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 - Get Back Up Again (Part 1) | January 21, 2026
- She. because now i
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- Know, even though i don't like the situation i'm going through,
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- And it's harmful and it hurts me,
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- I know that my god is still good, so i still have joy.
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- If you have joy, you still have hope for the future.
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- You still have hope for tomorrow.
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- The fear attacking me today will be gone tomorrow.
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- I love that truth.
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- You can eat together and share what's going on in your life.
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- That's real community and that's real friendships.
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- And that's why we have the crew.
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- That's why we have our connect groups.
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- But i've also learned this, okay.
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- When it comes
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- To being courageous, here's what i was praying over.
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- When it comes to being courageous, sometimes
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- The hardest battle is not what is in front of you,
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- Sometimes the hardest battle.
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- It's what's in the past,
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- The things that are
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- Replaying over and over in your mind.
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- The memories of what could have been,
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- The things that you said, the mess ups that you have.
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- And so how do you overcome those things?
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- Because listen,
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- You'll never step forward if you're living the past.
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- You'll never move by faith.
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- If you still feel like
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- You're in bondage over something you did a long time ago.
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- And as i was praying, i think,
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- That it's just appropriate for us to talk
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- About a courageous man of faith named paul.
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- Okay?
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- Because if you know paul's story,
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- You know that in order for him to step into his calling
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- And to his purpose, he had to confront his past.
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- For some of you today, that's going to set you free
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- If you move by faith in it,
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- Because some of you are still running away from your past.
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- You don't want to go back there.
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- I get it,
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- But there are things that god wants you to heal and listen.
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- It can never heal as long as you're holding on to it.
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- And so when we talk about paul, like paul
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- Had a lot of things in his life,
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- He wasn't just a problem for the church.
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- He was the church's worst nightmare.
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- Right?
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- Let's go over the background very quickly, over who paul is
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- And some of the things that he had in his life.
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- First of all, is, here's this truth.
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- Paul is a pharisee of pharisees.
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- Like he actually stated this about himself.
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- Paul is that guy in class that gets on your nerves, okay?
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- He's the one that raises his hand to every question.
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- He always gets the right answer and he cries over and a minus.
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- You know, somebody like that.
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- Maybe that's you right now, right?
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- Maybe that's you. you cry, you.
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- You start to freak out over these things.
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- That's paul.
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- And paul even talks this way about himself.
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- Listen to this in philippians
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- Chapter three, verse five and six.
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- Now i love how he words this
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- Because again he's talking about himself.
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- He says, i was circumcised
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- When i was eight days old, you know.
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- Good for you, bro. okay.
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- And i'm a pure blooded
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- Citizens of israel and a member of the tribe of benjamin.
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- And i love what he says right here.
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- He's he does not shy away, okay.
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- From the things that he he knew he had in his life.
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- He says i'm a real hebrew.
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- If there ever was one.
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- I'm as real as it gets.
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- You're not going to find anybody as real as me.
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- I was a member of the pharisees and he had the credentials,
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- Though he's backing it up
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- Who demand the strictest obedience to the jewish law.
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- I was so zealous
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- That i harshly persecuted the church.
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- And as for righteousness, i listen to the wording here.
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- I obeyed the law without fault.
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- I was in the word of god.
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- I was in the torah.
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- I knew what the lord was telling me to do it.
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- I had all these achievements and status.
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- Verse seven.
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- Yeah, i once thought
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- These things were valuable,
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- But now
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- I consider them worthless
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- Because of what christ has done in my life.
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- He was a pharisee, a pharisee.
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- He had status.
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- He came from the right family.
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- He had the right education.
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- But he understood when christ becomes
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- Your treasure, everything else can lose its shine.
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- When jesus is everything to you,
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- You start to notice the things that
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- Used to get the best of you,
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- Those things that used to wear you down,
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- Those things you thought you had to have in life to prove
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- To people that you're somebody.
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- All of a sudden
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- Jesus comes in and you're like, i don't care about that
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- Stuff anymore.
