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Dr. Tony Evans | Tony Evans - The Breath | January 5, 2025
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- Tony evans: jesus says in john 16,
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- "in this world, you will have tribulation,
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- But be of good cheer, i have overcome the world."
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- And what god wants you to do is experience his peace.
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- He doesn't want us to succumb to the chaos around us.
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- You may not be able to stop the chaos,
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- You may not be able to change the chaos,
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- But you're not to be controlled by the chaos.
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- Tony: we're talking about the names of the holy spirit.
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- Today i want to talk about the holy spirit
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- Who is the breath.
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- The bible refers to the holy spirit
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- As the breath.
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- He is literally the oxygen of god.
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- Many scriptures bring this out, but when you understand
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- That he is your oxygen, he is your ability to breathe,
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- It means he is your ability to live.
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- Life and death is tied to our relationship
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- To the holy spirit because that is the relationship
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- We have to breath.
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- Job 33, verse 4 says that the breath of god
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- Is the spirit of god.
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- So it combines the two.
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- The breath of god is the spirit of god.
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- The spirit of god is the breath of god.
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- So when god exhales, it's the spirit of god working.
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- God doesn't just exhale, he exhales life
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- Because the spirit gives life.
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- One of the problems today that we have
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- Is because people, christians, are not breathing
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- The holy spirit.
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- We're not experiencing the life of god
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- Like it was meant to have.
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- Now non-believers can't breathe in
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- Because they don't have him.
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- So they do the best they can.
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- But believers have been given a personal internal oxygen tent.
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- We've been given the life of god
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- To breathe god's life within us, outside of us, around us
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- Because he is the life of god that is within us.
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- Psalm 104, verse 30 says that all of creation exists
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- And all of creation is renewed in its life
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- Because of the spirit.
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- So even non-christians don't know it, but they benefit
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- From the holy spirit because the holy spirit
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- Brings life to the created order.
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- So even living your physical life
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- Is tied to the holy spirit even when you don't
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- Have a spiritual life.
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- So non-believers don't know it, but they even have a reason
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- To praise god that they can breathe physically.
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- But you and i get to breathe physically
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- And spiritually because one of the names
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- Of the holy spirit is the very breath of god.
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- In this passage, there was a problem.
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- Jesus has died.
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- Now he's risen from the dead and in his resurrected body,
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- He comes through a closed door.
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- When the resurrected christ came through the door,
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- It says they were huddled together
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- For fear of the jews.
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- They were afraid that those who had killed jesus
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- Was now gonna kill them.
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- So they huddled together because of their fear.
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- They could not breathe.
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- We're living in a world today where there's a lot
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- To be afraid of in our human existence.
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- We're afraid of disease. we're afraid of viruses.
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- We're afraid of violence.
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- We're afraid of our health breakdown,
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- Conflict racially, culturally.
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- We're afraid of abuse.
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- Well, they were afraid and they could not breathe.
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- You ever notice when you're afraid,
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- Takes a little work to breathe, but jesus shows up,
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- The resurrected christ and he brings with him oxygen.
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- He brings with him the breath.
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- So let's look at this a little closer.
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- He comes with fear and he says in verse 19 of john 20,
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- "peace be with you."
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- What is he doing?
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- He's dialing down the fear temperature.
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- Peace be with you.
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- Well, wait a minute. i'm scared.
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- How is peace gonna be with me? "'cause i'm with you."
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- Now watch this.
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- You have the person of the risen christ, watch this,
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- And the word of the risen christ.
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- What does it mean?
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- He imparts life of the holy spirit
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- To calm their fears.
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- The word of god is the word of life.
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- The word of god gives life.
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- The bible says in 2 timothy 3:16 and 17,
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- "all scripture is inspired of god."
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- The greek word there is "theopneustos,"
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- Which means to out-breathe, to exhale.
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- So all scripture is the holy ghost of god.
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- It is inspired.
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- The bible explains in 2 peter chapter 1.
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- In 2 peter chapter 1, verse 20 and 21, it says
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- That no prophecy is given of private interpretation,
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- But the men who wrote scripture was born along.
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- They were born along by the spirit of god.
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- So the word of god is the breath of god.
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- It's the voice of god in print.
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- It is the trinity, it is god, it is jesus,
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- It is the holy spirit based on the word
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- That's teaming up to give you life
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- And like a xerox machine.
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- What the holy spirit does is he xeroxes the truth
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- Of the bible onto your heart.
