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Bobby Chandler: Authentic Church | Bobby Chandler - When Temptation Follows Transformation (Part 1) | October 14, 2025
- Chasing these things. even know what you wear?
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- Do you even know what you care about?
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- Do you even know what you're consuming and feeding off of?
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- Over and over again? because trust me,
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- There's a reason social media all has a feed.
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- You're feeding on these things.
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- You're taking them into your mindset.
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- How to live, how to talk, how to be.
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- And we're wondering why we're so stressed out.
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- In fact, before i even dive into the word of god today,
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- I want to tell you that what i heard from the lord is this.
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- And i want to speak directly to your soul today, okay?
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- I'm speaking to you because some of you right
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- Now, you've been going through
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- Some things, and it's hard to understand.
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- You've been battling some difficult battles in your life.
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- You're going through some trials,
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- And maybe right now you're asking, god,
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- What am i supposed to do?
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- And so the lord reminded me to teach you
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- And to preach this word today.
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- To align your faith with this belief.
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- Listen.
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- Do not give up.
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- And i know it
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- Seems simple, but it is profound.
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- And the reason why is profound.
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- Because if you believe god
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- For the impossible today, your life changes today.
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- Now, you may not receive all the miracles
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- That you've been praying for right away,
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- But there is a peace.
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- A lot of us are looking for that one thing.
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- God, if you give me that one thing
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- That will change my life, then i'll be okay.
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- No. the one thing that will change
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- Your life is an encounter with jesus.
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- That's the one thing that will change your life.
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- In fact, god doesn't even have to give you
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- What you're asking for.
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- It's just meeting with him that brings healing upon your life.
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- But i want you to be honest today
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- Because again, this is the heaviness
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- That the lord placed on me.
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- Some of you right now,
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- You are on the verge of giving up on everything,
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- And i don't know what that looks like.
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- But for many of you, you do.
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- Maybe it's your marriage.
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- Maybe it's your family.
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- Maybe it's a hope for the future.
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- And maybe you are confused
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- Because you've given your life over to jesus.
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- Some of you are new believers.
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- Hallelujah.
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- You've given your life to christ. you've been baptized.
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- But as soon as you got baptized, life did get easier.
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- It actually got heavier.
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- You experiencing that?
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- And maybe you're asking questions right now.
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- God, i don't understand.
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- I'm trying to align my life with you.
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- I said yes to you.
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- I got baptized and i'm trying to do the right thing.
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- And god, i know that i felt your love
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- Because i felt your presence and the change found.
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- But all of a
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- Sudden, the week came and i got attacked.
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- My mind got attacked.
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- My faith got attacked.
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- My health got attacked. my family got attacked.
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- And i just want to know god.
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- Did i do something wrong?
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- And maybe that's where you are.
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- I gave my life over to jesus.
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- But life is getting harder.
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- Did i mess up?
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- Am i going the wrong direction? god.
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- Did i make you mad?
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- And the answer to that question is no.
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- In fact, let me say it like this.
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- When you are on the right path, following jesus
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- Lovingly, listen.
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- Life will get harder.
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- The enemy will attack you.
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- Trials will come.
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- The things that used to be on the inside
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- That were hidden will now come out. why?
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- Because you are getting free
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- And those demons are being cast out.
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- The devil is losing his control over your life,
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- Over your mindset.
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- You used to listen to anxiety, but now anxiety has no
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- Control over your mind.
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- You're listening to jesus.
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- But again, you can be asking, is this normal?
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- Did i do something wrong?
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- And i think the reason. okay.
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- Because we get so stressed out, right?
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- We get so stressed out. god.
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- I don't understand.
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- I am confused.
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- And i believe the reason we are
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- Confused is because churches aren't preaching this enough.
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- It needs to be said louder.
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- The biblical truth needs to come out.
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- Listen, just because you got baptized
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- And gave your life over to jesus
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- Doesn't mean the devil is going to stop coming after you.
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- In fact, biblically, now he's going to come after you more
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- Because again, you have become a threat.
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- And peter makes this very clear to all believers,
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- All christians, that there is a spiritual fight.
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- You will fight every single day of your life.
