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The savior and redeemer And unless you quicken your word to us Lord God

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we’ll go away hungry

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So I just pray Lord God that you would let the light of

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your spirit and of your presence

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just be upon us so completely

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that we would see Jesus

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and whose mighty name we pray

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Amen

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And it partly was because of um

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Jamie’s text that I realized

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there there really is something to talk about

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with this

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great reset

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in the new world order

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And so

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the message today is continuing on that establishing the new world order That’s what we’re going to talk about today And I want to begin by saying that a lot of people have incredible powerful profound faith

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in the power of the devil

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in the power of sin

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in the power of evil

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You know talk with me yesterday about in companies and they talk about uh be you have to believe you know you have to believe in the mission you have to believe that you can accomplish you know what you’re setting out to accomplish Where is our faith what do we believe And so many so called believers have incredible faith In the power of sin and evil in tyranny and oppression

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and until we repent

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we’re giving our faith to that Does that make sense

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And I want to begin by saying that God is so funny to me

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He really is funny because he says I know what you guys are going to face in the future I know what’s going to happen in the world

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And so I’m going to wait for the perfect time to bring forth Jesus Christ and to birth my church

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What I can’t remember who it was but it was on the Leonard Raven Hill sermon that I really liked And he pointed out that the church was birthed under the greatest totalitarian empire that the world had ever seen

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Also facing the the the incredible arrogance of Greek and Greek Greek philosophy

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and added to that

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there was the religious monopoly that the Jews thought they had on God

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God decided to birth the church in the most impossible circumstances

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And then we hear a testimony these men have turned the whole world upside down

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In the end the church of Jesus Christ prevailed against the greatest

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problems that this world could ever face

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And so when I kept hearing people talk about the great reset you know the the kings of this earth the people who are powerful they’re you know and and there’s legitimacy to a lot of things I’ve seen actual videos um throughout the ages you know where one gentleman talks about you know in the future we should have panels where you have to go before the panel and explain why your life is worth keeping alive What are you contributing to society

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This stuff is is real There are there are people who really do believe that human beings are the greatest parasite on planet earth And the best thing we can do for planet earth is to wipe them out I’m not saying these things don’t exist

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What I’m saying is almost no king of the earth today has anything on

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the Roman

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emperors

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Very few of them have the the Pax Romana the piece at the end of the sword

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that the Roman Empire had and to give us perspective the early church was not afraid they were not ashamed They actually believed that they had the ability and the power granted by God as his ambassadors to go and turn the whole thing

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around

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It’s exciting isn’t it

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So that’s some perspective

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But before Christmas we started this series and what the series is really about is the new covenant

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And I and as I was thinking about this and really had to do with conversations with people And I realized the light goes off in pe in people where they get a revelation And it’s usually not from like one message or one time reading the word of God or reading one book It’s usually a series of things that are all saying the same thing again and again from different angles that causes the light bulb to go off Does that make sense

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Like I remember when we first started

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preaching in in you know so you start having theories I mean that’s just the way ministers work right And well

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if we taught about that then we don’t need to teach

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about it again because people will get it

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We already taught about that and but it discovered you have to teach about the same thing over and over and over and over again because it’s

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a process

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And so we’re gonna take some time to keep

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looking at the new covenant

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from different angles and different perspectives but repeating a lot of the same things

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because I

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believe that the new covenant

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is powerful

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enough to deal with everything facing the world today because the new covenant

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as we just celebrated in communion

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was from the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ

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So really what I’m saying is that there is power in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ

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to change everything

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And so we kind of made this claim that the great reset the greatest reset that this world has ever seen

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is actually the new covenant

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What do you mean the great reset Well what happened was we were planted as human beings in the garden of paradise and we fell from there from our own sin So the great reset is God at work redeeming us and restoring us and reconciling us How can there be any greater reset than that Right There’s your great reset

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And then when I say to the new world order because these are the words that people are all terrified about or there there’s all kinds

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of things that people are terrified about

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Men’s hearts will fail them because of fear fear But the new world order really is He has made all things new with his blood

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He has literally cleansed the heavens and the earth with his precious blood He has torn down the wall of separation All things have been made new It is a new world that has been inaugurated through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ

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It’s actually a great reset back to the rule and reign of God

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It’s all the same idea coming from different angles

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the gospel of the Kingdom of God learning about the new covenant and the

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substance of it

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So this series is actually ultimately about faith

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as I pointed out at the beginning So many people have so much faith in the power of sin and the devil and evil In other words they are hopeless and discouraged And it’s time that we break that spirit of discouragement in the people of God because there’s no place for discouragement When you see behold I see the Lord high and lifted up and the train of his robe fills the temple