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- And let's be honest with each other.
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- And that the most freeing thing
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- We talk about, where the
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- Spirit of the lord is, there is freedom.
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- The biggest freedom that can enter into
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- Your life is not to care about what other people think.
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- Now it doesn't mean go crazy,
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- You know, just bash people and just live life
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- However you want to live.
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- No no no, you're living for the lord.
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- You're living to please god.
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- You're living in obedience, and god is changing everything
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- About you.
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- And you start to understand, because, listen, it's very easy
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- To get that award and say, oh, this is it.
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- Have you been there,
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- Got the job you always prayed for?
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- And you're like, god,
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- I didn't know
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- That people would be this difficult in this position.
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- Let me rethink this.
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- It only lasts for a day or so.
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- You're grateful.
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- But i'm just telling you today, the only thing that can fulfill
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- Is a relationship with jesus christ.
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- He understood this.
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- But let's look into paul's background some more.
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- First of all, he approved a young man's death.
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- A man named stephen.
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- He was the first martyr of the new testament church.
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- Right.
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- He's a young man and paul was there.
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- It says that all the pharisees
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- Laid down their coats at his feet.
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- He was watching, and he was approving,
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- And it straight and lighted a passion on the inside of him,
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- Because after that he started to attack the church.
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- His mission was to harm the church.
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- How can i harm these christians?
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- Acts chapter eight, verse three.
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- Listen to the wording here.
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- But saul was going everywhere to destroy the church
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- Like he is very clear with us today.
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- It wasn't just to cause chaos, it wasn't to cause
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- Just division.
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- No, he wanted to go and destroy, eliminate the church body.
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- So he went from house to house.
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- Now we know paul and we know what he's done,
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- And we know the letters
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- That he's written and how god used them.
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- But i want you to imagine
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- Him in the moment, talking about his past,
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- How painful it was because he went into house after house,
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- Dragging out both men and women to throw them into prison.
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- He would bust into a home to take away parents
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- From their children, to bring them into prison.
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- That's how ruthless he was.
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- See, paul understood.
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- On the inside there was a darkness growing.
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- When hatred gets ahold of
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- Your heart, it can get dark very quick. can it?
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- And all of a sudden, not only was it good enough to torment
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- These christians now, he wanted to kill them.
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- He wanted to end their life.
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- Acts chapter nine, verse one states it like this.
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- Meanwhile, saul was uttering threats.
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- It's all that was coming out of his mouth with every breath.
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- Every breath was anger, every breath was bitterness.
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- And he was what?
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- He was eager to kill
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- The lord's followers.
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- And so he was on a mission
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- And on the road to damascus.
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- An incredible thing,
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- Because i want you to think about it like this.
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- Like in the middle of his hate and the middle of his anger,
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- In the middle of his sin,
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- Jesus meets him on the road to damascus.
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- He meets him in the middle of a sin.
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- And i need you to understand this.
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- Jesus could have showed up and got rid of him right there.
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- You're persecuting my believers.
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- I will end your life.
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- But instead he offered grace and humbled him
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- By closing his eyes.
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- He had to physically go blind
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- So that he could spiritually start to see.
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- Some of you have been looking at the wrong things.
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- Some of you have been noticing the wrong things
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- In life, eager to chase the sinful things in your life,
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- Thinking you're going the right way until god interrupts
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- The direction that you're going.
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- Have you ever just thank the lord for interrupting your
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- Plans?
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- Like, have you ever think jesus for just interrupting
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- The direction that you were going
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- In this relationship, for this business,
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- For these things that you want in your life?
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- He met him on the road to damascus
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- To show him what's really important.
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- And sometimes, sometimes it will feel like
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- You're physically blind for a time to spiritually
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- Be able to see things you weren't able to see before.
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- Let me ask you this question.
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- I have your eyes been open
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- Since you gave your life to jesus.
