Bobby Chandler - Did God Say That? (Part 1)

October 15, 2025 | 31:26

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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  • 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.
  • 00:11:13.762 --> 00:11:14.563
  • 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.
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  • 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,
  • 00:11:58.406 --> 00:12:01.309
  • 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.
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  • 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
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • The only thing that you've heard from the lord is go here
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  • And you're going to suffer.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • I already know it's going to be hard.
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  • 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.
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  • And i pray that this blesses you today. all right.
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  • God's word is the filter, not your feelings.
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  • We need to learn this.
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  • God's word is the filter, not your feelings.
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  • Everybody say this with me.
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  • God's word is my standard,
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  • Not how i feel.
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  • Do you know somebody right now that is emotionally overtaken
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  • By their feelings?
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  • Whenever they get angry,
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  • Everybody in the room is going to know.
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  • Whenever they're depressed, everybody's going to feel it.
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  • Your anger gets the best of you.
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  • Grabs ahold of your mouth.
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  • You no longer can control your emotions.
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  • You lose it.
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  • 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.
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  • They're valid in what you're going through.
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  • But just because you feel fear
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  • Doesn't mean you give in to fear.
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • One thing you said out of anger?
  • 00:16:11.192 --> 00:16:13.695
  • In a moment of anger, everything can change.
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  • The bible is very clear about this.
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  • Proverbs chapter 14, verse 12.
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  • There is a path before each person that seems right.
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  • Let me reword this.
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  • There's a path that feels right.
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  • This feels right.
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  • This feels good to me.
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  • I think this is the route i need to take.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • If you go to jerusalem, you're going to suffer.
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  • Don't go to jerusalem.
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  • It can't be god's will for you.
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  • 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
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  • And over again, i must suffer to save you.
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  • I must go into jerusalem to save you.
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  • And they tried to stop him.
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  • Peter tried to stop him.
  • 00:18:10.845 --> 00:18:11.946
  • How many times have people try to stop you
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  • 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.
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  • It wasn't public.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • He can speak to us supernaturally.
  • 00:19:43.104 --> 00:19:45.173
  • He can speak to us in visions
  • 00:19:45.173 --> 00:19:46.874
  • 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,
  • 00:20:00.922 --> 00:20:03.191
  • 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.
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  • 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?
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  • Acts chapter two, verse 17.
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  • In the last days god says,
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  • I will pour how my spirit upon all people.
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  • That's big.
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  • Your sons and daughters will prophesy.
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  • This was a cultural revelation of its time, okay?
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  • Because they never thought
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  • That women could be used in such a way.
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  • But here god is speaking.
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  • Now the holy spirit is for all people, all believers.
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  • The holy spirit will be used in
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  • Men and used in women, and they will prophesy.
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  • He will speak visions over what the lord has spoken
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  • In their life.
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  • See, back in the day,
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  • People used to think it's about status, it's about position.
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  • I have to have it all together.
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  • No, you just have to surrender everything over to jesus.
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  • The spirit of god lives inside of you.
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  • Your sons and your daughters were prophesy.
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  • Now i love this.
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  • Your young men will see visions for the future.
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  • You young men will have vision over where you're going, over
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  • How to lead your families, over how to lead the church,
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  • The ministries. right?
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  • And this makes me laugh.
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  • The old men will dream dreams.
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  • It's funny to me that the young men have visions,
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  • But the old men are asleep and they're dreaming
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  • A lot of dreams for the lord.
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  • And everybody said, amen. that's what i want, you know.
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  • That's okay with me.
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  • God, speak to me in my dreams.
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  • 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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  • 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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