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God Speaks Through An Audible Voice

Creflo Dollar

January 19, 2021

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Join the dynamic leadership and teaching of Dr. Creflo and Taffi Dollar.

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God Speaks Through An Audible Voice

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Creflo Dollar: You findyourself doing something?
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Ask yourself a question:
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"Where is God in this?Is this Spirit-led?
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Is this something thatGod wants me to do?"
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Or is it somethingthat you came up with?
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I don't want to operate andlive my life by good ideas.
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I wanna live my life by Godideas, where they're anointed.
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I wanna know that I'm beingdirected by the Holy Spirit,
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because when you're directed bythe Holy Spirit and you know God
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told you to do it, there'sa strength that comes.
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There's a confidence that comes.
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There's an assurance that comes,
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and you hang on that, knowingthat everything's gonna be all
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right because yougot it from God.
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♪♪♪
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♪♪♪
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♪ This is your world, ♪
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♪ so let's vow to makeit a better place. ♪
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♪ Let every heartthat needs to know ♪
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♪ your love ishere to stay. ♪
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♪ Oh, it's time welive a new life. ♪
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♪ Oh, let his loveshine bright in you. ♪
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♪ Oh, we're savedby his grace, ♪
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♪ so we embraceyour love today. ♪
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♪ We are changed. ♪♪
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Creflo: We've beentalking about how God
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speaks through various things.
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God speaks through dreams,and God speaks through visions.
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God speaks through prophecies.
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God speaks through his Word.
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And I know we weremoving into this,
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but the question oftencomes up, "Can God speak--
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or has God spoken in times pastthrough an audible voice?"
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And for some peoplein the world today,
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they're thinking that there'sjust no way that happens.
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And you tell somebody that Godspoke to you in a audible voice,
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they'll look atyou like, you know,
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there's somethingreally weird about you,
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something that'sawful about you,
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something that'scontroversial or strange.
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And you know, I found outthat truth is controversy.
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I mean, you go up to alady and she's overweight,
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and you tell hershe's overweight,
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that's gonna be acontroversy right there.
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Doesn't mean it wasfalse, what you said,
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but you've got tounderstand that,
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as Christian people, weneed to stick with the Word.
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We don't need to get our beliefsbased on what the world says or
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what the news is reporting.
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And I think what the enemytries to do is he's trying to,
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first of all, convincepeople that he doesn't exist.
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He's trying to convincepeople that he doesn't exist,
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that demons don't exist, andthen that moves to the next
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level that God doesn't exist,that angels doesn't exist,
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and there's just no way
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that anybody can everhear God's voice.
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Well, is that so?
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Because, if that's the truth, ifwe can find anywhere in the Word
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where he has spokenaudibly to anybody,
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then the possibilitiesare still the same today,
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that if God has ever allowed hisvoice to be heard by any man
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audibly, then that samepossibility exists today.
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And I think just what we needto do is to show you in the
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Scriptures the number of times
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that God has spokenaudibly to somebody.
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So if nothing else tonight, itcan build your faith up to know
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that "What was that I heard?"
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You know, God speakingto you, and you're like,
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"What?What did I hear?"
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And I'm tellingyou, this is true.
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This is something that I thinkwill be a blessing to you,
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but it's just nottalked about a lot.
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So tonight we're gonna lookat how God speaks through an
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audible voice, and we'llbegin in Revelations chapter 1,
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verse 10, and then verse 12.
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He says in verse 10, "I was inthe Spirit on the Lord's Day,
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and heard behind me agreat voice--" so he says,
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"There's something I heardthat came from behind me."
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So he's not talking aboutwhat he heard in his spirit.
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He says, "I heardsomething behind me,
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a great voice, as ofa trumpet," and then,
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in verse 12, he says, "andI turned to see the voice
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that spake with me.
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And being turned, I sawseven golden candlesticks."
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So I mean, John, thedivine, in Revelation,
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he says, "Man, I actually hearda audible voice to the point
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that I turned tosee who it was."
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And so here is God speakingaudibly to John and beginning
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to reveal to him the wonderful,great mysteries of Revelation,
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and this is the revelationof Jesus Christ.
