amazing stories and let me tell you your testimonies are very powerful The things that God has pulled you out
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when when you’re going through them they don’t seem great they don’t seem nothing to write home about But it’s a story that
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after he pulls you out it could be something for someone
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So I’m not saying that’s why you go through it But
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what an amazing testimony you have
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to share with someone after all the things that God has brought you out of It’s it’s it’s an amazing thing
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One of the catalysts upon the uh upcoming encounter with Moses is you’re gonna have compassion
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for his people I said that a lot
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And it’s amazing when when
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Moses
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was uh
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when when that happened you know he was raised as a
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as somebody in power right And he saw that what happened he saw what was going on to to his people to his countrymen and to and he took action on that and maybe it wasn’t the right thing like I said but he was still on his path with
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God right
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How many of us can honestly say that we generally have a strong compassion for God’s
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people And I’m not talking about the church
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OK
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I’m talking about the entire world
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I think about that a
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lot Do I really have the compassion Do I really have a love for God’s people like I see in the Bible and and and stirring something in
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me right
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It reminds me um
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it reminds me of a conversation that is floating around the internet of several known evangelists of a certain period that were talking amongst themselves as to why one of them was having the impact of many many people
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showing up into his meetings
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He took them into a balcony in the city that they came together and he asked them to look over this particular city
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that they were all in and he asked them to describe what he saw
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One says something like this I see people going from here to there businessmen going to meetings and such another one described what he saw and when they asked him what he
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saw he replied I see many souls who have not encountered Jesus
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You guys ever see that You can be
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honest
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I don’t see it all the time but I’m just trying to have guy kind of
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work with me I’m on lens that I see people I’m always see people like that Sometimes I see him for all the stuff that they do or the things they say or the things that you know the rises the flesh up But i it’s been very
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eye opening to me how God is trying to change our lands is to see those people who are people that don’t know Him
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And that changes it all Because when you when you’re talking with people or you have these
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maybe you have that person who rubs you wrong a little bit right If you looked at him through that eyes what through the eyes of that what would you do
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It will suddenly change a lot about how you feel about that person I guarantee you that
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act 7 24 to 25 from the amplified it says and when he saw one of them being treated unfairly he defended the oppressed man and avenged him by striking
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and killing the Egyptian
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He expected his countrymen to understand that God was granting
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them freedom through Him
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assuming they would accept Him But they didn’t understand
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the next
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And I’m gonna touch on this a little bit The next point I
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believe for the things for a
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catalyst that is a catalyst is purpose
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purpose The first one I remember was compassion Second one is
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purpose
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This was interesting to me as I read this account of me Moses I get a sense that somewhere deep inside there was a stirring that was going on with
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him
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just like many of you today Now we know that he doesn’t know God like he’s about to
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and think about it
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He has given up his path to the throne because in Egyptian royal how Egyptian royal success succession went it was not through the male line I mean we see this in the
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movies right You know the pharaohs up there and he’s gonna you know the and I this is funny because every time the uh that movie comes on I’m I’m gonna watch it with Moses right The 10 Commandments I’m gonna watch that movie
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It’s kind of funny We kind of picked that movie for it with my daughter It’s pretty fun But
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uh yeah how succession went through there guys is through it was actually through the female uh line in my studies The historical oddity derives from the Egyptian mythology in which Isis the sister of Cyrus marries her brother and from them descends the royal line The pharaohs continued this incestuous excuse me incestuous incestuous
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practice of the crown prince marrying the pharaoh’s first born daughter and the princess claimed a legit legitimacy
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as the future as a future pharaoh
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In other words why would a man willingly lay down a life of luxury a life of worldly power
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Why would somebody do that There’s it’s kind of amazing Right He’s gonna step away from all the things that he’s in in succession for because of what’s going on inside of him He’s willing to give up that position give up the power give up the prestige give up the things that most of us here would crave But he’s willing to do that
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It’s really something that’s just I keep thinking about it
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I’ll tell you why because I believe that God set before
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his mind what his purpose was for him
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I believe that somewhere in that time when he was going through that he’d already had a glimpse or maybe he’s heard the stories of how this deliverer was coming and you know could it be just like when Mary said Lord according to your word you know maybe just think of all the hand meetings that are out there thinking that they could be the person that was gonna bring Christ maybe somewhere deep in his heart God had planted something that I’m gonna be the deliverer
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What if God is putting something in your heart
