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Well father we come before you and we’re just again grateful for Jesus Christ And we just say Lord we want to meet with you Lord you are the word of God and we just pray that your Holy Spirit would quicken your word this morning and that you would breathe life into us And that Lord God threw us you breathe life into this world We just thank you Jesus Amen

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The title of today’s message is the new world Order celebrating the great reset

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OK I see that got some laugh some from some people

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And the reason I picked that title I see people still laughing is because many people find their source of truth in the news and social media

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And if you even have a little bit of connection with people who uh love conspiracies

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you will hear a lot of things and I’m not saying it’s a conspiracy but it’s conspiracy Conspiracies are very big on social media and on the internet And so you hear a lot about the one world order the coming one world order and the great reset

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And as I was putting together a message this morning I knew what I wanted to say But I also knew that we’re in the middle of Christmas season So you have to connect it to Christmas I mean it just wouldn’t be right not to connect a message to Christmas this time of year And as I was putting it together I thought you know what

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this sounds like the new World Order and the great reset to me And so that’s how we ended up getting the title

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But when we when we think of those terms most people who do know those terms usually have a very negative connotation they tend to bring feelings of fear and trepidation rather than fears of celebration

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You would almost never hear somebody say let’s celebrate the great reset that comes from our circles

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If that makes sense

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As a matter of fact they would be saying get on your knees and pray about it

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and and and I am convinced that there are people that would like to see a One World Order The Tower of Babel has always been tempting to many people and that there are a lot of people that would like to reset things in a manner that would undermine what Jesus Christ has already done

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But for us today we’re celebrating something else in this advent in Christmas season

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And so this message is really going to be about the old and new covenant

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I really believe that understanding the difference between the old covenant and the new covenant

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is one of the keys I believe that there’s a number of keys that when the church really lays a hold of these keys we will begin to turn the world upside down again

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And and and that’s really what I’ve been wrestling with and struggling with Lord revive us renew us restore us give us revelation into your word so that we would have the keys to go and turn this world upside down again And I believe understanding the difference between the old and new covenant is one of those keys

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But like I said before since we are in the advent season

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it seems appropriate to frame our discussion around the birth of Jesus

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So we’ll read from Luke 26 1 26 to 33

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Now in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent to God

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to a city of Galilee named Nazareth to a virgin betrothed of a man whose name was Joseph of the house of David The virgin’s name was Mary And having come in the angel said to her rejoice highly favored one The Lord is with you Blessed Are you among women

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But when she saw him she was troubled at his saying and considered what manner of greeting this was Then then the angel said to her do not be afraid Mary for you have found favor with God and behold you will conceive in your womb and bring forth a son and call his name Jesus he will be great and will be called son of the highest And the Lord God will give him the throne of his father David

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and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever

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end of his kingdom There will be no end

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This is such an interesting story to me

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because an angel from the throne of heaven has been dispatched

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to a virgin in an obscure

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city in the Roman Empire

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Not to great leaders not to people of renown but just to a virgin in the city of Bethlehem

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But this was just the beginning

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just the beginning of all of the excitement that we see from heaven around what is taking place on planet Earth

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Right before this there was a similar type of excitement and another angel dispatched to talk about the birth of John the Baptist

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There was something happening in the world that was so exciting that angels were being dispatched to go and talk about it

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Prophets who had been told that they would not die until they saw what God was doing on the earth were knocking about It was such an exciting time Something is happening on planet Earth that the very heavens themselves are excited about

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what is happening The promises of God are being fulfilled on the earth

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that which the great heroes of faith men and women of renown of whom the world was not worthy who died looking for this day It’s happening

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What’s happening It’s not just about the birth of a baby in a manger

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It’s about the son of God became flesh

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to restore what was lost

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It’s a great reset

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of what happened at the fall

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It is the great reset Isn’t that awesome

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And it’s the restoration of the Kingdom of God on earth

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It’s the long awaited Messiah has come to sit down on the throne and begin his reign His everlasting reign has begun I read it again and the Lord will give him the throne of his father David