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- You're starting to notice that the world doesn't
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- Look the same like it used to,
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- The way that it did when you were younger,
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- When you were going out
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- And partying all of a sudden, now
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- You're starting to see things differently and people suffering
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- What you thought used to look like a good time.
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- Now you feel bad for those people
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- And you pray for them. why?
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- God opened your eyes.
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- There were scales there.
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- God opened your eyes
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- To be able to see, but he will interrupt your plans.
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- And we see this in acts chapter nine, verse three through nine.
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- As he was approaching damascus on this mission,
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- A light from heaven suddenly shone down around him,
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- And he fell to the ground and heard a voice
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- Saying to him, saul, saul,
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- Why are you fighting me?
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- Why are you persecuting me?
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- Who are you, lord saul asked, and the voice replied,
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- I am jesus, the one you are persecuting.
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- Have you heard the voice of the lord
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- Speak to you in such a way?
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- Why are you fighting me?
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- Why are you rebelling against me?
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- Why do you keep not listening when i'm showing you
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- That this is the way?
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- This is what i have for you.
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- And so again,
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- It becomes
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- Physically blind so that he spiritually
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- Could see for the first time.
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- And then the lord speaks to a man named ananias.
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- I love this too, because ananias was also courageous.
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- Just imagine
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- You're in ananias and shoes, and the lord speaks to
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- You and says, i have a mission for you.
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- I got what you got for me.
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- I need you to go to saul, and i want you to pray over him.
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- But would you say the same guy busting into homes?
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- Take it away, mommies and daddies, and take it away?
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- Husbands and wives and tearing apart the family
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- And trying to kill christians.
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- And god is like, i want you to go
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- Be alone with this person and pray over them.
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- Nuh. like i.
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- Ananias.
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- Oh, man, when it's so strong from the lord,
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- You can't help but walk in obedience.
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- Like god's going to ask you to do some difficult things.
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- And it's okay to say, god
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- Make me courageous because right now i'm terrified
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- Of this conversation in this situation.
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- But ananias goes and he prays over him.
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- The scales fall from saul's eyes, and he's able to see,
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- And his life is changed forever.
- 00:10:57.082 --> 00:10:58.249
- But i want you to see something within the text.
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- All right, acts chapter nine, verse 15 and 16.
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- But the lord said he's speaking to ananias.
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- Go for saul is my chosen instrument
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- To take my message to the gentiles,
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- To the kings, as well as to the people of israel.
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- And we would celebrate if it ended there.
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- But god doesn't in their.
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- And i'll also show him
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- How much you must suffer for my name's sake.
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- Pay attention to that verse.
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- I'm going to show saul how much you must suffer
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- For my name's sake.
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- Here's the thing about that god is not punishing him
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- Because he's also redeemed and forgiven
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- By the blood of christ, just like me and you.
- 00:11:40.425 --> 00:11:42.293
- What god is stating over his life.
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- This is your purpose.
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- This is your calling.
- 00:11:46.331 --> 00:11:48.066
- You're going to see many wonderful things,
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- Miraculous things in your life, but you're also going to suffer
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- As a part of it,
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- As a part of being courageous.
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- So the title of today's message is this get back up again.
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- Get back up again.
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- How many y'all need that word today?
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- Get back up.
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- The lord is with you.
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- He's holding your hand and he's guiding you.
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- And so if you want to go ahead and write down the first point,
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- It is this. we're going to dive into the story.
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- The point number one, it says there is
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- Purpose in your suffering.
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- There's purpose in your suffering.
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- If you have your bibles, you can turn to acts chapter 14.
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- Acts chapter 14 is where we're going to be today.
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- But again, i just want to clarify,
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- Like the lord spoke to ananias, like paul is going
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- To have to suffer for the things i need him to do.
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- So when we look at chapters 13 and 14,
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- Let me give you some background information.
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- Verse and chapters 13 and 14.
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- This is paul's first missionary journey.
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- Okay, so he's seeing many supernatural miracles.
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- He's also stepping foot into asia minor.
