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 Life is Dry, Revival Shakes the Valley (Part 1) | December 2, 2025
- She. and your pain.
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- Your loneliness.
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- Through your sickness.
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- This truth still stands.
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- The lord will take a hold of you.
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- He is not abandon you because of your situation.
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- Even in despair. god is there.
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- I just want to ask you this morning.
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- Do you feel the presence of god in this room?
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- Yes. yes.
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- There's a shifting that's been happening
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- Not only in this room for the last few weeks,
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- But there's a shifting happening right now in our nation
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- And america.
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- And i believe that we're just at a point.
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- We have seen so many things, and we have seen hate,
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- And we have seen division, and we have seen murder,
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- And we have seen
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- Senseless violence, that we have to make a choice today.
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- And that choice is to look up to the kingdom of heaven
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- Because we can't play around anymore.
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- Let's be honest, you have to make a choice.
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- Either you're going to be in
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- With the world, or you're going to be in with jesus christ.
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- You cannot serve two masters
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- Because you will love one and you will hate the other.
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- And that's what we see within our culture.
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- That's what we see within our world today.
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- People hate the ways of god
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- Because it looks foolish to them,
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- Because it doesn't satisfy selfish desires,
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- Because coming to jesus means that you're actually
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- Sacrificing your desires away
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- The things that you want for yourself.
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- Putting god first, but he created you
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- To know it's love
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- Had a very real way
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- To understand that he loves you, that he's guiding you.
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- But there are times that we look at life and we look at culture
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- And we're like, god, it's so dark. the.
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- That's your
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- Prayer life in this week.
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- Have your eyes been open
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- Or your ears listening?
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- And if you're not careful
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- In the darkness, there's a lot of chatter
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- And there's a lot of loud voices in your comment section.
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- In the videos you see on the news
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- Around you, around the people that you're around.
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- And so sometimes it feels like the darkness is so heavy,
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- It almost feels like the darkness
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- Is overcoming everything.
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- But that's a lie.
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- Look up.
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- When's the last time you were
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- In the word of god for yourself?
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- When's the last time you asked the holy spirit?
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- I had a conversation just this past week in the gym
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- With somebody who i love, and.
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- And i asked them, i said, have you ever prayed
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- To the holy spirit?
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- And he was very honest with me and said, no, not really.
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- Most of my life i never asked the holy spirit to guide me.
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- But the bible is very clear
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- That the holy spirit came to wage war against your flesh.
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- The holy spirit will transform your mind.
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- And so those doubts and those thoughts
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- And those fears and that anxiety that comes
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- After you, the holy spirit fights that.
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- But are you even asking the holy spirit to guide you
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- And to give you strength, because the holy spirit
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- Will give you strength that you do not have?
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- And i just i'm just telling the church today
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- Like there's no time to play games.
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- Like in the last few weeks we have seen senseless
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- Violence, hate, and we have seen division.
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- We have witnessed a school shooting.
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- We have witnessed a senseless, hateful stabbing.
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- And we have
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- Witnessed the assassination of charlie kirk.
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- Hey, brother in christ.
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- Somebody who stood on biblical principles.
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- Was he perfect? no. are we perfect?
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- No. only jesus is perfect.
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- But we're seeing demons come out
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- And in broad daylight, aren't we?
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- The bible tells us that every day is a spiritual fight.
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- And so again, you have to make a choice.
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- Because right now,
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- The world doesn't like the truth
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- That is coming out of your mouth.
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- The world doesn't like the gospel.
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- And so the world demons.
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- Satan will try to shut you up, but every time
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- You look at the bible,
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- Whenever there's persecution, the church rises.
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- Darkness is all around us.
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- But you were called to go into the darkness to be the light.
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- You are called to speak the truth of god's word.
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- And here's what i'm praying over you.
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- I'm praying that his holy spirit gives you a boldness
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- You've never had before.
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- Say, you know what?
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- I don't care anymore.
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- I don't care what they'll do to me and my job.
