Pastor Bobby Chandler has found hope in Jesus and wants as many people as possible to experience that exact same freedom.
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Bobby Chandler: Authentic Church | Bobby Chandler - Did God Say That? (Part 1) | October 15, 2025
- Maybe god is telling you to start a business.
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- That's something you've never dreamed of doing before.
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- You've never been in management, but god is choosing you.
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- He has confirmed it.
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- You have heard it by the holy spirit.
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- Now it's time to move by faith. and you had that.
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- Maybe that one sunday when you came down to the altar.
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- God confirmed it and you surrendered it over to him.
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- You're ready to move by faith.
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- So every week i've been praying
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- And listening to the lord our god.
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- What do you want me to preach on today?
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- And i just heard this one specific thing from the lord.
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- I'm. i'm telling you, i'm so excited about today
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- Because this message is going to be so good.
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- But before we dive into the word,
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- Let me get you thinking, okay, i got a little set
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- Up, a little illustration here. all right.
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- But what do you do when you know without a doubt
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- That god has spoken to you by the holy spirit
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- To do something out of your comfort zone?
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- Okay.
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- So maybe god is telling you to move to a different city, right?
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- That's risky.
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- You're afraid you don't have anything lined up,
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- But you believe that the lord is speaking to you
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- And he has confirmed it.
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- Maybe god is telling you to start a business.
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- That's something you've never dreamed of doing before.
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- You've never been in management, but god is choosing you.
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- He has confirmed it.
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- You have heard it by the holy spirit.
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- Now it's time to move by faith.
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- And you had that.
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- Maybe that one sunday when you came down to the altar.
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- God confirmed it and you surrendered it over to him.
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- You're ready to move by faith.
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- But then here's where it gets complicated.
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- You go to the people that you love,
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- The people that you trust and listen.
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- The people who also hear from the lord.
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- And you go to them excited.
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- Listen to what the lord told me and what i need to do.
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- And they look at you like you're crazy.
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- I don't think god told you to do that.
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- Like, i don't think god told you to go there.
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- I just don't know if this really came from the lord.
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- Anybody been there before?
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- But, you know, like it's been confirmed.
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- I heard you, god.
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- I heard the holy spirit.
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- God has confirmed it.
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- But now i feel torn because the people that i love
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- Are telling me to stand still.
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- What do you do?
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- The title of today's message is this.
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- Did god say that?
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- Did god really say that?
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- They gotta tell me to move because i'm willing to move.
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- But i need to know.
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- And if that's where you are today
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- And you feel a little stuck,
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- I'm gonna give you some background information.
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- I'm going to talk about a man named paul.
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- And if you have your bibles, you can turn to acts chapter 21.
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- A man named paul.
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- Because in paul's journey,
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- You know, at the beginning of his journey,
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- He was a zealot for god.
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- He was a pharisee of pharisees, meaning he persecuted
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- Believers, okay.
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- He would persecute believers. he would try to kill christians.
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- He would travel from city to city to go after these people
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- Until finally on the road to damascus,
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- He had this divine intervention with jesus showing up
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- On the road to damascus, blinding him, humbling paul
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- So that he would turn his life around.
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- Sometimes god has to meet with you in such a way to humble you,
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- For you to turn your life around and to follow him.
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- Right? and so we thank god for that.
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- It's not easy,
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- But god may humble you so that your life can turn
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- Towards a different direction and completely change.
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- So he went from persecuting believers to now promoting
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- And preaching the gospel.
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- Now, some of you right now, this is encouraging
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- Because it means it doesn't matter where you come from,
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- What past mistakes that you have made.
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- God can change your story, right?
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- How god can use you right now to preach to other people,
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- To be used by the kingdom of god to glorify jesus christ.
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- But listen, it also takes time for people to trust you.
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- I think we need to understand that
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- We get frustrated sometimes, but i'm changed.
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- I'm not who i used to be, i get that,
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- But i allow other people to see the fruit
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- Because, again, paul was known as a persecutor of believers.
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- It took time.
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- Imagine the discussions. paul.
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- You mean saul, the one that was killing everybody.
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- You want me to allow him into my house
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- To preach the good news?
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- That's what god can do.
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- The people that would never allow you
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- In their house before is now inviting you
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- To come into their home to encourage them.