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and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever

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and of his kingdom There will be no end

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Has this happened yet

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That’s a question that the church needs to answer The big question is has the Messiah sat down on the throne of David

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Has he begun his reign

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That’s a big question to be answered And how you answer that question will change radically how you live on planet earth The things that you expect the way you conduct yourself The kind of hope that you have in this life The kind of boldness that you have

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Is he king now or are we still waiting

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Are we to proclaim Jesus as Lord now Or Jesus as the Lord who will come

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Is that funny

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Yeah it is funny a little bit But it but these are challenging questions aren’t they

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Because we often live as though it’s some future day that Jesus is gonna sit down on the throne

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I I challenge you guys to read through all of scripture with these kind of ideas in your mind and ask questions of scripture What will it be like when Messiah comes

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what will his reign be like What can we expect and just throw out everything that we have been often told by what is popular because there’s a lot of money to be made in what is popular and ask the question Lord what does your word say

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with the amount of popular opinion about these things The world is headed for hell at a rate faster than people can imagine It’s not having the impact on the world that the apostolic church had on the world

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And maybe we need to have a change of mind and a change of perception so that we can have the kind of impact once again

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because God has ordained it that faith is what plugs into the power of God And if anything diffuses our faith and our expectation

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then the power of God is cut off from the earth Jesus went around healing the sick and casting out devils and he there was so much power available when he walked on the earth

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but only to those who believed

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And when we went to his own hometown he could do very few mighty works because of their unbelief And we act as though that there was more power available When Jesus walked planet earth and the flesh than there is now But that’s a lie

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There’s more power available Now on this side of the cross

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there is more power available to change lives and to impact planet Earth than when Jesus physically walked here in the flesh But the same principle of faith

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causes it to be manifested in anything that diffuses your faith

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hides the light

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interesting ideas aren’t they

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See I really want to challenge us with these ideas of the new and old covenant

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because in these ideas when we unpack them it sheds light into all kinds of other ideas and scriptures such as Jesus went around everywhere preaching and teaching the kingdom of God

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the kingdom of God and the new covenant are so intimately tied And the more we understand this new covenant the more we start to expect it

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the more we start to proclaim it the more it starts to manifest itself in our lives

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Why is it important

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First I wanted to say one thing about the power of scripture

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because I’m gonna read a lot of scripture

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And I believe that the power that there is power in scripture that transforms li transform lives especially

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when it’s quickened by the Holy Spirit

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I believe that with my whole heart

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But if you ever really look closely at scripture you you discover that it deals with a lot of challenging issues

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It often takes a lot of deep thinking

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and a lot of times we don’t want to be challenged to think deeply at church

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We really don’t want to have to work

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I mean I think one of the problems today if we would take God’s word seriously if you don’t work you don’t eat and people went back to work It may actually by obeying God’s word we may actually pull out of some of the mess that people are saying is coming because so many people are unwilling to work anymore But

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in another sense a lot of times in the church we want to be spoon fed boo boo boo boo boo boo Don’t make me think Don’t make my head hurt Don’t make me actually have to pay attention and don’t let me have to struggle to understand God’s word But I dare you to go read through Hebrews

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right I dare you to go read through a lot of scripture It makes you work and you have to think

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and a lot of these scriptures were meant to be read in church

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So why So maybe we are meant to actually have to work and to think when we’re at church maybe it’s about more than how we feel

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just a thought

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Another thing I really believe that there are a lot of believers not just unbelievers discouraged about the future to the point of hopelessness

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And when I was talking to pastor David before church he wandered in right before church He said that’s all people are talking about in my workplace

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If our encouragement or discouragement is based on the news and social media

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we have a very poor foundation We’re gonna be like a wave tossed to and fro right

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where we know when we base our reality on the word of God it’s a solid rock and we’re no longer like a wave tossed to and fro

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it’s so important that we wrestle with scripture So we have this deep foundation and so many people today are upset and afraid about things like the great reset or the one world order Uh But they’re also upset about the fear of economic disaster or distress genuinely afraid