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- He's traveling through europe,
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- And this is the very first time
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- That these people are hearing the gospel of jesus christ.
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- So most of these people are worshiping
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- Roman gods and zeus and hades and all this kind of stuff.
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- And so he's the first one rolling into the cities.
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- Have you heard about my jesus?
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- Have you heard about how god changed my life?
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- Right.
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- And i also want to make this clear to you,
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- Because i know sometimes it causes confusion.
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- His name changes from saul to paul.
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- Why? okay, it's not a peter incident
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- Where god actually changes his name.
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- He actually has both names. so this is hebrew name.
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- So it's appropriate to speak to the jews with saul.
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- And then when he's
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- Speaking to the romans, or he's speaking to the gentiles,
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- Paul is his roman name.
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- So that's why it changes here. why?
- 00:13:32.737 --> 00:13:34.305
- Because he's trying to reach the lost at this point.
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- He's becoming all things.
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- So that people can relate to him.
- 00:13:39.444 --> 00:13:41.412
- All things that, honor the lord. okay.
- 00:13:41.412 --> 00:13:44.015
- And so he changes his name to paul.
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- Then paul and barnabas go into the city,
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- The city of lystra, and they see this man
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- That was crippled since birth, never been able to walk.
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- And all
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- Of a sudden god does a miraculous thing.
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- Okay,
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- Before we get into the story, though, there's a revelation.
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- I want you to understand.
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- Paul's hands,
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- The same hands that used to hurt people now
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- Are about to be the the hands that god uses to heal people.
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- Don't miss that.
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- Whatever you give over to the lord, he can redeem it.
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- Whatever you have right now in your life
- 00:14:21.419 --> 00:14:24.188
- That you have misused,
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- You can give it over to god and he will use it.
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- Let's talk about a few things.
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- What about your mouth and the past?
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- You used to use your mouth to hurt people.
- 00:14:30.962 --> 00:14:33.031
- Now god has transformed your mouth
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- To speak about his glory and to build people up.
- 00:14:35.533 --> 00:14:37.869
- Why the holy spirit gave you strength to do that.
- 00:14:37.869 --> 00:14:40.505
- That's not how you grew up, but god changed you.
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- The change did generations to come.
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- What are you holding on to that god said, no, no, no,
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- Give it to me. i'll use it.
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- I'll redeem it, i'll restore it.
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- So let's read the story together now.
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- Acts chapter 14,
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- Verses eight and ten.
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- While they were at lystra, paul
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- And barnabas came upon a man with crippled feet.
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- Now listen to this.
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- He had been this way since birth.
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- He has never walked.
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- He was sitting and listening as paul preached,
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- And paul was looking straight at him.
- 00:15:13.604 --> 00:15:16.774
- And paul realized that he had the faith to be healed.
- 00:15:16.774 --> 00:15:19.677
- Now, take a second here. what does that even mean?
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- It means that he gets it.
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- This what it means.
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- He's listening to paul preach.
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- He's hanging on to every word, and he believes in jesus.
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- He is ready to move by faith.
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- There have been many times
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- That i've preached in this place,
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- And people come up to me in the lobby
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- And they're like, pastor,
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- That one thing you said and you looked right into my eyes,
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- I'm be honest with you.
- 00:15:42.700 --> 00:15:43.701
- I can't see you like these eyes are blinding.
- 00:15:43.701 --> 00:15:46.404
- Like sometimes i'm afraid i'm going to be cross-eyed.
- 00:15:46.404 --> 00:15:47.939
- Like, look at that, people.
- 00:15:47.939 --> 00:15:49.173
- But like, i don't know, but but you get it right in the moment
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- Like that spoke to you. god is speaking to you.
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- That's what's happening here.
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- Paul is speaking and this man is like, i believe it.
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- When you grew up in poverty, maybe he didn't have anything
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- And he's been crippled since birth.
- 00:16:03.187 --> 00:16:04.722
- And he's like, you know what?
- 00:16:04.722 --> 00:16:05.590
- I still believe god can do a miracle.
