Tony Evans - The Breath

January 5, 2025 | S25:E1

Dr. Tony Evans is known as a relevant expositor and is a pastor of pastors and a father in the faith.

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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."
  • 00:12:55.057 --> 00:12:56.959
  • 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?
  • 00:13:08.637 --> 00:13:10.606
  • 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
  • 00:13:16.912 --> 00:13:19.181
  • Gives us a scripture, but we don't know where to go
  • 00:13:19.181 --> 00:13:23.586
  • When a various situations show up in our lives.
  • 00:13:23.586 --> 00:13:26.856
  • 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
  • 00:13:30.459 --> 00:13:35.097
  • Of violence or danger.
  • 00:13:35.097 --> 00:13:37.066
  • 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,
  • 00:13:48.444 --> 00:13:50.980
  • The longest chapter in the bible.
  • 00:13:50.980 --> 00:13:53.682
  • It's all about one subject, the word of god.
  • 00:13:53.682 --> 00:13:56.752
  • 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,
  • 00:14:02.725 --> 00:14:06.896
  • Only works in his fullness in concert
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  • With the word of god.
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  • Don't miss that.
  • 00:14:13.235 --> 00:14:15.571
  • If you wanna breathe, if you wanna hear
  • 00:14:15.571 --> 00:14:18.507
  • Peace be unto you 'cause you're scared,
  • 00:14:18.507 --> 00:14:23.412
  • No matter what is causing that fear,
  • 00:14:23.412 --> 00:14:25.848
  • The spirit of god who is the breath of god
  • 00:14:25.848 --> 00:14:29.685
  • 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
  • 00:14:47.202 --> 00:14:49.538
  • To another passage that i can only summarize,
  • 00:14:49.538 --> 00:14:53.008
  • But i don't want you to miss this.
  • 00:14:53.008 --> 00:14:55.477
  • 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.
  • 00:15:07.256 --> 00:15:10.993
  • Meditate on it because it puts it all together
  • 00:15:10.993 --> 00:15:15.931
  • So that you can breathe again.
  • 00:15:15.931 --> 00:15:18.500
  • If you have the holy spirit in you,
  • 00:15:18.500 --> 00:15:21.003
  • 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
  • 00:15:31.480 --> 00:15:34.917
  • Who is the holy spirit offers to believers.
  • 00:15:34.917 --> 00:15:38.721
  • He says in verse 1, "the spirit of the lord
  • 00:15:38.721 --> 00:15:42.524
  • Sent me to a valley full of dry bones."
  • 00:15:42.524 --> 00:15:47.129
  • What was the problem with these dry bones?
  • 00:15:47.129 --> 00:15:52.968
  • He says, "can these bones live again?"
  • 00:15:52.968 --> 00:15:58.440
  • 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
  • 00:16:02.111 --> 00:16:05.781
  • At the end of verse 3, "oh lord god, you know."
  • 00:16:05.781 --> 00:16:10.753
  • I can't answer that question because it looks real bad.
  • 00:16:10.753 --> 00:16:14.289
  • Are you in a real bad situation?
  • 00:16:14.289 --> 00:16:17.026
  • Are you having a spiritual asthma attack
  • 00:16:17.026 --> 00:16:19.762
  • 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
  • 00:16:30.539 --> 00:16:32.975
  • That's surrounding you?
  • 00:16:32.975 --> 00:16:35.210
  • He tells the prophet, verse 4, "prophesy over these bones.
  • 00:16:35.210 --> 00:16:41.350
  • 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
  • 00:16:51.293 --> 00:16:54.430
  • To these bones, 'behold i will cause breath,'"
  • 00:16:54.430 --> 00:16:58.967
  • Oh, oh, there's our word, "to enter you
  • 00:16:58.967 --> 00:17:02.704
  • 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.
  • 00:17:08.210 --> 00:17:12.147
  • Breath is the holy spirit as you'll see.
  • 00:17:12.147 --> 00:17:14.883
  • I'm gonna cause breath to enter.
  • 00:17:14.883 --> 00:17:16.718
  • So verse 7, "i prophesied as i was commanded
  • 00:17:16.718 --> 00:17:21.056
  • 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,"
  • 00:17:27.196 --> 00:17:32.034
  • To the spirit.
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  • Prophecy, "son of man, and say to the breath,"
  • 00:17:34.536 --> 00:17:38.640
  • The spirit, "thus saith the lord god,
  • 00:17:38.640 --> 00:17:41.810
  • Come from the four winds," the spirit, "from everywhere
  • 00:17:41.810 --> 00:17:46.482
  • 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
  • 00:17:55.624 --> 00:17:59.394
  • To the breath.
  • 00:17:59.394 --> 00:18:01.263
  • The breath is the spirit coming from the four winds.
  • 00:18:01.263 --> 00:18:04.166
  • 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,
  • 00:18:06.602 --> 00:18:11.039
  • They're desperate.
