Dudley Rutherford - Can You? (Part 1)

June 24, 2026 | 27:29

Pastor Dudley Rutherford seeks to "lift up the name of Jesus across the country and the world through uncompromising biblical teaching."

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| Dudley Rutherford - Can You? (Part 1) | June 24, 2026

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Male announcer: today we're asking
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Three simple but powerful questions:
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Can you trust god?
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Can you thank god?
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Can you test god?
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In a world where integrity is rare,
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God stands alone as completely trustworthy.
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In pastor dudley's new series, "can you?"
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He asks the tough questions and reveals real answers.
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The real question isn't if god is trustworthy,
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It's whether you trust him.
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Join us next on "lift up jesus" for the series, "can you?"
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Pastor dudley rutherford: in 1 chronicles chapter 29,
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When they were building the temple,
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They said, "wealth and honor come from you;
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And you are the ruler of all things.
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And in your hands are strength and power
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To exalt and to give strength to all.
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Now, our god, we give you thanks,
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And we praise your glorious name."
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There's a very basic tenet or purpose when we give,
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There's an element of worship, that it's a part of our worship.
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♪♪♪
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Pastor dudley: i wanna welcome each of you
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To the "lift up jesus" television broadcast.
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I am pastor dudley rutherford and i'm so glad
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You've joined me here today.
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Do you know what really takes your christian life
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To the next level?
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It's not just reading the bible
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Or listening to christian teaching;
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It's doing it on a regular basis.
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That's why being here each and every week
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And hearing this message is so important.
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My sermon today will give you new insight
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Into god's word.
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So make sure you have your bible, a pen,
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And your notes handy, and let's begin.
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Pastor dudley: today, i want to finish up this series,
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A three-week series called "can you?"
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"can you trust god?"
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"can you thank god?"
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And today we want to focus, "can you test god?"
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It was a little over 100 years ago,
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I think it was in february, the year 1921,
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February 15, there was a doctor in new york city.
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He's named dr. kane.
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And he was the chief surgeon at a hospital there
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Called summit.
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Interesting, summit hospital.
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And he was the general surgeon for 37 years.
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And up to that point, there'd only been a thing
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Called general anesthesia.
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And he did a bunch of appendectomies.
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He actually did over 4,000 of them.
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But all of them were with general anesthesia.
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And he had this idea that maybe we
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Could do something where it was more localized,
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Like a localized anesthesia.
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Never been-- never happened before.
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And he just had this idea, like, if we can do this,
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Then we wouldn't have to put everybody
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Into general anesthesia
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For things that would be safer under local anesthesia.
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He just had this idea.
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The problem is no one would volunteer.
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And finally, one guy said, "you know what,
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I'll give it a shot."
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And so they took this guy, they prepped him,
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They brought him out.
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And this guy had been doing, you know,
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He'd done 4,000 of these surgeries.
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So he cut into the tissue on--with just local anesthesia,
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And they took this old boy's appendix out.
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And within two days, he was able to leave the hospital.
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And he proved that local anesthesia is possible,
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Saving lots of lives and lots of complications.
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And so, all of you should be thankful
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For dr. kane and that moment.
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And just one thing to note, dr. kane and the patient
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Were the same person.
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No one would volunteer, so he did it on himself.
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He was the one that actually performed the surgery
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And ushered in what we know today
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As local anesthesia.
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Today, you might not want to hear this,
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But i believe that some of us need to do a self-surgery today.
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It might seem a little uncomfortable,
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But i believe it's necessary for us to truly flourish
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Like palm trees, amen?
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The three questions, two weeks ago--
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Everybody say "two weeks ago."
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We answered one question: can we trust god?
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Is god reliable?
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Is god true to his word?
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This series is a stewardship series,
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Recognizing that everything that we have
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Comes from god.
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I talked about the tacticalness of god,
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That what we have is not by random,
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It's that god has assigned these things to us.
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And the bible says over and over and over and over
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And over and over again that the faithful steward
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That god blesses even more.
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That's in his word.
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There are over 2,000 verses in the bible.
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Last weekend, while bryan loritts
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Was preaching, one guy actually stood up
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In church while he was preaching and yells,
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"why are we talking about this subject?"
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And walked out of the church.
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First of all, that is extremely rude.
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Extremely rude.
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Secondly, whoever that person was
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Does not know his bible.
