Bobby Chandler - Stand on Truth: Don't Let Culture Silence Your Faith (Part 1)

December 12, 2025 | 28:22

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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Look to somebody next to you and tell them.
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Be strong.
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If you want to flex on them, you can like. that's fine.
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Be strong.
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Now look to the other person
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You didn't want to talk to and tell them as well.
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Be strong in the lord.
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God has a word for you today.
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It's be strong spiritually.
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You're going to bench press 315 today. okay.
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By the word of god, i don't know what i'm talking about.
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God, let me get back into the word.
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I, i want to start right here, though.
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I want to talk about paul very quickly.
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And i want to show you this verse
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When it comes to strength in the lord.
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I love this verse.
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And he's speaking to the believers in ephesus.
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It's a very well-known
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Verse in ephesians chapter six, verses ten through 12.
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But what's amazing about this passage?
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A lot of people know this first,
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But they don't know the context behind the verse.
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So let's read it first.
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It states this in ephesians 610 through 12.
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Paul stated a final word.
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Be strong in the lord in his mighty powers.
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How do we do this?
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Put on all of god's armor
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So that you will be able to stand firm
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Against all the strategies of the devil.
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What is paul telling believers in ephesus?
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What is paul telling us?
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He's stating that the devil has a plan of attack against you,
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And so we must have a plan to defend ourselves.
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We must have a plan every single day
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When we wake up to understand, okay, the devil wants to conquer
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My mind. the battle is in your mind.
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The devil wants to try to conquer my heart.
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And where i go in life.
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So in order to defeat the enemy,
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I must put on god's full armor.
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I must be in his word.
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You have to know the word of god to know where to go in
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Life, to know how to handle situations.
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But he makes it very clear
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There are strategies that the devil has.
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There's plans that he has to come and to attack you.
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Because why?
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Because we're not fighting against flesh
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And blood enemies sometimes.
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Wouldn't that just be easier
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Like this to solve your problems?
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You could just punch somebody in the face.
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Let's be honest. right?
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How many of y'all prayed all week
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And i just hurt this one person?
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Like, kick them and just be like, what happened?
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You know what i mean?
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Like, i don't know, but the truth is,
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Like, we're not fighting against people.
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Let me say that loud and clear.
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We're not fighting against people,
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But we're fighting against
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Evil rulers and authorities of the unseen world.
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Paul is making it clear this is not make believe.
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This is all around us,
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The spiritual world around us, against mighty powers
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In this dark world, against evil spirits
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In the heavenly places.
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So you can't fight evil spirits with your fists.
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It doesn't matter how strong you are,
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How big and bad you are, it does not matter.
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So we have to be strong in this way.
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We have to rely on the lord.
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Now here's why i love this verse.
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Because paul is not sitting on his couch.
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Scrolling on instagram, eating twinkies, texting his friends.
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Hey, just be strong.
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Hey, it's going to be okay.
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Like, i'm praying for you. everything's going to be okay.
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Just shove in his mouth with twinkies.
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You know, like he's not in a position of comfort.
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Do you know what paul is?
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He is actually in prison in rome.
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When he wrote ephesians 610 to 12.
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It is a letter to the believers in ephesus as he is
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Chained up, locked up in a prison in rome.
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Isn't that amazing?
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Like his life seems to be falling apart,
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But he doesn't allow his environment.
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Please listen to me on this.
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He doesn't allow his environment to stop him from spreading
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The gospel to many of us today.
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Start to just walk away from god and start to blame god.
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What? god? i feel like i'm in a prison,
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But in the prison
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You can encourage others and still see a miracle of god
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In the prison, in the place that you don't want to be.
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You can still worship his holy name
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And see angels come and rescue you in the prison.
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I'm going to show you
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That my holy spirit will still move through you,
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And you can encourage other people to still believe.
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It's the prison that shows my power and my authority.
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And so right now, maybe that's how you feel.
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You're in a situation you don't want to be in, right?
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And so he is telling them, listen, i know i'm locked up,
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But the gospel is not you can chain me up.
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You can't chain up the gospel.
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It's going to continue to flow.