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You you guys ever thought about I thought about this story that came about
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um years and years ago before I was saved you know BC
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right before Christ
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I was uh I was going out I was um
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actually I was going on a date with the with the
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girl that’s a long time for you honey So you know it’s a long long long time ago
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And uh we were we were gonna go somewhere and I didn’t really didn’t know where she wanted to go But she said hey I got some place we’re gonna go uh just come pick me up and and we’ll go and lo and behold we went to this uh church where they’re having a revival
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and you know it’s fun and funny It wasn’t like a revival like I thought about because when I went in there there was a bunch of young kids and and the young adults like myself
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and I’m thinking where is he taking me What what are we doing in here
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And so we go to this thing we go to this church and up on the stage is these big huge you guys remember strike force and uh those those big guys used to break bats and all kind of stuff You guys remember power team y’all remember that Yeah So you know it’s funny how God uses stuff that you know got because back then I was into weight lifting and I was you know I’m gonna get big and
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swoll and and I’m watching these huge
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guys up there breaking these bats breaking ice breaking these bricks doing these tremendous feats of strength And so that’s drawing
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me in right
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And I’m going man this is a cool place This is a church man My church is
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quiet You sit around and you hear a couple of words and and you know now I’m in this place where these guys are breaking bricks breaks and breaking bricks and all that crazy stuff And then after that
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guess what happens they get up individually
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and testify how God saved them
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And it was incredible these stories I were hearing these guys you know some of these navy they were navy seals the ex navy seals One guy talked about how he almost drowned
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and God pulled him out and he did some amazing things for God And I’m watching these guys going man
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These are Christians This is
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not that what I think a Christian is supposed to be quiet and sit and hang out and you know send in your pew and all this and these guys are up just
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proclaiming how awesome
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God was
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doing and something in my heart right There was pricked
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I was going this is amazing This is this real Can this be real
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And all of a sudden they did an altar call and everybody runs down to the front everybody goes down to the front of the of the altar
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and I’m sitting there and I’m going man what’s
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everybody doing Well maybe there’s something going on in there and I gotta see what’s going I gotta get close to it because some some happen all these guys are running up there So I run up there and I just sit down ok Oh I’m sitting
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with everybody What are we doing What what’s going on They’re gonna say something to us what’s
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going on and lo and behold this man comes up from behind
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and he puts his hand on my
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back and I turn around like who’s this guy
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And he starts to prophesy over me
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Lord this soul doesn’t know why he’s here
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but you’ve drawn him here today and Lord you wanna do some amazing things in his life and you wanna do I’m still kind of choked up by it and he’s prophesy and he’s saying all stuff and he’s he’s like he doesn’t even know why he even ran up here Well and then he said that I’m
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out of here because you know what this guy is reading my lunch what’s going on I don’t even wanna be here So I went out and I went into the foyer and I’m like I don’t even wanna go back in there
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but that always left something in my heart going
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something God has started right there
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was there He planted it I believe
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that night and I know prayers and all the
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guys don’t ever stop praying for your kids
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My mom
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praised for me for a lot of years
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continues to pray We
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have these money talks
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where I call her and and we have these the last thing she’s always doing is praying her over me
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So so parents keep praying for your kids Keep praying for your kids don’t don’t
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get don’t get delusion don’t get man It’s it’s not gonna happen Nothing’s gonna change Keep
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doing that because
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because you I don’t even I don’t even know how to say this
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Just keep praying for your kids God God’s gonna do something in it And I really that’s for somebody
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somebody God you’ve been praying for a while You’ve been believing for a breakthrough You’ve been believing for deliverance you’ve been believing for something for your kid And God’s gonna honor that
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prayer and you’re gonna see it change just like that happened with me
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Where am I on the page
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So we you know we all know about the burning bush encounter that happens in Exodus three It’s an amazing account
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Imagine God speaking to us face to face like he spoke to Moses That would be incredible right How many of y’all
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what would you guys do
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if God spoke to you face to face
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Because sometimes we hear that
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man if God was there I was like you know what would really would be I I really love the account of it because Moses sees God
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He knows when God’s in front of him It says that he’s so his presence is so glorious that he can’t even
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stand He can’t even look at him
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Isn’t that amazing
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But
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so the imagery there is I always I like to I’m saying that because I want y’all to keep that in mind OK
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It must have been incredible because the Bible says in Exodus 36 that Moses could not even look up And do you know that today we can through His word the Bible hear from God And when we look upon Jesus we can actually see God