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What are we supposed to do, preach the bible, and when you
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Get to one of these 2,000 verses,
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We just skip over that because nobody wants to hear
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That topic?
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Last year, our theme for the year
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Was to fall in love with the bible.
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The reason that was the theme was
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That so many people have not read the bible.
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And we have to teach from time to time
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On what the bible says about every subject.
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Can somebody say amen?
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I have found that anybody who gets upset
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And walks out, that person is not a generous person.
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It's just true.
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Usually, people who give, people who are generous,
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Whenever this topic comes, they love--
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They love to hear these messages.
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But anytime someone says, "well, i don't want any of this,"
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That person has never learned what the bible teaches
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In these 2,000 verses.
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Last--two weeks ago, we read nine of them.
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I could have read all 2,000 of them,
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But i read 9 of them.
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And they say over and over like this verse
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In luke chapter 6, it said, "jesus said."
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Everybody say "jesus," just so you know,
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These are his words.
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These are not your pastor's words.
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These are jesus's words.
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Jesus said, "give, and it will be given to you.
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A good measure," i think of these baskets,
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"pressed down," whatever you put in there,
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Press down.
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He shakes it, gets all the air out,
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Puts some more in there, shakes it
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Till eventually it's running over,
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And then he pours that back into your lap,
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And jesus said, "for the measure you use,"
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If you use a little shovel, that's what he'll give you.
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Use a big shovel, he'll use a big shovel.
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Whatever measure you use, he's gonna use that
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To measure back to you.
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Now that principle's in the word of god.
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The question that we're asking:
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Is god reliable?
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Is god honorable?
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Will god be a debtor?
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Is god gonna be in debt to you like he owes you?
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Or is god true to his word?
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When i was a kid growing up, in front of our house,
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And i'm not talking about a little bit,
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In front of the entire house, we had these evergreen bushes.
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And they were nasty.
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And they had these bagworms growing on them.
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And my dad hated those bagworms because you can actually look,
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I was going to show you another picture.
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The bagworms end up destroying the tree.
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So you got to get rid of the bagworms.
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Dad would pay us, this is true,
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He would pay us one penny for every bagworm.
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And it was nasty because it was scratchy.
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You'd put your hand in there, it'd be cobwebs.
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You'd be sometimes even bleeding when you were finished,
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And sometimes that bagworm wouldn't come off.
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But some, it's like picking fruit.
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Some, it just won't come off and you had to
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Really yank it down, then you would squeeze it
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Too hard and the ends, like pus would come out.
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It was like a purple, and the worm would be there.
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It'd be all over your hand. it stunk.
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And i'm the middle of the five children,
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I'm the normal one, the hardworking one.
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I'd go out and i'd pick 100 of those.
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I'd pick 200 of them.
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I'd get--they didn't have plastic sacks
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Back in those days.
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They were paper sacks just like they have today,
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Except they didn't charge you.
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And i'd get that paper sack.
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Now you say, "that's a lot of work
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For just $1."
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Back in those days, you could buy a snickers bar
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For a nickel.
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Not a quarter, a nickel.
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It's a lot of candy for $1 back in those days.
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So i'd go out there and there was one time
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I picked 250 of those, literally.
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There were thousands of them,
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And they grew back every summer.
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And dad didn't want them, so i'd go out there
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And i'd count, one, two, three.
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Like, i'd get 10, and, you know, 2 of them broke open
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And i think, "well, dad owes me a dime, 11."
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I'd keep going and i'd get all the way to,
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Like, 250, and i'd go inside my house.
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I was covered in this stuff.
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I had that paper sack. mom hated it.
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I walk in, i said, "dad, i got 250."
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He owes me $2.50.
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I want to ask you what kind of a dad
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Would i have if he said, "son, i'll pay you a penny
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For each one," and i went out
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And did all that work, and i came in and showed him
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And gave him a sack full of these bagworms,
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And my dad said to me, "son, i'm not gonna give you
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Anything for that."
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What kind of a dad would he be?
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He'd be untrustworthy.
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I'd never believe another word he ever said to me.
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He'd be a crook is what he'd be.
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He was already tight.
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And in that same way, i just want to ask the question,
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What kind of a god would god be
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If his son jesus says, "if you give--
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Whatever measure you give,
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That same measure will be pressed down,
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Shaken down, running over.