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- You've literally put your heart on a xerox machine
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- So that god could lift the words of scripture
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- Off of the page because of the relationship
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- With jesus so that the word of god
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- Is in your heart.
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- It is being manifested in your life.
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- In other words, it has become an experience.
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- Let me tell you what the job of the spirit is.
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- The holy spirit's job is to turn the book
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- That's given by a living author who's written a living document
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- And to animate it in your life so you breathe again.
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- So that you are experiencing the reality of god
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- Operating within your life.
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- The bible says in galatians chapter 5, verse 25,
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- If we live by the spirit, we need to walk by the spirit.
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- If we live by the spirit, if he's the life source
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- That every believer has, he must become
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- The way you walk.
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- In other words, god does not want you
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- Visiting the holy spirit just 'cause you have him.
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- He wants you walking with him.
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- That is, living in reliance on him.
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- That's why the bible says pray without ceasing.
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- Doesn't mean get on your knees 24 hours a day.
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- It means operate all of your life
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- In consultation with him.
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- Let me ask you a question.
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- When you're breathing, do you just do this?
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- Breathing is something just a natural flow.
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- It's the way you flow. it's the way you operate.
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- In other words, you breathe so naturally
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- You don't even think about breathing
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- Until you can't breathe.
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- He says if you live by the spirit,
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- If you live by the breath,
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- If you have the holy spirit within you, you need to learn
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- To walk with him, that is, operate in concert with him.
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- In other words, holy spirit got me in this situation.
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- Holy spirit, i need you to lead me.
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- Sometimes you just think it.
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- Sometimes you don't-- you're not in a position
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- To say it, but it's the way you operate
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- And you're walking with him.
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- You're rolling with him. he's part of the consultation.
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- But you say, but i'm supposed to roll with jesus.
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- Absolutely, and the holy spirit is christ in you.
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- So when you're rolling with the holy spirit,
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- You're rolling with jesus
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- And when you're rolling with jesus,
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- You're rolling with the father because these computers
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- Are networked, they're all hooked up together.
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- But the one who is operating in you now
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- On behalf of the father and the son is the person
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- Of the holy spirit and it is his job
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- To enable you to breathe, that is to operate
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- With spiritual life.
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- And when he gives you the ability to operate
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- With spiritual life, he speaks peace to you.
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- Jesus says in john 16, "in this world
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- You will have tribulation, but be of good cheer,
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- I have overcome the world."
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- He spoke peace to them.
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- And what god wants you to do is experience his peace.
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- He doesn't want us to succumb to the chaos around us.
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- You may not be able to stop the chaos,
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- You may not be able to change the chaos,
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- But you're not to be controlled by the chaos.
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- Once the chaos is controlling you,
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- That means you're not living in the peace.
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- The peace of god, watch this, which the bible says,
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- Passes understanding.
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- How does the peace of god pass understanding
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- 'cause you don't understand why in the world
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- You have it right now, given what you're going through,
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- Given what you're living in, given what you're facing.
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- You want to know how am i calm in this chaos?
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- You remember in mark chapter 4, verses 35 to 41,
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- The disciples are crossing the sea of galilee.
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- Jesus is asleep on the stern and they hit a lilac.
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- A lilac is a windstorm that's tossing this boat
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- All over the place and they are scared.
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- They think they're going to die and these
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- Are professional fishermen.
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- So this was a bad storm.
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- Jesus is asleep on the stern, it says,
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- With his head on a cushion.
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- That means on a pillow. pillow, you know?
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- He's got his head on a pillow in a storm.
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- And guess what they said?
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- "carest thou not that we perish?"
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- That was not just a storm on the outside,
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- That was a storm on the inside.
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- They thought they were gonna die.
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- They were afraid.
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- And isn't that how we feel when life has crashed in on us?
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- We've all experienced it, i've experienced it,
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- You've experienced it.
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- Those feelings that god doesn't care right now.
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- Martha and mary had that in john 11.
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- They said, "if you would have been here,
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- Our brother would not have perished."
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- What were they saying? "i don't know that you care."
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- He said, "oh you of little faith,
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- Why are you so timid?"
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- In other words, you shouldn't be scared
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- Right now.
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- You shouldn't be terrified right now.
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- Why shouldn't we be terrified?
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- Don't you know we're getting ready to die?
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- How can you sleep when we can't breathe?
