Bobby Chandler - When God Feels Silent (Part 2)

February 19, 2026 | 25:21

Pastor Bobby Chandler has found hope in Jesus and wants as many people as possible to experience that exact same freedom.

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Bobby Chandler: Authentic Church | Bobby Chandler - When God Feels Silent (Part 2) | February 19, 2026

She. hears the good news that i have for you today.
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Did you know that
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One of the gifts of the holy spirit in your life
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Is discernment?
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Let me let me also be clear on this discernment between
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What is the spirit of god versus what is demonic
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In a world full of lies?
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It's hard to believe the truth and a culture full of lies.
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It's hard to believe what is truth, right?
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You have 400 people saying one thing.
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You got this man by himself speaking from the lord.
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You know what happened next?
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Then zedekiah, the son of kwinana, walked up to
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Micaiah, slapped him across the face.
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What would you do?
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Some of y'all like, look, i know i gave my life to jesus,
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But if somebody comes up and slaps
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Me in the faces on like, i'm just.
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I'm ready to go. i can see it in your eyes.
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I just knew that some of you are thinking to.
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But okay, people get upset over this.
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They get upset over this. listen to what he says.
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He says,
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When did the spirit of the lord lead me to speak to you?
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Some people don't like the truth that is
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Coming out of your mouth.
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They don't like that god is speaking to you.
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Why would god leave me to speak to you?
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First of all, because god was never with you.
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You never had a relationship with him.
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And so there's a lot of people proclaiming to hear from god,
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But they're actually speaking with demons.
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Here's another warning to if you only follow
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The voices that feed your desires, your mistake.
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Flattery for truth.
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You're going to start to mistake flattery for truth.
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It can be very damaging in your life to have a bunch of
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Yes people around you all the time.
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Okay.
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And the bible is very clear about flattery.
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In fact, the bible even states that sometimes your enemies
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Will use flattery to get the best of you.
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There will people.
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There will be people that use flattery to, for an agenda,
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To get something from you, to take something away from you.
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So be careful.
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Well, how do you know the difference?
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Yes, there are encouraging people
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And we should be encouraging to each other.
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But just start to notice.
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Like if somebody being over the top with everything,
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Every time they're around you, they're saying too much, doing
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Too much.
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Could it be
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That they're actually trying to take away something from you?
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So okay, god speaks, but so does the enemy.
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So how do we know clearly the difference?
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Let's break it down.
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The first thing is this. okay.
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Now again the bible says test the spirits.
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The first test. test the fruit.
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Test the fruit.
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That's what jesus told us.
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Matthew chapter 715.
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And 16.
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Beware of false prophets
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Who come to disguised as harmless sheep.
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The bible also states that satan himself
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Can masquerade as a as an angel of light.
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He'll pretend to be everything you need,
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And he'll pretend to be able to give you
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Everything you've ever wanted.
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They come disguised as harmless sheep, but really
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They are vicious wolves.
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They want to attack you.
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Now imagine jesus teaching this.
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And people are hearing this
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For the first time like they're wolves,
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But they look like the good people.
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Like, how are we going to know the difference in jesus?
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Like how to his hands. are you ready?
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Here's the answer. you'll know them by their throat.
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They're going to proclaim me.
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They're going to proclaim jesus what he's saying.
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But they're going to act differently than that.
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They're going to live
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A completely different life from the things
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That are coming out of their mouths.
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You can identify them by their fruit, that is,
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By the way they act.
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Okay.
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Let me set you free.
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Stop taking advice from people
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Who are not even living for the lord.
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Like, i just i've seen it over and over again.
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People going for, let's say, relationship advice from from
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Somebody who can't even make a commitment with anybody.
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Why would you go that direction?
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Or financial advice from somebody
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Who has made a mess up after a mess up
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After a mess up with their finances?
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Why are you going to these people? okay.
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And there's a lot of people that will tell
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You, oh, i wouldn't do that.
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That's because you never did.
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Let's be honest. don't.
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Don't allow people to stop you
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From what god is telling you to do,
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Because they never stepped up by faith.
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And in fact, for my life,
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I would rather risk it all and try than never try at all.
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Because i'd rather fail.
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I'd rather say, okay, at least i did it.