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And am I saying that there will not be or there will be

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Sometimes we’re framing the questions wrong

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And what I mean by that is we are believers in Jesus Christ and we know him who died and rose again and is seated on the throne and we know that he’s working all things together for good for those who love him And we know that even when he birthed the early church it wasn’t outside of his power and sovereignty that they faced 10 great persecutions

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He was not afraid because he said I know what is in my people

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I know the spirit that I have given them and I’m not afraid of putting them through trials and tribulations and hardships I’m not afraid of what the outcome will be because I know who they are more than they know who they are once they’ve been born again

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and really what a lot of great revivalists have often said that before A great revival God often chokes economies

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perspective right What are you afraid of Economic distress in America may be God has revival for America

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economic distress for the whole world Maybe there’s a great harvest coming in

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Do you see the difference

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in Christians when we are grounded in God’s word we are not afraid of what the future brings What shall I eat What shall I wear The gentiles seek after these things but seek first the kingdom and His righteousness and all this will be added unto you Be not afraid

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be not afraid

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Your heavenly Father knows what you have need of

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But when we give way to fear and insecurity when we give way to hopelessness and discouragement what we are doing is we are choking out the light

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Is he good and faithful and worthy to be trusted Can we stand as rocks in the middle of a time when people’s hearts are failing them because of fear Can they look at our lives and say I see a boldness and a confidence and a security in these distressful times that I need to have for myself

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That’s what we want to build into one another through the word of God

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That to me is really exciting

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I also really believe that a proper vision of reality empowers Christians

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It makes us reproduce

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And now getting back to the old covenant the new covenant we’re going to take one more side journey

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I can’t help this because I have been wrestling with the early church fathers asking how did they see the real reality How did they see the word How did they see Christianity Because we want something to contrast our modern perspectives with

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to challenge us

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And so I’ve been reading Justin Marr

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and and I was I’ve really been intrigued

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by the way they see the gospel and they see Christianity

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So I’m gonna read a portion of it and maybe more in future weeks because there’s so much

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that I’m finding in these early church fathers that are so revolutionary

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and so challenging to us

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So he writes but when as prophesying what is about to come to pass the Holy Ghost speaks his words as follows For out of Zion shall go forth the law in the word of the Lord from Jerusalem and he shall judge among nations and shall rebuke many people and they shall beat their swords into plow shares and their spears into pruning hooks and nations shall not lift up sword against nation Neither shall they learn war anymore

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I’m gonna pause right there because we all know that scripture right

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And a lot of times people are looking for a future day when that will come to pass Oh we long for the day when they will beat their swords into plow shares some day in the great by and by they will beat their swords into plow shares That is the image that is in the hearts and minds of most believers today

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Now this apology that I’m reading from Justin Martyr he’s writing to Magistrates to people in authority People have power to kill him

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And he’s using this as an argument of fulfilled prophecy with the expectation that the veracity of what he’s saying is clear before their own eyes

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Does that does the weight of that settle in Let me try to explain it Justin Martyr is trying making an apology or in a defense of the faith of Christians that are being persecuted holding the persecutors accountable to the word of God But he goes into this incredible defense of the faith

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right And the argument is really interesting because he starts about all the prophecies of the coming Jesus the coming Messiah that we’re celebrating at Christmas And then he’s going down into all these other fulfilled prophecies eventually which may be one of the

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these days out of excitement I’ll show you he’s going to go move to if all these other prophecies have come to pass he’s also prophesized that he’s gonna come again and judge the living and the dead and that all will stand before the judgment seat of Christ But here he’s still at the point where he’s saying fulfill prophecies that you can look into and judge the truth that these prophecies have come to pass

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He writes about that passage

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and that it so came to pass You may believe

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from Jerusalem There went out into the world 12 men in number

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and they obscure persons and unskilled in speaking But through the power of God they declared to every race of men that were that they were sent by Christ to teach them the word of God and we who were formally murderers of each other Not only make no more war on our enemies but to avoid even even lying or deceiving those who examine us we willingly confess Christ and die