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So here's one illustration
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just right here atthe very beginning.
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Now, let's look at Actschapter 7 and verse 3,
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as it reiterateswhat Abraham heard,
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and Acts 7, verse 3, givesa little bit more details.
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He said, "And hesaid unto him--"
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and referring to Godspeaking to Abram,
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or Abraham, he said, "Getthee out of thy country."
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So Abraham heard an audiblevoice before he had this
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relationship with God,before Genesis 22,
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when he was inhis father's house,
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and he said, "Getout of thy country,
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and get from your kinfolks,
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and come into a landwhich I shall show thee."
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God said this.
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You know, you've gotta be very,very open to be willing to hear
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from God to tell you to getout of somewhere, at someplace.
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You know, God knows exactlywhere everybody needs to be,
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and I'm telling you, you know,Abraham knew that by hearing
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this audible voice, "I betterget," because the source of
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wealth was rightthere within family,
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and here is God telling himto contradict what the world
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understood and said,"Go for yourself.
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Get out of this country.
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Get away from your kinfolks."
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Now, Lot went with him.
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But he says, "Get away fromall of that," and he says,
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"I'm gonna show you some stuff."
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Well, I mean, he almost had tohear that audibly to know to do
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what he did there.
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And so now let's move on down,
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and we're gonna look at a lotof Scriptures here tonight.
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Go to 1 Samuelchapter 3, verse 19,
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and then go to chapter4 and verse 1.
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And then you remember the storyof Samuel and Eli and how they
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heard a audible voice andthat whole story there?
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Look at this in 1 Samuel:
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"And Samuel grew, andthe Lord was with him,
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and did let none of hiswords fall to the ground."
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Samuel heard from God audibly,and when Samuel would say
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something, I mean, he'svery powerful prophet.
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When Samuel would say something,you better take it to the bank.
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And God, if you'll see here, hesaid that he will let none of
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his words fall to the ground.
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And then look atchapter 4 and verse 1.
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It just simply says,"And the word of Samuel
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came to all Israel.
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Now Israel went out againstthe Philistines to battle,
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and pitched beside Ebenezer,
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and the Philistinespitched in Aphek.
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Now, one of the things youneed to understand here is
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when God speaks audibly to you,
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it is so easy todeliver that Word:
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"I heard what God said.This is what he said."
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"I heard what God said,and this is what he said."
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There's no issue of repeatingwhat you heard God said.
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This was, oh,maybe 30 years ago.
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We were in theColiseum in Los Angeles,
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and I came out on thestage, and I heard this,
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I mean, to the point--
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well, I turned, and the Lordsaid, "The woman on the front
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row with the white hair,tell her such-and-so,"
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and I heard it.
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I mean, it was enoughfor me to turn my head.
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And I'm like--and that was easy.
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I just repeatedwhat I just heard.
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Man, that woman fell outunder the power of God,
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saying there's no way I could'veknown anything like that.
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And God healed herand delivered her,
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and I was kind of freakingout 'cause I'm like,
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"I just said whathe just said."
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It was pretty amazing to me,because I'm in front of these
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people, and I hearthis audible voice,
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and I said it,and what happened?
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God didn't allow thosewords to fall to the ground.
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They had an impacton somebody's life.
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You need to be available forGod to speak to you audibly.
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Somebody's lifemight be on the line.
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Some situationmay be on the line,
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and you don't know how youknow it except he said it.
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And this is very, veryavailable today.
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It's very, very possible today,and so I need to go through the
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Scriptures, and let's look atthese Scriptures in detail and
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see just what the Bible has tosay about this audible voice of
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God that can lead, setfree, and deliver people.
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Let's look at Isaiahchapter 6:8,
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and I'll go back andforth to the King James
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and then the NewLiving Translation.
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Isaiah chapter 6and verse 8, he says,
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"Also I heard a voice.
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I heard the voice of the Lord."
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Now, what would you think ifsomebody came to you and said,
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"I heard the voice of the Lord"?
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See, you can't bemoved by the world.
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They don't understand this.
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They're not reading it.
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I'm getting ready to show youwhat the Scripture has to say
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about it, and you're worriedabout what somebody has said,
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was going to respond toyou when you say that.