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I'll pour that right back in your--" what kind of a god
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Would god be if he didn't keep his word?
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The question is, is god reliable?
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Is god trustworthy?
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Write this down. the answer is yes.
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The answer is yes.
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Turn to your neighbor and say, "god is a gentleman.
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God keeps his word."
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The second question is, "can you thank god?"
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Turn to your neighbor and say, "can you thank god?"
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I don't even concern myself.
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I don't even concern myself with me trusting god.
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But the question is, can we trust, can we thank god?
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There are many elements when we give,
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And one of the key elements is that that offering
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Is saying thank you to god.
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The psalmist wrote in 1:16, verse 17, he wrote,
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"i will sacrifice," and that's-- this is actually in the bible,
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"a thank offering to you
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And call on the name of the lord."
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In 1 chronicles chapter 29, when they
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Were building the temple, they said,
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"wealth and honor come from you;
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And you are the ruler of all things.
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And in your hands
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Are strength and power to exalt and to give strength to all.
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Now, our god, we give you thanks,
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And we praise your glorious name."
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There's a very basic tenet or purpose when we give,
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There's an element of worship, that it's a part of our worship.
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Jesus said, "wherever your treasure is,
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Your heart will follow."
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Some of you think it's just the opposite.
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You think that where your heart goes,
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Your treasure will follow.
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Jesus said, "no, no, no, no.
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Wherever your treasure is,
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That's where your heart follows."
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You know, i want to share this,
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And i've shared this before, but just in the context,
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Here at our church, we have not even
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Passed an offering plate since 2020.
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That's six years.
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So if somebody says, "well, that's all you talk about,"
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What are you talking about?
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We haven't even talked about this
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For maybe seven years in our church.
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We have not even passed an offering plate in--
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Since 2020.
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Now, what happened back in 2020?
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What happened back there?
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Covid.
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And as you know, there was this thing going around
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And the governor deemed the church as non-essential,
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And the governor shut all the churches
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In the state of california.
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And we were shut.
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We were shut for just a couple of weeks.
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This is all very important that you understand this.
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We shut down
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Before the governor gave his edict,
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Because we didn't know what was going on,
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We just wanted to be safe.
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And at the time, i said, "we're not gonna open
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When he says we're gonna open;
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We're gonna open when we feel it's right to open.
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We're not gonna let him dictate to us
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When we're open and we're closed.
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That's just, that's not even possible."
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So, he-- they shut all the churches down.
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So we--just a few weeks we were shut
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And a couple of things happened.
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One, i got a letter from a lady in the church
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Who had a 11-year-old daughter, and her daughter was in the--
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She said her daughter was in the hospital
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For suicide ideation, as 11-year-old.
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And she said, "they've shut down the schools
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And they've shut down the churches."
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And she goes, "pastor, my child needs to be around people."
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And so that was on my heart.
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That same week, the exact same week,
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We had called up-- we had actually called
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The governor's office, because they know
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Who we are down here.
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I don't think he realizes that it's 110 degrees outside
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In the summer in the valley.
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He lives up there in sacramento.
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It's 110 degrees out here in the summer, right?
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And we had called and we'd asked him
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Because he had this edict that came down.
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And if you don't know this, it's true
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And you can look it up.
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And if it's not true, you can call me a liar,
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But it's true.
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He had this edict that when you meet as a church,
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You cannot sing.
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There's no singing allowed.
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And he said, specifically, you cannot say
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The lord's prayer.
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And for whatever reason, that's him.
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So we're trying to set up outside.
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We're going to put the screen up,
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We're going to put--that's where the screen came from
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Out there.
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And we're gonna have outside,
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We're gonna socially distance people.
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So we call his office and we ask him this question:
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"can we meet, if we're outside,
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It's 100--it's 110 degrees here in the valley in the summer,
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And we're gonna socially distance,
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And if we have mask on, socially distanced,
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Can we sing and can we say the lord's prayer?"
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We asked them.
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And you can hear him talking on the phone...
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They're talking.
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Guy comes back, picks up the phone and says,
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"we're sorry.
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Even if you're outdoors,
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Even if you're socially distanced,
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Even if you're wearing a mask, and even socially distanced,"
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He said, "you cannot sing and you cannot say
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The lord's prayer."
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We got that response the same week
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I got this letter from this lady about her daughter.