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or I see him at work In

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the earth I see him at work in one another There’s

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no discouragement in the presence of God It’s impossible

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It’s about faith that God will move I I I’ve been studying a lot of the early church fathers and I’ve been finding that they have this bold

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conviction that the gospel of Jesus Christ will change Nations will change lives will change everything It will take barbarians and take cannibals and change them

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whether they’re using it for proof that Jesus is alive and that He was God in the flesh or using it to confront emperors They said nobody can deny that Jesus Christ is changing lives

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because you can go and see it for yourself

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And the reason that was happening is because people actually believe that that’s what the Gospel does Isn’t that exciting They have this bold faith or expectation because there’s something about the new covenant or God’s working in the earth that it’s not about our holiness It’s not about how good we are and whether we shave our heads like monks and wear brown robes It’s about faith in Jesus Christ Be it done according to your faith

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because it’s a free gift of God

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So it’s about faith It’s about hope

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When people lose hope in their life

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it sucks the life out of them

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And when people without hope whether it’s for your future your present circumstances for your family your friends your job whatever it is it can suck the very life out of you

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But there But in the presence of God

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it’s just vibrant with hope When you’re in the spirit of God you cannot but have hope Why Because I know Him whom I believe I know he the line of the tribe of Judah has overcome I know he is good I know he is faithful I know that he loves me I know that if if he did not withhold his only son he will give us all good things

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to live without hope is to be robbed of what is ours in Christ

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But we need to reinject hope into the people of God

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Hope for the future hope for light for breakthrough missionaries Uh Could you imagine a missionary going to a pagan you know world nation civilization and saying I’m going because I’m supposed to because God you know it’s the right thing to do to be a missionary

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for Jesus Christ But I don’t think it’ll make any difference

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Well guess what That missionary will make no difference because they have no faith no hope There’s no transformative power in that

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Does that make sense

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And it’s about love

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I you you know if you kind of picked up on where I’m

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going with this faith hope and love and the greatest of these things is

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love faith and hope are mission critical elements to

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have in our life

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and to never let it go low

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but you never forget that the the most important is love the rule and reign of love God’s law defines what love is God’s character and nature

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defines what love

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is Love is stamped into the very creation itself right and wrong good and evil

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We lost the rule and reign of God’s love when we sinned

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But God has reconciled us through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ

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And if we forget that it’s ultimately about love We miss the whole point We become contrary to what God wants to

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establish

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Is this making sense

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You know ultimately yes does does the blood of Jesus Christ heal the earth Yeah Actually it’s kind of a funny thing I made we we pray before the service and we made pastor

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David here laugh

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because one of the things I said is co2 isn’t the thing destroying this

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world It’s it’s sin

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and and he just started cracking up But

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it there really is this is a rabbit trail But the Bible says that sin actually causes the very earth to become um hostile to man to humanity Sin actually pollutes the earth It cause it can cause famine and pestilence And people say oh you’re crazy Oh yeah because I actually

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share you know was talking about that one

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day and

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people who don’t read the word of God enough say that just sounds like crazy talk But I just challenge you I dare you to read the Bible cover to cover and see if sin according to God’s word has a negative effect on the earth Um It says that it can actually cause the land to spit us out

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Sin is the greatest pollutant Sin is what’s destroying the world And Jesus Christ came to deal with sin

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and to restore the rule of love and sin is primarily not

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breaking a set of rules It’s a transgression of love We need to get this people It wasn’t primarily for the earth Christ died It was for people

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The most important

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thing on planet Earth is not the ozone layer

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The most important thing on planet Earth is people

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I mean I don’t know what else to say We can never forget that that is the heart If we forget that it is about God loves people And we’re called to prove our love for God by loving people and creating a just and free society and culture

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that that’s prosperous that takes care of people because it glorifies God because people matter the most We

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we’ve lost the plot

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We’re living in a time where many people know that the the kings of this earth are lording it over one another and you are just a commodity and a human

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resource to be

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used to make somebody else rich instead of a culture that’s about taking care of people

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taking care of the

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widow and the orphan and the poor of the earth The first question that a lot of people don’t ask that they need to ask who are leaders is how will this affect the poor How will this affect the common person

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Will this hurt them or bless

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them

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Will this abuse them or will this protect them Do you see what I’m saying

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And and this is

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about the rule and reign

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of love If we ever lose sight of that then it just becomes a clanging symbol Does that make sense

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So

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as we’re as we’re looking into the new covenant I want to tackle