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It should always be an awesome sight
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That’s something guys that II I have never had such a a powerful impact when God came to my life And um I’ve never forgot the oddness of of what I experienced I’ve never not think thought about He’s just not just a regular person or a regular thing
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God has
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If you I say this a lot
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of times people say oh when I see God I’m gonna say yeah you’re not gonna say nothing
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You’re gonna be in such an obvious glory you’re gonna be hold upon it They’re not even gonna be words to describe but it should be a reverential fear We should always have this reverential fear of the Lord A lot of people love the Lord but a lot of people don’t fear Him
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And I and I mean that in a nice in a
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nice reverential way we should always
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keep a reverential fear
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of who God is because I
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guarantee you it’ll keep
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you grounded
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Always knowing how awesome He is When you
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look upon him when you read upon His word when you see his son it should be something
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in you that goes oh my God I can’t believe you’re so amazing You’re so awesome Look at you God I can’t believe that you’re in my life that you would be in my life and you want to be a part of me and to take me out of where I came from
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man
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I’m getting a little choked up in here
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Do you know that Ok Um
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I put something here from brother Dwayne back there Brother Dwayne You gonna help me with that uh that shirt Uh I say I serve an awful God
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He’s full of awe I wanted him to make a shirt for me I’ve been talking to him about that
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one of my shirts because I I think it’d be a kind of a
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cool you know people would get my attention I’d say I have an awful I serve an awful guy and people go Oh really I’ve been saying that for
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years No wait a minute wait wait it’s not what I mean I’m full of all toward him I think it’d be a cool shirt to start a conversation
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So God gives Moses his marching orders and he tells him what he’s capable of doing and how he’s going to be used to free his people And it’s so big and amazing And immediately after God shares his plan Moses comes up with all the what
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ifs and brings up all his shortcomings Sounds like somebody right Sounds like uh sounds like me
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when God was kind of giving me his talking with me and I’m reading through the word how you know we’re gonna go out and uh you know make disciples of everyone I’m going this is are you
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crazy How’s this gonna happen I don’t I don’t see I don’t even see God I I’m
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I’m from Round Rock Texas
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I’ll never forget this When I had gone Me and pastor David gone uh David had gone over to to uh Africa and we’re in Nigeria
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and I’m up on the podium and there’s all these
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people at this church and it just hits me for a second I flew 17 hours across the across the ocean I’m from Round Rock Texas little guy out there and I’m in Africa and I’m preaching All these people are waiting to hear
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what we’re gonna say
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It’s something that’ll really choke you up guys because you you wouldn’t believe that the things that God has in store for you When when when you finally say OK let’s go God you you won’t ever you won’t ever believe if he tells you the stuff you probably faint
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But the thing about it is um not to grow weary ones don’t I mean
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Moses we learn from Moses So we know Mo Moses is a regular guy right He he has these shortcomings or he starts talking just like we do We start talking about all our shortcomings and why we shouldn’t be why it shouldn’t be why it should be somebody else
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And so in Exodus I’m just gonna read I’m gonna read the account Exodus 44 10 to 16 And then Moses said to the Lord oh my Lord I’m not eloquent neither before nor since you have spoken to your servant but I’m slow of speech and slow of tongue
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So the Lord says to him who
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has man who has man excuse me who has made man’s mouth or who makes the mute the deaf the seeing or the blind Have not I the Lord
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now therefore go and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you
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shall say
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guys If you’re ever worried about what you should say Don’t worry
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about it Try not to worry about it because you know there’s opportunities that are gonna come up God will always give you a word or give you something to to share when you think hey I don’t I don’t know what I’m gonna say God I don’t know the Bible enough
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I don’t know don’t worry about that Don’t worry about that because you know what he’s gonna give you something to
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say But he said oh my Lord please send me by the hand of whoever else you may send Basically hey somebody else This is for somebody else This is for this is for pastor Bill
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Pastor David This is so you know we can’t do that Only these guys can do that right That’s
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that’s that’s not that’s kind of what we always say So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses and he said it’s not Aaron and Levi your brother
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I know that he can speak well And look he’s also coming out to meet you and when he sees you he will be glad in his heart Now you shall speak to him and put the words in his mouth and I will be with your mouth and with his mouth and I will teach you what
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to say or what
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you shall do So he shall be your spokesman to the people and He himself shall be a
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mouth for you and you shall be to Him as God
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It’s pretty heavy right
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You know that some some instances guys uh that um
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my one of my friends has a saying that says the best gospel
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preaches the one lived
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You know sometimes guys you and me are gonna be the only Bible that people people see And
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I say this very
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very carefully
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You may be like a I don’t mean like a God small a but you could be God’s representation to somebody I don’t mean just the Bible but somebody that God can use to be um to to to introduce them to him that does that doesn’t know Him
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And I mean that very very very humbly I’m not trying to say you’re a God Please don’t please don’t I hope I don’t I’m saying this