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- I don't care what my friends will say.
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- I don't care what people are going to comment, i don't care.
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- I just want to please the lord.
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- I'm going to stand up for him.
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- I want to be bold about my faith.
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- It's not a time to play.
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- Paul spoke to the church in rome
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- And romans chapter 13, verse 11.
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- Listen to this,
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- For this is all the more urgent, for you know how late it is.
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- Time is running out. wake up!
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- Let me say it again.
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- Wake up!
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- We have been asleep.
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- We've been cruising.
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- Hit our faith
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- Just doing the things that are comfortable to get by.
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- But no, no, no. it's time to wake up.
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- Because the time of
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- Salvation is nearer now than when you first believed.
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- Jesus is coming back.
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- And we're seeing demons in plain sight.
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- And the darkness will try to intimidate you.
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- To stay hidden.
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- Just stay quiet
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- And do not move by faith.
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- And so again, if that's how you feel,
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- And it feels like sometimes the darkness is winning,
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- Let me encourage you with this truth
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- Straight out of isaiah chapter 16, verse two.
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- Here's what the word of god says about darkness.
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- Darkness as black as night covers
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- All the nations of the earth.
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- But listen, don't you fear for the glory of the lord?
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- Rises and appears over you.
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- He is stating yes.
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- Look at the world clearly.
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- It is full of darkness, but god's glory.
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- It's not intimidated, but the darkness around us
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- And his glory is upon you.
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- His light is upon you.
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- The holy spirit is with you.
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- He did not abandon you just because life got tough
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- Or things got difficult.
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- So in other words, i can say that
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- God's glory is not intimidated
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- By the darkness and the beautiful,
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- Beautiful thing about the god that we serve
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- Is that his light will always outshine
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- The darkness around us.
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- In that crazy.
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- As a. promise.
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- Because no matter how bad it is.
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- No matter how heartbreaking it is,
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- The thing you see, the thing that's happening to you,
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- The things that are happening around you.
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- God has given us a promise.
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- His love and his light will still outshine the darkness.
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- John chapter one, verse five.
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- The light shines in the darkness,
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- And the darkness cannot overcome it.
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- The darkness
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- Cannot overpower the love of god.
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- His calling upon your name.
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- And so i've been praying about this. and
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- There's a passage of scripture that the lord placed on my heart
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- Earlier, before any of these events took place this week.
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- So i just want to thank god,
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- Because i believe that he has given us
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- A word of hope and encouragement,
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- And it's a word that is needed today.
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- So if you have your bibles, you can turn to ezekiel chapter 37,
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- Ezekiel chapter 37.
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- We're going to talk about dry bones coming to life.
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- We're going to talk about how things seem spiritually
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- Dead, how things seem spiritually gone,
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- How it seems like there's no way this can come back to life,
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- But my god can still do it.
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- And he shows us this
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- Vision that's prophetic vision over to ezekiel.
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- But before we even get into that, let's talk about who is he
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- Is ezekiel is a young priest, from the region of judah.
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- Okay.
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- He was a young priest called by god.
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- He obeyed the lord. but the promise.
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- Okay.
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- God also called him to be
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- A major prophet over the people of god.
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- And it wasn't easy for him
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- Because god calls him at a time of desperation.
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- God calls him at a time where everything in his life
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- Is falling apart. why?
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- Because now the people of god,
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- Out of the land of judah, have been conquered by babylon,
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- And king nebuchadnezzar has come in
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- And he's taken them into exile.
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- He's taking them into captivity.
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- He's taking them
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- Far from their land into a foreign land and sea.
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- Ezekiel has a choice.
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- My life
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- Has been turned upside down.
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- My people, my language.
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- Everything is going into captivity.
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- Ezekiel has a choice.
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- Do i continue listening to the lord and obeying his command?
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- Or do i just give up?
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- And so he listens to the lord, and then the lord start
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- Speaking and stating, okay, you're going to be a prophet
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- Over my people.
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- In fact,
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- Ezekiel was brought into
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- The land of babylon about eight years after daniel.