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And then i know this is what the lord wants for my life.
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So let's look at the story again in acts chapter 16.
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This woman
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Who's possessed by demons, she's saying the right things.
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These are godly man.
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And then telling you about the way of jesus.
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We'll get to that in a second.
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But even though it sounds like
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She's saying the right thing, her fruit is off, right?
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Her lifestyle doesn't
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Match up with what she's saying because she.
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Her occupation is what, a fortune teller.
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She's into witchcraft, and the bible is very clear.
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Stay away from this.
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It is a demonic door into your life.
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That's why it's forbidden.
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Now, deuteronomy 1810 and 11.
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This is powerful. for example.
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Never sacrifice your son or daughter to a burnt offering.
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And don't let your people practice fortune telling.
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Just look at the two extremes.
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There.
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God looks at fortune
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Telling as an abomination,
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Just as he looks at sacrificing your own children.
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He had to remind his people,
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Do not sacrifice your children
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To these demonic idols.
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And by the way, as equally important,
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People also don't practice fortune telling
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Or use sorcery or interpret omens
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Or engage in witchcraft, or cast spells, or function
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As mediums or psychics, or call for the spirits of the dead.
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Because really, what?
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You're calling her demons into your life.
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And if you open a door for that,
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You open up a door for spiritual attack.
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So again, let me also put it like this.
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Never take instruction and order
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From someone whose life is in disorder.
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Don't take direction from people
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Whose lives are headed the wrong direction.
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Are they living it?
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If they're telling you how to live your life,
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What fruit is in their life, it's okay to examine that.
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In fact, boundaries out of the bible are biblical as well.
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Okay, you can love people from a distance
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Because you are who you hang out with.
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The bible also states that as well.
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The second test of is this the test?
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Test. the distraction.
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Now here's something i've noticed
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With the ministry of the bible.
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Over and over again,
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There will be people that proclaim to know jesus so well,
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But everywhere they go they call this disorder.
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Everywhere they go, they cause a scene.
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Every time they show up, they cause division.
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Okay.
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There's something spiritual going on
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Because even though they're proclaiming
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Jesus, if they're causing division,
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Division is of the enemy.
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So i want you to think about it like this.
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Okay? gets this woman saying all the right things.
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Imagine if there's a person outside this church
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And they're like, this church is amazing.
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They preach the truth all the time.
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At first when you hear you say amen, right?
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Like hopefully you would say amen.
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Anyway, but
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But what if they did it all day long?
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What if, while i'm preaching, you can still hear it?
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What if we come back the next day
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And they're still here and they're yelling
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The same thing, even though it sounds nice?
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Listen, if you don't shut your mouth,
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I'm going to shut it for you.
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That's why paul got so aggravated here.
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It sounded nice what she was saying,
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But she said it all day long, and she never stopped.
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She was annoying.
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That's a strategy of the devil
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To make the gospel and the good news annoying.
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Demons want
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To make the good news of jesus christ annoying.
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Because if people can be annoyed, they'll never listen.
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They'll never know
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What god has for them.
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And so the third thing is this.
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Now test with scripture.
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I found something out that i actually have never seen
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Before.
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Galatians chapter one, verse eight.
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First of all, let me say this.
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Let god's curse fall on anyone, including us,
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Or even an angel from heaven who preaches a different
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Kind of good news than the one we preached to you.
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Okay.
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I always thought that this woman was saying,
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Jesus is the way.
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She was not.
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If you look in the original greek language,
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She did not say that jesus is the way she said it.
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Jesus is a way
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To salvation.
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Even though it
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Sounded good on the surface, it was theologically incorrect.
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She was trying to say that jesus is just one of the ways
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You hear that before.
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Have you heard that before in our culture today?
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Jesus. just one of the ways.
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This is one of the many ways to get into the kingdom of heaven.
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And so people don't know
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They have ever heard the gospel before.
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And so another thing is, is guilty by association,
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Because now jesus walking with them
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And then people know that she's a fortune teller.
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So and their eyes, they're thinking,
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Oh, christianity and witchcraft can make
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You see the deception here.
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And she's saying that jesus is just a way
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And i can prove it to you.