- 00:16:05.590 --> 00:16:08.259
- And i still believe that god can touch me.
- 00:16:08.259 --> 00:16:10.762
- And so listen to this.
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- Now, this is courageous face right here.
- 00:16:11.662 --> 00:16:13.798
- Paul called to him in a loud voice, stand up.
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- I've done a deep study on this.
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- Notice the difference of speaking by the authority
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- Of god.
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- Compared to just the things you may want in life.
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- Okay?
- 00:16:30.114 --> 00:16:30.648
- Meaning that sometimes
- 00:16:30.648 --> 00:16:31.582
- When we pray over the things we want,
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- Like for like, god, please, hopefully,
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- Maybe this will happen.
- 00:16:35.319 --> 00:16:37.321
- But when we know it's the authority of god moving.
- 00:16:37.321 --> 00:16:39.290
- What did he say?
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- He said, stand up,
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- Paul, just shout at him. stand up.
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- That's risking it
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- All, by the way, because i wonder
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- If people are looking around like, who's he talking to?
- 00:16:46.297 --> 00:16:49.200
- Does he know he's crippled?
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- Does he know that he's been crippled since birth?
- 00:16:51.402 --> 00:16:53.171
- Paul knew.
- 00:16:53.171 --> 00:16:54.439
- Now here's what i love.
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- The holy spirit revealed it to him.
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- The holy spirit will reveal things to you that you should
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- Know about people.
- 00:17:01.212 --> 00:17:03.414
- But then there's healing.
- 00:17:03.414 --> 00:17:04.682
- And so that healing takes place. and now listen to this.
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- The man jumped to his feet and he started walking.
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- He was ready. he didn't think about it.
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- He didn't doubt it.
- 00:17:12.723 --> 00:17:14.325
- He was in the sermon, ready to move by faith.
- 00:17:14.325 --> 00:17:16.994
- And because he stood up,
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- All the people around them saw that he was healed.
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- This man who was crippled since birth
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- For the first time, was able to walk on.
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- It's amazing it it
- 00:17:26.270 --> 00:17:28.072
- God ever performed a mighty miracle in your life.
- 00:17:28.072 --> 00:17:30.842
- And you're just like, wow,
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- All right, well, now i need to prepare you, okay?
- 00:17:33.411 --> 00:17:37.281
- Because have you noticed that
- 00:17:37.281 --> 00:17:38.282
- Right after a miracle, there's often an attack?
- 00:17:38.282 --> 00:17:41.452
- Have you ever noticed that before?
- 00:17:42.186 --> 00:17:43.988
- All of a sudden, the mighty miracles of god
- 00:17:43.988 --> 00:17:45.957
- Are moving in your life? but that one person
- 00:17:45.957 --> 00:17:47.492
- Said that one thing, and you're like, what?
- 00:17:47.492 --> 00:17:50.728
- Where everything is moving and people are getting healed
- 00:17:50.728 --> 00:17:52.830
- And it's just transformation
- 00:17:52.830 --> 00:17:54.298
- And people giving their lives over to christ.
- 00:17:54.298 --> 00:17:55.766
- But somebody complaining, something goes wrong
- 00:17:55.766 --> 00:17:58.903
- And it can be very easy not to focus on the miracle,
- 00:17:58.903 --> 00:18:02.507
- But instead
- 00:18:02.507 --> 00:18:03.708
- To focus on the complaining, to focus on the attack. why?
- 00:18:03.708 --> 00:18:06.244
- Because satan cannot stand your celebration.
- 00:18:06.244 --> 00:18:09.614
- Satan.
- 00:18:09.814 --> 00:18:10.915
- He cannot stand when you celebrate what god is doing.
- 00:18:10.915 --> 00:18:14.085
- But here's the truth
- 00:18:14.085 --> 00:18:15.153
- He can't stop the miracle that god is performing.
- 00:18:15.153 --> 00:18:17.788
- He can't stop what god has planned for you.