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- Let's look at it together.
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- First peter chapter five, verse eight.
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- Peter said this, and i love
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- How it stated here at the very beginning.
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- Stay alert.
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- Some translation stayed it like this.
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- Stay sober.
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- Sober minded.
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- Understand what is happening around you.
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- Watch out for your great enemy, the devil.
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- Some of you need to underline that right there,
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- Because i'm going to make it clear to you, to you today.
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- Because you follow jesus.
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- Because you love jesus.
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- You have an enemy.
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- This is not make believe.
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- This is not a fairy tale.
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- There is an enemy coming after your life, coming
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- After your faith, coming after your children,
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- Coming after your family.
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- But he doesn't have to be allowed in your house
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- Because you're covered by the blood of jesus.
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- But still, peter is making it known to every believer.
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- Stay alert.
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- Watch out for your great enemy.
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- The devil prowls around like a roaring lion
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- Looking for someone to devour.
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- Looking for someone to destroy.
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- Looking for someone to misuse and divide.
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- That's what the enemy wants to do.
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- But notice this.
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- And i love this. about the verse. listen.
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- When lions are about to attack their prey,
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- Did you know that they're actually silent
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- When they know that they can overcome their prey?
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- They are silent
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- Because they will pounce on their prey
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- And eat their prey alive.
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- But when a lion, please hear me, is intimidated.
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- When a lion wants to distract.
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- When the lion is trying to prove that he is tough, as tough
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- As what he's coming after, he gets, he will roar loudly.
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- I don't know if you heard me, but satan is intimidated by you
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- Because jesus christ lives in your heart.
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- Because the holy spirit, the spirit of the living
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- God, is inside of you.
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- But peter is making it known.
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- Just because you became a believer
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- Doesn't mean
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- That life is going to be rainbows and sunshine every day.
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- You need to stay alert.
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- You have a great enemy looking for someone to devour.
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- Let's break this down.
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- The demonic strategy is this to help you understand.
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- Listen, satan or his demons have witnessed your baptism.
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- They have witnessed your baptism.
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- Demons. okay.
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- This is the demonic stronghold that we fight daily.
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- Demons will also watch for your weaknesses,
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- Your insecurities, your doubts, and your fears.
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- They will play on that and try to speak into your mind
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- So that you will open up a door for those demons
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- To come back in.
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- Now some of you were saying, but pastor, i thought you said,
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- Don't give up and you're not really helping me.
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- You're telling me that every day is a fight.
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- And to be honest with you, maybe you can relate to this.
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- I'm tired of the fight.
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- I could use their.
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- Can we be honest for, like, a moment?
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- Like, are you tired of the fight?
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- The battle that you're facing every single day.
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- You get up. the battle over your health.
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- The battle over your mind.
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- The battle that you have to fight
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- Just to keep forgiving somebody that keeps hurting you,
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- Keep coming after you.
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- And again,
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- Yes, these demons are witnessing these things
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- And they're looking for an open door.
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- But you don't have to give them an open door,
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- Because here's what i love about what peter said.
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- He didn't end with verse eight.
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- He continues this in verse nine.
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- This is verse ten.
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- Here becomes first peter chapter five, verse nine and ten.
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- Stand firm.
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- Now hold up.
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- You're not easy prey for the enemy.
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- This is why he is roaring at you.
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- Stand firm against him and you can be strong in your faith.
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- Now, i love this right here
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- Because somebody needs to be reminded of this truth.
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- Remember that your family of believers,
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- All over the world
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- Are enduring and going through the same suffering that you are.
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- What does the devil whispering in your ear?
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- You're alone.
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- God has abandoned you.
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- Nobody's going through what you're going through.
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- Nobody will understand.
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- The devil is a liar.
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- He is known as a liar.
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- He is the father of all lies according to scripture.
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- The bible is telling us
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- That the same fight that you're fighting today,
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- Somebody else is fighting it as well.
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- Not only that, but somebody in this room
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- Right now has a testimony of victory
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- For overcoming the temptation that used to control them.
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- And as the body of christ comes together, we can pray together.
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- We can hear each other's testimonies,
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- And we can have hope and faith to keep moving forward.
