Bobby Chandler - Stand on Truth: Don't Let Culture Silence Your Faith (Part 2)

December 12, 2025 | 29:18

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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She. when you start speaking
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The truth of god's word, you're going to offend people.
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When you live your life for jesus.
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People talk.
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But if i were all over the place doing everything
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Right to please people,
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Then i would not be able to deliver you the word of god
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That god has actually called me to preach.
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And so i want you to think about that in your own life.
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Do you feel frustrated
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Because you know you're called to something?
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But listen, you keep saying yes to everybody
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Over things that god can use somebody else for
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That god is doing in their life.
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Let me also say like this.
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If you're too busy pleasing people, how can you please god?
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You hear me on this?
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If you're too busy pleasing people, how can you please god?
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We need to practice the word no.
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Now, in the right context.
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I don't go to your job and tell your boss.
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And my pastor told me to tell you. no, no.
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You will get fired.
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Kids, do not tell your parents. no either.
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But i'll tell you what.
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Let's just have some fun with this.
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Look to somebody next to and say no, no.
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Some of y'all did that way too easy.
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It feels good, right?
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Boundaries are biblical, right?
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I don't don't feel bad when you have to tell somebody.
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No, i love your idea.
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I love your heart. i love your passion.
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But i must focus on what god has called me
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To focus on. it's okay to say that.
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Is this helpful?
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I pray that this is helpful for you today.
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It it really blessed me.
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The apostles understood
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That misplaced focus leads to missed purpose.
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Misplaced focus leads to missed purpose.
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They weren't being arrogant.
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They were being obedient. right.
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They cannot preach the gospel and serve tables.
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They needed help.
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So let's continue the story here in verses 3 to 5.
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And so the brothers selected seven men who are well respected
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And are full of the spirit and wisdom.
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All right.
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This is another thing we need to learn
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When you're putting somebody in charge of something important.
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Do you pray about their spiritual maturity at all,
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Or just because people like them,
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They have a good reputation,
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Or it might help you for them to come on.
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Do you just give them the role
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You need to take time and pray about it?
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Because you need to elect people
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That are full of the holy spirit and have the wisdom of god.
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All right.
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And then we'll give them responsibility.
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Then we apostles
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Can spend our time in prayer and teaching the word.
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Everyone like this idea as they chose the following.
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Now listen to how it talks about stephen.
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Stephen has a man full of faith and the holy spirit.
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He's the only one that the scripture talks about like that.
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Yes, the other guys had the holy spirit working in their life,
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But the bible is showing you something.
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We also see in acts chapter six, verse eight.
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Stephen, a man of full of grace
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And power, performed, showed up,
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Performed amazing miracles
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And signs among the people.
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Another important point here is that stephen is not on
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The leadership team.
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Okay?
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Stephen stephen is considered to be a deacon.
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He's considered just to be a servant.
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Okay. it's like a crew.
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A crew here serves every sunday so that we can have services
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And we can provide breakfast, and we can provide coffee.
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And you guys have a place to sit
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And and you know where to park.
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That's what they do. okay?
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He is a server for the lord.
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But it's very easy to start to say in your own life,
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You know what?
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I'm going to let the pastor handle that
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Because i don't know the word of god enough.
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I'm going to leave that to the preacher.
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I'm going to let the pastor
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Or somebody else on the leadership team pray,
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Because i don't really want to pray.
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I'll let the preacher do all the jesus work.
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It's very easy to say that.
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Let me make it clear.
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The same holy spirit working through
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Me, speaking to you right now.
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It's the same holy spirit in you.
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The same
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Spirit of god is working within you.
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It doesn't matter where you are in life.
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You can still see miracles of god.
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And how do you see miracles of god?
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You walk by faith.
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You want to know god's real risk.
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It all.
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Risk it all.
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You want to know how god is good.
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Move by faith. walk in obedience.
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Put him first.
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Even when it's hard to do.
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Because a situation that looks impossible.
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God can still provide a miracle.
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I've seen it over and over again,
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But i just want to make it clear.
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In fact, the scripture says it like this.
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The same holy spirit that raised jesus christ from the dead
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Lives in you.
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Did you know that?
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Romans chapter eight, verse 11.
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The spirit of god, who raised jesus from the dead.
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This is where.
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Instead of you put your name.
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He lives in me.
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He lives in you.
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Does that give you chills at all?
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Like, just think about that
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Holy spirit.
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That means jesus christ from the dead lives in you.
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Why are you afraid of this world?
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Why are you afraid of those that love to talk about love?
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To come after you?
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My god is with you.
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And just as god raised christ jesus from the dead,
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He will give life to your mortal bodies.