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- It's amazing what god can do in your life.
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- But he knew this, okay,
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- As soon as he gave his life over to jesus.
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- And so god completely changed his life.
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- And now we fast forward to acts chapter 21.
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- And in acts chapter 21,
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- We see paul going from city to city,
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- And he is encouraging the churches.
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- He's speaking to believers, he's preaching, he's doing
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- His thing.
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- But then he also
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- Tells them, listen, loved ones.
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- I also heard from the holy spirit,
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- And the holy spirit is telling me
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- To go into jerusalem.
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- Now he tells these believers about this.
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- And what do they say?
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- His friends, people that he trusts, including luke,
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- Who wrote the book of acts and wrote the book of luke.
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- Luke is there,
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- And all of them are looking at paul, saying, no, paul,
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- You can't do that.
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- You can't go to jerusalem.
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- If you go to jerusalem, you're going to be hurt.
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- You're going to be hurt. you're going to suffer.
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- Listen, there's no way god can be in that.
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- Understand that how people think sometimes, okay?
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- They're thinking that they are protecting paul
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- Because he's about to face a hardship.
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- He's about to suffer.
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- If he goes into jerusalem.
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- So they're thinking, alright, we gotta protect our friend.
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- But they don't understand what god is speaking into paul's
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- Life. they're trying to stop him.
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- They don't understand
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- The puzzle piece that only paul has in his life.
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- And so they tell him, paul, paul, this can't be
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- God's will for you.
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- This can't be god's will for you.
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- And so now,
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- Paul in this story is caught in an emotional dilemma,
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- Like a lot of us are.
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- God, i heard you, but everybody around me is telling me no.
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- And these are people i trust.
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- These are people i love.
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- These are people that hear from you.
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- They're telling me not to go.
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- But i feel like you told me to go.
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- What do you do?
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- Have you ever been there before?
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- Maybe you're there right now.
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- How do i know what the lord is telling me?
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- And so you can obey the voice of god.
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- And in this case, you can walk into suffering and pain,
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- Or you can listen to the people that you do love
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- Have good intentions for you, but they're also holding
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- You back.
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- And i want to make this very clear, okay?
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- Because what i want to unpack is this what came from god.
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- Okay.
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- What is god actually speaking to you compared
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- To what someone else is?
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- Fear is speaking over you.
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- Because let me make it very clear,
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- Sometimes other people's fear, even with good intentions, can,
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- Pretend to be wisdom.
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- Their
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- Fear can pretend to be wisdom
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- Because they're not hearing from the lord.
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- So again, we're going to ask the question, did god say that?
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- And i got to be honest with you.
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- Like, i wish someone
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- Would have preached this message years ago for me
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- Going into ministry.
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- I got some spiritual nuggets to share with you today.
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- All right, so enjoy!
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- The happy meal is coming,
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- But i want us to dive
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- Into the word of god, because i promise you,
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- A lot of us are experiencing this emotional dilemma.
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- Did god really say that?
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- So again, if you have your bibles, turn to acts chapter 21.
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- We'll be looking at verses one through six.
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- Now this is describing paul's journey here.
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- And it states this after saying farewell to the ephesian church
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- Or the ephesian elders,
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- We sail straight to the island, of course,
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- And the next day we reached roads and then the patina.
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- Then we boarded a ship sailing to phoenicia.
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- We sighted the island of cyprus, passed it on our left,
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- Landed at the harbor of tire and syria,
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- Where the ship was to unload its cargo.
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- Okay. all right. now pay attention.
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- This is really good right here. now, listen to this.
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- We went ashore.
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- We found local believers.
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- We stayed with them a week.
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- But the believers did what?
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- Though?
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- They prophesied through the holy spirit.
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- Underline that right there.
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- These believers prophesied through the holy spirit
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- That paul should go to jerusalem.
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- Oh, wait a minute. oh,
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- They prophesied by the holy spirit
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- That paul should not go
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- To jerusalem.
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- But yet paul is telling them, the holy spirit has already
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- Spoken to me, and god has clearly told me to go to
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- Jerusalem.
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- Maybe it's just one encounter,
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- Like, ever had that happen?
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- Oh, okay. this person just doesn't understand.