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it from different

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angles and I wanna challenge us by looking at scriptures and thinking about them a little bit So today I wanna look at Psalm two

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and ask some questions about it So Psalm two

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don’t you like that You

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know we’re in trouble when we just say we don’t give you a verse We just say the whole

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song

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next week We’re doing Psalm one

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19 I’ll see you the following week No kidding

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Why do the nations rage

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That sounds reasonable I can see that right The nations are raging

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and the people plot a vain thing The kings of this earth set themselves

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and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against his anointed saying let us break their bonds and pieces and cast away their cords from us

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Is that not a picture of a world that is just rejecting God

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We will not have this Jesus to rule over us we don’t want your laws We don’t want your ways We don’t want what you are selling Jesus

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I don’t want covenant of faithfulness I don’t want to be curbed in the lust of the eyes the lust of the flesh and the pride of

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life

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Right

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I don’t wanna live as a servant I wanna live I want it

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all to live to serve me

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the kings of this earth set themselves against the Lord

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Does that sound like the world we live in

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And whenever I’m looking at like when I’m focusing on that part of the Psalm you’re like oh yeah absolutely That totally makes sense You know the new world order or the great reset or you know what whatever thing that people want to go off on right

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But how many people hear that other little piece in there

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They plot a vain thing

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No no no voice is telling you that they are plotting a vain thing are they

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But when somebody is under the Holy Ghost and when they know God’s word and they know the truth they can put that whole thing into a context that says they’re plotting a vain thing And if you’re saying they’re plotting a vain thing it means you’re expecting them to fail

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miserably

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See that’s a these things that I’m sharing this morning Really If you understand it it’s a challenge to many people’s

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faith and expectation that they’re living under today Isn’t it

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to say that they’re plotting a vain thing You have no sense of reality How do you not know reality

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And and I’m just

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challenging you of the spirit that was in the church the spirit that turned the world upside down the spirit that overcomes versus the spirit

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that concedes

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right

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It actually says in verse four he who sits in heaven shall laugh the Lord shall hold him in derision Then he shall speak to them in his wrath and distress them in his deep displeasure

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And then God speaks yet I have set my king on my holy hill of Zion

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I will declare the decree the Lord has said to me you are my son today I’ve begotten you

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that that word is a song that they sang at a coronation of a king in Israel

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And David I mean he’s saying

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God has set his king on his

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throne

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ask of me

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ask of me and I will give you the nations

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as your inheritance in the ends of the earth For your possession You shall break them with a rod of iron

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You shall dash them to pieces like a potter’s vessel

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this bold faith that is declared in this passage

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Ask of me And I will give you the nation’s

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and the ends of the earth as a possession Is this even possible

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Where do you locate this scripture in history

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When do you expect this to come to pass

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Do you believe that this is possible

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Who is this

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king

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that sits down on the throne is being given

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this permission from God to ask And the nations will be given as an inheritance in the ends of the earth as a possession And you know like the traditional church answered Jesus Correct

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But we are his body

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It’s a spirit of prayer in the church people

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It’s the spirit of prayer in the church We are his body ask and you shall receive seek and you will find knock on the door will be open What does not yield to the law of prayer

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Let this sink in You don’t have because you don’t ask You don’t ask because you don’t believe that this is possible

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You ask and don’t believe

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James has a lot to say about that Doesn’t he

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don’t expect you’ll receive anything from the Lord

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That’s why the series is so important because we have to dare to believe

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and possibility and dare to believe in hope

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And until we do

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we’re not going to make the impact that we can make

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Expectation

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could be added to faith hope and love

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What do you expect or what don’t you expect

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Do you really expect that God will do what He says He will do in his word

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The proof

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isn’t how we live

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If you believe these things are true you will ask

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if you believe these things are true

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you will speak in ways that seem foolish to this world because you dare to believe that this is not just pie in the sky when you die but this is reality

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And whenever the church of Jesus Christ believe these things they turned the world upside down

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And whenever they fail to believe these things the world turns us upside down

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So what scripture says about this passage

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acts 2 32 to 36

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This Jesus God has raised up of which we are all witnesses Therefore being exalted to the right hand of God

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implying

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the throne that we just read about in Psalm two

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and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit he poured out this which you now see in here for David did not ascend into the heavens but he says himself the Lord said to my Lord sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool your foots stall Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God has made this Jesus whom you crucified both Lord and Christ

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You put these two pieces together and you get a picture in Psalm two I ask of me and I will give you the nations as an inheritance in the ends of the earth as a possession and you will break them with a rod of iron that is a passage of such hope and eager expectation