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Well, either you heardhim or you didn't,
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but don't lie about it.
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You either heardhim or you didn't.
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He said, "Also I heardthe voice of the Lord--"
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and what did he say?
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He said-- "saying,'Whom shall I send,
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and who will go for us?'"
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And he said, "Thensaid I, 'Here am I.
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Send me.'"
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Imagine the voice of theLord coming to you and says,
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"Well, who shall I send?
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Who's gonna go and speak for me?
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Who's gonna go anddo my bidding?"
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And Isaiah's just like,"Okay, it's gonna be me.
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I'll do it.I'll do the one.
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I'll be the one to do that."
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I'm telling you, I'm believingGod that you'll begin to hear
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the audible voice of God.
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I believe it comes when wedismiss our thinking from
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all of the clutter of the world.
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I believe it comes whenwe get in the Word of God.
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The Word of God, the writtenWord of God tunes your ear
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to be able to hear from him.
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You're not wasting your time
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when you're gettingin the Word of God.
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It tunes your hearing.
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You know that was God, you see?
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But what happens, man, when thataudible voice shows up and you
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turn to say, "Huh?"
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And sometimes I'maround the house,
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and I'm just kind of prayingin the Holy Ghost early in the
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morning, and I thinkI hear something,
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and I'm like, "What'dyou say, Taffi?"
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And she's sound asleep in there.
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I'm telling you, praise God,God will speak to his sheep,
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and his sheep willknow his voice,
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but he'll speak audibly.
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Look at this, Matthewchapter 3 and verse 17.
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Matthew chapter 3 and verse17, and then we're gonna go
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to Matthew 17 and verse 5.
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But Matthew 3 and verse 17,now notice what he says:
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"And to a voice from heaven,saying, 'This is my beloved Son,
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in whom I'm well pleased.'"
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You know the story.
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Here's Jesus beingbaptized by John,
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and "A voice from heaven--"they heard it--
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"This is my beloved Son,in whom I'm well pleased."
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I tell you, that's powerful.
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Oh, I would've loved to havebeen in the assembly that day
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when a voice from heavenspoke, and it was heard.
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The voice of heavenspoke and it was heard,
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"This is my beloved Son,in whom I'm well pleased."
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So nobody has to goand guess about it.
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Nobody has to go andspontificate and go
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and talk all this stuff aboutwhether this is Jesus or not.
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The voice from heaven said,"This is my beloved Son,
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in whom I am well pleased."
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You know, that voice isstill available today.
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Look at Matthew chapter 17.
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Matthew chapter 17and verse 5, he says,
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"While he yet spake, behold, abright cloud overshadowed them,
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and behold a voiceout of the cloud,
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which said, 'Thisis my beloved Son,
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in whom I am well pleased.
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Hear ye him.'"
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Now, again, you know,there was a time on the
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Mountain of Transfigurationwhere, you know, the disciples
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went with Jesus,and you had Moses,
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and you had Elijah,and you had Jesus,
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and God wantedto make it clear--
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a voice from heaven came out sothat Peter and them could hear
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it, and this voice said,"This is my beloved Son.
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Hear him."
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Hear him.
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So John heard it, and Peterand John and James heard it:
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"This is my beloved Son.
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Hear him," notElijah, not Moses.
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Elijah represented the prophets,and Moses represented the law.
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They both representedthe law and the prophets.
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Jesus represented grace.
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He said, "Hear him."A voice said that.
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Come on, let's move on.
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John chapter 12,verse 28 through 30.
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John chapter 12:28 through 30.
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The reality of this, to seethese things in Scripture,
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hopefully, will juststrengthen your faith.
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Verse 28, says, "Father,glorify thy name.
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Then came there avoice from heaven,
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saying, 'I haveboth glorified it,
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and will glorify it again.'"
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Verse 29, "The peopletherefore, that stood by,
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and heard the voice,said that it thundered.
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Others said, anangel spake to him."
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And in verse 30, "Jesusanswered and said,
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'This voice camenot because of me,
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but for your sake.'"
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I believe there are gonnabe times in the future,
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I believe there are gonna betimes in which where we're
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living now, where it's gonnatake an audible voice of God
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to come for our sake, andI'm believing for that.