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And i said to the staff, "we're opening up the church.
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Nobody--nobody-- nobody has to come.
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But if you want to come--" of course,
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I'd come here every day.
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Starbucks would be full, grocery store full.
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Nordstrom's rack is full over there,
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All that stuff's essential.
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But the church, i would be here
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And not one single car in this parking lot,
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And we're only open, like, really, one day a week
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And that was every day i'd see that parking lot
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Full of cars and i said, "you know what?
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People are out and about doing what they want.
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I'm gonna open up the doors. i don't care who comes."
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And the church, we had-- we went from 10,000 to 3,000.
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Seven thousand people disappeared like that,
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Just gone, stopped coming.
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So what we did is we opened up all the doors.
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We had what's called a no-touch service.
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We opened up the doors, we opened up
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The bathroom doors, and we have not passed
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An offering plate since 2020.
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I don't even know how we're open.
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The only way we are open, and just so you know,
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There is not a tree out back that grows money on it.
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Some of you think that.
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How does the church remain open?
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How do we do all the things we do?
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Well, people give online.
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People don't really bring cash, carry cash with them
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Much anymore today.
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And so we've always made it possible,
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Not even in service, really.
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I think that they might have just done that.
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But that's how we've survived the last six,
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Seven years.
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And the--here's the problem.
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Your offering should be a part of your worship.
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That was the purpose of it.
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When i picked those 250 bagworms,
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My mom would teach me how to get
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A quarter of that belongs to god, dudley,
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And she would put it in a little envelope
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And i would literally carry that to church with me.
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And we've lost that part of our giving
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Because there should be a sense of thankfulness for your life.
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I'm thankful, god, for my family.
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I'm thankful for the church. i'm thankful for the bible.
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I'm thankful for the holy spirit.
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Thank you for your provision.
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I thank you, god, that you fed me,
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That you clothed me.
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I was asleep last night.
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You didn't have to wake me up today, god,
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But you woke me up today.
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You gave me another day of life,
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And you keep me, and you love me.
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And you're faithful to never leave me,
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You're faithful to never forsake me,
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And most importantly, you sent your son jesus
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To die for me.
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And so what we give, in a sense, and i want you
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To think about this when you walk in here,
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Everything about you is a sense of gratitude.
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Your hands, michael talked about,
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You raise your hands
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And you're saying, "god, thank you,
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And god, i belong to you."
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And with your voice, the voice that god gave you,
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You praise.
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You offer up praise, you sing songs of praise.
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You offer up words of thanksgiving to god,
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And in all the deeds that we do, we say, "god,
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With everything i do, help what i do
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To bring glory to you, and with my life,
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The life that you give me, god,
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I hope that i can serve you and i pray
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That all of my prayers that i pray, god,
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I pray as though i'm dependent upon you.
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And in my prayers, i'm expressing my gratitude
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To you.
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And with the offering that i bring,
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It's a reflection of my gratitude for you."
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It's all--it all goes together.
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It's all a part of your worship, all of it.
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Jesus said in matthew 6:19: "do not store up for yourselves
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Treasures on earth," that's what we all do.
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Jesus said, "don't store up for yourselves
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Treasures on earth, where rust and moth will destroy,
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Where thieves break in and steal.
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Instead," verse 20, "store up for yourselves
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Treasures up there in heaven, where moth and rust
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Do not destroy, where thieves do not break in
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And steal."
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Yes, it's a part of worship. write that down.
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Secondly, you are storing up treasures in heaven.
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And honestly, i don't even know what that means.
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I know what treasure on earth, so i mean, we do that.
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We do that every day.
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But somehow what we give, we're storing up.
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There is something up there that is--
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That he's going to return to us.
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It's a treasure in heaven.
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But number three, in the third bullet there,
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Write this down.
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This is what i want you to get, is that you are sowing,
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You are supporting the local church.
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We literally have hundreds of ministries
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Where we serve this community.
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I can't even tell you how many different organizations
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We're involved in are feeding the hungry
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And the poor and the homeless.
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We have an event here called--
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It's the largest event in america
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For foster care children.
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There's, like, 26 different organizations.
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We bring them all together. we take care of everything.
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Now, i want to ask you a question.
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Do you think that we charge-- do you think
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We should charge the foster care kids
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To show up here?
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Like, we're going to charge you $20 each to come here.