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He’s saying that that prophecy of the Messianic reign where they will beat their swords into plow shares You can see that this has already come to pass that 12 men went out of Jerusalem and proclaimed we are sent by Christ to proclaim the word of God and wherever they went And the name in Christ was named and people believed they beat their swords into plow shares

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and those who were violent against their enemies are no longer violent so much so But to keep from even lying and deceiving

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we confess Christ and die

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That is the picture

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of a powerful Christianity

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that turns the world upside down isn’t it

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In his very apology He says you can go and check the truth of this yourself

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And he makes such a bold statement We were once murderers And now we will confess Christ and die

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How can you be so bold

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It’s not a boldness of the flesh

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It’s talking about a deep transformation that has happened in the lives of human beings that they could have such boldness such courage such faith

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And I will submit to you that understanding the difference between the old covenant and new covenant

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is part of what’s required to make that happen

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So now

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so new covenant Christianity

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and I really believe the more we understand this other scriptures will come alive Other things that are written even if it doesn’t even if they do not express expressly state new covenant

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they will start to leap out of the pages of scripture And you’ll see this is the reality that Christ has brought

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that needs to be manifested on earth

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Second Corinthians 34 through six And we have such trust through Christ toward God Not that we were sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves But our sufficiency of is of God who made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant

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not of the letter but of the spirit for the letter kills but the Spirit gives life

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the weight of this needs to hit us We are ministers of the new covenant We are ministers of the new covenant Imagine the old covenant and the priests and the Levi scattered throughout all of Israel Think about their service at the temple They were ministers of the old covenant We you we are ministers of the new covenant

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And he said not of the letter that brings death but of the spirit that brings life There’s something about this new covenant that brings life to people not death that transforms them that changes them that renews them from the inside out And it is glorious

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And if you go and read that whole passage in Corinthians you’ll see it talks about how glorious it really is

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Hebrews 81 through two I’m just going to go through some passages of scripture very fast because I want us to get a picture of the new covenant Hebrews 81 through two

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Now this is the main point of what we are saying

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I think that’s an important thing if Paul or I believe it’s Paul If Paul is highlighting it there some people can disagree It might not be Paul Um That’s a great discussion over coffee That doesn’t really matter what your answer is The writer of the book of Hebrews

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This is the main point of what we are saying We have such a high priest who is seated at the right hand of the throne of Majesty throne of David

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right the Christ

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in the heavens a minister of the sanctuary and of the true Tabernacle which the that that the Lord erected and not men

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And if you read this whole passage and I’m I’m gonna read more of it but skip some verses You’ll see It’s all about the new covenant

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It’s all about the new covenant

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You’ll forgive me if you can tell my voice is not very good today

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Hebrews 86 to 13 So I jumped a few verses But now he Jesus has obtained a more excellent ministry in as much as he is a mediator of a better covenant

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which was established on better promises

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for if that first covenant had been faultless then no place would have been sought for a second but finding fault with them He says behold the days are coming Says the Lord when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel with the house of Judah not according to the covenant that I made with the fathers in the day when I took them by the hand and led them out of Egypt because they did not continue in my covenant And I disregarded them says the Lord

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for this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days says the Lord

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ok here’s the new covenant

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I will put my laws in their mind I will write them on their hearts and I will be their God and they shall be my people None of them shall teach his neighbor saying or his brother saying know the Lord for they shall all know me from the least to the greatest of them

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for I will be merciful to their unrighteousness and their sins and lawless deeds I will remember no more in that He says a new covenant he has made the first obsolete

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Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away

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But the weight of this new covenant really needs to hit us hard I will write my laws on their mind and their heart

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and they will know me

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They want fellowship with me

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They will have access to the Holy of Holies

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But instead of the law being written on tablets of stone that we never could keep I’ll write it on your mind and your heart So you start to walk in love They will know your Christians by your love We’re talking about total life transformation and this this truth and this reality is so obscured I remember even in the early days of Bible college they couldn’t see this at all