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And you add and and you see that the apostles under the anointing of the Holy Spirit they connected the resurrection and ascension of Jesus Actually the ascension of Jesus Christ this the resurrection is where they quote you are my son today I’ve begotten you wasn’t he begotten when we

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celebrated Christmas in the main you know well not technically the manger but you know what I’m saying

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You know we don’t like to talk about the virgin birth But

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actually that passage is talking

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about the resurrection because it was the

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time that he

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came to the throne

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the coronation of King Jesus as Lord and Messiah

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in the Holy Spirit that he’s poured out is the manifestation of the executive branch you could say of the Kingdom of God

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The Holy Spirit is is going and executing on the earth The rule and reign of King Jesus

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and those apostles saw it and

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understood it and understood this Holy Spirit is rolling out the kingdom

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of God on earth rolling out the rule and reign of Jesus Christ

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That’s awesome isn’t it

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And we and we’re gonna get back to that But I wanna

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make a statement here New world orders are not new in scripture

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You know just so that we understand what we’re

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talking about Second Peter

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before

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I go back to that what we’re going to get back to is this the Holy Spirit

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is

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the manifestation the power to manifest the reality of the new covenant

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We’ll get to that later

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but new world orders are not new in scripture Second Peter 33 through nine knowing this

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first that scoffers will come in the latter times I’m done with seeing last

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days

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because that word is literally latter times

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And you know when you say last days we always think of the very last day not ladder times because there are even louder times in our own life cycles Does that make sense

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But it says that scoffers will come in latter times walking according to their own lust and saying where is the promise of his coming for Since the fathers fell asleep All things continue as they have from the beginning of creation

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scoffing spirit

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All that you’re saying is just a fairy tale It’s all false It’s all fake There’s no reality It’s just it’s just like science fiction fantasy

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That’s that’s a scoffing spirit isn’t it

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to believe that these things could actually take place and change lives today

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That is sci-fi

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that’s a scoffing spirit

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or to be But this the scoffing spirit gets into churches

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Like I I was years ago I had this dream in this church where it came out of the sanctuary and the Bible study was out there

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and I said revival is coming

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And the people looked at me and said yeah we’ve heard it all before Not You know if they said if revival comes and I looked out the window to the right and I could

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see a cloud on the horizon I said not if but when revival comes

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and and I’m gonna tie this all back in the

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end

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Scoffing spirits are is this lack of expectation this lack of hope this lack of faith that anything can change that anything can be different that our lives can be different that our family’s lives can be different that our church life can be different It’s the scoffing spirit that chokes out the life it needs to be broken

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He said for this they willing will fully forget that by the word of God the heavens were of old and the earth standing out of the water and in the water by by which the world that what then existed perished

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So they’re talking about a new world order there it perished being flooded with water

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We also know that eating the forbidden fruit A new world order came

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they had lived in the order of heaven in the order of life And now they live in the order of death

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The mosaic covenant was another new world order

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This if you read the prophetic scriptures they talk about the sun will be darkened and the moon turned into blood or they talk about the constellations will fail to give light And and the this imagery is usually talking about the kings of this earth or rulers or lands or nations

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and and when those nations fall it’s like that their world ends and a new world order comes So new world orders are not new but there’s really ultimately only two expressions

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The Kingdom of God and the kingdom of

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Darkness Every new world order outside of Christ is a just an it’s it’s just a two point oh three point

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oh kingdom of darkness

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But in Jesus Christ

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there’s a new world order

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The kings of this earth like to lord it over one another over you But it shall not be so in my kingdom but he is greatest shall be least and servant of all

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There’s no greater love than this than a man shall lay down his life for his friends There’s a voice that says take up your cross and follow me This is the way of a new world order the rule and reign of love

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rather than the lust of the eyes the lust of the flesh and the pride of life

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But the mosaic covenant was an amazing new world order

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What it was primarily about was the

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birth of a nation

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that was governed by a law of liberty The rule of law

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the 10 commandments were in the arc of the presence but it was also a nation where God came to dwell

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at a limited level because of the atonement

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That’s what it was about God dwelling with man

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because of the Yom Kippur the day of atonement But it was only a shadow It never actually brought forth the great reset it

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never really transformed the whole world All the

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things in scripture

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that said would happen under the rule and reign of Messiah never happened under the old covenant The worldwide transformation or Liberation Movement never happened under the old covenant It was a people preserved like a womb to birth Messiah

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It was always a temporary measure

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Hebrews 8 13 says in that he says a new covenant he has made the first obsolete

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Now what is being what is becoming obsolete and growing old is