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In acts chapter 16, verse 17, the sab
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Translation states it correctly
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These men are bond servants of the most high
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God who are proclaiming to you a way of salvation.
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And let me also state this.
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We live in a time
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Of spiritual noise.
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Look, everybody's manifesting,
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Reading crystals, talking about the universe.
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And as believers,
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We know that there is only one name above every other name.
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And he's not a way. he's the way.
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Jesus christ is the way and the only way towards salvation.
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John 2 to 14, verse 16 jesus told them, i am the way,
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The truth, and the life.
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No one comes to the father except through me.
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Nobody's getting into the kingdom of heaven
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Except through me. why?
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Because jesus paid the price for you was not close minded.
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It's saying god is saying there's
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Only one way to redeem you. when i paid the price.
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That's how valuable it is.
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And that's how valuable.
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You are to god.
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There's only one way to be saved.
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And jesus paid that price for you.
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And i love this about this story.
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Let me tell you how good my god is.
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You can still witness miracles of god
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Even when you are annoyed.
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And a good truth.
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You can still witness the miracles of
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God in your life, even when you're annoyed,
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Even when you're frustrated.
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God is still working.
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And so my last point of the message is this.
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Point number two,
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Your song in the dark is still seen by god.
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I want you to think about that
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Because again, david was very open about how he felt.
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I'm praying god, but do you hear me?
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Sometimes it feels like we're in the dark,
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Especially when not
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Everybody's excited about your life change.
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Let me prepare you right now.
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Giving your life to jesus.
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There's
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Going to be somebody upset that you gave your life to jesus.
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It's going to be somebody out there
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Who's upset of the change in your behaviors,
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Because now you won't go do those things with them anymore.
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Keep keep it going, okay?
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Don't worry about them. keep following jesus.
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But let's continue the story here.
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Verses 19 through 24.
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Her master's hopes of wealth were now shattered.
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They're losing profit.
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So they grab paul and silas,
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And they dragged them
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Before the authorities at the marketplace.
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And the whole city is in an uproar
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Because of all these, because of these jews.
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And they shouted to the city officials,
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And they're teaching customs. here's where they start lying.
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They're teaching
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Customs that are illegal for us romans to practice.
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Now listen to this.
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A mob quickly formed against paul and silas.
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Let's go back to the beginning of the message.
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Who let them there?
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The holy spirit.
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The holy spirit may lead you places you don't want to be.
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And a mob quickly formed against paul and silas in the city.
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Officials ordered them
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To be stripped and beaten with wooden rods.
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They were severely beaten,
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And then they were thrown into prison.
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For the jailer was made,
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Was ordered to make sure that they did not escape.
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The holy spirit led them there.
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God allowed some suffering to happen.
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But still there is a purpose in your suffering.
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Let me also make this known to you as well.
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God is still good.
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Just because your circumstances are good doesn't mean
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That god's not good.
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He's still good, and he proved it.
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Listen, he doesn't have to prove it to you today.
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He already proved it upon the cross.
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God does not have to prove himself to you by giving you
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The things that you want right now.
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He's already proven it upon the cross.
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How much he loves you.
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But again, he's a good father.
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So everything good comes from above.
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And he will bless you.
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He will guide you and he will lead you.
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But paul understood that. see, he wasn't.
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He was an argument with god or god.
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You led me here, and now i'm being beaten,
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And i'm in this jail cell.
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And i need you to understand. it was dark.
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Now, around midnight, that thrown into this jail, this
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This prison, they've been beaten.
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And so again, the jailer was ordered that they don't escape.
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So the jailer put them in the inner
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Dungeon and clamped their feet in the stocks.
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And here's what's crazy,
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Though paul understood all this was illegal.
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See, they didn't know that
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Paul and silas actually had roman citizenship.
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And according to roman law, it was illegal to be punished
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And thrown into prison without a fair trial.
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But paul wasn't saying that out loud yet.
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He wasn't proclaiming those things. why?
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Because he knew god was doing something in the darkness
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When nobody else was there.
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And so paul and silas are in the middle.
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And let me say it like this.
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In the dark circumstances around you,
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Even though
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You can't control the environment,
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You can control the way you react and how you act.
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Because verse 25 is all love about the story.