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I'm going to continue to speak.
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It doesn't matter what you do to me.
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I think that's become more of
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A reality lately in our nation.
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It doesn't matter how you persecute me,
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It doesn't matter what opposition comes.
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It doesn't matter how bad you hurt me,
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Or even if you take my life,
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I will continue speaking about jesus christ.
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I'm going to ask you a very serious question.
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It's a heavy one.
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Are you willing to do that?
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Do you love the lord so much?
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You're seriously like god.
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I will lose my life to proclaim your truth,
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Because we've been living in a culture
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Where we've been afraid to proclaim
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Jesus to us because of a comment on social media,
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It gets heavier than that.
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There are underground churches in the world that know that
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Every time they praise jesus, they could be killed for that.
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And we're starting to see more
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And more of this opposition. why?
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Because it is a spiritual fight.
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So it's it's not a time to play.
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It's a time to get right with god.
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It's a time to fall in love with him.
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And he's going to change your perception on some things.
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And so here's what the lord told me.
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I'm going to start a new series today called courageous,
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And the vision behind this series is to teach you
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How to be strong in the lord,
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How to trust him in your situation.
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Because let me remind you today, you need the strength of god
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To make it through the trials you will face.
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You need.
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You need the strength of god.
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Let's be honest, just to make it through life,
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You need to see the strength of god to deal with hard friends
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Or hard situations.
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Because i've come to tell you today,
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You can't do it by your own strength.
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You can't.
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And i know as a pastor, there's always that one person
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Like pastor.
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I'm a pretty hard headed person.
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I'm pretty stubborn.
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I can hold my own.
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I've been tough since i was little.
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I was raised by wolves, you know, like i did.
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I did everything on my own. that's fine.
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That's fine, i get it.
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You still can not fight a spiritual fight
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Without the holy spirit leading you,
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Because you will isolate yourself.
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You will hold on to your feelings
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And never share it with anybody else.
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Because you want to be so tough, you will isolate yourself
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Within depression and in depression.
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The scariest thing is to be alone with your own thoughts.
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How are you going to overcome that?
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You need the strength of god to change your perception
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And what you're looking at, because it's very easy
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To wake up and see all the chaos and division in this world
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And feel like you're lost.
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Where does your strength come from?
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One of my favorite stories that is the bible.
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It's about a man named samson.
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He had supernatural strength, but he loses his strength. why?
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Because of pride.
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Because of arrogance.
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And because he's sleeping around.
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Meaning he's sleeping around on his calling, pursuing
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Pleasure instead of what god actually called him to do.
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That's very dangerous.
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The world is going to put pleasure in front of your eyes
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No matter where you are, and you have to make a decision.
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You know what?
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I'm going to follow
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Jesus instead of the pleasures of the world,
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Because that pleasure can ruin, can steal and kill the calling
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That god has placed on my life,
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And the very
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Pleasure you seek will make you weak.
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Will make you feel defeated.
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And that's exactly how samson felt, because he had the
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Supernatural strength.
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But now,
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Because of delilah, the wrong relationship,
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He has completely lost his strength. and he's.
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He's a captive with his enemies, and they're making fun of him.
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But then all of a sudden, we see this, this last prayer,
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And judges have to 16 verse 28, listen to the wording here,
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Samson. pray to the lord.
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Sovereign lord, remember me again.
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Oh god, i love how real that is.
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You know what samson is saying?
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God, my whole life i've made a lot of mistakes.
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God, my whole life i have chased the wrong relationships.
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My whole life i rebelled against you
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Even though you blessed me.
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And so please god, remember me again.
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Meet me again.
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Now listen to this. please strengthen me.
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Just one more time.
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It took samson to get to this point in his life,
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The end of his life, to actually realize
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Where his strength comes from.
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My burden is this.
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I don't want you to get to the end of your life
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And regret all your decisions.
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Never moving with courage,
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Never understanding the strength that god has given you.
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Because if you study samson story
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Every time supernatural strength
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Came upon him, it's because the spirit of the lord
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Was upon him.
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Guess what?
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The spirit of the lord is upon you.
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As believers in jesus christ.