- 00:18:17.788 --> 00:18:19.757
- He can't stop what god is doing in your life.
- 00:18:19.757 --> 00:18:21.425
- But please listen.
- 00:18:21.425 --> 00:18:22.460
- He can't stop it, but he can ruin the moment.
- 00:18:22.460 --> 00:18:25.296
- You hear me?
- 00:18:25.296 --> 00:18:27.932
- He can try to ruin the moment.
- 00:18:27.932 --> 00:18:30.168
- And maybe you've been through a situation like that,
- 00:18:30.168 --> 00:18:31.836
- But there's always that one person.
- 00:18:31.836 --> 00:18:33.070
- You can't celebrate with this one person
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- Because they're going to talk about themself.
- 00:18:35.373 --> 00:18:37.742
- They're going to make it about them.
- 00:18:37.742 --> 00:18:38.843
- They're going to discourage you.
- 00:18:38.843 --> 00:18:40.211
- And so you just know
- 00:18:40.211 --> 00:18:41.112
- You need to guard yourself. and trust
- 00:18:41.112 --> 00:18:42.547
- Me, biblical boundaries are a real thing, right?
- 00:18:42.547 --> 00:18:45.550
- But we need to be on guard, because sometimes
- 00:18:45.550 --> 00:18:48.619
- The moment god does something great in your life,
- 00:18:48.619 --> 00:18:50.388
- Satan is already planning how to steal your joy.
- 00:18:50.388 --> 00:18:53.958
- John chapter ten, verse ten states it like this.
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- The thief's purpose is to steal.
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- He wants to steal away your joy, steal away
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- The moment he also comes to kill, to take you out
- 00:19:01.465 --> 00:19:04.068
- And to destroy your reputation.
- 00:19:04.068 --> 00:19:05.903
- Destroy everything that god is doing in your life.
- 00:19:05.903 --> 00:19:07.738
- Destroy your family.
- 00:19:07.738 --> 00:19:09.006
- He's trying to bring in division.
- 00:19:09.006 --> 00:19:11.842
- That's who he is.
- 00:19:11.842 --> 00:19:12.777
- He is a liar and the father of all lies.
- 00:19:12.777 --> 00:19:14.979
- But why?
- 00:19:14.979 --> 00:19:16.047
- Why did satan want to steal your joy?
- 00:19:16.047 --> 00:19:17.248
- Okay, here it is.
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- There it is.
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- Nehemiah chapter eight, verse ten
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- For the joy of the lord is your
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- Strength.
- 00:19:26.224 --> 00:19:27.992
- The joy of the lord is your strength.
- 00:19:27.992 --> 00:19:30.461
- How do you become strong through a trial?
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- Joy in the lord.
- 00:19:32.630 --> 00:19:34.265
- Because now i know, even
- 00:19:34.799 --> 00:19:36.067
- Though i don't like the situation i'm
- 00:19:36.067 --> 00:19:37.635
- Going through, and it's harmful and it hurts me,
- 00:19:37.635 --> 00:19:40.304
- I know that my god is still good, so i still have joy.
- 00:19:40.304 --> 00:19:43.374
- If you have joy, you still have hope for the future.
- 00:19:43.374 --> 00:19:46.877
- You still have hope for tomorrow.
- 00:19:46.877 --> 00:19:48.679
- The fear attacking me today will be gone tomorrow.
- 00:19:48.679 --> 00:19:53.251
- It may be weeping in the night,
- 00:19:53.884 --> 00:19:56.821
- But there's a miracle coming around the corner.
- 00:19:56.821 --> 00:19:59.991
- The enemy can't steal away your joy.
- 00:20:00.791 --> 00:20:02.093
- Don't allow the enemy.
- 00:20:02.093 --> 00:20:04.228
- Don't allow people to take that from you.
- 00:20:04.228 --> 00:20:07.431
- Don't allow them to do that.
- 00:20:08.032 --> 00:20:09.000
- They want that power over your life.