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right I say it with great caution You shall be a representation and maybe by a kind word an act of love healing uh helping to get someone
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free and helping to destroy the works of the enemy
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You know God is using us the church using everyone
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in here
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everybody in here as a son or daughter of God You walk in tremendous power
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A lot of times we forget that it’s written in the word all the things that we can do and the things that we can that God has put in us Sometimes we forget it And I say that very very humbly You know why Because you carry a great responsibility and sometimes we forget that too but sometimes
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we don’t even think we’re worth that But the word
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definitely says that he says a lot of great things about you That’s
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why I like to say I’m gonna keep calling people the saints in here because that’s who God
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says you It doesn’t matter what you think about you says is what he thinks about You Amen
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Your purpose will keep you going no
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matter what you think about yourself
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The purpose that God has for you is gonna keep you going
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My next catalyst is love
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I stated in my opening we will be discussing about the meeting with Jesus and the woman at the Well what an incredible moment for someone Jesus who is love goes way out of his way To spend time with the woman who for most of all
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from what we can read to the Bible is is not really society doesn’t really think good of her And we talked about this and Pastor Bill was talking around the community Really Nobody wants to have anything to
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do with her If you think about it as we talked about the time that she went out to the Well it’s not really the time when all the rest of the community would be there So there’s probably something going on
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there
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But according and according to the Bible she’s not even a Jew
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and she’s not even part of the crowd
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She’s one of them
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And when I say one of them it’s the things that Pastor Bill was talking about We were always ready to put up It’s them and it’s that and it’s them and those guys and you know we went to a movie recently with my my my kids
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How many of y’all seen Jesus Revolution
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You guys haven’t seen if y’all seen y’all go try to go see it and it has to do with the the Jesus Revolution that happened in the sixties
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And uh as we’re watching the movie you know my kids were not really
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thrilled Oh dad you gonna take us to one of those Jesus movies one of those Christian movies we’re so excited
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but said oh come on it’s my day off You know we’re gonna have a good time Let’s just sit and watch it
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and somewhere half in the movie I looked over at my two teenagers and one’s gonna be a bit
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happy to be a teenager and they were just
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they were watching the screen They were like they’re in it
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and I was like oh wow You know they
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they you know I figured they’d be asleep or something
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But uh no
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they were caught up in this movie And the one thing
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and I think one of them is I think the oldest asked me said dad who who are the who are
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the uh who are the hippies today
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Because they had a representation of the hippies The people that nobody
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thought well of the people they thought they wrote off People didn’t like the
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hippies but God did an amazing thing through the hippies He started something through them A
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lot of people didn’t understand what was going on but it was amazing It was a group of people that he he
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did something very powerfully through and I don’t think the church was ready for it at that point
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but we need to be ready for it because I said well think of all the names You can think out there all the ways how we’re divided all the things that you wanna call it you know L GB all this other stuff Those are all
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those things that are out
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there that we have sometimes
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made that distinction and we forget
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that it’s God’s people
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and he wants to do something to them like he did
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through the hippies in the sixties And so today we have to be a little bit
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more open to what God wants to do because he can affect them just like he did with the hippies I mean this is a hippie right here There’s a hippie right there Chuck these guys can look at these amazing men of God that brought them through these times I see that and it’s
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it’s it’s it’s encouraging to me because I know he did it once he can do it again And so
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that has a lot to do
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with love
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So after this encounter um OK
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we see that Jesus also at the well he makes an intentional stop And as we talked about this uh
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Pastor Bills brought it up if you guys been watching if you wanna go back kind of to the services we talked about he talks about how Jesus had was going somewhere else and actually went there to meet her
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and it wasn’t a very intentional thing
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So you know what everything everything I see in the Bible there’s there’s there’s
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stuff that you see that stands out
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it was not like off the path where he would normally be going but he went there and he met her because you know what love does things intentionally
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love will do things intentional And so intentionally he went to meet her because there was something in her that he wanted to be there to for her to have that encounter with him Right
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So after this encounter with Jesus we see that it’s made such an impact in her life that she goes back to the city
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a city that despised her a city that didn’t want anything to do with her a city that didn’t understand her and all she wants to do for everyone is
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to come see the man who told me everything I ever did
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man love will make you do some things that don’t seem popular Love will make you be able
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to go step into some place where nobody wants you Nobody has anything