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- But they both had different missions.
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- Daniel is ministering to the king
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- And to the leadership over babylon.
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- But ezekiel here is preaching to the people.
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- And so god says in this time he says,
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- I want you to preach some very difficult things,
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- Some hard things.
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- And i wonder if ezekiel was wrestling with that.
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- God, we just lost everything.
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- Yeah, but my people need to know,
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- People need to know what they've been chasing,
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- How this devastation
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- That they see today is because of the choices.
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- Let me make that very clear.
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- Your choices have consequences.
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- And so the lord starts speaking through secure,
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- And he starts speaking to the people in.
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- And he's stating, okay, first of all, you committed idolatry.
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- You've been worshiping the the ways of the world.
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- You've been following the ways of the world.
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- You have been worshiping
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- Demons and allowing demons into your home.
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- You've been allowing idols into your home.
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- You're looking just like the rest of the world.
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- You turn your back on god,
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- Chasing a lie and forgot about the truth.
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- Knowing that.
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- But he had to preach about judgment.
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- Judgment has to come.
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- There has to be judgment for you to repent and to turn around.
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- And then he started to prophesy that the temple,
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- The temple of god, the holy temple of god,
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- Would be destroyed by king nebuchadnezzar.
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- You know, i would think
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- At this point in ezekiel's life,
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- The idea of hope,
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- The idea of seeing any of this coming back
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- To life would seem like a fairytale.
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- Almost hopeless in his situation.
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- What can god do with this?
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- And so i believe not only that.
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- Listen.
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- He also expose false shepherds at the time.
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- If ezekiel were here
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- Today, he would be canceled by the culture.
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- Dive deeper.
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- He would also probably be canceled by the church
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- Because people didn't like what he had to say.
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- In fact,
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- I was having a conversation this morning
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- And this
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- May not be on the screen,
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- But i want you to see ezekiel chapter two, verses 6 to 8.
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- I'm going to read it out of my bible here.
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- The lord is speaking to him,
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- And he stated that, and you, son of man, don't fear them.
- 00:12:03.344 --> 00:12:07.214
- Somebody needs to hear this today.
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- Don't fear people.
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- Don't fear their words through briers
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- And thorns, or all around them, or all around you.
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- You sit among scorpions.
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- Neither fear their words nor be dismayed
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- At their presence, for they are a rebel guest house.
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- But you shall speak my words to them,
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- And whether they listen or refuse to listen.
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- For they are the most rebellious. but listen to this.
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- As for you, son of man.
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- Listen to what i say.
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- Do not be rebellious like the rebellious house.
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- Open your mouth and eat what i'm giving you.
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- This is the zeal.
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- Eat the words of god.
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- People will attack you.
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- Your own people will attack you.
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- Everything seems hopeless.
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- But then we see it.
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- Ezekiel chapter 37. god gives him this vision.
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- And this vision proves that our god
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- Specializes in bringing dead things back to life.
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- And so i'm going to read
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- From verses one through 14 first,
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- And then i'm going to break it down as we go.
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- Ezekiel 37,
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- Verses one through 14 states this.
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- The lord took hold of me,
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- And i was carried away by the spirit of the lord
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- To a valley filled with bones.
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- Listen to that.
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- And he led me all around
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- Among the bones that covered the valley floor.
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- And they scattered everywhere across the ground,
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- And were completely dried out.
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- Then he asked
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- Me, said a man, can these bones become living people?
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- Can these bones come back to life again?
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- And ezekiel is looking up and he's answering,
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- Just like many of us would answer, oh god, i don't know.
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- Be according to your will, lord.
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- And only you know the answer to that.
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- Then the lord spoke to me.
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- Now listen to this.
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- Speak a prophetic message to these bones and say,
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- Dry bones, listen to the word of the lord god.
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- I know your situation is bad.
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- I know everything seems devastating.
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- I know there's a lot of loud voices around you,
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- But listen to the word of the lord.
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- Look. and here's a promise.