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- Because you're not the only one going through the battle.
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- You're facing today.
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- The lord will hold your hand.
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- He's guiding you.
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- He's helping you.
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- But listen to this, okay?
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- Listen
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- In his kindness.
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- God called you to share
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- In his eternal glory by means of christ jesus.
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- And you would think what would come after that?
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- It's like a perfect line that says life is going to be great.
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- It's going to be wonderful.
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- But what does it say?
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- So after you have suffered
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- For a little while
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- Again,
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- I'm sorry because i know a lot of people preach this,
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- But the bible has never promised that every day
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- Is going to be perfect
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- For following jesus, the bible, over and over again,
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- Through the old testament, to the new testament,
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- To the letters of paul, to the letters of the disciples
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- In the new testament, even as they follow jesus.
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- And after jesus ascended to be at the right hand of the father,
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- They went through sufferings.
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- They were persecuted
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- Okay for following jesus, but he's still giving us hope.
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- Listen, you will suffer
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- A little while.
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- What does the enemy say when you're suffering right now?
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- You need to give up.
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- You need to get out of this.
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- God is abandoned. you. no, no, no.
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- The suffering is for a little while.
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- The truth is, this is hopeful because he's saying the pain
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- You are enduring today is temporary.
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- The battles that you're facing today, it's very temporary.
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- And here's the truth.
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- My life can end today.
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- But i still know where i'm going.
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- And i will gladly give my life up for jesus on this world
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- To be in his eternal presence forever.
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- Your suffering that you're dealing with.
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- I know it's painful.
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- I don't know all the details, but god does.
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- But still,
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- The word of god is stating this is for a little while now.
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- Look at what happens next.
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- Because during the suffering
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- Through the wilderness, he will what
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- He will restore to you.
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- He will support you.
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- He will strengthen you and place
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- You on a firm foundation.
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- Your faith will be stronger than ever.
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- I went through the wilderness and god let me out.
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- The same god who met me in the valley is meeting me
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- On the mountain top.
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- I know that he is in control of all things.
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- And he will make your foundation firm.
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- God is saying, hold on
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- Just a little bit longer.
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- The pain is for a season.
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- You may be confused.
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- God, why is this?
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- Why is this happening?
- 00:12:12.092 --> 00:12:13.760
- But we're going to dive into the word today,
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- And i'm going to show you something powerful
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- And a revelation of why it does happen,
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- But how jesus will lead you through it.
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- Okay.
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- The title of today's message is this when temptation
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- Follows transformation.
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- When you are tempted
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- After you've given your life to christ, when you have become
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- A christian, a follower of jesus, been
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- Baptized, and life starts to come against you.
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- What do you do?
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- And if you have your bibles,
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- You can turn to matthew chapter three
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- And matthew chapter four today. that's what we're going to be.
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- In matthew chapter four, in my bible,
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- The title of chapter four states the temptation of jesus
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- For jesus.
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- And here's what i love about the son of god.
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- He humbled himself to become a human being.
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- God could have distanced himself from us, not understand.
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- But he humbled himself to truly experience everything
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- That we have experienced with temptation.
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- Yet he knew no sin.
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- And he showed us that there is always a way out.
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- When you call upon the name of jesus.
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- Does that mean anything to you today
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- And what you're battling and what you're fighting right now?
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- What you're facing,
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- The very addiction you said you can never get over?
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- Listen, there was always a way out.
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- His name is jesus.
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- And so for the note takers in the room,
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- Go ahead and write down point number one, which is this.
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- And here's what we see in the journey of jesus here.
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- After the dove came, the devil.
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- Please listen to that.
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- That's powerful.
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- After the dove, okay, came the devil.
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- And so when matthew chapter three,
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- Let me give you some context, some background information
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- Here.
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- John the baptist is at the jordan river, okay?
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- And he is preaching and he is baptizing.
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- And what is he preaching?
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- Because this is important. we need to look at this.
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- He is preaching about repentance.
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- Repent, turn from your sins.
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- He stated in matthew chapter three, verse two,
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- John the
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- Baptist stated, repent of your sins
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- And turn were turned to god.