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But the same spirit living within you.
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I love the bible because it loves to repeat things twice.
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Why? to get your attention.
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And so god is confirming with us all the same.
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Holy spirit lives in you.
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You're not powerless.
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Do the things that you are facing and battling today.
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You're not alone in the fight.
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Same spirit.
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Stephen was an incredible man of god.
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But here's the truth we need to understand.
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And i don't think it's preached enough.
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Sometimes the holy spirit is going to lead you places
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You don't want to go.
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For jesus, right after his baptism.
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It states that the holy spirit led him into the wilderness
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To be tempted by the devil for 40 days and 40 nights.
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You think he wanted to be there? no,
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But he was moving completely in obedience,
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Showing us the way
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How to overcome trials in our own life,
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Even when we're hungry and thirsty.
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But for stephen,
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The holy spirit speaking through him,
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The holy spirit that was performing
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Wonders and signs through his life would also lead him
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Into the hands of an angry mob.
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That's where stephen knew where he was going.
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Acts chapter six,
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Verse nine and ten.
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But one day some men from the synagogue of free slaves,
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As it was called.
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It's crazy
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That they named it freed slaves,
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Because they're talking about the roman government,
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How they're free from the roman government,
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How they're free from the oppression.
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Yet on the inside, their hearts are enslaved to religion.
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They're calling themselves freed
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When spiritually they are in bondage
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And they cannot see and they cannot hear the words
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Of jesus, the messiah that came to set them free.
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And so they started to debate with stephen.
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And they were jews from cyrene, alexandria,
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Cilicia, and the province of asia.
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And none of them know of this.
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None of them can stand against the wisdom
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And the spirit with which stephen spoke.
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Notice that it doesn't say.
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None of them can stand up to the wisdom of stephen.
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Why? because it wants to give you clarity.
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Stephen spoke with wisdom
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Not on his own strength, but by the spirit of the lord.
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That means
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You don't have to be afraid of certain conversations.
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You don't have to be afraid to go up to somebody
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Like an atheist and say, you know what?
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My jesus transformed my life.
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I'll try to answer your questions,
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But i know that god loves you.
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Let me, let me let the holy spirit speak.
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See, the holy spirit will speak to you in those moments.
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You ever had a moment like that where you're like, man,
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I really said some wise words there.
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I don't know where that came from.
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I've never seen anything like that in my life.
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You know, it's the wisdom of god.
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I make fun of this all the time because
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I preach so long on sundays and the wisdom of god.
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Like i can feel the holy spirit
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Just move in, holy spirit moving,
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And that i'll try my best to meet people after service.
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I'm just an awkward guy. i just am.
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And sometimes they're like, man, that was really good. but
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You said, i'm like, i got like nothing, nothing else to say
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Because the spirit of god moves and he moves in your own life.
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And so this is when we see the courage of steve.
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It is true. is true.
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I want to show you this point, though.
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Here's what i want to break down.
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Point number one, the truth will cause
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False accusations to come.
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We learned this from many stories out of the bible.
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When you start speaking the truth of god's
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Word, you're going to offend people.
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When you live your life for jesus.
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People talk.
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That's going to happen.
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You need to be prepared right now.
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Again, this is a spiritual fight.
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Demons make people mad when you start talking about
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Jesus because you start bringing people from bondage.
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Listen to what they said about steve in acts 610 to 15.
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None of them could stand against the wisdom
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That the spirit was speaking to stephen.
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So what did they do?
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They persuaded some men
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To lie about stephen,
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Since they couldn't outwit him.
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They decided, hey, let's get some guys
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And start lying about who stephen is.
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How about his character,
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About some of the things that he has spoken
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Saying, we have heard him blaspheme moses.
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That's what they're saying now.
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We've heard him blaspheme moses and even god.
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And this rouse the people, the elders
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And the teachers of religious law.
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And so what did they do? they arrested
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Stephen and brought him before the high council.
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Now imagine how that feels.
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People will place words in your mouth that you never said.
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You've done the right things,
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But now they're they're bringing you to a trial.
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Well, you know, like, you could be in
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Prison or your life can end.
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And the
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Lying witnesses said, this man is always
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Speaking against the holy temple and against the law of moses.
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We've heard him say that the jesus of nazareth,
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This jesus of nazareth, will destroy the temple
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And change the customs moses handed down to us.
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Now, again,
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Steve, it is in a place he doesn't want to be in.
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Everybody is just condemning him, lying about him.
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What would your face look like?
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I got a point with this.
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Okay, so what would your face look like?
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Everybody's angry at you, calling you a liar.
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Like, wouldn't you be angry?