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- When we're scared, we're huffing and puffing
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- 'cause they say they were bailing the water out.
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- So they huffing and puffing.
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- We can't breathe, we can't breathe
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- Because jesus said let us go to the other side.
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- So he went to sleep.
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- You see, you know what our fear does?
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- It causes us to forget his word.
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- He said, let us go to the other side,
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- Not let us go halfway and drown.
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- But that's what circumstances do.
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- It causes us to forget what god says
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- And to focus on the circumstance.
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- Now you can't skip the fact that you're being inundated
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- With the storm, but he wants his word
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- To overrule.
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- So they had his presence. he was in the boat.
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- They had his word, "let us go to the other side,"
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- And they forgot both.
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- So they lost the work of the spirit giving them peace.
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- Jesus said, "peace be still."
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- They said, "what manner of man is this that even the winds
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- And the waves obey him?"
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- See, you need to know who you're dealing with.
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- Jesus in john 20, walked through a door
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- And he said, "peace be unto you."
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- Same thing he did in mark. he said, chill, calm down.
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- He said, i got this.
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- Yeah, we got that problem out there, but i'm in here.
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- You know one of the reasons we can't breathe?
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- Jesus is too far from us.
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- The word of god is too rare to us.
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- Oh yeah, we open it when the preacher
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- Gives us a scripture, but we don't know where to go
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- When a various situations show up in our lives.
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- We don't know what psalm to go to give us peace in the storm
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- Or when we are afraid of a virus or when we are afraid
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- Of violence or danger.
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- We don't know where to turn 'cause we only go to it
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- When it's convenient.
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- We don't breathe it.
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- This is not the air we breathe.
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- I challenge all of you to read psalm 119,
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- The longest chapter in the bible.
- 00:13:50.980 --> 00:13:53.682
- It's all about one subject, the word of god.
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- And david says, this word of god is my life.
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- Here's why.
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- Because the spirit of god, here it is,
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- Only works in his fullness in concert
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- With the word of god.
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- Don't miss that.
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- If you wanna breathe, if you wanna hear
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- Peace be unto you 'cause you're scared,
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- No matter what is causing that fear,
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- The spirit of god who is the breath of god
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- Will only give you the oxygen you need
- 00:14:29.685 --> 00:14:34.423
- Not because he doesn't want to,
- 00:14:34.423 --> 00:14:36.759
- But because you're not breathing the right stuff.
- 00:14:36.759 --> 00:14:39.828
- You got too much smog in your life.
- 00:14:39.828 --> 00:14:43.799
- You're not taking advantage of the word of god.
- 00:14:43.799 --> 00:14:47.202
- So to help you out here, i wanna take you
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- To another passage that i can only summarize,
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- But i don't want you to miss this.
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- It's in the book of ezekiel, the book of ezekiel chapter 37.
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- It's the famous valley of dry bones.
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- Now, when you get a chance, read all 14 verses.
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- Meditate on it because it puts it all together
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- So that you can breathe again.
- 00:15:15.931 --> 00:15:18.500
- If you have the holy spirit in you,
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- You have the oxygen tank that's already in there.
- 00:15:21.003 --> 00:15:25.441
- But you can have an oxygen tank and not use it.
- 00:15:25.441 --> 00:15:29.278
- So you can be huffing and puffing
- 00:15:29.278 --> 00:15:31.480
- And not having peace that the breath of god
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- Who is the holy spirit offers to believers.
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- He says in verse 1, "the spirit of the lord
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- Sent me to a valley full of dry bones."
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- What was the problem with these dry bones?
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- He says, "can these bones live again?"
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- They're so dry, they are lifeless.
- 00:15:58.440 --> 00:16:02.111
- It was so bad, all that ezekiel could say is
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- At the end of verse 3, "oh lord god, you know."
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- I can't answer that question because it looks real bad.
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- Are you in a real bad situation?
- 00:16:14.289 --> 00:16:17.026
- Are you having a spiritual asthma attack
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- Because everything around you is causing you
- 00:16:19.762 --> 00:16:22.931
- To be constricted in your soul and you're wheezing,
- 00:16:22.931 --> 00:16:30.539
- Trying to breathe with all the chaos
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- That's surrounding you?
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- He tells the prophet, verse 4, "prophesy over these bones.
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- Oh dry bones, hear the word of the lord."
- 00:16:41.350 --> 00:16:44.253
- So give them some bible. prophesy over 'em.