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- Like, thank you for your advice.
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- Thank you for trying to help me.
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- I didn't ask for it, but, you know, thank you.
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- And i'm going to go on my way.
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- But it doesn't just happen once for paul.
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- It keeps happening over and over again with other believers
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- Who hear from god, who had credibility of hearing from god.
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- Look at verses 10 to 14 several days later, okay?
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- A man named agger busse, who also had the gift
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- Of prophecy, arrived from judea.
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- He came over and he took paul's belt.
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- Now, that to me is kind of interesting.
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- Like, how did that go down?
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- Like give me your belt. like my belt. you want.
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- You want my belt right now? yeah, yeah.
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- Give me your belt. he starts binding
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- His legs and his hands together.
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- And so again, he has this reputation of being a prophet
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- Speaking prophecy.
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- And he came over to paul, got his belt bound, his own feet
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- And hands with it.
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- Then he said, the holy spirit declares,
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- So shall the owner of this belt
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- Be bound by the jewish leaders in jerusalem,
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- And turned it over and turned over to the gentiles.
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- Imagine you bought tickets.
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- You're ready for the adventure.
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- You're about to take the flight,
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- And somebody comes up to you that has a reputation
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- Of hearing from god, takes your belt,
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- Says, listen, you're going to be bound.
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- Like, where are you going? it's going to hurt.
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- It's going to you're going to suffer.
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- It's not going to be good for you. and then what happens?
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- Your friends are look at the story here.
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- When we heard this, the believers,
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- The christians, including luke is here.
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- Okay.
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- When we heard this, we and the local believers,
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- All begged paul not
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- To go to jerusalem.
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- Don't go.
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- We don't want you to go.
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- There good intentions
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- And it seems like everything is backing up.
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- What they're saying.
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- Let's be honest for a second.
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- Would you be confused here?
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- God, did you really say.
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- Because i'm ready to risk it all.
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- I'm ready to hurt.
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- But you're telling me not to go?
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- They're challenging me
- 00:11:16.765 --> 00:11:17.999
- Right now, and they're saying that they're hearing from you.
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- They're saying that they've heard your voice.
- 00:11:21.703 --> 00:11:23.171
- But paul knew we're going to talk about this.
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- Paul knew what the lord has spoken to him already.
- 00:11:26.241 --> 00:11:29.211
- But he said, meaning, paul, why all this weeping?
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- Why are you crying for me?
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- Now listen to this.
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- You're breaking my heart.
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- I'm ready.
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- This is the wording here.
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- We'll tackle this in a minute.
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- I'm ready not only to be judged
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- At jerusalem, but even to die
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- For the sake of the lord jesus christ.
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- I'm ready.
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- And then he states here,
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- When it was clear that we couldn't persuade him,
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- We couldn't persuade paul to change his mind.
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- We gave up and we said, let the lord's will
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- Be done.
- 00:12:10.051 --> 00:12:12.254
- This is an amazing story.
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- Have you ever noticed it out of the bible?
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- I feel like it's not preached enough
- 00:12:15.157 --> 00:12:16.725
- Because i have been through this so many times,
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- And i believe that you have been through this so many times.
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- In fact, some of you are here right now.
- 00:12:22.130 --> 00:12:24.466
- God, did you really tell me to do this?
- 00:12:24.466 --> 00:12:27.602
- So what paul does, he pops up and he goes to jerusalem
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- And everything that was spoken over him came to pass.
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- He was bound up by the jewish leaders.
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- He was handed over to the gentiles.
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- Eventually he dies.
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- Everything that was spoken over him came true.
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- But he gets up and he heads to jerusalem.
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- Any way,
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- Because he was that certain that the lord had spoken
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- Over his life, and he went against the
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- Advice of many godly friends,
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- How they had it.
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- Paul had the strength to do this.
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- I want that strength.
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- I want that faith.
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- I want to make sure that i'm clearly hearing from the lord.
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- We see revelation
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- In the previous chapter about paul heard
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- From the lord, as it's called in acts chapter 20,
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- Verses 22 through 24.
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- Listen to the warning here.
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- I'm bound
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- By the spirit.
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- Paul says, i am bound by the spirit,
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- The holy spirit, to go to jerusalem.
