Dr. Tony Evans

Tony Evans - Releasing God's Power

May 24, 2026 | 27:29

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Dr. Tony Evans | Tony Evans - Releasing God's Power | May 24, 2026

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Tony evans: the power that god has deposited
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In the believer is the power that raised up christ
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From the dead.
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What god told me to tell you
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Is that you have the surpassing greatness
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Of his power that does resurrection
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Kind of stuff.
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It does stuff that goes beyond how deep in the grave
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You find yourself in.
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Tony: many of us as christians
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Regularly ask god for more power.
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We ask god for more of his energy
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For whatever life is throwing our way--
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Circumstances, situations, sins.
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Whatever it is that we need enablement for,
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We regularly ask for power,
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But today what the lord wants me to tell you
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Based on what he's told us in his word
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Is that power is not your problem.
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Power is not your problem because if you're a christian
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You've already been hooked up to the company.
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So whatever lack of power you and i may be experiencing
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It has to do with release, not its presence.
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Paul has spent the first 14 verses
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Talking about all that god has done for us
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In ephesians chapter 1.
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He talks about the lavish grace that god has given us,
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Grace you can't earn, you can't buy.
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It's a gift and it is lavished, he says, on us.
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He concludes verse 13 and 14 talking about
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The power plant that has been placed
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In every believer, the holy spirit.
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The holy spirit is jesus in you.
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The holy spirit is the presence of christ
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That operates to bring the life of christ
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Into the experience of the christian.
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And so having done that, he wants to lead them
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Into understanding the power that they already possess.
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He says in verse 15, "for this reason too,
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Having heard of the faith in the lord jesus
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Which exists among you and your love for the saints,
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I do not cease giving thanks for you,
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While making mention of you in my prayers."
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He starts off by praying for the church at ephesus,
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And he says, "i'm talking about y'all all the time."
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And he gives three reasons why he's bragging
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On these saints.
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He says, first of all, "your testimony has gone public."
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He says, "we've all heard about y'all."
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If you are a secret agent christian,
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Don't expect god to release his power.
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If nobody knows you're a christian but you,
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Don't expect god to release his power.
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If you were convicted of being a follower of christ
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And found innocent of all charges,
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Don't expect god to release his power.
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If you are a secret agent christian,
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Don't expect god to release his power.
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He says, "the thing we know about you
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Is we have heard about it."
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In other words, "your witness has gone public.
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It is absolutely inextricably clear
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That you are visible, verbal followers
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Of jesus christ.
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You're not christians in name only.
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It has become public knowledge
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That you are followers of christ."
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He goes on and says, "we've heard about your faith
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In christ.
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We've heard that you act like god is telling the truth.
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We heard that you act like it is so
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Even when it's not so
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In order that it might be so simply
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Because god said so.
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We have heard about your confidence in christ
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That allows you to function differently
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Than the world around you,
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And your witness has gone public."
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He says, "we've also heard about your love of the brethren.
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We've heard that you are connected
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To the family of god.
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We've heard that you care about people,
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You serve people, you help people,
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You support people,
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You are--you're not just this vertical christian
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Only wanting heaven to serve you,
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But as heaven serves you,
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You're concerned about serving others,
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And we have heard about you.
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It has gone public
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And, therefore, we are praying for you
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And we are giving thanks.
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We are thanks that you are the real deal.
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We are giving thanks that you're not play christians
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And part-time saints.
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We're giving thanks that you are all in
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On this christian thing, and we give thanks for you."
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So he's excited about these believers,
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And he wants them to have more of an experience with god
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Given the prerequisites that they have met.
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So this leads him to go deeper.
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And when he goes deeper, he says in verse 17,
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"and the god of our lord jesus christ,
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The father of glory, may give you
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A spirit of wisdom and of revelation
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In the knowledge of him."
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In other words, "we want god to give you
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A greater experience of him:
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Wisdom, knowledge, and revelation.
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We want god to burst through you at a higher level.
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We want you to experience more of god.
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I don't just want you to know about him,
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I want you to experience more of him."
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So he says, "i pray again," in verse 18.
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"i pray that the eyes of your heart
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May be enlightened so that you will know
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What is the hope of his calling, the riches of his glory
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Of the inheritance he has in the saints,
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And what is the surpassing greatness of his power."
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He says, "i want you to have your eyes open.
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I want you to be enlightened to the stuff you already have."
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He's not praying that they get it;
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He's praying that they see it.
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He says, "open their eyes."