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ready to vanish away

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So this is an

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apostolic writer that’s writing after the Holy Spirit has been poured out at Pentecost and the Kingdom of God is being manifested And you see there’s this the Kingdom of God is inaugurated at Pentecost and the the new covenant is inaugurated but the old covenant was not yet wrapped up

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until the fall of Jerusalem

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He said it’s becoming

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obsolete and is about to pass away Isn’t that interesting

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Because this new

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covenant is a completely different covenant It’s able to make those who approach perfect

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He said if the if the old covenant

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was able

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to do that there would have been no need for a new covenant

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in understanding

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the difference between the old and new covenant is mission critical for the church of Jesus Christ in this hour That’s why I’m repeating it again Most Christianity today is nothing more than old covenant religion

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What do you mean

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Because we’ve got it all backwards The Old Testament is all about an angry wrathful God You know and about following laws written on tablets of stone And no the primary element of the Old Testament is blessed is the man whose sins are forgiven

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That God came to dwell with man because of the forgiveness of sins The forgiveness of sins is still old covenant Christian or yeah Christianity I can say that because there’s only one true religion there’s only one true God There’s an unbroken line

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It’s not a temporary measure Christianity is

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biblical religion manifested in its full form

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in its maturity or in its new covenant So I’m

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just gonna read these again really quick because we need to let this sink in What is the new covenant about For this is the Hebrews 8 10 to 11 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days says the Lord I will put my laws in their mind and write them on their heart instead of the tablets of stone I will be their God and they shall be my people none of them shall teach his neighbor and none of his brothers saying know the Lord for they shall know me

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and have relationship with me not know

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about me they shall know me from the least

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of them to the greatest of men

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And in Ezekiel 36 there’s so many scriptures that talk about this But these are the two that I’m using

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for this series I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh I will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statutes

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and you will keep my judgments and do them

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That’s what scripture tells you The new covenant is

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about

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and that’s almost sacrilegious in many circles

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I will write my law on your heart put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statutes

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It’s in other words it’s about actually loving one another They will know you are Christians by your love for one another

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you are freed and empowered to love You will walk in my statutes and decrease not the statutes and decrees tell you how to live but you can’t do it

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I will write that law put my spirit in you and cause you to love one another

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It’s about transformed lives

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Do we dare to believe that that can actually happen

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Do we take God’s word

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as his word and say thus sayeth the Lord I believe it

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until the church

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starts to see when we when we have hidden

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this truth

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from the people of God then there’s no

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expectation

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that we could actually have his law written on our hearts and actually walk in his ways

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not by our own willpower

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not by our own strength not by our own you know

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personal goodness

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But by his Holy Spirit that has been poured out to live in us I will put my spirit in you

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and it’s under So it’s one believing that this is possible And then two asking how does how do we do it

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Right

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Believing it’s possible is the first step The second step is great Now how do we do it Receive the Holy Spirit

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walk learn to walk in the spirit That’s how you do it You can’t you know I I joke like what are accountability groups They they are they’re usually failure groups

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focusing

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on your failures focusing on your sin because people don’t expect that the

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Holy Spirit will actually empower us to walk free We expect not to live free We expect to have to go back to our accountability group at least be forgiven and hold each other accountability to just maybe do it a lot less whatever the issue might be right I mean

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be filled with the

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Holy Spirit and you will walk in the spirit and you will not fulfill the loss of the flesh

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It’s not a walk in the spirit and some and you will also fulfill the lust of the flesh No if you’re tired of fulfilling the lust of the flesh the answer is walk in the spirit

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You know I joke about praying to the porcelain God Oh God I’ll never do this again I promise I’ll never do this again and people will set their will and they’ll mean it with all sincerity and they’ll mean it with everything in their heart I will never do this

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again

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And then they do it again

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I’ll never do this again And then they do it again

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Why Because you do not have power in your own flesh to keep the law of God

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You do not have the power in your own flesh to do what’s right to prevail

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receive the Holy Spirit

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What received the Holy Spirit

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What is your strategy for transforms lives Receive the Holy Spirit I never even heard there was a Holy Spirit

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Receive the Holy Spirit How do I receive the Holy Spirit Ask

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you if you being evil know how to give good gifts to your Children How much more will your father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask

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believe

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receive it

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read scripture wrestle with these things so that you know what is normal

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so that when you’re falling short you will actually not do the um unbelievers asking I asked and God didn’t

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do it So really prayer

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doesn’t work or something to God’s word doesn’t work No

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Lord wrestling prayer is wrestling with God Lord let God be true and every man a liar it is written it is written it is written