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in all Christianity was only about thank God Your sins are forgiven

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All of Christianity is is that we were sinners saved by grace

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that

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we deserve the wrath of God But Jesus died

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so that it would be just as if I never sinned And there’s truth to all of this This is part of it but I will challenge you It’s the old covenant

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That’s just the old covenant That’s just the shadow The forgiveness of sins was the heart of the old covenant

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It was the Yom Kippur the day of atonement It was the daily sacrifices blessed is the man whose sins are forgiven whose transgressions are covered

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The Old Testament was not primarily about

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and a God who wants to judge sin It was primarily about the God who made provision to cover our sins

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and to forgive our sins

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so that he could walk in the midst of the camp

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The forgiveness of sins was operative in the old covenant based upon the promise of Messiah dying one day They didn’t understand it It was the shadow cast by Calvary throughout Old Testament History

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isn’t that wild

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but the new covenant goes beyond the forgiveness of sins

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The new covenant writes the law in our heart causes us to walk in his ways

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The new covenant changes us from the inside out The new covenant is God’s agenda for worldwide transformation It’s a grass roots transformation of the world by changing men and women’s hearts one by one by beating our swords into plow shares causing us to love one another and forgive one another

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and to build 11 another up instead of tearing one another down willing to sacrifice our lives rather than using people for our own selfish agendas It’s the power of a new world order The kings of this earth seek to lord it over one another but it shall not be so with you but he is the greatest shall be least and servant of all It’s a it’s a new world order

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It’s a new covenant it’s a great reset

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Isn’t this awesome

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And when we understand and we that there’s a new covenant that goes beyond the forgiveness of sins but it’s not in the letter of the law it’s in the spirit that brings life So a lot of times when people when Christians try to make Christians better they try to do it by the law written on tablets of stone and try to make you feel guilty that you do not meet up to these requirements And then we become ministers of death rather than ministers of the new covenant

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To see the challenge There is a new covenant that can change us from the inside out but it’s not by the law written on tablets of stone but it’s an inner life transformation that comes by when we cry out father daddy when we come to know him when we receive his love and his grace and his forgiveness and his mercy

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and become filled with the Holy Spirit

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it’s done by the power of the Holy Spirit not by the law written on tablets of stone Whenever we try when we focus either on just the forgiveness of sins or we or we focus on trying to beat holiness through making people feel guilty for transgressing the law both are part of old covenant and the old covenant is not bad

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Let’s state this it’s not evil it’s not evil Old covenant and wonderful new covenant It was the shadow of Calvary and the resurrection and even the shadow of Calvary was glorious even the shadow and promise and expectation of what would come that has come in Jesus Christ was glorious

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Isn’t this awesome

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But we like Lord open our eyes to see this and then open our church so that we would become a new co manifestation of new covenant Christianity empowered by the Holy Spirit For inner life transformation to love one another

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Just read another like the whole Bible starts to open up When you understand the new covenant Ezekiel 36 26 or 27 I will give you a new heart

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This is the heart of the great reset and of a new world order It begins with a new heart not a new president

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It begins with changing lives one heart At a time

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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 and you will keep my judgments and do them

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because I’ve given you a new heart

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because I’ve written my law on your heart because I’ve put a new spirit within you without the new heart and the new spirit you cannot walk in his statutes and decrees

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and a lot of Christians If you were to just read that I’ve had times where I’ve read passages of scripture and didn’t tell people I was reading scripture and they wanted to kill me That’s that’s false theology That’s bad doctrine I said look I was just literally reading scripture but I forgot to cite it That’s it

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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 This is the part that will choke him I will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statutes and you will keep my judgments and do them

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telling us you will do this You will walk in my statutes

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That’s that’s not possible That’s not possible on this side of the grave

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Be it done according to your faith

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Be it done according to your faith So much Christianity

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misses the power of the new covenant

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So much Christianity is saying hey it doesn’t matter that you’re in this prison of sin But thank God your sins are still forgiven because Christ died for you and you go to heaven when you die and rejoice in that And that is good