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And I'm thanking God forthat audible voice that
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will be heard, that will bespoken by God will be heard
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by somebody on theearth for our sake.
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You can agree with me.
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We need to hear fromthe Lord right now.
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Our nation needs to hearfrom the Lord right now.
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Our leaders need to hearfrom the Lord right now.
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Our preachers and churchesneed to hear from the Lord--
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not a sermon.
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I believe in the audiblevoice of God to be heard--
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watch this--for our sake, amen.
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Look at 2 Peter, 2Peter chapter 1,
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verse 17 through 18.
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2 Peter chapter1, verse 17 to 18.
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Now check this out:
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He said, "For he receivedfrom God the Father.
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He received honor and glory,when there came such a voice
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to him from the excellentglory, 'This is my beloved Son,
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in whom I'm well pleased.'"
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God is just gonna makesure you know who this is.
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Thank God he cameand gave a personal,
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audible introduction of Jesus.
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"And this voice which camefrom heaven we heard--"
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so it was spoken,and it was heard--
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"when we were with himin the holy mount."
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"We heard this voice.
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It was spoken.
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We heard it."
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Man, that's gonna happen.
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Y'all get ready for it.
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Let's go to Acts chapter 9,verse 4 through 7.
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Acts chapter 9,verses 4 through 7.
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Now, look at this: "Andhe fell to the earth,
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and heard a voice--"
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this is Saul now Paul.
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"He fell to the earth, and--"
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Paul, or Saul-- "heard avoice saying unto him, 'Saul,
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Saul, why persecutestthou me?'"
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Verse 5, "And he said,'Who art thou?'"
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So, obviously, Paul--or this time he was Saul--
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heard this voice, enough torespond, "'Who are thou, Lord?'
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And the Lord said, 'I amJesus whom that persecutest.
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It is hard for thee tokick against the pricks.'
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And he trembling--"
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I guess so.
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"He trembling andastonished said,
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'Lord, what withthou have me to do?'
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And the Lord saidunto him, 'Arise,
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and go into the city,
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and it shall be toldthee what thou must do.'"
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Verse 7, "And the men whichjourneyed with him stood
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speechless, hearing avoice, but seeing no man."
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Oh, the people that stoodthere heard the voice,
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but only Saul could see the man.
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"They stood there speechless,hearing the voice,"
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but only Saul saw the man.
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Man, I tell you,this is powerful,
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and I believe this kindof thing's gonna happen.
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There are some people on theplanet that God has tucked away
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for a time such as this, and Ibelieve that audible voice is
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gonna command them forth, gonnagive them what they're supposed
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to be doing.
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And notice, Paul wasa religious zealot.
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He was just so zealousabout the Mosaic law,
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and half the stuff hedid, he thought he was,
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you know, beingobedient to the law.
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He was a religious man.
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But man, it tookthe voice of God,
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because of the strongholdthat the Mosaic law had on him,
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it took the voice of God tobreak that religious bondage,
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call him to the ministry--listen to this--
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told him to go to the city, "Andthen, when you get to the city,
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I'mma tell youwhat you must do."
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I'm telling you, man, there arecertain things you're not gonna
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hear until you get to theplace God told you to be.
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There are certain things you'renot gonna hear until you get to
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that place called "there," thatplace called "there," and then
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you will hear some things.
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So if God's talking to you about"Go here," don't expect for him
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to say nothing else until youget where he told you to go,
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and there he'll begin to hearyou, 'cause God's got all this
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stuff set up, who's gonna dowhat, where they're gonna do it,
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all that kind of stuff, and ifyou're really wanting the will
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of God for your life, you'vegot to be ready to hear God,
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don't be afraid to dowhat he tells you to do,
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and God knowswhere your faith is.
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So if he has to choose tospeak to you through a dream,
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a vision, a prophecy,or an audible voice,
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he knows how to speak to you toget through to you so you can do
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what you need to do.
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It's not as difficultas what people say:
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"Well, what if I miss it?"
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God knows how to speak to us ina way you ain't gonna miss it.
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You gonna know it was him.
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You gonna know it washim every single time.
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When the Lord told me tobecome a student of grace,
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I knew that was God.