- 00:20:09.000 --> 00:20:12.270
- But i want to make this super clear, okay?
- 00:20:12.270 --> 00:20:13.771
- The devil strategy is to disrupt your celebration.
- 00:20:13.771 --> 00:20:17.541
- Here's why. so that you forget the miracle.
- 00:20:17.541 --> 00:20:21.412
- If satan can
- 00:20:21.746 --> 00:20:22.913
- Distract you, you forget what god has done.
- 00:20:22.913 --> 00:20:26.651
- You forget what god is doing.
- 00:20:27.285 --> 00:20:29.186
- That is a very dangerous thing to allow into your life.
- 00:20:29.186 --> 00:20:32.290
- Let me show you an example of this, okay?
- 00:20:32.290 --> 00:20:34.592
- Out of the old testament, god continue to speak to the nation
- 00:20:34.592 --> 00:20:37.862
- Of israel, reminding them, don't forget what i did.
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- Don't forget how i freed you.
- 00:20:40.865 --> 00:20:42.833
- Deuteronomy chapter six, verse 12.
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- Be careful not to forget the lord who rescued you
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- From slavery in the land of egypt.
- 00:20:47.672 --> 00:20:50.708
- Let me state it like this.
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- Be careful
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- Not to forget the lord who met
- 00:20:52.443 --> 00:20:54.111
- You in your life and freed you from the slavery of sin,
- 00:20:54.111 --> 00:20:57.214
- The bondage of addiction that used to be in your life.
- 00:20:58.316 --> 00:21:00.518
- He freed you and met you,
- 00:21:00.518 --> 00:21:02.053
- But you got to focus on his word because listen
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- To this and judges chapter two, verse ten and 11.
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- Here's what happened.
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- Another generation grew up who did not acknowledge the lord.
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- And they didn't. what? they didn't what?
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- They didn't
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- Remember the mighty things that he had done for israel.
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- So because of that, they started to worship false gods and evil
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- Came into the land.
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- Do you even write down what god is doing,
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- Or are you to focus on the problems
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- And the situations that give you a headache?
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- Let me.
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- Let me also encourage any parents in the room
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- Like it is our job to instruct our children.
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- It is our job.
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- Always think about this.
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- I've been very open about my past
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- And going into ministry,
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- And something i struggle with was a giving heart.
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- I'll be honest with you.
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- I really struggle with that.
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- Financially, growing up wasn't the best for my family,
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- And so it was a really hard thing for me to trust
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- To a point where me and my wife actually had arguments over it.
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- She's like, just give it no, you know,
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- True story, but
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- She's so good.
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- She's more holy than me.
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- But now god has changed me,
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- And i've just i've trusted him and i've seen miracles.
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- And so here's what i do, because it can be very easy
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- To get into just a routine of things.
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- And so there have been many times
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- That i've actually taken my oldest son, and i'm like, look,
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- We're about to give and i want to give joyfully.
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- And so i have even allowed him to push the give button
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- Just to teach him.
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- See, the reason we give is because god freed us
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- From so many things from the past,
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- And he's changed our family.
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- So we give joyfully to show him love.
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- We are to instruct our children.
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- What if?
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- What if somebody hurt you and you've gotten to the point
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- Where you're like, i'm going to pray for forgiveness?
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- What if you actually took your family and your children
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- Said, let's pray together for this person that hurt the family
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- That came after me?
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- It doesn't mean it's easy, but what do you do when you're
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- Instructing within your children what the lord has done
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- So that they never forget in life?
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- But unfortunately, listen to this.
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- It's easy for satan to influence
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- People led by feelings instead of the holy spirit.
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- All right, guys, 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
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- Our very first awaken 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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- Who you.
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- Need.
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- This.
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- This 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 and even fail and fail
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- And fail and know that i follow god and i ended up exactly.
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- Where i needed to be.
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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. who?
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- You better not ask a
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- Holy ghost preacher to preach on pentecost sunday.
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- I came here to remind you you
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- Need the holy spirit.
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