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- Okay, not this world, not this culture, not the things
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- That numb your pain, but repent of your sins.
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- Turn to god.
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- For he stated, for the kingdom of heaven is near.
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- Now we need to talk about this
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- Because culture has blurred the definition of repentance.
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- In the greek,
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- The word repentance here has two definitions.
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- Okay.
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- The first definition is this to change your mind,
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- To change your mindset, to change your heart,
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- To change the way you used to think,
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- It changed the way you used to speak
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- And the way you used to live.
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- Have you experienced that before?
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- I still remember
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- When i was becoming
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- A believer, a true christian, in the sense
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- Of like giving my life over to jesus.
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- I started reading the bible, and the crazy thing is,
- 00:15:08.101 --> 00:15:11.304
- It's like most of what i read, i did not understand at all.
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- I didn't get it.
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- But here's what i remember very well.
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- I was a waiter at the time,
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- And i remember going to work and having the same conversations
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- I had always heard before,
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- But now it was pulling on my heart strings,
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- Like there were times that i had to go in the back
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- And say, god, i'm about to cry for these people.
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- I don't cry,
- 00:15:30.991 --> 00:15:33.259
- I'm about to cry for this person, you know?
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- Like, why? why do i care so much?
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- And god spoke to me. i still remember his voice.
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- He said, no, i'm allowing you to see people the way i see them.
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- See, before you only care about yourself.
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- You're only worried about yourself.
- 00:15:46.072 --> 00:15:47.407
- But now you're about to see what my people are going through,
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- The way that they speak, and how lost they truly are.
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- I'm warming your heart so that you can see
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- That my people
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- That i love are in bondage and they need to be free.
- 00:15:55.682 --> 00:15:58.385
- And the crazy thing is, again, i didn't really understand
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- A lot of what i was reading,
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- But the bible also stated very clearly,
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- The word of god is living and breathing.
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- You don't have to understand god's full plan.
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- All you need to do is walk in obedience
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- And watch some miracles take place.
- 00:16:13.666 --> 00:16:16.002
- And i'm going to show you today.
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- Show you that true today in today's story.
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- But the definition of repentance is to change your mind, change
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- The way you live. now i want to show you another one. okay?
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- This one's really important.
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- The next definition of repentance means to turn around.
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- What did john the baptist state, he said, turn from your sin.
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- And now go towards god.
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- This is important because a lot of times when we repent,
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- We think, okay, i'm changed because now, listen,
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- Your emotions are valid,
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- But a lot of times we put everything on our emotions
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- The way that it feels.
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- I cried hard, i made a scene,
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- I said, i'm sorry, i'm sorry, i'm sorry.
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- But how many of you know
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- That you have met somebody that said, i'll never do it again?
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- I'm sorry. then the very next day they do what?
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- They lie again. they do it again.
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- They cheat again. they go back to that again.
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- I'm sorry. today i really am sorry.
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- But i'm going to go back.
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- See, we have been misled by our feelings.
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- The definition of repentance is not based on emotion.
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- It's based on surrender.
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- That's the definition of repentance.
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- Meaning, i truly am sorry, god, but now i'm surrendering
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- Everything over to you.
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- I'm turning around from the direction that i was coming.
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- Let me word it like this. okay?
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- Repentance is like a gps
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- Telling you you're going the wrong way,
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- And now you need to turn around.
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- And some of y'all know
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- Y'all can't drive anywhere without a gps today.
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- I'm one of them. amen.
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- Like i'm with you. okay.
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- The holy spirit would tell you to turn around.
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- Where are you going?
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- Why are you pursuing this relationship again?
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- I've told you over and over again,
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- It's going to break your heart.
- 00:17:56.369 --> 00:17:58.104
- Why are you chasing the world and chasing the culture?
- 00:17:58.104 --> 00:18:00.740
- Chasing these things? you even know what you wear.
- 00:18:00.740 --> 00:18:02.876
- Do you even know what you care about?
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- Do you even know what you're consuming
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- And feeding off of over and over again?
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- Because trust me, there's a reason social media
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- All has a feed.
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- You're feeding on these things.