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- Notice what he's saying here.
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- I don't know what awaits me.
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- You know what paul is saying.
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- I don't have all the answers.
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- People are asking me.
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- I have no idea.
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- Except this.
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- The holy spirit does, tells them, tells me that in city
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- After city that jail and suffering
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- Lies ahead for me.
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- What did you do there?
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- You have answers.
- 00:14:00.862 --> 00:14:02.964
- The only thing that you've heard from the lord is go here
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- And you're going to suffer.
- 00:14:05.333 --> 00:14:08.904
- What do you do?
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- He says, my life is worth nothing to me
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- Unless i use it for finishing the work assigned to me
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- By the lord jesus.
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- The work of telling others the good news
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- About the wonderful grace of god.
- 00:14:23.084 --> 00:14:26.021
- Paul is stating, i don't care if i suffer.
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- I don't care if i'm damaged, i don't care
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- Who talks bad about me.
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- I don't care about my reputation.
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- I don't care to please people.
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- I'm here to please
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- God, and i will go wherever the lord is telling me to go.
- 00:14:37.032 --> 00:14:40.835
- I already know it's going to be hard.
- 00:14:41.670 --> 00:14:44.306
- God revealed that to me, but i'm ready to step.
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- I'm ready to walk
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- In to the purpose that god has for me.
- 00:14:49.344 --> 00:14:52.480
- How can we be as certain as paul?
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- How can we have that clarity when other people are telling us
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- Otherwise?
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- And so all the no takers in the room
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- And go ahead and write down point number one, which is this.
- 00:15:03.091 --> 00:15:05.627
- And i pray that this blesses you today. all right.
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- God's word is the filter, not your feelings.
- 00:15:07.896 --> 00:15:12.600
- We need to learn this.
- 00:15:13.068 --> 00:15:14.536
- God's word is the filter, not your feelings.
- 00:15:14.536 --> 00:15:16.504
- Everybody say this with me.
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- God's word is my standard,
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- Not how i feel.
- 00:15:21.409 --> 00:15:23.545
- Do you know somebody right now that is emotionally overtaken
- 00:15:23.545 --> 00:15:27.615
- By their feelings?
- 00:15:28.049 --> 00:15:29.384
- Whenever they get angry,
- 00:15:29.384 --> 00:15:30.585
- Everybody in the room is going to know.
- 00:15:30.585 --> 00:15:32.454
- Whenever they're depressed, everybody's going to feel it.
- 00:15:32.454 --> 00:15:35.490
- Your anger gets the best of you.
- 00:15:35.490 --> 00:15:36.992
- Grabs ahold of your mouth.
- 00:15:36.992 --> 00:15:38.126
- You no longer can control your emotions.
- 00:15:38.126 --> 00:15:41.129
- You lose it.
- 00:15:41.129 --> 00:15:42.230
- Listen, the bible teaches us spiritual discipline.
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- God created you to feel.
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- Your emotions are the bad thing.
- 00:15:47.902 --> 00:15:49.371
- They're valid in what you're going through.
- 00:15:49.371 --> 00:15:51.573
- But just because you feel fear
- 00:15:51.573 --> 00:15:53.475
- Doesn't mean you give in to fear.
- 00:15:53.475 --> 00:15:54.909
- That's why we have faith.
- 00:15:54.909 --> 00:15:56.444
- Okay, so the bible teaches us that by faith, by trusting
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- Jesus, by giving jesus our anger,
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- We can actually overcome the emotions
- 00:16:02.650 --> 00:16:04.986
- That want to control your life.
- 00:16:04.986 --> 00:16:06.054
- And listen to me that want to ruin your life.
- 00:16:06.054 --> 00:16:08.757
- Because how many relationships have been ruined over
- 00:16:08.757 --> 00:16:11.192
- One thing you said out of anger?
- 00:16:11.192 --> 00:16:13.695
- In a moment of anger, everything can change.
- 00:16:13.695 --> 00:16:16.531
- The bible is very clear about this.
- 00:16:16.531 --> 00:16:18.733
- Proverbs chapter 14, verse 12.
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- There is a path before each person that seems right.
- 00:16:20.969 --> 00:16:25.373
- Let me reword this.
- 00:16:25.840 --> 00:16:26.975
- There's a path that feels right.