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Wouldn't you say some things? listen to this.
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At this point, everyone in the high council stared at stephen
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Because his face became as bright as an angel's.
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And some of your translations.
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It states that he looked like an angel at this moment,
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And this moment of chaos being condemned
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By everyone around him.
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Still, the holy spirit is evident on his life
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So much that he doesn't even need to speak.
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It's just seen on his face, right?
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Let me ask you this question.
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Does your emotions show on your face?
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Yeah, yeah.
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Sometimes people can walk into a room
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And they already know what's going on with you.
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You haven't said a word, but they see it on your face.
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All right.
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Imagine the peace.
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True strength from the lord is.
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It's just peace in knowing that god is in control.
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Like you can actually be smiling.
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Oh, they're persecuting me. wow.
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Thank you. jesus.
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Recently we had my friend, pastor craig brown come in
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And we did a little podcast together
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When we talked about our days
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In jerusalem and when we went to jerusalem together,
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There was a crowd that came up.
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Nate, buzz was with us.
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The crowd really came up to see nate, and,
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But he was speaking jesus over them,
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And we were speaking jesus over them.
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And then we had some people who who are incredible to us.
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They're amazing. but they said, you know what?
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You cannot speak about jesus to them.
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And i believe there's an age limit
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To speak to the to people in jerusalem about jesus christ.
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And many of them don't know who jesus is at all.
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And they said, if you keep speaking about
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Jesus, you can actually go to jail.
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And so i looked at my friends.
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I was like, we can go to jail in jerusalem
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For preaching the gospel. like, this is amazing.
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You know what i mean?
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It's just that peace.
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And we were okay. everything worked out fine.
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We kept telling people about jesus. nothing happened to us.
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But you can have a peace when you trust the lord.
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Right?
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And i also want to say this.
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Some of you have lived this.
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Some of you have set biblical boundaries now in your life.
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But critics come around and they start to call you selfish.
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Have you been through something like that?
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Or you stood up
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For your faith at work
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And now
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You're labeled intolerant, or you're doing the right thing
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For god in your family?
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You know what you're saying?
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You know, i'm
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Going to cut out the generational curses
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That have been passed down.
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I'm tired of getting drunk every weekend.
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I'm tired of my kids seeing that
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And these habits that have been passed down, just verbal abuse,
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All these things i want to i want to change it today.
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You start changing your family for jesus christ,
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Then all of a sudden
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Your family starts telling you you're the problem.
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I've had many conversations with people
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That said i have given my life to jesus,
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And now my family thinks i'm the problem.
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Then be the problem.
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Here's the problem that's actually happening.
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They're being convicted
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Over the change they see in your life,
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And it's upsetting them
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Because they don't want to be free from it.
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Keep living for jesus.
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Now, why does this happen?
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To why do people get upset when you mention jesus?
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Why do false accusations come?
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Here's why.
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Because lies are the devil's favorite weapons.
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The bible is very clear about the character of satan.
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Satan actually means literally means the accuser.
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Revelation chapter 12, verse ten.
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For the accuser of our brothers
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And sisters have been thrown down to earth.
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He is the one that accuses him before our god day and night.
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Listen to that right there.
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He never stops.
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Why? i don't know if you ever thought about it
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Like this, but rest in peace.
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Come from god
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Because it's something good for your life, right?
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So satan and demons have no rest.
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They never rest.
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And so, day in and day out, he is accusing you.
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Understand the voice that you hear
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When you're trying to move for the lord.
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But you hear that voice inside of your head
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Saying, you'll never be good enough.
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You can't be there. god can't do that in your life.
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Yes, god can rebuke the devil.
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Rebuke his lies because this is what he does.
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He will condemn you every single day.
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You have to recognize the lies that he's speaking.
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John chapter eight, verse 44.
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For you are the children of your father, the devil.
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Jesus is speaking to the pharisees here.
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You love to do evil things that he does.
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He was a murderer from the beginning,
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And he's always hated the truth because there is no truth
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In him.
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When he lies, it is consistent with his character, for
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He is the father of lies.
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He's a liar and father of lies.
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And throughout scripture we see people of god falsely accused.
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Joseph was falsely accused by peter
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Of his wife of sexual assault, even though he lived in purity.
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David was falsely accused from king saul over treason
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When he was someone that served better than anybody else.
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Jesus was falsely accused of blasphemy
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And breaking the law of moses.
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But that's
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Why i believe we need to hold on to the words of joseph.
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Genesis chapter 50, verse 20.
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When his brothers betrayed him, and now they're before him
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At the end of the story,
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When when his father died,
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His brothers thought that they would be put into prison or
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Or killed.