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How much better is here is the prison doors open come on out and go free

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See the difference

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It’s such a radical difference that it’s actually offensive to many Christians today

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So many Christians today can’t handle a word like I will cause you to walk in my ways

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and you will keep my statues in decrees because they think but I am failing so miserably

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I know my own sin I know my own failure I know my own weaknesses I know all the ways that I fall short And the only thing I can hold on to is forgiveness of sins And when we do sin we do hold on to that forgiveness of sins

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But the challenge is a lot of the reasons why we can’t face it

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is because we are insecure in the truth of the love of God

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that Christ died for us while we were yet enemies and that he’s given us all things And we are always welcome and we run to him not from from him When we sin he’s not holding our sins against us But

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if you will be filled full of the Holy Spirit

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I will cause you to walk in my ways And I get full of the Holy Spirit by coming into his presence

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by believing in Him by trusting in Him by believing in his word by believing these truths that we’re sharing with you this morning by building one another up by putting out of our lives the things that discourage and frustrate and cause fear and frustration by knowing what it means to walk in the spirit

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How do I get this reality I start to study scripture everything about receiving the Holy Spirit and walking in the Holy Spirit

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How what is my strategy to try harder not to sin No it always fails I need another accountability partner Just another accountability partner for me to give more of my sins to what do you need to walk out You need to be filled with the Holy Spirit

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That’s what this is saying There’s a new covenant reality to be experienced by the people of God that will cause you to walk in his ways that will write His law upon your heart that will give you a heart of flesh that will change your life forever

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And if you fail

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don’t try to undermine God’s word But believe and say Lord I need your Holy Spirit 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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what do you have to do

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Well you do have to believe

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But other than that you have to believe and ask

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But you also need to it’s like riding a bike You need to learn how to ride the bike You need to learn how to walk in the spirit You need to learn how to give things always and rejoice in all circumstances You need to learn how to flee the things that choke life

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Fear chokes life discouragement chokes life We need to learn how to walk in this new covenant reality and to train one another And speak with one another and build one another up in this We need to build churches where people are alive in the spirit and are growing and are transformed not just doing the ritual

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And I know when this starts to become a reality in a church they start to take off like wildfire because the world is desperate for a way out They are desperate for life transformation They are desperate for their bondage to be broken They’re desperate for hope They’re desperate for love They’re desperate for belonging and connection and all of these things come in the new covenant

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So you say intercessors what do we need Make us a manifestation of the new covenant Make us a manifestation of what this is talking about Lord

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because as people experience it it will change everything

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Pentecost and the new covenant all of the imagery of the day of Pentecost is coronation imagery and we’re not going to get into it But all of the imagery is about the Messiah sat down on his throne and now he is executing his government on the earth It’s really exciting

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even even when it says today acts 13 33 Today I’ve begotten you talking about the resurrection from the dead It was a coronation hymn that the Jews sang when a king sat down on the throne

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he is Messiah he is Lord he is alive He has begun his reign and it is an everlasting kingdom that shall never be moved according to scripture wrestle with what scripture says about it

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And when when this experience of the new covenant reality landed on the day of Pentecost there was so much light in life that people started to ask what is this that we’re seeing

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And it gave them opportunity to preach to the world And in acts chapter two

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the apostle is speaking says therefore being a prophet and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to Him talking of David that of the fruit of his body according to the flesh He would raise up the Christ to sit on his throne

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He for seeing this spoke concerning the resurrection of Christ

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that his soul was not left in Hades nor did his flesh see corruption This Jesus God has raised up of which we are all witnesses Therefore being exalted to the right hand of God and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit

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he poured out this which you now see in here for David did not ascend into heaven But he says himself the Lord said to my Lord sit at my right hand till I make your enemies your footstool

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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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They experience the power of the new covenant in the coming of the Holy Spirit And they saw by the spirit that he is raised up and he has sat down on the throne of David where he will be seated until every enemy has made his footstool

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And when that revelation comes the church goes out with power and turns the world upside down

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This is what we are reading The very first apostolic proclamation of the gospel