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- This feels right.
- 00:16:29.844 --> 00:16:31.279
- This feels good to me.
- 00:16:31.279 --> 00:16:32.247
- I think this is the route i need to take.
- 00:16:32.247 --> 00:16:33.982
- But it ends where it ends.
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- In death,
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- Spiritual death,
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- Death, relationships, even physical death
- 00:16:38.653 --> 00:16:41.289
- When you were running away from god.
- 00:16:41.289 --> 00:16:43.625
- And it's very easy,
- 00:16:43.625 --> 00:16:44.692
- Though, to say, but it feels right to listen.
- 00:16:44.692 --> 00:16:48.463
- God has checked me on that too.
- 00:16:48.463 --> 00:16:50.465
- I'm a faithful man. we are.
- 00:16:50.465 --> 00:16:51.699
- Our team is a faithful team.
- 00:16:51.699 --> 00:16:53.201
- We get excited, we're like, yeah, this feels right.
- 00:16:53.201 --> 00:16:55.470
- All right, but slow down.
- 00:16:55.470 --> 00:16:58.640
- I love that i have some amazing, godly people in my life
- 00:16:58.640 --> 00:17:02.677
- That lovingly tell me sometimes slow down,
- 00:17:02.677 --> 00:17:05.780
- Do you have that you need it?
- 00:17:06.414 --> 00:17:09.284
- Because all of us, we deal with impatience, being impulsive.
- 00:17:09.284 --> 00:17:11.886
- Right?
- 00:17:11.886 --> 00:17:13.054
- But but god said, okay, okay, slow down the slow down.
- 00:17:13.054 --> 00:17:15.790
- Let's really clearly hear from the lord and god have said this.
- 00:17:15.790 --> 00:17:19.327
- Then we move by faith because even though
- 00:17:19.327 --> 00:17:22.163
- Sometimes it feels right, doesn't mean it is right.
- 00:17:22.163 --> 00:17:25.600
- Just because it
- 00:17:25.967 --> 00:17:27.001
- Feels right in the moment doesn't make it right.
- 00:17:27.001 --> 00:17:29.904
- Because guess what?
- 00:17:29.904 --> 00:17:31.172
- It felt right for the believers to go up to paul and say, paul,
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- Don't go to jerusalem.
- 00:17:33.174 --> 00:17:35.276
- If you go to jerusalem, you're going to suffer.
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- Don't go to jerusalem.
- 00:17:36.945 --> 00:17:38.012
- It can't be god's will for you.
- 00:17:38.012 --> 00:17:40.248
- You my friend, and you love god.
- 00:17:40.248 --> 00:17:43.618
- Why would god want to see you hurt,
- 00:17:43.618 --> 00:17:46.588
- See you through pain?
- 00:17:46.588 --> 00:17:49.124
- You know, jesus told his disciples over and over again
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- That he would go into jerusalem,
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- And they never understood
- 00:17:55.063 --> 00:17:57.298
- Until after jesus rose from the cross.
- 00:17:57.298 --> 00:17:58.967
- And the holy spirit comes into the life and
- 00:17:58.967 --> 00:18:00.735
- And the holy spirit's fulness, then then they understand.
- 00:18:00.735 --> 00:18:03.204
- But for the longest time jesus told them over
- 00:18:03.204 --> 00:18:05.273
- And over again, i must suffer to save you.
- 00:18:05.273 --> 00:18:07.709
- I must go into jerusalem to save you.
- 00:18:07.709 --> 00:18:09.811
- And they tried to stop him.
- 00:18:09.811 --> 00:18:10.845
- Peter tried to stop him.
- 00:18:10.845 --> 00:18:11.946
- How many times have people try to stop you
- 00:18:11.946 --> 00:18:13.681
- Because they don't understand, even though they love you?
- 00:18:13.681 --> 00:18:17.285
- And so we got to hear from the lord.
- 00:18:18.052 --> 00:18:20.388
- But in acts chapter 20, verses 22 to 24, remember,
- 00:18:20.388 --> 00:18:24.259
- Paul said, i'm bound by the holy spirit.
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- Okay? he told me to go.
- 00:18:26.828 --> 00:18:28.530
- I know that i'm going to suffer. how did paul hear this?