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- Give them the word of the lord in their situation.
- 00:16:47.923 --> 00:16:51.293
- Now watch verse 5, "thus saith the lord god
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- To these bones, 'behold i will cause breath,'"
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- Oh, oh, there's our word, "to enter you
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- That you may come to life.
- 00:17:02.704 --> 00:17:04.440
- Hello, the spirit of the lord leads him.
- 00:17:04.440 --> 00:17:08.210
- He says, listen to the word so i can give you breath.
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- Breath is the holy spirit as you'll see.
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- I'm gonna cause breath to enter.
- 00:17:14.883 --> 00:17:16.718
- So verse 7, "i prophesied as i was commanded
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- And the bones begin to rattle."
- 00:17:21.056 --> 00:17:23.392
- Oh, oh, the bones begin to shake and bake.
- 00:17:23.392 --> 00:17:27.196
- Then he said, verse 9, "prophesy to the breath,"
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- To the spirit.
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- Prophecy, "son of man, and say to the breath,"
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- The spirit, "thus saith the lord god,
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- Come from the four winds," the spirit, "from everywhere
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- Oh breath and breathe on these slain
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- That they may come to life.'"
- 00:17:50.719 --> 00:17:53.055
- Oh, this is getting good and gooder.
- 00:17:53.055 --> 00:17:55.624
- He's prophesying to the bones, but then he's prophesying
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- To the breath.
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- The breath is the spirit coming from the four winds.
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- It's the air. it's the air we breathe.
- 00:18:04.166 --> 00:18:06.602
- So the bones that are dry, hopeless, helpless,
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- They're desperate.
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- He says, prophesy to 'em.
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- Tell the bones it's time to live.
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- It's time not to fake it no more.
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- Time not to be just going to church and living
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- In your dryness.
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- But then prophesy to the breath, the spirit.
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- Why am i prophesying to the spirit?
- 00:18:29.791 --> 00:18:33.162
- Because the holy spirit acts in concert with the word.
- 00:18:33.162 --> 00:18:37.199
- So when you get the word of god and you are speaking
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- The word of god, the spirit of god attaches to it.
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- And when the spirit of god attaches to the word of god,
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- Something begins to happen.
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- "so i prophesied," verse 10, "as he commanded me
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- And the breath came to them and they came to life
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- And stood on their feet an exceedingly great army."
- 00:19:05.994 --> 00:19:10.999
- Let me read a little bit more, verse 11.
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- "then he said to me, 'son of man, these bones
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- Are the whole house of israel.'"
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- Or to put it in the new testament word,
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- It's the whole church.
- 00:19:20.509 --> 00:19:22.277
- "behold, they say, 'our bones are dried up
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- And our hope has perished.'"
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- So how do you know you have no life?
- 00:19:28.050 --> 00:19:29.484
- 'cause you have no hope.
- 00:19:29.484 --> 00:19:31.053
- When your hope leaves, your life leaves, he says,
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- Our hope is gone.
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- We are completely cut off.
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- Can't find god nowhere.
- 00:19:38.026 --> 00:19:40.529
- But then he says, "prophesy and say to them,"
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- Verse 12, "thus saith the lord god, behold i
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- Will open your graves and cause you
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- To come up out of your graves, my people, and i will bring you
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- Into the land of israel.
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- Then you will know that i am the lord
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- When i open your graves and cause you to come up
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- Out of your graves, my people.
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- I will put my spirit within you."
- 00:20:06.555 --> 00:20:09.358
- Verse 14.
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- "and you will," here it is, "come to life
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- And i will place you on your land.
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- You will know that i am the lord
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- And have spoken and has done this,
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- Declares the lord."
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- Did you see that?
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- He said, i'm gonna take you out your grave.
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- You feel like you're dying?
- 00:20:27.442 --> 00:20:29.411
- 'cause you know when you're dying,
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- You're losing your breath, you can't breathe.
- 00:20:30.912 --> 00:20:33.582
- You feel like you're in crisis, the world is in crisis,
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- The culture is in crisis, the church is in crisis,
- 00:20:39.221 --> 00:20:41.723
- We're in crisis.
- 00:20:41.723 --> 00:20:43.292
- And god says it's time to breathe.
- 00:20:43.292 --> 00:20:46.361
- Why has god allowed all of this stuff
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- To take our breath away?