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And joseph says in genesis 50, verse 20,
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You intended to harm me.
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This isn't this, but god intended it off for the good.
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He brought me to this position so that i could save
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The lives of many people.
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So the lies against joseph led him to the palace.
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The lies against david still led him to be king.
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And the lies against jesus led him to the cross,
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Fulfilling god's ultimate plan to save us from our sins.
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This is why you need to keep speaking truth.
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This is why you do not need to allow
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Your environment to get the best of you.
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And so i want you to understand
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Very quickly in today's culture what they're calling
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And telling people who stephen is, the name calling
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That they're doing.
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The first thing is they called him a lawbreaker.
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That's what they're saying. you're breaking the law.
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Acts 613.
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The line witnesses said this man is always
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Speaking against the holy temple and against the law of moses.
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So you're breaking the law. the second thing is this.
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You hate god. you're a god hater.
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Putting words in his mouth that he never spoke.
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And the last thing is this. now this seems really big.
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And this is why stephen knows what could happen to him.
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They're calling him a traitor and a terrorist.
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And acts six, verse 14,
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We have heard him say that this jesus of nazareth
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Will destroy the temple
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And change the customs moses handed down to us.
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By the way, when jesus said, the temple can be destroyed
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And raised again in three days, he's talking about his body.
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But they didn't understand that,
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So they labeled him a terrorist.
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And that's how we know this.
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This is very serious. it's still in this moment.
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Stephen is filled with the glory of god
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Because this is a spiritual fight.
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All right.
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And so how do we fight false accusations?
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Very quickly.
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Don't fight flesh with flesh.
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Stephen didn't throw a fist.
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And please listen to me on this.
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He didn't use words that ruin the testimony.
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Sometimes we need to close our mouth
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Because what you will say in anger will actually ruin
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The testimony of what jesus has done in your life.
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We need to give it over to god completely.
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I did not try to out scream the lies that were being said
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Again in ephesians 612.
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This is a spiritual fight.
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The second thing is this though
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You need to stay silent at times and let god speak for you.
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That's a hard one.
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But let me say this and i pray that this does for you today.
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You don't have to clap back to every critic you hear.
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You don't have to comment back
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To every negative comment on your social media page.
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In fact,
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If you really want to see freedom
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And you don't believe you can handle it, get off facebook,
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Get off instagram, get off tiktok, get off at all.
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If you cannot handle it.
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You do not have to clap back.
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There are certain things you can just leave over to god,
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Because that person is trying to say
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One word that will ruin your day and ruin your week.
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And if you start clapping back, they know they already
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Get the best of you.
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They're not going to think about it again.
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But guess what?
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It's going to be in your mind all day
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Long and give it over to god.
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Give it over to him.
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Now listen to this.
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Jesus himself did this in first peter 222 and 23.
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It states that he never sinned nor ever deceived anyone.
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He did not retaliate when he was insulted or threatened revenge
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When he suffered,
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And he left his case in the hands of god, who always
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Judges fairly.
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Leave it to god.
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There's some things that you just need to move past.
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You don't have to say a word.
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Last thing is this shine brighter
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When they try to dim your light again.
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He was glowing.
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You glow in the presence of god
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Will always outlast the gossip that's being spoken about. you.
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What the critics are saying.
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Romans 1221 don't let evil conquer you,
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But conquer evil by doing good.
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Evil wants to conquer your mind.
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You cannot overcome hate with more hate.
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You can't.
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Otherwise, you become just like them.
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You start sounding just like them. acting just like them.
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You conquer evil by doing good.
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That's how.
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So stephen needed true courage.
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And then in acts chapter seven, verse one,
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The high priest stephen, or these accusations.
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True.
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Now, very quickly, stephen could have said, you know what?
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I'm going to defend myself. i didn't say any of these words.
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They're all a bunch of liars, you know.
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Instead, he gives them a history lesson
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1100 years of a jewish history.
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And he starts to talk about the call of abraham
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And joseph in egypt and how moses delivered israel.
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No, but there's a common theme.
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Here's the theme.
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He's telling them
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The people of god so many times killed the prophets, and
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They rebelled against the people that were speaking truth.
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And i believe, honestly, maybe if he stopped right there,
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Everything could have been fine.
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Could've been fine. maybe he could have walked away.
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But he had to end it like this.
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And i believe the holy spirit was speaking through him,
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Wouldn't allow him to back down.
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Acts seven 5153. here's how he ended it.
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You stubborn people.
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You are a heathen at heart and deaf to the truth.
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Must you forever resist the holy spirit?
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That's what your ancestors did. and so do you.
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Name one prophet your ancestors didn't persecute.