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- I'm going to put breath into you and make you live again.
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- I will put flesh and muscles on you.
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- And i will cover you with skin.
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- And i will put breath into you, and you will come to life.
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- Then you will know that i am the lord god almighty.
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- So ezekiel has a choice.
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- And ezekiel stated that i spoke the message just as he told me.
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- Suddenly, as i spoke,
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- There was a rattling noise all across the valley.
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- The bones of each body came together
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- And attached themselves as complete skeletons.
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- Then as i watched,
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- Muscles and flesh formed to cover their bodies,
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- But they still had no breath in them.
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- Underline that right there.
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- It's very special, very important.
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- We're going to get to that very soon.
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- Their bodies were together, but they still had no breath.
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- And them.
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- Then he said to me, now speak again.
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- It's hard to keep speaking right.
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- It's hard to keep speaking by truth when your situation
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- Doesn't look good. but god keeps reminding him.
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- Speak again.
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- Speak a prophetic message to the wind, said a man.
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- Speak a prophetic message and say,
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- This is what the sovereign lord says.
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- O come, breath from the four winds.
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- Breathe into these dead bodies so they may live again.
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- So i spoke the message as he commanded me,
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- And breath came into their bodies,
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- And they all came to life, and stood up on their feet
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- As a great army of god.
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- Then he said to me,
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- Son of man,
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- These bones represent the people of israel.
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- You know what they've been saying?
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- You know how they've been speaking.
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- They've been saying, we have become old,
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- Dry bones.
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- All hope is gone.
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- Our nation is finished.
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- That's what they've been stating.
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- That's what they've been declaring
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- Over the nation, over their lives, over their families.
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- Therefore, prophesy to them and say,
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- This is what the sovereign lord says.
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- What he's stating to ezekiel
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- Is, he's saying, i know there's a lot of loud
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- Voices around you.
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- Stop listening to them and listen to my word instead.
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- I know that it looks bad, but continue to prophesy.
- 00:16:51.465 --> 00:16:55.402
- And this is what the sovereign lord says, o my people,
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- I will open your graves of exile
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- And cause you to rise again.
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- Then i will bring you back to the land of israel.
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- When this happens on my people, you will know that
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- I am the lord.
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- Don't miss this, and
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- I will put my spirit in you.
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- I will always be with you,
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- And you will live again.
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- Return to your your homeland.
- 00:17:24.498 --> 00:17:27.701
- Then you will know that i, the lord, have spoken,
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- And i have done what i said.
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- Yes, the lord has spoken.
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- The title of today's message is this when life is dry.
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- When life is dry.
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- Point number one for the note
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- Takers in the room is this speak life over death.
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- Over and over again out of ezekiel, chapter
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- 37, verses one through 14, we see something in repetition.
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- What is it that we see?
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- We see the lord speaking to ezekiel, saying,
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- Tell them what i command you to say.
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- Let me flow through your mouth.
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- Let me speak to you.
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- I know that it seems bad.
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- I know that people are griping
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- And complaining and talking about disaster
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- And all these problems, but still.
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- Instead, i am commanding you.
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- Notice the wording there?
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- I am commanding you to speak life
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- Over a situation that looks dead,
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- Over a situation that looks gone.
- 00:18:24.725 --> 00:18:26.727
- Even though you don't see hope, there is still hope there.
- 00:18:26.727 --> 00:18:30.464
- God, how can you resurrect
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- This marriage and change it?
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- God, how can you save these
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- Relationships in my life right now?
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- God can.
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- How can you help me to keep moving forward?
- 00:18:41.241 --> 00:18:43.544
- God, can you really bring this back to life for me?
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- So i want to ask you a real question right now.
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- What is a dry season to you?
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- If you were to write it down, what is your answer?
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- What is a dry season?
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- What does it look like? have you been there?
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- Are you there right now?
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- A dry season looks like this for many.
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- It's when you so desperately need a pray to the lord
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- Because you are in pain and you're hurting.