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Remove the cataracts.
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Get rid of the glaucoma.
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He says, "the problem is you don't see all that you have,
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And because you don't see,
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You don't have the enlightenment,
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You don't have the understanding,
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You don't have the knowledge of what you already possess."
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He's getting ready to tell them,
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"the power you're looking for, you already have.
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You just don't see it."
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So he prays that they open their eyes.
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It reminds me of 2 kings chapter 6,
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When elisha is being attacked and they wanna destroy him.
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Elisha's servant says, "master, they're coming against us.
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They're going to kill us, and we have no way out."
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And elisha looks up to heaven and says,
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"lord, open his eyes."
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And when the scales were removed from his eyes,
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There were a torrent myriads of angels
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That were circling the house with swords of fire,
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Telling the enemy, "not up in here today you not."
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The problem was that the servant
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Couldn't see it.
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Elisha could see it.
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And because the servant couldn't see it,
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He didn't know the power that was available to him
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For the problem he was now facing.
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So your prayer and my prayer is not
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"give me more power"; it's "give me more sight."
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Because if i have sight, i will be able to be enlightened
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To be able to see what's available to me
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For the circumstances that i happen to be in.
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He says when you give them enlightenment,
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They will see the hope of his calling.
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Now, most of us, looking for our calling.
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Paul says, no, you need to see his calling.
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'cause if you see his calling, you'll know your calling
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'cause he will have revealed to you
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What he has in mind for you so you'll know which way to go
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'cause you're not seeing what you're looking for.
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You've seen what he's already seen
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That now you can pick up the signal on
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And move forward with the next phase, or plan,
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That he has for your life.
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He says you've gotta see his inheritance,
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What he has already done.
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Again, grace is what god does for you
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Independently of you.
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You can't earn it. you can't buy it.
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All you can do is release it.
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It's released by faith.
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He says, "i want you to open up their eyes
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So that they can see what has been provided before them."
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When you operate, stay with us here,
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In spiritual, myopic life
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And not be able to see things clearly--
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Many of us are satisfied with things as they are
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Because our eyes haven't been opened
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To things as they can be.
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He says, "i pray that your eyes will be opened,
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That your sight line will be expanded
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So that you will be able to see,"
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He says, "what god has planted in you already."
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So let's get this straight.
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You don't need power; you need release of power
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That you already possess if you have god the holy spirit
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Already operating within you.
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So he says, "i want you to know," verse 19,
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"what is their surpassing greatness of his power."
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Not your power, his power.
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Not only is it power; it's great power,
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And it's surpassing great power.
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So it's power that's great that surpasses.
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Well, what kind of power is this?
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In accordance with the working of the strength of his might.
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So this is power that he pulls off in you.
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He goes deeper.
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"which he brought about in christ
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When he raised him from the dead
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And seated him at the right hand
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In the heavenly places."
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He says the power that god has deposited in the believer
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Is the power that raised up christ from the dead.
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I don't know if you just heard that.
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The power that's been surpassingly great power
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Is so powerful that it overrode the grave,
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And jesus christ on sunday overrode the problem on friday.
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Friday was a problem because jesus christ
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Was killed on friday.
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Death is a final decision as far as our humanity
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Is concerned.
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When death happens, the party's over.
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When death happens, there is no solution.
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When death happens, finality has made its mark.
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But early on sunday morning, just a little while before day,
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God raised jesus christ up from the dead,
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Which means he overrode a final decision
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By our greatest enemy, which is death.
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He says, "i want your eyes to be open
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That the surpassing greatness of the power of god--"
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His power available to believers is override power
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Because jesus was raised from the dead,
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Which means his resurrection overrode death.
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So whatever is killing you right now,
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Whatever looks like you can't win right now,
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Whatever is keeping you in defeat right now,
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Whatever has got you buried 6 feet under in your sin
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Or circumstances right now, what god told me to tell you is
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That you have the surpassing greatness of his power
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That does resurrection kind of stuff.
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It does stuff that goes beyond how deep in the grave
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You find yourself in.
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This is why as a follower of christ
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You don't throw in the towel
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Because he's good at resurrections,
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And that is raising things up from a dead situation:
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Things that look unovercomeable,
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Things that look like you'll be defeated forever,
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Things that look like that you're entombed
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With no way out,
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Things that put you in a lazarus kind of situation
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And you need the stone to roll away
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To call it up out the grave.
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So don't you quit, don't you give up,
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Don't you throw in the towel, because he is releasing
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Resurrection power.