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They even killed the ones who predicted
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The coming of the righteous one,
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The messiah, whom you betrayed and murdered.
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You deliberately disobey god's law
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Even though you received it from the hands of angels.
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Mic drop right there.
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It's like now i'm done.
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I'm done.
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And yet he knew where his faith
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Would go from here.
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My last point is this.
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The truth will always open your eyes
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To see jesus christ more clearly.
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Jesus spoke boldly about the truth,
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And he said, the truth will set you free.
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Satan use lies to keep you in bondage,
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But the truth sets you free.
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In acts chapter seven, verses 54 through 60.
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It states this at the end of his story,
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The jewish leaders were infuriated
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By steven's accusations,
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And they shook their fist at him and rage.
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But stephen, full of the holy spirit,
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Gets steadily into heaven.
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Now, now notice this. they're condemning him.
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They want to hurt him.
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But where's he looking?
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Where's he looking?
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He's looking up to heaven.
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He's looking for the holy spirit.
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And he saw the glory of god.
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And he saw jesus standing in a high place
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Of honor at god's right hand.
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And he
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Told them, look, i see heavens open.
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And the son of man standing in the place of honor
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At god's right hand, i see jesus, i see him.
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The one that you're accusing me of, i see him, he's here.
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And my situation. he's here in my pain.
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He's here even though you want to hurt me
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And attack me and come against me.
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My jesus is still here.
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I see him.
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And they put their hands over their ears and they begin
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Shouting like little children.
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And they pretty much were just holding their ears
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Like, la la la la la.
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I don't want to hear you.
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I don't want to hear what you're saying.
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That's what they were doing.
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And they rushed at him and dragged him out of the city
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And began to stone him.
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And his accusers took off their coats,
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And they laid their feet,
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Or laid the coats at the feet of the young man named saul. see?
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Even though stephen's
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Life on earth was ending,
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The legacy of his faith
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Was making an eternal impact.
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And saul's life would be changed eventually,
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And he would no would have meant to be persecuted.
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But right now he's seeing it.
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And as they stoned him, stephen prayed,
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Lord jesus, receive my spirit.
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And he fell to his knees, shouting, lord,
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Don't charge him with this sin.
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And with that he died.
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And so what i want you to understand is the crowd.
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So stones
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Stephen saw jesus, the crowds of judgment.
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Stephen saw freedom.
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The crowd saw death, and stephen saw eternal life.
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In the moment where people are hurting him, condemning him,
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Trying to kill him, his body is in pain.
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He could be looking at the pain.
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He could be looking at people.
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He could be shouting all kinds of words.
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But he looks up to heaven.
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Can you imagine
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Seeing jesus standing?
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Because of what you're doing
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By faith?
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Are you willing
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To live that type of life
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For the kingdom?
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I want to tell you today you need to change your focus.
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Because if you stare at pain,
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All you'll see is pain.
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All you see is hurt.
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The only way to overcome all the lies
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And the attacks.
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This is biblical.
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Truth is not cliche.
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Keep your eyes
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On jesus because he's right there with you.
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And when you understand that jesus is right there with you,
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Nothing else that you're going through matters anymore.
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You know what i love about this in the
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Throughout the new testament, jesus is always described
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As sitting at the right hand of the father.
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Hebrews chapter one, verse three.
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He sat down in the place of honor at the right
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Hand of the majestic god in heaven.
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But in acts seven we see jesus standing. why?
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Because i believe that jesus was a.
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Plaza,
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A plotting for stephen.
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Well done,
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My good and faithful servant.
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That's where stephen got the strength
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To pray for their forgiveness, because he didn't
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Had that on his own,
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But because he saw jesus, he was able
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To say what he heard and learned from jesus himself.
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Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do.
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And so let me say like this.
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When the world is throwing stones,
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You can keep standing on biblical truth.
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Why? why? listen to this.
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Because when you stand for jesus on earth,
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Jesus will stand for you
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And the kingdom of heaven.
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Matthew chapter ten, verse 32.
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Everyone who acknowledges me publicly here on earth,
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I will also acknowledge before my father
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In heaven.
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It's time to be bold.
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This is the start of the
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Series, but i believe it's just a little spark today.
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Just a little spark
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To understand what true courage actually is.
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But here's what i want to encourage you.
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You're not alone in the battles you fight.
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You're not alone.
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And the trials you face
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Are you 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 and once you give, listen,
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You're helping change lives.
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Because of your faithful giving.
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We're able to reach 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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Bobby Chandler - Stand on Truth: Don't Let Culture Silence Your Faith (Part 2)

December 12, 2025 | 29:18

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