- 00:18:28.530 --> 00:18:31.299
- He heard it in his private prayer room.
- 00:18:31.299 --> 00:18:35.603
- It wasn't public.
- 00:18:36.037 --> 00:18:38.006
- It wasn't in a church setting.
- 00:18:38.006 --> 00:18:39.974
- It wasn't this prophetic voice
- 00:18:39.974 --> 00:18:41.576
- Where everybody heard, okay, paul is going to suffer.
- 00:18:41.576 --> 00:18:43.678
- No, he heard it from the lord in a private setting.
- 00:18:43.678 --> 00:18:47.115
- I know what god spoke to me.
- 00:18:47.115 --> 00:18:50.652
- God speaks to us all like a puzzle
- 00:18:51.419 --> 00:18:53.755
- Is a big picture, speaks to a lot of people at once.
- 00:18:53.755 --> 00:18:56.991
- But it's in your private prayer life that you receive a piece
- 00:18:56.991 --> 00:18:59.394
- That nobody else has because it's specifically for you.
- 00:18:59.394 --> 00:19:04.465
- And again, this is confirmed in acts chapter 20.
- 00:19:04.465 --> 00:19:07.035
- This is where you heard the lord
- 00:19:07.669 --> 00:19:10.104
- And the presence of god by himself.
- 00:19:10.104 --> 00:19:11.573
- But we see in proverbs 14 verse 12 that a path
- 00:19:11.573 --> 00:19:13.942
- Seems right, feels right, but it can lead to destruction.
- 00:19:13.942 --> 00:19:17.812
- All right. so we have to be in god's word.
- 00:19:18.680 --> 00:19:19.948
- All right. let's ask another big question, though, okay.
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- Does god still speak to us today?
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- The answer is yes.
- 00:19:26.254 --> 00:19:28.590
- We are afraid. yes, yes, we can say it out loud.
- 00:19:28.590 --> 00:19:31.226
- God speaks to us today.
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- Hallelujah!
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- Here at church
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- We know and we believe god still speaks to us today.
- 00:19:34.696 --> 00:19:37.232
- He can speak to us by his word.
- 00:19:37.232 --> 00:19:39.267
- He can speak to us through other people to bring confirmation
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- Into our life.
- 00:19:42.303 --> 00:19:43.104
- He can speak to us supernaturally.
- 00:19:43.104 --> 00:19:45.173
- He can speak to us in visions
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- And dreams and supernatural ways.
- 00:19:46.874 --> 00:19:49.077
- God can speak to you any way he wants to speak to you.
- 00:19:49.077 --> 00:19:52.247
- And there are people that try to say, you know, no,
- 00:19:52.247 --> 00:19:53.781
- God can speak anymore.
- 00:19:53.781 --> 00:19:54.983
- There's nothing in the bible that says that. by the way,
- 00:19:54.983 --> 00:19:57.218
- There was not one part in the bible that says
- 00:19:58.152 --> 00:20:00.922
- God has changed his mind,
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- And he decided no longer that he needs to speak to us.
- 00:20:03.191 --> 00:20:05.893
- In fact, the bible says god never changes.
- 00:20:05.893 --> 00:20:08.496
- His character stays the same.
- 00:20:08.496 --> 00:20:10.064
- He's the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
- 00:20:10.064 --> 00:20:13.001
- God's not going to look at you and be like, you know what?
- 00:20:13.001 --> 00:20:15.536
- Y'all are too hard headed.
- 00:20:15.536 --> 00:20:17.472
- I'm not going to speak to you anymore.
- 00:20:17.472 --> 00:20:19.574
- I don't want to speak to you're not in any way.
- 00:20:19.574 --> 00:20:21.342
- I'm going to do my own thing. a lot of us will do that.
- 00:20:21.342 --> 00:20:24.045
- But god doesn't change that.
- 00:20:24.045 --> 00:20:25.813
- He continues to speak to us today.
- 00:20:25.813 --> 00:20:28.049
- Nothing in the bible says that he stopped speaking.
- 00:20:28.049 --> 00:20:29.917
- In fact, the bible actually states that he will speak more
- 00:20:29.917 --> 00:20:32.854
- In the end days.