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The same spirit is upon you, living in you.
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You know what the world is going to tell you.
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You know what?
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You just need more self-confidence, right?
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More self-confidence, more self-confidence.
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Always see.
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And i get it, okay?
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It can be encouraging.
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But the problem is we search of a lie completely on ourselves.
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And i think when we hear self-confidence,
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Sometimes we think, all right, for me
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To do a bold thing for the kingdom of god,
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I can't be afraid of anything.
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I think i must be fearless.
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And so let me also reveal this
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To teach you today that nobody is fearless.
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Some of the biggest, baddest, strongest man
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I've ever met still screamed
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Like a little girl when they see a spider.
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All right.
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And some of y'all.
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I just call some of y'all out here.
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I'm calling myself out to
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I hate spiders, but you know what i mean?
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Like like everybody's afraid of something.
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There is something that makes you anxious,
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Something that scares you.
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But yet god is still telling you to do it.
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I've had a lot of people come up to me
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And they're like, pastor, pastor,
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How do i get in a position like you where i can speak
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And preach the gospel without being nervous?
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And i look at them and i say, who says i'm not nervous?
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Every sunday?
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I feel the nerves.
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Every sunday i feel it in my body,
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The anxiety, trying to get the best of me.
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But here's what i do i change my perception.
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This is not to please people.
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This is to please god.
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And god called me to do this.
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And if you change your perception in your life,
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See place it on the lord.
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God is saying, i'm stronger than you.
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Let me handle it.
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When the nerves come, the anxiety comes, the fear comes.
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I'll still be with you.
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I'll take it for you. right.
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Funny story.
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Very quickly, when i first started preaching,
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My wife would pray for me and she knew.
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I've told you guys stories before that
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I used to gag when i when i was preaching.
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If you haven't heard the stories, good.
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Look, i'm back on youtube, but it was so bad.
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So my wife started preaching like,
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God make me nervous instead.
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Made me nervous instead.
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She said that was the worst prayer she's ever prayed.
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Because this i'm starting to get better at preaching.
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She started like just sitting in a chair
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Like, this is so nervous,
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But the lord is good and it's a blessing
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To have a praying spouse, a praying family.
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See what i've noticed in my life.
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The reason i see miracles, the reason we see
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Miracles out of the bible
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Is because of god confidence, not self-confidence.
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It's relying on the lord.
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And you know what that means?
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It means you could be more honest with the lord,
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And it means that god.
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I know that you called me to do this,
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But can i be honest with you, lord?
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I'm afraid.
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Like i'm really scared to have this conversation.
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I'm terrified to look to this person and
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And kind of see what's going on in their life or god,
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I'm really, really terrified of defending the bible.
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How many of y'all can relate to that today?
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You know what? i'll just i'll just listen to all the podcast.
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So the preachers do their thing and and all that.
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But defending the bible like, i don't i don't know enough.
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There's no way that i could do something like that.
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Or maybe we're just scared to forgive a person
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Because we're afraid to get hurt again.
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And so let me ask to tell you the definition of forgiveness.
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It means to forward give over to the lord.
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It doesn't mean that person is getting away with it.
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You're just handing it to god because again, he's stronger.
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That's what forgiveness actually means.
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And so let me set you free today, okay?
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Because courage is not the absence of fear.
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It's just choosing to trust god
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Through the fear that you're facing.
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Meaning god designed our bodies a certain way.
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You're going to have some anxiety and some stress
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Because you know that it's a big event. guess what?
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It also gives you more energy
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To do what god has called you to do.
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Okay?
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But it means when i face my fear, i feel it.
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But i trust god more than the feelings
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That are happening on the inside.
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We see this and it's really powerful.
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One of my other favorite verses is in joshua.
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All right,
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God is speaking to joshua,
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And he's telling him, i want you to go into the promised land.
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But here's what he states in joshua chapter one verse nine.
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He says, from the very beginning, this is my command.
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You know what that means.
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It's not an option
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For you to become a nation, the nation of israel.
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Joshua, you must lead my people.
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Joshua had every reason to be scared.
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By the way he was stepping into moses's shoes.