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Lord I know your word is true and I know your promises are true and I’m going to not let go of you Lord till you bless me I’m not gonna let go Lord until you bless me Because Lord this is truth heaven and earth will pass away But the word of the Lord

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endures

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forever I know I know there is healing I know there’s deliverance I know there is breakthrough I know there is hope Well I asked once and didn’t get it Wrestle with God Jacob wrestled with God That’s how you become Israel That’s how you become a prince with God You’ve got to wrestle with God knowing his promises knowing his precious promises through which we become partakers of the divine nature

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That’s just God’s word

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Not that we become God No that we become sons of God We become

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redeemed humanity

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not part of the eternal God head Just to be clear we become redeemed humanity Jesus is the first born of many sons

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I actually skipped it under my first Well we will

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move along

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The new covenant is the new

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world order and it is the great reset

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And the goal of the new world order is to transform the world

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to bring the world back under the rule of God to bring it back under justice and righteousness and truth and blessing and prosperity and goodness and light rather than darkness The goal of the new world order is to transform the world by transforming lives

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We’ve got to get this This is why the early church prevailed against the greatest totalitarian empire the world has ever seen

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because they didn’t focus on the emperor

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They focused on changing lives

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they they focused on making disciples They focused on like we’re saying you are worthy you are worthy You are worthy of my praise in the good times and in the bad

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It’s about creating a people that walk in love filled with the Holy Spirit

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I’ll read it Romans 8 29

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for whom he fore he predestined

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to be conformed to the image of his son

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that he might be the firstborn among many brethren

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That is the strategy of a new world order That is the strategy of the great reset

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go and make disciples

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teaching them to observe all that I’ve commanded you and behold i with you even to the end of the age

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How do you change this world You

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change the world through the gospel of Jesus Christ There’s no other way to change hearts and lives than through Jesus Christ There’s no other way to break bondage and it’s not the rules on telling people how to live it We’ve got to receive the Holy Spirit We’ve got to be a new covenant

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people

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All it is is just frustrating to know how we should live and not be empowered to do it

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The Holy Spirit empowers

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you to live

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in love and light uh to become a child of God

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It’s all about the rule and reign of God You know the gospel I’m hoping I’m connecting these dots the gospel of the kingdom the new covenant the great reset or you could call it the time of reformation Whatever you prefer if you like more biblical language

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Mark four says this I mean I really want you to

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wrestle with scriptures

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because so much of this is about faith hope and love expectation

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What then should we uh what then should we like in the Kingdom of God

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or with what parable shall we picture it

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It’s like a mustard seed which when it is sown on the ground is smaller than all the seeds of the earth

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But when it is sown it grows up and becomes greater than all herbs and shoots out large branches so that the

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birds of the air may rest in its shade

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We have to have faith

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that what we are doing has the power to change the whole world But that same seed is it’s the gospel 12 men in an upper room As we read just a martyr they went out and changed the whole world to see what’s happening The whole world has never been the same But it’s also every individual

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life We receive this little seed of

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faith the seed of the gospel And it can start out like it’s almost nothing

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in our own life

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But as it starts to grow it changes everything

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it changes everything

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We so despise that days of small beginnings we so despise the things that seem so small and insignificant And Jesus says the gospel the Kingdom of God is like that mustard seed It can seem like nothing

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significant

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but it gets sown and it starts to grow And these this truth about the new covenant and what it is is that is part of that seed

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that gets implanted into us and actually starts to change our lives

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These ideas that ask and I will give you the nations as an inheritance is part of that good seed that gets into us And as it grows it starts to change us And we start to respond with expectation in our prayers

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See how this stuff works

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the means

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And this is where I said would come back around to it acts 21 through

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two When the day of Pentecost had fully come they were all in one accord in one place And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind and it filled the whole house

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where they were sitting

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the means of manifesting the kingdom of God is the Holy Spirit

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There’s no other way to say it

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The church without the Holy Spirit is an old covenant institution

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The church without the Holy Spirit

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has the same impact on the world

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as the old covenant church

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the church with the Holy Spirit turns the world upside down

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We need to receive the Holy Spirit

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we need to manifest the Holy Spirit This is the means of manifesting

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the new world order Or the great reset or if you want biblical language to be conformed into the image of Christ

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So the outcome is the rule And I remember I said in the greatest of these is love

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The outcome is the rule of love

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I want to talk a little bit about the Holy Spirit

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because in scripture we see that there’s two things that talks about the gifts and the fruit

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which is more important

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Well if God gives them they’re both equally important then