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that just a martyr said 12 men went out from Jerusalem

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unlearning men

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and they turn the world upside down proclaiming

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the reign of Messiah They will beat their swords into plow shares Wherever Christ is named people forsake their idols and begin to love one another You can look into these things yourself and see Jesus changes people’s lives from the inside out and he changes the world from the grassroots up

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12 men turned the world upside down

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because they received the Holy Spirit and they didn’t let it go 12 men turned the world upside down because they had a revelation that he is Messiah and he is Lord and he is seated on the throne and he will come again to judge the living and the dead repent and believe the good news

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12 men filled with the holy ghost

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are able to change the whole world

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And so can we

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when this becomes the reality of our church intercessors pray we need this reality We need this revelation in the body of Christ It’s the only way out Salvation is not gonna come from the White House It’s not gonna come from the

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election It’s not going to come from the media or the news Salvation comes the only way it has always come believe and receive the gift of the Holy Spirit For there’s no other way to destroy sin in the earth and through the gospel of Jesus Christ

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the new world order and the great reset

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these things will open your eyes and we have to burn We need to hunger we need to seek them We need to say this is our inheritance and we’re not going to settle for anything less We need to fight the fight of faith We need to hold on to the inheritance

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because it is the only hope for a dying world

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Second Corinthians 5 17 to 18 Therefore if anyone is in Christ he is a new creation new covenant new world order the great reset you’re a new creation All things have passed away

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be old all things have become new Now all things are of God who has reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ and has given us the ministry of reconciliation The world can be reconciled to God

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through ministers of the new covenant

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But they can never it can never be reconciled to God through ministers of the old covenant

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The world is dying for ministers of the new covenant

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They will know Him from the least to the greatest No one will say no the Lord for they will know him not know about him know him

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and have his law written on their hearts and live under his rule and reign transform lives transform lives to the gospel and transform the world The agenda has always been the same revelation 25 21 5 through six Then he sat on the throne said behold I make all things new

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And he said to me right For these words are true and faithful And he said to me it is done I am the alpha and the Omega the beginning and the end

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I will give the fountain of the water of life freely

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to him who thirst

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He is seated on the throne

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the day of Pentecost It was the Holy Spirit that was sent

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because he sat down on the throne If you are thirsty he said it right here

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I will give the fountain of the water of life freely to him who thirsts

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It’s the only thing that satisfies talking with Timothy this morning Only Jesus satisfies He truly satisfies taste and see that the Lord is good

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The world is not going to be touched by a Christianity that is not truly satisfied in the Lord and full of the Holy Spirit This is our inheritance This is what we need to fight for

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We started by talking about the advent of Christ in the world The angels were getting excited Something’s happening in the world What is it What is happening

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The world is passing away and the new world order has come There’s been a great reset he cleansed all things with his blood Behold all things are made new There’s a new creation in Jesus Christ that will change your life forever

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But we’ve got to walk in new covenant Christianity

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empowered by the Holy Spirit

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This need is so deep for every believer who says I am discouraged I’m depressed I am hopeless

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There’s water there’s living water for every person who is frustrated and feels like a failure who says I am not good enough There is living water there is power from on high to change you but only dare to believe

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because it comes by faith He has it is written it is written it is written I will believe God and not my own failures I will believe God and not anything else in the world Heaven and earth will pass away But His word endures forever

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So many people when they have given themselves to sin start to believe in the power of sin and no longer in the power of Christ when they’ve given themselves to failure when they have messed up again and again they quit believing that there is salvation that there’s deliverance that there’s healing that there’s breakthrough

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But there is that God be true in every man a liar It comes by faith

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and when people have been captive to sins and it can happen to believers there’s a bondage that happens But you can walk out He breaks the yoke he sets the prisoner free but it all begins with being it done According to your faith

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there is power to not just be forgiven

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there’s power to live free

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not by the tablets of stone but by the law written on your heart

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in the Holy Spirit sent from on high

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Amen

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Amen Thank you Lord

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Will it stand together