- 00:20:49.097 --> 00:20:51.066
- Crisis after crisis, chaos after chaos,
- 00:20:51.066 --> 00:20:54.670
- Conflict after conflict.
- 00:20:54.670 --> 00:20:57.773
- Why this divine disruption?
- 00:20:57.773 --> 00:21:00.142
- "that you will know i am the lord."
- 00:21:00.142 --> 00:21:04.413
- "it's not by might.
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- It's by my spirit," says the lord.
- 00:21:06.815 --> 00:21:10.185
- It's not because you come up with a new program
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- Or because you elect a certain person
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- To a political office.
- 00:21:15.624 --> 00:21:17.225
- It's not because of that. i've interrupted all this stuff.
- 00:21:17.225 --> 00:21:20.762
- It's not because of your money. it's not because of your clout.
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- It's not because of your notoriety.
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- No, if you don't have my spirit, you can have all that
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- And be in a graveyard.
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- You know what he's trying to do?
- 00:21:31.506 --> 00:21:32.841
- God is trying to wake up the church.
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- This is all about waking up the church
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- 'cause we can't get them to live out there
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- If we digging our own graves in here.
- 00:21:39.247 --> 00:21:41.616
- He says, i wanna give you life.
- 00:21:41.616 --> 00:21:43.318
- And how do you know you have life?
- 00:21:43.318 --> 00:21:45.187
- He says, because you're going to be commissioned
- 00:21:45.187 --> 00:21:48.390
- For spiritual impact.
- 00:21:48.390 --> 00:21:50.158
- Whoever sends you remit, they will be remitted.
- 00:21:50.158 --> 00:21:52.694
- He says in john 20.
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- He says, in other words, you're gonna make
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- A spiritual impact.
- 00:21:56.531 --> 00:21:58.166
- You know what?
- 00:21:58.166 --> 00:21:59.501
- The world is waiting for spiritual impact.
- 00:21:59.501 --> 00:22:01.203
- You know why we're not having spiritual impact?
- 00:22:01.203 --> 00:22:03.638
- 'cause we're 6 feet under. we're in our graves.
- 00:22:03.638 --> 00:22:07.776
- We're saved, we're on our way to heaven,
- 00:22:07.776 --> 00:22:09.911
- But there is no life.
- 00:22:09.911 --> 00:22:11.279
- And he says there's no hope. that's what we mean.
- 00:22:11.279 --> 00:22:13.014
- When hope is gone, then being alive
- 00:22:13.014 --> 00:22:15.684
- As it was meant to be, spiritual life is lost.
- 00:22:15.684 --> 00:22:18.453
- You and i have a plan that god has given us
- 00:22:18.453 --> 00:22:22.924
- To make a spiritual impact in the world, but if god
- 00:22:22.924 --> 00:22:26.094
- Can't even make a spiritual impact
- 00:22:26.094 --> 00:22:28.864
- In the aisles of our church, why do we think
- 00:22:28.864 --> 00:22:32.067
- He'll make a spiritual impact in the aisles of congress
- 00:22:32.067 --> 00:22:35.804
- Or in the streets of the city when there's a graveyard
- 00:22:35.804 --> 00:22:40.175
- In the sanctuary?
- 00:22:40.175 --> 00:22:42.244
- So, it's time to come alive and that's based on the breath,
- 00:22:42.244 --> 00:22:46.648
- But not breathing occasionally.
- 00:22:46.648 --> 00:22:48.884
- Breathing the holy spirit as you connected
- 00:22:48.884 --> 00:22:50.986
- With the word of god, you should now be running
- 00:22:50.986 --> 00:22:53.188
- To the scripture, running to the bible,
- 00:22:53.188 --> 00:22:56.491
- Running to find out or get someone
- 00:22:56.491 --> 00:22:59.995
- To help you find out, where do i go
- 00:22:59.995 --> 00:23:02.130
- And we're gonna help you do that by giving you scriptures
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- To run to and talk to the holy spirit all day long
- 00:23:05.200 --> 00:23:09.271
- As you go from this situation to that situation
- 00:23:09.271 --> 00:23:10.739
- As you're feeling hopelessness.
- 00:23:10.739 --> 00:23:13.175
- Bring him in on it so that he can breathe life
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- Into you and me.
- 00:23:16.511 --> 00:23:19.181
- You know, one of the issues today
- 00:23:19.181 --> 00:23:25.320
- And throughout the year of 2020 is corona.