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but for different reasons

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the fruit of the spirit is the very character and nature of Jesus Christ formed in us love joy peace patience kindness goodness gentleness me you know faithfulness self control These type of things is the character and nature of Jesus Christ

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The Bible talks about the works of the flesh and uses the word works because that’s what we do

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When we do it’s works and it’s flesh When the spirit of God does it it’s the fruit of the spirit of God in our

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life The goal is to be conformed

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into the image of Christ fruit is the image of Christ It’s the

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fruit of the spirit

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not the work of our work You see the difference So how do you become like Christ receive the Holy Spirit and bear fruit

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Don’t forget that the goal is to be conformed to the image of Christ Well then what about the gifts of the spirit Will the

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gifts of the spirit are given for the

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edification of the church to empower us

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to empower us to grow The Corinthian Church

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is is such a perfect

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example

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They had

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some of the grossest sin that they could have

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So you got a guy who’s sleeping with his dad’s wife or you know horrible

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Are they saints Well Paul call them saints

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So what’s that So how do you take

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such a depraved people

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and transform them

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They received the seed and they received the Holy Spirit

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And because if you walk

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in that trajectory you’re going to be changed

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the gifts of the spirit were operating And as often happens especially with immature believers like whoa

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the gifts of the spirit are so cool because they are really

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cool

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You know everyone who has experienced some of the gifts of the spirit it’s really exciting You know it’s so exciting that we can often forget that the goal is fruit

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If does that make sense

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But we need the gifts of the spirit operating in the church

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for the church to grow

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I mean I just like I remember I used to go to Charlie Kennedy’s prayer group I told you the story But it it really was fun because you you know like

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you know I’ve had all of us who have had the Holy Spirit have had all kinds of awesome experiences And every day I get to hear people tell me their experiences and they’re really cool and they’re still happening today But I’ll never but

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like real full blown open

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visions are kind of really cool Does that make sense

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And I’ll never forget

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it Like I

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put my hand on this this woman came to pray group and never saw before put my hand on

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her and I was at a

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wedding reception

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I mean I was there it was full audio visual It wasn’t like

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I kind of have a picture or a dream or I was there Does that make

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sense And I saw her in a wedding gown and I saw the groom and I saw them dancing at the wedding reception

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and I was like wow I’m thinking to myself wow this is so cool But I was still a young believer And I was like so then what Because this prayer group was about releasing the prophetic gifts And so we’re supposed to say what we felt God was saying I was like I’m a little bit scared to say that because that’s like a pretty big thing to say to somebody’s life Do you know what I’m saying

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So like what happened is a bunch of us

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went around and were beating around the bush Does that make sense

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And I was like yeah I believe I can see that God is gonna that there is an event that’s gonna bring a lot of joy into your life or some dumb stupid thing like that And a couple of people said some dumb stupid things like that And then finally Charlie Kennedy said I can’t take it anymore I see that you know God has called you to get married and you’re gonna get married and blah blah blah blah like man how do you dare prophesy that But he prophesized She starts she jumps up and starts praising the Lord Well none of us knew her

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She had been

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proposed to

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and wanted to know for sure that it was from the Lord And she had

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heard about this prayer group So she showed up

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Isn’t that wild I was like ok that was really cool So even if I duffed it on the delivery

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I sure enjoyed that vision Does that make

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sense And and uh but I remember another time we’re sitting there and another is somebody else brought somebody we didn’t know in and Charlie Kennedy just goes he goes there’s a guy the guy coming back into your

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life named Such and Such that is sent by the devil to keep you from Jesus Christ

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The guy turns white and ran out of there

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like huh That was interesting I mean that’s what I thought That was an interesting response

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I mean you know and then he came back about a

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half an hour later trembling He goes that’s my ex drug dealer and he just got out of jail and he’s been calling me

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It said the gifts of the spirit are there to grow the church and they are cool There’s times when I got

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it totally Right And the times that I duffed it terribly like I remember one

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time where I had a dream and I saw

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somebody and I saw a demonic attack against their life to get them smoking marijuana

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And but again I I was still young in the Lord And so I didn’t trust the revelation Does that make sense And so

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I went out with this person and I started asking

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them all quite into questions because I knew they worked a lot but they didn’t seem to have a lot of money

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But every question I they answered they get it was

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plausible Does that make sense So I didn’t go for it Does that make sense

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And about a month later they fell away from the Lord because their sibling had got them into smoking weed

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And I’m like the gifts of the spirit are for the edification of the church

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You see what I mean

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Like I remember when I was by the time I was getting into bible

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college man I was having all kinds of experience and was getting a little better at it And I was driving down to Fort Wayne Seminary with a guy who was like 1/5 generation Lutheran pastor And I I was actually when we were