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That's why i-- your story is not over
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When there's a resurrection.
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It may look like it 'cause there's a burial,
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But since he is the god of resurrections,
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Then that story is not over.
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So he says the power--
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His power that's been placed in believers,
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That you already have,
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Is a power that does resurrections.
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Okay.
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Well, we need to know, "okay, how can i get there?"
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Anybody need that resurrection power?
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Okay.
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He says, "which he brought about.
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He raised him," verse 20, "from the dead
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And seated him at his right hand
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In the heavenly places."
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Okay.
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He's getting into deep theology.
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So, first of all, we know we got a death
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'cause we got a resurrection, okay?
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So he raised christ from the dead,
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But he's talking to believers having their eyes opened.
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So he's talking to us,
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But he's using christ to talk to us
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About the surpassing greatness of god's power.
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He says that "i want your eyes open.
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There's a death.
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There's a resurrection."
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But then he says there's more.
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He--there is an ascension because he says he was seated
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On the right hand of the father.
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So jesus died on friday.
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He arose on sunday.
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Forty days later he stepped on a cloud
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And ascended up into heaven,
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Where he is now seated on the right hand of god.
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The author of hebrews talks about this--
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Jesus christ and where he is seated.
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The author of hebrews puts it this way
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In hebrews chapter 1.
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He says in verse 1, "god, after he spoke long ago
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To the fathers in the prophets
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In many portions and in many ways,
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In these last days has spoken to us in his son,
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Whom he appointed heir of all things,
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Through whom also he made the world;
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And he is the radiance of his glory,
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The exact representation of his nature,
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And upholds all things by the word of his power.
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When he had made purification of sins,
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He sat down at the right hand of the majesty on high."
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So jesus christ, when he rose from the dead,
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Went and sat down next to god,
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And according to verse 20 of ephesians 1,
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In heavenly places.
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What does he mean "heavenly places"?
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Heavenly places, a synonym is spiritual realm.
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Heavenly places means the spiritual realm.
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He says jesus christ is now situated
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On the right hand of god.
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He is seated in the spiritual realm.
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Now, why do you need to know that if you need power?
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Because you need to know where the plant is located.
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He says in the spiritual realm, heavenly places,
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You have the holy spirit.
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So that's connection to the spiritual realm.
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He says god's power-- the word of his power emanates
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From where he is sitting.
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He is sitting on the right hand of the father
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With the word of power, hebrews 1:3 says.
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So the power that comes from his word
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Is where he is seated.
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He is seated on the right hand of the father,
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And because he's seated there, power emanates from there;
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And the there where he is seated
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Is called heavenly places, which is the spiritual realm.
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So if you wanna experience his power,
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It's gotta come from his realm,
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Which means if you are an earthly-minded christian,
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You will not experience heavenly places' power
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Because the power does not come from earth.
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The power comes from heavenly places,
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Or the spiritual realm.
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That's why it is in the interest of the enemy
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To keep you changing frequencies.
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He wants you to be fm on sunday and am on monday.
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He wants you flipping and floating
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So that you're not living from heavenly places,
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You're living from earthly places,
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But that's not where he's seated.
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He is seated in heaven,
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Even though he's seated for the benefit of earth.
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Now, i know what you may be thinking.
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"i need that power up here up--from up there,
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But i'm living down here.
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I'm down here. he's way up there.
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He's in never-never land.
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He's in that spiritual place next to the father.
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And all that sounds good, but i'm living down here
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In earthly places."
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Oh, you think so?
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Look at ephesians chapter 2, verse 4 through 6.
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This is what he says.
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He says, "but god, being rich in mercy,
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Because of his great love with which he loved us,
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Even when we were dead in our transgressions,
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Made us alive together with christ.
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By grace you have been saved and raised up with him
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And seated us with him in the heavenly places
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In christ jesus."
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So guess where you are located?
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You may not have known you're located there,
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Because the enemy doesn't want you to know
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You're located there.
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Because if you ever discover you're located there,
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Your eyes will be open
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To what you really have access to.
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He says we died with him.
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We were raised with him.
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We are seated with him in the same place he is located:
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Heavenly places.
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The holy spirit has given you the technology
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To transcend your physical location
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So that while you are on earth,
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You are seated with him in heavenly places.
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God wants you to open up your eyes
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So that you can take access to the power that is available
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To you drawn from jesus's seat,
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And you are seated right next to him, spiritually speaking.