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- You're taking them into your mindset
- 00:18:14.621 --> 00:18:16.823
- How to live, how to talk, how to be.
- 00:18:16.823 --> 00:18:20.326
- And we're wondering why we're so stressed out.
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- We're struggling.
- 00:18:23.062 --> 00:18:24.831
- You realize that like we're in a culture today
- 00:18:24.831 --> 00:18:26.399
- Where we just go, let's go, let's go strong.
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- We can't even concentrate to hear the word of the lord.
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- You gotta be in the word
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- Of god to truly understand the repentance
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- That he's bringing.
- 00:18:38.444 --> 00:18:39.779
- But the gps is saying, turn around.
- 00:18:39.779 --> 00:18:41.614
- And that's what john the baptist is saying.
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- He's saying, turn around, repent, go to god.
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- And he says, for the kingdom of heaven is near.
- 00:18:45.985 --> 00:18:48.454
- Now i think that's really important
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- Because soon after
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- He states this, guess who shows up to the scene?
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- Jesus christ.
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- Jesus shows up and john the baptist says,
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- I'm not worthy.
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- I'm not worthy to baptize you.
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- I shouldn't baptize you, jesus.
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- You should baptize me.
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- Jesus said, no,
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- No, you will baptize me.
- 00:19:09.943 --> 00:19:13.713
- Now if jesus is perfect and knew no sin,
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- Why does he need to get baptized at all?
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- We'll talk about that in a second.
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- But i want you to see what john the baptist stated in matthew
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- Chapter three, verse 14.
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- John tried to talk jesus out of it,
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- And he
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- Stated, i am the one who needs to be baptized by you.
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- Why are you jesus, coming to me? now?
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- Listen to the wording there.
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- I believe we've all said this before.
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- Jesus, why are you meeting me here?
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- I'm unworthy.
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- Jesus, why are you talking to me now?
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- I am unworthy, i am not worthy to hear your voice.
- 00:19:45.712 --> 00:19:49.415
- But sometimes god will ask you to do something or say
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- Yes to something that doesn't make sense in the moment.
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- John felt unqualified.
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- He felt unworthy.
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- He said, no, jesus, i'm not going to baptize you.
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- You should baptize me.
- 00:20:05.765 --> 00:20:08.167
- And the way he speaks reminds me of another person.
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- Remember, later on, jesus is
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- Is washing all of the disciples feet.
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- And there was one man who was very stubborn every time.
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- Okay, his name is peter.
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- Some of you can relate to him, right?
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- What did peter say to jesus when jesus wanted to wash his feet?
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- John chapter 13, verse eight.
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- No, peter protested, you will never, ever wash my feet
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- Like peter
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- Had a bad habit of this god, i'm unworthy.
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- You'll never wash my feet.
- 00:20:41.534 --> 00:20:43.436
- Remember when jesus said,
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- I gotta go to jerusalem to be crucified?
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- No, jesus, i won't let that happen.
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- And he thought he was doing a good thing.
- 00:20:48.474 --> 00:20:50.610
- And jesus looks at him and says, begone, satan.
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- You know, if peter is like you talking to me?
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- Yeah, because you don't even see that you're actually speaking
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- Temptation to the son of god.
- 00:21:00.119 --> 00:21:03.189
- The devil is using your pride.
- 00:21:03.790 --> 00:21:06.459
- And though you are confused why jesus is saying this,
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- You have to trust his plan.
- 00:21:08.995 --> 00:21:11.230
- See, i believe a lot of us are like this in in different
- 00:21:11.230 --> 00:21:14.534
- Scenarios of our life.
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- We're like, god, i'm unworthy to be used by you.
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- I'm unworthy to be heard by you.
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- I'm unworthy to do any ministry.
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- I'm unworthy to be used in any type of way.
- 00:21:23.609 --> 00:21:26.045
- But listen, the truth is, yes, we are all unworthy.
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- But he is worthy of praise.
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- He is worthy to be preached about.
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- He is worthy to follow.
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- He's worthy to walk in obedience.
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- And it doesn't matter if you understand the plan
- 00:21:35.855 --> 00:21:38.224
- Because he wrote it and he knows exactly where he's taking you.