- 00:20:33.254 --> 00:20:34.889
- Guess what?
- 00:20:34.889 --> 00:20:36.224
- We're living in the end days,
- 00:20:36.224 --> 00:20:38.626
- We're getting closer and closer to the return of jesus.
- 00:20:38.626 --> 00:20:42.764
- What does the bible say about this?
- 00:20:42.764 --> 00:20:44.098
- Acts chapter two, verse 17.
- 00:20:44.098 --> 00:20:47.201
- In the last days god says,
- 00:20:47.201 --> 00:20:50.471
- I will pour how my spirit upon all people.
- 00:20:50.471 --> 00:20:54.642
- That's big.
- 00:20:54.642 --> 00:20:55.910
- Your sons and daughters will prophesy.
- 00:20:55.910 --> 00:20:59.580
- This was a cultural revelation of its time, okay?
- 00:20:59.580 --> 00:21:03.851
- Because they never thought
- 00:21:03.851 --> 00:21:05.453
- That women could be used in such a way.
- 00:21:05.453 --> 00:21:07.555
- But here god is speaking.
- 00:21:07.555 --> 00:21:08.923
- Now the holy spirit is for all people, all believers.
- 00:21:08.923 --> 00:21:13.094
- The holy spirit will be used in
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- Men and used in women, and they will prophesy.
- 00:21:14.595 --> 00:21:18.700
- He will speak visions over what the lord has spoken
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- In their life.
- 00:21:21.869 --> 00:21:22.603
- See, back in the day,
- 00:21:22.603 --> 00:21:23.838
- People used to think it's about status, it's about position.
- 00:21:23.838 --> 00:21:26.574
- I have to have it all together.
- 00:21:26.574 --> 00:21:27.742
- No, you just have to surrender everything over to jesus.
- 00:21:27.742 --> 00:21:30.678
- The spirit of god lives inside of you.
- 00:21:31.512 --> 00:21:33.848
- Your sons and your daughters were prophesy.
- 00:21:33.848 --> 00:21:36.984
- Now i love this.
- 00:21:36.984 --> 00:21:38.052
- Your young men will see visions for the future.
- 00:21:38.052 --> 00:21:41.856
- You young men will have vision over where you're going, over
- 00:21:41.856 --> 00:21:44.926
- How to lead your families, over how to lead the church,
- 00:21:44.926 --> 00:21:47.829
- The ministries. right?
- 00:21:47.829 --> 00:21:49.364
- And this makes me laugh.
- 00:21:49.364 --> 00:21:50.765
- The old men will dream dreams.
- 00:21:50.765 --> 00:21:52.934
- It's funny to me that the young men have visions,
- 00:21:52.934 --> 00:21:54.702
- But the old men are asleep and they're dreaming
- 00:21:54.702 --> 00:21:56.137
- A lot of dreams for the lord.
- 00:21:56.137 --> 00:21:57.905
- And everybody said, amen. that's what i want, you know.
- 00:21:57.905 --> 00:22:00.608
- That's okay with me.
- 00:22:00.608 --> 00:22:01.476
- God, speak to me in my dreams.
- 00:22:01.476 --> 00:22:04.879
- Last days,
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- God pours the spirit out.
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- Holy spirit lives inside of you.
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- And guess what?
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- God will continue to speak to prophecy, visions, dreams.
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- There's not one verse out of the bible
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- That says that god will stop speaking to you.
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- He's always speaking.
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- Let me confirm
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- It even more because this is very encouraging.
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- Jesus said in matthew chapter seven,
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- Verse seven and eight, okay.
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- And now this is according to walking in god's will.
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- A lot of people have taken this verse
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- And stated, you know, this means i can have anything i want.
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- No, no, no, no, no, no.
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- This is according to god's will, walking in obedience.
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- But when you're following the lord, listen, keep on asking
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- And you will
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- What you will receive, what you ask for.
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- Keep on seeking and you will find.
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- Keep on knocking and the door will be open to you
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- For everyone.
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- Look at that right there.
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- Everyone who asks receives, everyone who seeks will find.
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- And to everyone who knocks the door will be opened.
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- It doesn't say for some people.
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- It doesn't say that you have to be perfect on the outside
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- To hear from the lord.