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  • He says, prophesy to 'em.
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  • Tell the bones it's time to live.
  • 00:18:15.744 --> 00:18:18.147
  • It's time not to fake it no more.
  • 00:18:18.147 --> 00:18:20.749
  • Time not to be just going to church and living
  • 00:18:20.749 --> 00:18:22.918
  • In your dryness.
  • 00:18:22.918 --> 00:18:25.120
  • But then prophesy to the breath, the spirit.
  • 00:18:25.120 --> 00:18:29.791
  • 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
  • 00:18:37.199 --> 00:18:42.104
  • The word of god, the spirit of god attaches to it.
  • 00:18:42.104 --> 00:18:46.141
  • And when the spirit of god attaches to the word of god,
  • 00:18:46.141 --> 00:18:51.547
  • Something begins to happen.
  • 00:18:51.547 --> 00:18:55.984
  • "so i prophesied," verse 10, "as he commanded me
  • 00:18:55.984 --> 00:19:00.189
  • And the breath came to them and they came to life
  • 00:19:00.189 --> 00:19:05.994
  • 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
  • 00:19:13.302 --> 00:19:16.505
  • Are the whole house of israel.'"
  • 00:19:16.505 --> 00:19:18.740
  • Or to put it in the new testament word,
  • 00:19:18.740 --> 00:19:20.509
  • It's the whole church.
  • 00:19:20.509 --> 00:19:22.277
  • "behold, they say, 'our bones are dried up
  • 00:19:22.277 --> 00:19:25.347
  • And our hope has perished.'"
  • 00:19:25.347 --> 00:19:28.050
  • 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,
  • 00:19:31.053 --> 00:19:33.889
  • Our hope is gone.
  • 00:19:33.889 --> 00:19:35.991
  • We are completely cut off.
  • 00:19:35.991 --> 00:19:38.026
  • 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
  • 00:19:44.066 --> 00:19:47.469
  • 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
  • 00:19:51.506 --> 00:19:54.243
  • Into the land of israel.
  • 00:19:54.243 --> 00:19:56.311
  • Then you will know that i am the lord
  • 00:19:56.311 --> 00:20:00.849
  • 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.
  • 00:20:09.358 --> 00:20:11.126
  • "and you will," here it is, "come to life
  • 00:20:11.126 --> 00:20:14.129
  • And i will place you on your land.
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  • You will know that i am the lord
  • 00:20:17.332 --> 00:20:19.935
  • And have spoken and has done this,
  • 00:20:19.935 --> 00:20:22.271
  • Declares the lord."
  • 00:20:22.271 --> 00:20:24.039
  • Did you see that?
  • 00:20:24.039 --> 00:20:26.108
  • 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,
  • 00:20:29.411 --> 00:20:30.912
  • 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,
  • 00:20:33.582 --> 00:20:39.221
  • 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
  • 00:20:46.361 --> 00:20:49.097
  • 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.
  • 00:21:04.413 --> 00:21:06.815
  • 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
  • 00:21:10.185 --> 00:21:13.221
  • Or because you elect a certain person
  • 00:21:13.221 --> 00:21:15.624
  • 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.
  • 00:21:20.762 --> 00:21:24.399
  • It's not because of your notoriety.
  • 00:21:24.399 --> 00:21:26.468
  • No, if you don't have my spirit, you can have all that
  • 00:21:26.468 --> 00:21:29.438
  • And be in a graveyard.
  • 00:21:29.438 --> 00:21:31.506
  • You know what he's trying to do?
  • 00:21:31.506 --> 00:21:32.841
  • God is trying to wake up the church.
  • 00:21:32.841 --> 00:21:34.176
  • This is all about waking up the church
  • 00:21:34.176 --> 00:21:36.645
  • 'cause we can't get them to live out there
  • 00:21:36.645 --> 00:21:39.247
  • 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.
  • 00:21:52.694 --> 00:21:55.130
  • He says, in other words, you're gonna make
  • 00:21:55.130 --> 00:21:56.531
  • 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
  • 00:23:02.130 --> 00:23:05.200
  • 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
  • 00:23:13.175 --> 00:23:16.511
  • 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.
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  • And if you'll connect the risen christ
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  • With the word of god so that god breathes on you,
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  • You'll hear him say to you, regardless of the circumstances
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  • Out there, peace be unto you.
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  • You can calm down now because the holy spirit
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  • Is the air you breathe.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • ♪♪♪
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