- 00:21:38.224 --> 00:21:41.961
- And so all
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- You have to do is follow him.
- 00:21:42.962 --> 00:21:45.898
- But i also want you to listen to the wording
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- That jesus said to peter when peter said,
- 00:21:47.300 --> 00:21:49.435
- You'll never, ever wash my feet because i'm unworthy.
- 00:21:49.435 --> 00:21:52.038
- Jesus replied, unless i wash you,
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- You won't belong to me.
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- Hear that?
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- Jesus is saying, unless i wash you, cleanse.
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- You have your sins. i must do this.
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- For the son of god came to serve, not to be served,
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- But his first coming into the world.
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- And so what do we learn from this?
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- Don't let your pride
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- Get in the way of what god wants to do for you.
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- Again, we try to tell god no,
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- John and peter, john the baptist and peter
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- Here are both confused, but they obeyed.
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- Something big happens because they both obey.
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- We can talk about john the baptist here.
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- Now let's continue the story.
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- Matthew 315 217
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- But jesus said it should be done to john the baptist,
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- For we must carry out all that god requires.
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- So john agreed to the baptism.
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- He didn't understand, but he agreed after his baptism.
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- Look at what happens here
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- As jesus came up out of the water, the heavens
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- Were opened and he saw the spirit
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- Of the living god descending like a dove
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- And settling on him.
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- Okay, now the bible does not tell us
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- If the rest of the crowd saw this.
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- We don't know.
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- But what we do know is that this took place in front of john.
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- And i'm gonna show you in a second
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- That john testifies that this took place.
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- But not only does the dove, the holy spirit, come upon
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- Jesus christ, the son of god, then a voice.
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- Can you imagine?
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- A voice from heaven said,
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- This is my dearly loved son who brings me great joy.
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- Some of y'all started to imagine that you heard
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- Morgan freeman in your head, didn't you?
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- Don't lie.
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- If i could talk like him, i would.
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- I can't, so i'm not going there.
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- What just happened?
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- John wanted to be baptized by jesus.
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- Jesus is no, no, no, you are baptized me.
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- It is the father's will.
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- He did not understand, but he walks in obedience.
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- And as he baptizes the son of god, then
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- A witness of the holy spirit, something miraculous,
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- A dove coming upon jesus christ took place.
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- And he hears the voice of the father speaking from above.
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- None of this would have happened
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- If he did not walk in obedience.
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- So again, you don't have to understand
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- God's full plan to walk in obedience.
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- Just trust him. okay,
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- Let's ask another question.
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- To ask this a little bit ago.
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- If jesus knew no sin
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- And he's perfect, then why is he getting baptized?
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- Because i've seen a lot of people twist the scripture
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- And they try to state, well, jesus was a sinner.
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- This is why you need to get baptized by john the baptist.
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- No, no, no, that is a lie straight from hell.
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- There is a lot of confusion, so i want to simplify it.
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- I got two answers for you. okay, let's break this down.
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- But the first answer is this. and i love this lesson.
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- He got in the water to stand in our shoes.
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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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- So thank you for watching today
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- And i can't wait to see you again very soon.
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- All right, before you go, i got one more announcement to make.
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- And this one's a big one.
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- Okay.
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- This year
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- We held
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- Our very first awaken conference in hickory, north carolina
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- For authentic church.
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- And we saw
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- People come out from everywhere, from all over the nation
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- And even outside of the country
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- To experience what god is doing here.
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- So we're doing it again in 2026, from june 4th to june 7th.
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- We would love for you to plan and be here with us.
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- And if you want to look into more details
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- Over the conference,
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- All you have to do is click the link below.
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- In fact, here's a recap video to show you what all god did.
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- 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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- He. met.
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- This job doesn't work out for me.
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- What if i move my life by faith and it all just
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- Crumbles to the ground? what if it works?
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- What if god shows up and changes your life forever?
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- But i would rather move by faith and even fail and fail
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- And fail and know that i follow god and i ended up exactly.
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- Where i needed to be.
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- You know what 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 a holy ghost preacher
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- 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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