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Around midnight,
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Paul and silas were praying and singing hymns to god,
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And the other prisoners
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Were listening.
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Close your eyes for a minute.
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Imagine it being dark.
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You're in this lonely jail cell.
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It's midnight.
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You're bleeding.
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You're chained up.
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And you think that this is the time to just complain
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And gripe to the lord. but paul,
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I kind of wonder, like in the beginning,
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That he just kind of hum.
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That's sort of
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It started off like that.
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But he's still in the darkness
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And i imagine like it just getting louder.
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It is.
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Well.
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With my so.
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It is.
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Well.
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With mine. so.
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It is well
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With mine. so
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It is
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Well it is well
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With my soul.
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Then it got louder.
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It is worse in the darkness.
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With my chain to be bruised.
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It is worse.
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Chain and
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Way. spiritually paul is still free.
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And he's singing in the darkness is love.
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But most people would shut their mouth.
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He's still singing.
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Where's my soul?
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It is well.
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It is well on my soul.
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Now everybody sing this together.
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It is late.
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Because imagine if the prisons started
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Breaking out and people started singing with the jealous.
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Never heard anything like this before.
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In the darkness.
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It is well
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With my soul.
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It is well
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With my soul.
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It is well.
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It is
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When my soul.
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And then verse 26 through 31 listening there, suddenly
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There was a massive earthquake,
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And the prison was shaken to its foundations.
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All the doors immediately flew open,
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And the chains of every prisoner fell off.
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The jailer woke up to see the prison doors wide open,
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And he assumed that the prisoners had escaped.
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So we drew a sword to kill himself.
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But paul shouted, stop!
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We're all still here!
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Don't kill yourself!
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The jailer called for the lights and ran into the dungeon
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And fell down.
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Now listen to this.
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Trembling
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Before paul and silas
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That he brought them out and asked, sirs,
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What must i do to be saved?
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And they replied, i believe in the lord jesus,
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And you will be saved, along with everyone in your household.
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The same jailer
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Who chained him up and tried to hurt him,
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Who placed him in the darkness.
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It's now the jailer that's bringing him to his house
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To pray over him and his family.
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He's the same jailer that's now cleaning
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Paul and silas up, asking, what is the way?
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Teach me the truth
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About jesus.
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His whole family gets saved.
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In the next morning,
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They find out that paul
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And silas is released, and that when it comes out that
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They are roman citizens and.
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And now they're apologizing to paul and silas
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For throwing them in prison. why?
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Because when you worship in the darkness, chains
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Break.
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You see both sides hurt.
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You see physically, yes.
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There were chains on their body
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When they saying the earthquake came and the chains broke.
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But guess what happened?
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Spiritually,
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There was a reason paul was called to that area,
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Even though there was listen,
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There was some suffering in the in between.
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The purpose of god is still fulfilled in the end.
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And they were released to keep preaching the gospel.
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But i wonder, for those in the prison cell that night,
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I bet they never forgot those hymns.
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I bet they never forgot those,
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Since it is well with my soul.
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I don't know what they say.
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But just for an illustration for us.
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Imagine if they sing that.
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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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All right, before you go, i got one more announcement to make.
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And this one's a big one.
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Okay.
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This year
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We held our very
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First awaking conference in hickory, north carolina
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For authentic church.
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And we saw
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People come out from everywhere, from all over the nation
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And even outside of the country
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To experience what god is doing here.
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So we're doing it again in 2026, from june 4th to june 7th.
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We would love for you to plan and be here with us.
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And if you want to look into more details
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Over the conference,
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All you have to do is click the link below.
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In fact, here's a recap video to show you with all god did.
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We have been.
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And the
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Reason i even bring it up tonight
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Is because when it comes to you knowing jesus, 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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We need.
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This.
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This job doesn't work out for me.
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What if i move my life by faith and it all just
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Crumbles to the ground? what if it works?
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What if god shows up and changes your life forever?
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But i would rather move by faith
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And even fail and fail and fail and know that i follow god.
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And i ended up exactly where i needed to be.
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You know what today is
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Pentecost.
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Sunday,
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Pentecost sunday.
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Who? 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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Bobby Chandler - When God Feels Silent (Part 2)

February 19, 2026 | 25:21

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