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to do with you But love
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will make you do some crazy things It’ll make you be able to be
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a a mouthpiece
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to the people that maybe don’t want to know anything about you But the word the message that you have or the person you’re talking about you’re so convinced they need that that you’re willing to put down
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your pride you’re willing to put down your your hang ups your shame to be able to tell
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people how amazing God is And I see that here man love will make you do anything
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love shut upon her made her want to share love with a place that did not want anything to do with her
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We also see love our Jesus crossing a treacherous sea with his disciples and the gospel of Mark
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chapter four You guys know the story when he rebukes the wind he says be quiet be still You guys know that you’ve probably seen that story you heard about it Well I
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believe that
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Jesus in that time because we’re gonna go into the next chapter He
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hears somebody
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he hears somebody crying out
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and we see that you know there’s lessons that he’s teaching the apostles along the way when going through the uh the sea and all the winds and all that We see that
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account But I believe that he heard someone
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he heard someone crying out OK And this is in Mark five
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um chapters 126 I’m gonna read
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it and then he came to the other side of the sea to the country of the the gardens Am I saying that Right And when he had come out of the boat immediately
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there he met out of the tombs of a man with an unclean spirit
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who had his dwelling among the tombs and no one could bind him not even the chain because he had been bound with shackles and chains and the chains had been pulled apart by him and the shackles broken in pieces Neither could anyone tame
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him and always
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day and night he
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was in the mountains and in the tombs crying out
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and cutting himself with stones
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You imagine this is day and night How would you like to be that person Many of you probably been there day and night crying out
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Can somebody save me Can somebody really rescue me
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You ever thought about this See because I’m I’m gonna I’m gonna tell you how I how I used to read this thing in the past I read this passage It was a how to perspective How do you cast demons out and so
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on That’s how I used to read this thing
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That’s how I read it
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The Bible does tell us that we will be able to do this and and that is given But what I see is how love focused on the
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one who is crying out day and night
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That story means a little different to me now Yeah I used it You know this is how you cast out demons and this is what you tell them They’re gonna bow before you and they gonna but you know what I saw Jesus willing to cross treacherous waters to come meet the one person who is crying day and night
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because he couldn’t get any relief and all he could do crying out to somebody He didn’t even know who God was but somebody hurt
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him somebody who loved him somebody who is willing to to cross a great sea
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and come meet him to set him free
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man
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How do you guys think about it You guys ever thought of that Because I see that now and I’m like Wow
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this is the God we serve This is the God who loves us This is what
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he’s willing to do
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for somebody who’s just
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crying out Somebody who needs some relief He came to them
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I’m sorry
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Also see how Jesus love didn’t care that he wrecked a lot of people’s livelihoods by the drowned pigs You guys remember how all the pigs and you know when he cast out the demons they went in the pigs and went in and drowned and stuff You
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know that
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was somebody’s livelihood That’s why they didn’t want Jesus around there You can read a little bit about later but he
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didn’t care about that
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I believe that
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he was he wanted to set this person free that
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that didn’t even matter some livelihoods You know so what you don’t can’t sell pigs no more which is kind of crazy in the Bible You find out where that place is at
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but Jesus didn’t care about all that All he cared about is to come to set that one person
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free
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for a soul that had been begging him
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And then we see later on in verse 19 that um after Jesus Jesus frees and this is what the man says He basically wants to basically
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go he wants to leave with Jesus
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He’s like man this is this man just set me free He wants to leave with Jesus He wants to go back with him and it had been so
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cool if Jesus said yeah Come on let’s go I got I got room in the boat Come on
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But
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Jesus does something kind of cool He tells them
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go home to your own people and tell them how much the Lord has done for you and how he
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has had mercy on you
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That’s amazing
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You know I’ve been like I said it
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had been really easy for the guy to jump in the boat but Jesus sends him
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back to where he came from
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right
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And so when he leaves him in he leaves them in a city called the or a region called the the Now guys this is this is a place you you read a lot of scholars This is like uh uh a region that had about 10 cities in it and it was like Vegas on
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steroids
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You would think Jesus just saved this guy pulled him out he kicking him back into that
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Isn’t that kind of weird You guys ever thought about that You would think Oh no let’s take him and I’m gonna keep him for like six months and train him and and then I’m gonna put him back in a place over
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there you know so debauche