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- It means you have to keep seeking, keep asking,
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- Keep praying, keep knocking on the door.
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- And i got to be honest with you, this, this verse convicting me
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- Because the life can be very busy.
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- Can we get so distracted by the things we gotta get done?
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- And they're good things, even ministry
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- Related things and all these things.
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- We're going from here to there to here to there.
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- But god just kind of convicted me here.
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- Hey, hey, hey,
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- I need you to slow down and just listen to my voice again.
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- Maybe you're there right now to.
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- I need to hear his voice again.
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- I have been so busy trying to do the right things.
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- It's been a long time since i've really just listened
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- To his voice.
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- Jesus is saying all you to do is.
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- Now some of you are like you knocked once
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- You came up to god like,
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- All right, nobody's there.
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- Listen, when you know the father,
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- You're ringing the doorbell like a noisy kid on the outside.
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- Hey, hey, let me in, let me in.
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- I know that you're here. that's what god wants from us.
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- Keep knocking.
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- The door will be open. meaning?
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- This is what's so good
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- With persistent prayer, god will answer your prayers.
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- When we pray persistently,
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- It comes with a promise that god will answer you.
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- Heaven is not ignoring your prayers.
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- God is just setting up the stage.
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- You hear me?
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- God is setting up something you can't see.
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- You don't know.
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- But he's about to get all the glory
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- And he's about to change your life.
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- How do i know this?
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- Okay, so what jesus said here
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- In john chapter ten verse 27,
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- My sheep listen to my voice.
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- I know them and they follow me.
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- Lead that verse up there.
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- Underline this.
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- My sheep listen to my voice.
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- This is not written in the past tense.
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- If it was, it would say something like this.
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- My sheep listened to my voice a long time ago
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- When i was with them physically on earth.
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- No, they. no my sheep. this is in present tense.
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- Listen to my voice.
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- I know them and they follow me.
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- Meaning?
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- Jesus is still speaking to us today and you can still
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- Hear his voice right now.
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- But you gotta seek him.
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- All right, guys.
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- That's all the time we have for today.
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- But i pray that today's message bless your life.
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- There is a reason you heard this word today.
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- It's not by mistake.
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- You're here for a reason and god has a plan for you.
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- And listen, if you love this church
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- And thinking about giving to this church, all you have to do
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- Is visit our website at bobbie chandler ministries.com.
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- And it's very easy to give.
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- And once you give, listen, you're helping change lives
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- Because of your faithful giving, we're able to reach
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- Not only the nation, but the world.
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- We're bringing the gospel of jesus christ
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- Into everyone's home as much as we can.
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- So that they know the love of god.
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- And listen.
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- If you want to hear more sermons as well, don't forget
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- You can join us live every sunday
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- 815, 10:00, and 1145.
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- So thank you for watching today
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- And i can't wait to see you again very soon.
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- All right, before you go, i got one more announcement to make.
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- And this one's a big one.
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- Okay.
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- This year
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- We held our very
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- First awaking conference in hickory, north carolina
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- For authentic church.
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- And we saw
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- People come out from everywhere, from all over the nation
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- And even outside of the country
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- To experience what god is doing here.
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- So we're doing it again in 2026, from june 4th to june 7th.
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- We would love for you to plan and be here with us.
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- And if you want to look into more details
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- Over the conference,
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- All you have to do is click the link below.
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- In fact, here's a recap video to show you what all god did.
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- For me.
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- And the
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- Reason i even bring it up tonight
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- Is because when it comes to you knowing jesus
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- The man, the gospel message is all about
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- Your understanding of the message about the man
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- Who will inform your methods of getting to know the man.
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- Me? he.
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- Left his job doesn't work out for me.
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- What if i move my life by faith and it all just
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- Crumbles to the ground? what if it works?
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- What if god shows up and changes your life forever?
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- But i would rather move by faith
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- And even fail and fail and fail and know that i follow god.
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- And i ended up exactly.
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- Where i needed to be. i'm.
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- You know what?
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- Today is
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- Pentecost.
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- Sunday,
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- Pentecost sunday. woo!
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- You better not ask
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- A holy ghost preacher to preach on pentecost sunday.
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- I came here to remind you you need the
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- Holy spirit.
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- In many.
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- Many.
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