- 00:23:25.320 --> 00:23:31.760
- 2020 is the year that everybody was fearful of corona
- 00:23:31.760 --> 00:23:40.936
- Because it's the virus that had no mercy.
- 00:23:40.936 --> 00:23:46.241
- Didn't care who you were, whether you were rich or poor,
- 00:23:46.241 --> 00:23:49.678
- Black or white, hispanic or asian.
- 00:23:49.678 --> 00:23:53.448
- Didn't care where you lived 'cause it was
- 00:23:53.448 --> 00:23:56.184
- A worldwide epidemic.
- 00:23:56.184 --> 00:24:00.655
- The great fear of corona was that when it hits you
- 00:24:00.655 --> 00:24:07.662
- It would create inflammation and that inflaming
- 00:24:07.662 --> 00:24:13.902
- Would hit the lungs and if it got bad enough
- 00:24:13.902 --> 00:24:18.840
- And it hit the lungs, you can't breathe.
- 00:24:18.840 --> 00:24:24.646
- You lose the ability to breathe.
- 00:24:24.646 --> 00:24:29.551
- So what the united states did was it called on places
- 00:24:29.551 --> 00:24:35.423
- All over the country to retrofit their manufacturing factories
- 00:24:35.423 --> 00:24:42.230
- To produce more ventilators 'cause we were running short
- 00:24:42.230 --> 00:24:46.334
- Of ventilators and so they were calling on groups
- 00:24:46.334 --> 00:24:50.438
- To have enough ventilators for folk of what
- 00:24:50.438 --> 00:24:53.742
- Who can't breathe.
- 00:24:53.742 --> 00:24:56.511
- Now a ventilator has one job, to come as an aid to people
- 00:24:56.511 --> 00:25:04.152
- Who can't breathe and give them the ability to breathe
- 00:25:04.152 --> 00:25:10.091
- That they no longer have on their own.
- 00:25:10.091 --> 00:25:13.728
- It literally does the breathing for them.
- 00:25:13.728 --> 00:25:18.333
- You know what the goal of the ventilator is?
- 00:25:18.333 --> 00:25:22.304
- To save lives.
- 00:25:22.304 --> 00:25:24.172
- The ventilator is there for folk who can't breathe
- 00:25:24.172 --> 00:25:28.743
- To save lives.
- 00:25:28.743 --> 00:25:31.780
- You and i are living in a spiritual virus
- 00:25:31.780 --> 00:25:36.318
- And it doesn't care who you are, where you live,
- 00:25:36.318 --> 00:25:38.687
- What your color is, culture is, what your economic status is,
- 00:25:38.687 --> 00:25:42.691
- And it hits everybody everywhere so that you lose hope
- 00:25:42.691 --> 00:25:47.862
- And you lose life and it doesn't care
- 00:25:47.862 --> 00:25:50.799
- Whether you're a churchgoer or not.
- 00:25:50.799 --> 00:25:54.369
- But god has a ventilator system. a ventilator and guess what?
- 00:25:54.369 --> 00:25:59.908
- He's manufactured more than enough.
- 00:25:59.908 --> 00:26:03.144
- In fact, he's got this ventilation system
- 00:26:03.144 --> 00:26:05.380
- So sophisticated, it's not one operating outside
- 00:26:05.380 --> 00:26:09.417
- To put a tube on you.
- 00:26:09.417 --> 00:26:11.953
- He's built it inside of you to breathe for you inside out.
- 00:26:11.953 --> 00:26:17.192
- So even though you got this fearful situation
- 00:26:17.192 --> 00:26:19.861
- In the culture, this fearful situation of evil,
- 00:26:19.861 --> 00:26:23.798
- This fearful situation of circumstances, inside of you
- 00:26:23.798 --> 00:26:28.670
- Is a holy ghost ventilator and he wants
- 00:26:28.670 --> 00:26:31.406
- To do the breathing for you.
- 00:26:31.406 --> 00:26:33.742
- And if you'll connect the risen christ
- 00:26:33.742 --> 00:26:36.778
- With the word of god so that god breathes on you,
- 00:26:36.778 --> 00:26:40.749
- You'll hear him say to you, regardless of the circumstances
- 00:26:40.749 --> 00:26:44.586
- Out there, peace be unto you.
- 00:26:44.586 --> 00:26:48.456
- You can calm down now because the holy spirit
- 00:26:48.456 --> 00:26:53.328
- Is the air you breathe.
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- ♪♪♪
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