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running around everywhere now right then and there he says go home and do that go back to your go back to that cesspool I just pulled you out But it’s amazing
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because you know what I see I believe God saw something in him I’m gonna use this person
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to go back into the place that was not a good place to be and to go make an impact Amen
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That’s crazy
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Uh Anyway
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next one I have is called duty
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do duty OK Dude
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is a catalyst that means in the obligatory task conduct or service or function that arises from one’s position as in
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life or in a group
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No
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these are these are things like I said as I’m talking about
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these characteristics of a of a catalyst I see that in the life of King David
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guys I mean you know the story of King David and and uh if you haven’t read the stories go back and read how God does amazing things to David
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David He’s so David is um God loves him and he does a lot of amazing stuff for for David and David has his heart for the Lord and wants to do something for him How many of you guys just wanna do something for God
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You you know
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you’re so thankful for what God has done in your life
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You you just it’s just falling up inside it It’s like
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something I gotta go do something for him And uh
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you know David is a man I see that had that
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in him that all the stuff that God had taken him out of and all the stuff that he had to go through and and you know God’s uh makes him you know a king and but
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he still has this this amazing love for God and I
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gotta do
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something for him And we see this that because
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after that he he starts thinking about all the stuff they thinking about all the stuff
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that God had had did for him And he wants to do something He wants to
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build him a temple And I’m just gonna read this in Second Samuel seven And when King David lived in the house or the palace and the Lord had given him rest from all his surrounding enemies The king said to Nathan his prophet see now I dwell in the house of cedar but the arc of the God lives within the tent curtains And Nathan
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said to the king go do
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what uh is in your heart for the Lord is with you
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Now we know later on that uh
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Nathan comes back and tells them you know you’re not gonna be able to do that right Because because you’re a man of war and all that stuff if you guys go back and read your Bible on that but that didn’t stop
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him That didn’t stop him from wanting to do something
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amazing for God
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even though God you know his first prophet said yeah go go do all this when they told him you’re not gonna be the one who builds the temple He still wanted to do something his that that drive his duty for I believe
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for wanting to do something for the Lord had him go ahead
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and start to collect everything that was gonna be needed to make the
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temple
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So God tells me he’s not gonna be able to do that but his son would be the one who would see it come to pass He felt so strongly that it didn’t stop him from building the temple and that the house for the house of the presence of the Lord If he couldn’t build it he would provide
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everything that he was going to be needed for building the temple
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No guys II I put this in here because
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it’s I I feel like duty is something that will keep you drive driving you
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And the reason why I’m saying that because
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we’ve I’ve had some different uh accounts in here
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where God does
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something very immediate or the people go do something very immediate for God But sometimes
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you don’t get to see those things right away
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Sometimes sometimes after your encounters with God uh you won’t
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see the the blessing right then and there you won’t see the the fruits of the of the labor or the things that you’re putting in you’re not gonna see them all the time
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But the thing is
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those four
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components I believe are gonna keep you going especially I I like I said duty has been the one that really was stepping out to me when I was reading this one
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And I recently heard a story about John Quincy Adams I saw this
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somebody’s website I can’t remember what it was but it was in I went
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back and you guys know about wall builders
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Wall builders is uh um um uh website that has
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shares a lot about our founding fathers And a lot of people say that you
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know the
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uh the the founding fathers weren’t Christian or there wasn’t all these beliefs in God and all you know that’s not true
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Plenty of plenty of uh uh manuscripts and things in there that uh aren’t really taught in schools and things like that But
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we are a Christian nation right And there’s a lot of history And so with that
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um
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there was a story in there that I read and uh it was about John Quincy Adam who was our sixth president of the United States
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and he felt that it was his duty to end slavery
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He had already served as president but now he was wanted to run for Congress to put it to an end
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He gets elected and
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he has to go against the world because you know what back then guys uh you know he’s already been served as president but then he wants to end slavery
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slavery But the Congress is so pro slavery that it’s really tough for him right
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And so he goes in week in week after week month after month year after year with no results to speak of Some would say that this was crazy but he just keeps running into walls
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and he just keeps
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doing it He just keeps going He wants
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to do it’s such a duty for him