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He was leading millions into the promised land.
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He was about to fight giants and faced many enemies. yet
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The lord shows up in his life and says, this is my command.
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Be strong and courageous.
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Do not be afraid or discouraged. how
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You ever read the bible and you're just like, how?
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Like, i know it's the biblical answer,
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But i am scared and i'm afraid.
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I think it's because we miss
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The promise attached to obedience.
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Every time
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When god tells you to move forward by obedience,
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He always attaches a promise with it.
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Now read the whole passage.
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This is my command. be strong and courageous.
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Do not be afraid of discouraged.
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Why? for the lord your god
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Is with you wherever you go.
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There are many examples out of the old testament
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When they were fighting battles, and the reason they won
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The battle is because god did something supernatural.
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God was actually taking out the enemy
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More than they were with spears and swords. why?
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Because god was reminding
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His people wherever you go, i will be there.
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Whenever you are afraid, i will lead you whenever
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The enemy seems bigger than you, because he will be at times.
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I am bigger than the enemy and i will always guide you.
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Joshua faced his fear because he trusted the lord.
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You can face your fears
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And you can become courageous when you trust god.
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So the title of today's message is this stand on truth.
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Stand on truth.
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Now why did i titled today's message stand on truth?
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Because i believe here's a crazy concept,
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But the biggest battle you will face in
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Life is not to believe all the lies in this world.
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We are surrounded by lies.
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Do you understand that?
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Okay, when you wake up in the morning
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And you get on your phone, you're going to see lies.
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When you turn on the television, you're going to see lies.
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As you get into conversations, there are lies.
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You're even going to hear lies in your own head
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About your identity and where you're going in life.
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It's all rooted from something jesus said.
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You need to guard your eyes.
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You need to guard your ears because what goes in
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You goes inside of your heart, okay?
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And then it starts to flow out of you.
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And so if all you're doing is looking at fear,
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Guess how you'll be living?
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You'll be living in fear.
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If you're stressed, anxiety ridden, have depression.
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Maybe it's because those are the very things you search.
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It's the very music you listen to every single day.
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I just realized that our biggest challenge in this world
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Is not to believe
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The lies that all around us, and trust me,
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Sometimes it can be very scary
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Because culture will always threaten you
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When you speak the truth.
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In fact, let me say it like this culture is ready
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To throw stones at you
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Every
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Time you speak biblical truth.
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And so if you have your bibles,
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You could turn to acts chapter six today,
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Acts chapter six,
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We're going to talk about this man named stephen.
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Okay?
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Stephen is the first martyr out of the new testament church,
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And stephen is martyred.
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He is stoned to death. why?
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Because he is speaking biblical truth.
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Let me say that again.
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Stephen is killed.
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Stephen knew that he came to a point in his life
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Where everything could end, but he didn't care
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Because he knew that preaching the truth of god's word
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Was more important than him being comfortable,
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Or in this case, even living because his legacy
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Would change to lives around him.
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We first hear stephen and acts chapter
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Six, verses one and two, and it says this.
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But as the believers rapidly multiplied,
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So the church is growing very quickly.
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And they were, oh, no rumblings and discontent.
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And the greek speaking believers complained
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How about the hebrew speaking believers
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Saying that their widows were being discriminated against
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And the daily distribution of food,
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Even in the beginning days, there was no perfect church.
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I made that clear.
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Look, if you're looking for
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A perfect church, you'll never find it,
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Because we're human beings and we make mistakes.
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And that's the beauty of the church,
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Is that we can get together
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Because only one has never made mistakes.
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His name is jesus christ.
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And so we get together and we pray.
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And so when you're
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Going through something or you've made a mistake,
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That's why it's good to have a small group.
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That's why it's good to have a crew around you.
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People here who love you, who pray for you.
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Hey, i've been through it too.
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I've felt in that area too.
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I'm going to pray for you because god delivered me.
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He could deliver you.
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God is still doing new things, but we see from the very
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Beginning as the church is growing
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Right out of the book of acts, there's still dysfunction.
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There's still some division.
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People still have opinions.
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You're never going to escape them.
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And so the 12 disciples call a meeting
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With all the believers.