- 00:19:09.036 --> 00:19:12.339
- And everything around you feels dark.
- 00:19:12.339 --> 00:19:14.074
- But you don't even have the words.
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- Have you been there?
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- How do you know you want to talk to him,
- 00:19:20.814 --> 00:19:22.115
- But you just don't even have the words.
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- You don't even know how to start the conversation.
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- God, i just i don't know what to say.
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- I feel dry.
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- I feel hurt.
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- God, just. just meet me.
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- By the way, that's all you got to say?
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- Jesus, just meet me.
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- Feeling dry also means that you wrestle every morning
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- Waking up because depression is so thick in your house,
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- So heavy in your room
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- That you feel like you should not even get out of bed
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- To continue on through the day.
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- And again,
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- The devil is a liar because he knows
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- That god is about to make a difference
- 00:19:55.549 --> 00:19:57.251
- In your life, but depression is lying to you.
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- Anxiety is lying to you,
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- Trying to keep you to stay still instead of moving forward.
- 00:20:01.622 --> 00:20:04.725
- But that's what it feels like to be in a dry season.
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- A dry season also means that
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- Everything in our life that once was good
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- Is starting to run out.
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- The bank account looks dry,
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- Our health looks dry, have relationships look dry.
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- God, i want to have faith, but it's too dry.
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- It's like i don't understand why this is happening
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- And why i'm going through this.
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- And so your faith feels like it's running on empty,
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- And you don't know how to get to where
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- God is calling you to be.
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- But i want you to see here in this text,
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- Out of this passage, here is ezekiel.
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- God has called him, but he's staring at
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- What is dead.
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- He's staring at these these bones
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- That have been scattered
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- Upon the ground that once represented his people.
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- It is a very hard thing to look at.
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- It is a memory of the past, of what was yet still,
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- Even though it's difficult.
- 00:20:59.980 --> 00:21:01.081
- See, sometimes god is going to take you
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- To look at what's difficult so that he can show you his power.
- 00:21:02.516 --> 00:21:06.586
- There were times in your life that god is going to allow
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- A trial for you to see the trial, see the darkness,
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- But at the same time see the light of god's love.
- 00:21:12.292 --> 00:21:15.329
- Show up in your situation.
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- That's how you know that god is real.
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- Because look again
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- At the wording at the beginning of the chapter.
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- We need to learn from this right here.
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- Ezekiel 37 verse one.
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- The lord took a hold of me.
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- And your pain,
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- Your loneliness through your sickness.
- 00:21:36.550 --> 00:21:39.986
- This truth still stands.
- 00:21:40.520 --> 00:21:42.589
- The lord will take a hold of you.
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- He has not abandoned you because of your situation.
- 00:21:45.792 --> 00:21:48.595
- Even in despair, god is there.
- 00:21:48.595 --> 00:21:51.798
- Even when you feel lost.
- 00:21:52.332 --> 00:21:54.067
- The lord is giving you direction.
- 00:21:54.067 --> 00:21:55.869
- The lord took hold of me,
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- And that was when i was carried by the spirit of the lord
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- To a valley filled with dry bones.
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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.
- 00:22:14.020 --> 00:22:15.455
- 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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- You're helping change lives because of your faithful giving.
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- We're able to reach not only the nation, but the world.
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- We're bringing the gospel of jesus christ
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- Into everyone's home as much as we can,
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- So that they know the love of god.
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- All right.
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- 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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- We would love for you to plan and be here with us.
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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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- Be happy and be.
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- Me be. me.
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- And the
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- Reason i even bring it up tonight
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- Is because when it comes to you knowing jesus
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- The man, the gospel message is all about
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- Your understanding of the message about the man
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- Who inform your methods of getting to know the man
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- From. me.
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- Me. me. me.
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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 sunday.
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- Pentecost sunday.
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- Woohoo!
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- You better not ask
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- A holy ghost preacher to preach on pentecost sunday.
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- I came here to remind you you need
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- The holy spirit.
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- To be.
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