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We're gonna-- we got a big thing planned,
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But we want to charge $20 each for each of you to come.
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No, we do this year after year after year.
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You should be here.
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This campus is covered with kids all over this city
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That think that nobody cares about them.
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And we host that evening and give them gifts and food
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And games and bouncers out there.
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They leave here
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Thinking it's the greatest day of their life.
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It's just one of a hundred different ministries
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That we have here at our church.
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We also have helped start-- this year,
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We've helped start churches in kansas city.
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We've helped the church in moorpark get started.
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We've helped freedom church.
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They're trying to get into a new facility.
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There's a church out in ventura
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Called mission church that wouldn't even be there
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Had we not supported them from the beginning.
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There's a brand-new church in burbank
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Called antioch church.
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There was a guy that was in prison,
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A life in prison.
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His name's casey diaz.
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Somehow he got out, started coming to this church.
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God put it on his heart to start a brand-new church
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In burbank called antioch church.
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And we were, like, the first church to get in
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On supporting his new work there in burbank.
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There's a church down in san diego
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Called new vintage church that we helped get started.
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There's a church in florida called restoration church.
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There's a church in hawaii that we're helping.
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There's a group in orange county,
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A young kid that i know named tyler oakson,
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Who's got all these--
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Got hundreds of young people meeting on friday nights
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And worshiping, we're a part of that.
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I was with a guy last week.
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We're helping start a brand-new church
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Called riverland church in brisbane, australia.
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A young guy named john cameron,
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Who's already agreed to come and preach for our revival,
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So you can meet him.
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You won't understand a word he says either,
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But john is one of the most dynamic,
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Gifted speakers in the-- on the entire globe.
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He's going to start a church.
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You trust me, in ten years from now,
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It will be one of the largest churches on the planet earth,
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And we support churches like this
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All over the country.
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We also helped raise a million dollars
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During the fires, the altadena fires
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And the brentwood fires.
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$1 million our church helped raise.
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Pastor dudley: oh, i hope you were blessed
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By today's message.
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As i told you earlier, it's listening
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To the teaching and preaching from god's word
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On a regular basis that makes such a powerful difference
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In our lives.
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So let's plan on being here again next week,
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Same place, same time, what do you think about that?
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And if you're ever in the southern california area,
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We would love to meet you
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On a saturday night or a sunday morning
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Here at shepherd church.
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It's an amazing community that will have
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A powerful and positive impact on your life.
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You can find all the service times
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And locations on our website at liftupjesus.com.
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And in the meantime, i want to encourage you
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That whatever you're doing and wherever you're going,
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Don't forget to always, come on, do it with me,
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Lift up jesus.
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Pastor dudley: hey, it's pastor dudley rutherford
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Here at lift up jesus radio and television ministry,
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And i wanna thank you
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For being a part of this ministry,
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Listening here today.
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Our desire is to take the gospel
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To the entire world, not just to your city
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And not just to your house, but to every city
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And to every house.
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And in order to do that, we need people like you
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Who believe in this ministry
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To come alongside us and to support us faithfully
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With their prayers,
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With their finances, with the word of mouth.
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You can share this on social media,
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But we need people like you who would seriously consider
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Becoming a partner with us.
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Go to our website, liftupjesus.com.
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There's a button there that says, "partner with us."
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We ask that you could do anything you possibly can
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To help this ministry reach the four corners of this world.
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God bless each and every one of you here today.
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Michael north: research proves that it's the regular hearing
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And teaching of the word of god
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That takes our christian life to a new level.
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That's why we invite you to meet dudley rutherford every week
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On this station for another powerful message
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Straight from the bible.
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You can also visit liftupjesus.com to sign up
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For a monthly email devotional, discover pastor dudley's books
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And other resources, and see our national tv
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And radio schedule.
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And don't hesitate to reach out on the phone or online.
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Pastor dudley has a passion and vision to reach more people
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With the message of hope.
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And if you'd like to partner with us to touch the world,
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We'd love to hear from you.
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Your financial gift will do so much to help us impact
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The nations for christ.
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And if you're ever in the southern california area,
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We invite you to visit us at shepherd church
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Here in los angeles.
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It's an amazing experience you'll never forget.
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Until next time, remember to always lift up jesus.
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Dudley Rutherford - Can You? (Part 1)

June 24, 2026 | 27:29

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