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I knew that was God.
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I knew it with every fiber ofmy being that I was supposed to
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begin to teach thisgospel of grace,
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and I knew it, and I knew I wassupposed to be a student until
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Jesus comes back--continuing to learn,
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continuing to dig.
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You'll know it.
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God knows how to make sure youknow what he telling you to do
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and what he's getting you to do,
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and this is prettypowerful, amen.
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Let's look at Actschapter 10 and verse 13.
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Acts chapter 10 and verse 13.
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He said, "And there camea voice to him," to Peter,
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and it said, "Rise, Peter.
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Kill and eat."
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I mean, again, breakinghim from his tradition.
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A voice said, "Peter,go kill and eat."
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I'm telling you, Godknows how to convince you.
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God knows how to put you ina place where you need to be.
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I'm so confident in that.
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I need you to beconfident of that.
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I think that one of the majorsupernatural keys to this
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revival that is about to hit theearth is that men will begin to
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hear from God.
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And one of the thingswe've got to do,
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we've got to pursue peace.
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We gotta go after peace.
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We've got to getrid of the clutter.
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Satan constantly triesto attack our minds,
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to get us in clutter, toget us off focusing on God,
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and even to get you focusing onyourself or get you to focus on
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your past or get you tofocus on your mistakes--
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anything exceptfocusing on Jesus, why?
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God's getting ready to speak.
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One word from God willchange everything.
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I don't need a millionwords from God.
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One word from God willchange every situation.
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It's getting ready to happen.
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Get yourselves ready for aninvasion of God's leadership.
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God--listen, God knowswhat he's doing, right?
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The devil thinks that,you know, he's winning,
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and he thinks, "Well, you know,I'm finally defeating God and
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the body of Christ."
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Dude, you don't even knowwhat you're talking about.
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One word from God,
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see, God's taking all thestuff that we've gone through,
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and he's using it tomature us to a place,
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to bring us to aplace, to grow us up,
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to teach us how to walk like themother teaches that two-year-old
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baby how to walk.
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He's encouraging us, andhe's telling us to get up.
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God knows how to talk.
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God knows how to speak.
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I mean, some of the very thingsI'm doing right now, it's--
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I've been convinced in myheart to do it because I'm
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being led by the Holy Spirit.
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That's the most powerful thingyou can do as a Christian is be
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led by the Holy Spirit.
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You find yourselfdoing something?
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Ask yourself a question:
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"Where is God in this?Is this Spirit-led?
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Is this something thatGod wants me to do,"
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or is it somethingthat you came up with?
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I don't want to operate andlive my life by good ideas.
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I wanna live my life by Godideas, where they're anointed.
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I wanna know that I'm beingdirected by the Holy Spirit,
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because when you're directed bythe Holy Spirit and you know God
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told you to do it, there'sa strength that comes,
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there's a confidence that comes,there's an assurance that comes,
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and you hang on that, knowingthat everything's gonna be all
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right because you got itfrom God, amen, praise God,
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Now, look at Actschapter 10:15.
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Go down a couple of verses.
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He said, "And the voice spakeunto him again the second time,
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'What God hath cleansed,that call not thou common.'"
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He's trying to break himfrom his religious beliefs,
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and I'm telling you, God knowswhen it takes an audible voice.
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And you don't need to begoing and being concerned about,
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"Well, is God gonna speakto me through prophecy
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or through a dream?"
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Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, Godknows how to speak to you,
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and he knows thebest way to reach you.
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He knows the bestway to reach you,
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praise God, but I'm telling you,
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this world hadn'tseen anything yet.
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There is a move of God, a moveof the Spirit that is about to
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hit this planet andhas already started.
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And I tell you, thedevil will never--
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he will never be ableto recover from this.
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There's a lot of things that Godhas promised that are getting
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ready to take place.
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There's a lot of things that thewicked's gonna have to give up,
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praise God, and we are gonna beprepared in the position where
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God told us to be in, but a lotof that is going to be based on
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the leadership ofthe Holy Spirit.
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I can't do things on my own.
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I don't know what to do.
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I don't know where to goexcept God show me what to do.
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I don't know where to go unlessGod showed me where to go.
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