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And so he comes and he says, "i want you to understand
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That this power is available to you."
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And this power that raised up jesus,
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How powerful is this power?
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Verse 21, "far above all rule, all authority,
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All power and dominion,
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And every name that is named not only in this age
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But also in the age to come."
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He says that this power is good for this age.
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But how much can i expect?
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It says far above all rule, all authority,
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And every name that has been named.
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So whatever your problem is, give it a name
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'cause he says jesus is above every name that is named.
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In fact, whatever your burial is, call it goliath
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'cause at least you know what's gonna happen to it.
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He says jesus is over every name.
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So you name your addiction, you name your problem,
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You name your burial, you name your circumstance,
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And then you sit right next to jesus and say,
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"jesus, what we gonna do about this?
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How are you and i gonna handle this?
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'cause i'm up here in heaven with you,
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But i need it transferred by your spirit to earth for me
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Because i need to be delivered.
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I need divine interaction and involvement
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Because i need power, and you are far above.
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You're not just a little bit above;
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You are higher than every name that is named."
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That's why the spiritual must always precede
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The circumstantial and the physical.
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You don't ignore how real they are,
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You just don't let them define you.
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He goes on a little bit further,
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And he, god, put all things in subjection under his,
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Jesus's, feet.
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All things have now been made subject to jesus christ.
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Let me show you god's philosophy of history,
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By the way.
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You need to understand history, ephesians 1:10,
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With a view to an administration, okay?
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So you look at the elections.
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It's gonna see we-- this election
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Which administration be going to be
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In the white house.
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So that's an administration.
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To the view of an administration
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Suitable to the fullness of times,
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What's this administration?
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That is the summing up of all things in christ,
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Things in heaven and things on the earth in him.
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God's philosophy is that everything,
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Everything is gonna be summed up
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Under the authority of jesus christ.
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So the tighter your connection is with him--
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See, that's why you can't be ashamed
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To be associated with him.
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Don't be too cute to be associated with jesus christ
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'cause you've now disconnected yourself
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From power because all things are gonna be summed up by him.
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So he goes on in chapter 1 and he says these words.
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He says, "then gave him as head over all things
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To the church."
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In other words, this power is not universally available.
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It's not available to everybody.
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It says this power to rule and overrule
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Has only been given to the church.
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See, that's why all this political stuff is all off.
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God's not gonna skip the church house
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To fix the white house.
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God only has committed himself to his people.
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Everybody believes in god.
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It is your allegiance to jesus christ
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That will determine power descending from his throne,
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Where you're seated next to him,
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Down to your physical circumstances on earth.
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And you know how you'll know when god is real, okay?
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Now, we know god is real intellectually,
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We know god is real circums-- attitudinally,
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But you know when you know that you know god is real?
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When he overrules something you could not overrule.
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See, when he resurrects,
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When he resurrects something that was dead,
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When he resurrects something that was hopeless and helpless
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And he resurrects that thing--
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When your lazarus comes out of the grave,
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You ain't gonna wonder about how real god is
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Because you will have seen resurrection power
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In life's realities.
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So you must identify with him
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Because he's head over all things,
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But he's only been given to the church.
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When jesus died, it was satan's goal to keep him dead
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Because if he could keep him dead
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He don't have to deal with him anymore.
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Satan wants to keep us defeated
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So he don't have to deal with us anymore.
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He wants to keep us toe up from the floor up
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So we don't have--
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They don't have to deal with us anymore.
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But once you get resurrected,
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Now he got to deal with you again.
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Once you ascend above him, he's gotta deal with
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The fact that you are now operating in victory
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And not operating in defeat.
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So if you're here today, don't you give up,
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Don't you throw in the towel, why?
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Because you already have the power.
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You just gotta make sure you got the connection
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To utilize the power that you already possess
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By virtue of your connection.
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While some of us have got normal problems in our lives,
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Just everyday stuff that we just need god
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To take care of, we don't need anything special
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'cause the everyday stuff we can pretty much handle.
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But many of us, we got so many problems,
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So many needs, so many circumstances
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We need something that's got exceedingly abundant power
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To give us the ability to rise above
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All the issues that we've got to plug in.
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I'm here to tell you today don't throw in the towel,
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Don't give up, don't quit
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'cause i know somebody that can raise the dead.
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And you don't have to find the power,
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He has already given you the power.
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You just have to release it by maintaining your connection.
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Tony Evans - Releasing God's Power

May 24, 2026 | 27:29

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