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and he wants to see this ended
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and no matter what walls no matter what everything is coming nobody’s listening Everybody’s telling him to be quiet He’s gonna keep doing it right
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So he figured that
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uh to get big things done it may take some time
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So whenever God has put something so big in your heart
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you know what time is not a bad thing
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And you can’t you can’t get worried or you can’t get grow despair if you’re not seeing
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it right away because this guy did
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it over and
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over and over But he was he was a catalyst He was a catalyst for what’s about to happen Ok
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So Congress was telling him that he couldn’t he couldn’t he if he wanted to come in because he’d come into the house or he’d come into the chambers and he’d be that’s all he wanted to talk about in the slavery And they kept telling him you know what John Quincy you can you can talk about anything you want to but stop talking about that
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And he was the reason why they put a gag order
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I don’t know if you guys know that it happened because of him That’s all he
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wanna do is talk about that and they finally had to tell
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him you know what You can’t talk about that no more
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You can talk about anything else but don’t talk about that
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It’s kind of pretty
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interesting
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In fact sometimes the world is trying to tell us You can’t talk about this you can’t talk about that You can’t talk about God you can’t talk about Jesus
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You can talk about anything you want
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You can you can even say God but don’t use Jesus
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continuing things that the church is keeps running into In fact Congress passed a John Quincy Adam gag order And he does this for 13
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years 13 years guys
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13 years imagine that just keep running in the wall keep running in the opposition
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A reporter comes and talks to him and says why are you doing this You’re getting nowhere You’re wasting everyone’s time including Congress And he tells them his duty as ours
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Results are Gods
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That’s powerful man
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That’s powerful duty is ours Results are God’s
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so four more years go by And so we got 17 years total and he has a stroke on the floor of Congress and one and and one of his two terms that he served he pours into a first year member of Congress They become good friends and he serves as a mentor to this new member
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He pours into this gentleman And at Adam’s funeral he he was one of the pallbearers the young congressman goes home and does not get reelected He runs for another office loses and loses and loses and
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finally wins an election
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15 years later
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Abraham Lincoln becomes president of the United States and implements everything that John Quincy Adams has pushed for 17 years
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and plus those other 15
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man
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that’s powerful
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You imagine
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And and I
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say this as
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I was saying earlier don’t give up praying don’t give up believing You might not see
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it right away But you know what You may be planting seeds for the next generation to take that thing that God has put in your heart You know
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you know today I thought this was important My wife got me this bracelet What’s got my three daughters and names on it
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And it’s really important that we try to pour in to them The things that the Lord is showing us because I want them to go further than than than God has ever take taken me
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because whatever
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God’s put in my heart I wanna I wanna try to do my best job We’re
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trying to do our best job to instill them with the things of God and what he’s put in our hearts to do while we’re here And so
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if I don’t get to see some of the things
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I’m believing that they will
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And I don’t care if it’s gonna take a long time I just wanna make sure I’m planting the seeds and then I keep going and doing what I’m supposed to be doing Me and my wife just keep plugging away
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and we may not see it right away But I know I’m believing that they’re gonna take it to the next
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level
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So your may not feel like it’s not making an impact
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but rest assured duty will cause you to plant seeds that someone can come up and along in water We have no idea what the next
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generation being raised up is gonna do We don’t I love this church man We pour a lot into those kids We got some great teachers pouring a lot of good stuff into them teaching them about God
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Yes it’s it’s we we need to start at the home and do it there But it’s good to know that I have people like the pastors that are here that are pouring into our kids and teaching them about the things of God
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So as I’m closing my message many of you are here today may have been stirred from what I shared Some of you may be inspired Some of you may feel challenged
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Some of you may feel like you’re doing you’re not doing enough and
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that’s not what I’m here to say That’s not what I’m telling you guys I’m not here to say hey you’re not doing enough I’m just sitting here trying to spur us on and what do we need What can help us
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to do the things that God’s called us to do what character is character uh uh traits and things that God’s put in us to help us spread the word And to be an impact here on the earth to bring his kingdom and to have people meet Jesus like we’ve met him
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So I get asked from time to time what keeps me going What pushes me to do the things that I do to reach
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the world
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And really guys it’s because I encountered Jesus
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and I have compassion
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for his people
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I feel like God’s given me a purpose
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and I’m learning to try to love like him
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That’s something that we’re all working on And I feel like it’s my duty to spread the kingdom Amen