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And they said, now listen to this.
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We apostles should spend our time
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Teaching the word of god, not running a food program.
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Let's let's just stop right there.
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I love this verse.
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Okay, so let me make it clear,
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Because i feel like if a pastor were to say this on stage,
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Like a lot of people would leave, to be honest.
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Like, what kind of arrogant pastor are you?
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What do you mean?
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You can't serve and help these widows?
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Okay, we need to stop right here because this is teaching us.
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They're not saying it doesn't matter.
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That's not what they're saying.
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They know that table said it'd be served.
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They know that the widows need to be taken care of.
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But they're making a point. please listen in this.
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I believe it's going to set you free today.
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There is a role for you in the church.
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There is a role for you in the kingdom of god.
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Again, we've been talking about a calling.
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How do i know my calling? okay.
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Yes. it's to impact the kingdom of god.
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But what talents, what talents do you have on the inside?
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God placed it in your life
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For a reason to use it for his glory.
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That's how you know your calling.
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He'll bring confirmation.
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He'll open up the right doors.
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So when it comes to the church community, understand?
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Start to pray about this.
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What burdens has the lord given you?
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And we need to be careful with this
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Because here's what happens.
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We get so passionate about an area of ministry.
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We get offended over
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Somebody else who doesn't have the same passion.
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Let's be honest and it starts to create division.
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How come you don't care about what i care about?
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Because god placed it in you?
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Stop trying to force everybody else into this.
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You know what?
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Just do what god called you to do,
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And god will bring the people that you need.
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Because again, we are the full body of christ.
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Somebody has to be the hand, somebody has to be the foot.
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We have to work together.
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But if you're doing a little bit of this,
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A little bit of that
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And this over here and this on the side, listen,
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You're not giving it your all and what god has actually
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Called you to do, you can't and you will feel drained.
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In fact, you can feel miserable serving in the church when
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You do that.
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And that's not only for volunteers, it's for staff.
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Okay.
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Let me make this clear.
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A pastor said this a couple years ago.
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I heard this for the first time, and it is so, free.
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Here's what he said.
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He said, you know, not every good idea is a god idea.
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Not every good idea that you hear is a god idea,
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Because somebody is going
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To come up to you and say, you know what?
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I think we should do a football ministry.
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That sounds good.
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What about a weightlifting ministry
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Like you're talking about language?
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Like, what do you say over there?
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Homeless ministry.
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And we need to do this,
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And we need to go out and serve more.
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And we need to do these things and a lot of good ideas.
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All biblical.
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But if you're not careful
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Because you feel convicted over this,
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You want to do this, you want to do that,
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And you can't not do what god has actually called you to do.
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Let me say it like this when you try to do everything,
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You can't do the one thing god actually called you to do.
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I've been very clear about this.
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The heaviest thing on my life is preaching the word of god.
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I take it very seriously.
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Many weeks i spend almost, if not 20 hours or more,
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Sometimes on a sermon.
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I kid you not, it is in my mind all day long, all week long.
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The only day i get a little bit of rest from
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That is sunday evening and a tad bit on monday.
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But monday i'm already thinking like,
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What do i got to preach this upcoming sunday?
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It's very heavy to me, but if i were all over the place
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Doing everything right to please people,
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Then i would not be able
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To deliver you the word of god that god is actually
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Calling me to preach.
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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, 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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Hi. before you go, i got one more announcement
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To make and this one's a big one.
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Okay, this year we held our very first awaken
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Conference in hickory, north carolina 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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We. and
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The reason i even bring it up tonight
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Is because when it comes to you knowing jesus, the man,
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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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That 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.
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It even failed and failed and fail and know that i follow god.
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And i ended up exactly where i needed to be. so.
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You know what?
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Today is.
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Pentecost sunday.
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Pentecost sunday.
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Woo! you better
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Not ask the holy ghost preacher to preach on pentecost sunday.
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I came here to remind you.
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You need the holy spirit.
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Many.
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Bobby Chandler - Stand on Truth: Don't Let Culture Silence Your Faith (Part 1)

December 12, 2025 | 28:22

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