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coming back and I was telling him all these stories of things that I experienced because when you’re experiencing the Holy Spirit It’s really exciting And he started I see him gripping

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the steering wheel and his knuckles are turning white

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I’m like oh he’s uncomfortable

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And I just thought about it for a second and said why do you think this is strange I go the Bible says my sheep hear my voice I go I know you’re one of his sheep So you do hear his voice But like Samuel maybe you don’t know how to recognize it And then I started telling him about how God

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can speak their dreams

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And I saw the curiosity get in his eyes

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And he goes

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I had this dream when my dad was pastoring a church and I saw this giant wolf come in the air over the church and a third of the church was covered in blood

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And I said oh I go that was that’s obvious what was going on The spirit of God was warning you that there was a demonic attack against the church calling you to pray Or even if you didn’t a third of the church would be lost

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And he said right after that a giant um

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conflict arose in the church and a third of the church left

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the gifts It could be because he didn’t know how to respond what God was saying He didn’t realize that that was a call to prayer Does that make sense

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But then he he gets curious and I’ve seen this kind of

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thing happen So the gifts of the spirit are very important for the

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edification of the church

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And we and we and

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it so it’s a zealously desire spiritual gifts

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especially that you may prophesy

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So we need to say God give

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us your holy spirit Lord release the gifts of your spirit in our midst but never forget that the ultimate purpose

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is the fruit

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So one of the I’m gonna I’m gonna save a lot of what I had for the next mass series or message in the series

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But I want to talk

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about God’s calling on our church

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because there have been many prophecies dreams

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and visions from its very foundation because I thought in the New Year it’s important to talk about these things

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Um And I and some of the stories I shared is because for people who this is strange to it’s very real

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dreams visions and prophecies are very real and people who have experienced them can tell you story after story of personal experience of how real it is

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And this church has had lots of prophecies And one of the things I love about it being non denominational is people don’t come to us because we’re at the Baptist church and we’ve always been Baptist or we’re Lutheran we’ve always been Lutheran We succeed or fail based on whether we receive the Holy Spirit period

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our whole identity and our whole source of being is dependent upon

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being filled with the Holy Spirit

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we fail there Then we fail for our purpose of being created and we can’t ride a machine

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Interesting Right

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But I know since I’ve got here I’ve seen I’ve had many dreams about this church from a couple of them about uh I saw burning coal two dreams where I saw where there was burning coals but no open flame

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And then we put new wood on it and there was an open flame And the second one that fire was moved and it gave light to Austin

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which was interesting because of knowing the history of the church And um other ones where the Lord started speaking to me about prayer

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Prayer is the key I’ve had people in this church telling me that about dreams that the Lord has given them about what God is going to do even in the last last year

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even so much that even at our Christmas morning service

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I believe we had um Dwayne came and shared with the dream that God gave him

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So God is still speaking in dreams and that he’s active and he’s moving But we need to press in That’s why I shared a lot of what I did about prayer because we need to turn on the light

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We need to expect We need to believe we need to turn on the light we need to seek him We need to pray

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and these things that we’re trying to put in in order

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are an expectation that God will do what He says he will do

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hope Faith The goal is love

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But we can

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see that see the Holy Spirit move

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If we are covenanted to pray

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if we were to really think about what do we need to do in this new year the world needs The light turned on

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like more and more When I talk to people when you really get into the mechanics of their conversion somebody somewhere was probably praying

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because things happened that were supernatural

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Even if it was just like you said a podcast came on that you didn’t have on your phone

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You know these things happen where God orchestrates events in our life whether they are super wild which some people have had or super simple

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But the one thing that is consistent is it was God and I knew it

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because the experience of a person is this God loves me

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God knows me God cares about me and Jesus died for me

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People need that experience for themselves

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We need the Holy Spirit

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We need the Holy Spirit We need to be a praying church The church that turned the world upside down James had calluses on his knees

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You want to turn the lights on the lights are turned on through prayer

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Prayer causes a meeting with God That’s one of the words for prayer to cause a meeting

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we meet with God and cause a meeting of other people with God And what people really need is to meet with God

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That’s one of my favorite words for prayer

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It means to meet with God and it causes a meeting

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to fall upon

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to fall upon

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It’s a new year

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and it’s time for us

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to dare to believe

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and press into our calling and destiny as a church because the world needs

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the new world order

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It needs the great reset not the ones they’re talking about

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but the gospel of Jesus Christ

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the Kingdom of God the rule and reign

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of Jesus

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Amen