Dr. Tony Evans

Tony Evans - Releasing God's Victory

July 19, 2026 | 27:30

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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Dr. Tony Evans | Tony Evans - Releasing God's Victory | July 19, 2026

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Tony evans: god's promises are in your reach.
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That does not mean they're in your hand.
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You can have it and not experience it,
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Even though the promise is true.
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So before i go any further, does anybody need
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A promise of victory?
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You got something you can't fix on your own.
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You need a promise of victory.
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God's promises are true and they are in your reach,
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But that does not place them in your hand.
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♪♪♪
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Tony: well, hello, everybody, this is tony evans,
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Tony: many of us knows what it is to be
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In a crisis that's causing great aches and pains,
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And none of the things we're doing is working.
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None of the efforts we're taking,
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They're not changing anything.
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And in those times, when the aches, stresses,
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Struggles, and crisis of life become overwhelming,
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We're looking for relief, something that will relieve us
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Of this burden that we are carrying.
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I'm sure that here this morning there are those
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Who are carrying weights too heavy to hold up,
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And you just don't know how to proceed.
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In the story that i'm--
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That i've just read to you from 2 kings,
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Here is a king who is desperate.
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He's in a military conflict,
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And he knows he's in a losing situation.
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He knows he's in a situation
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That most likely he can't win,
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And he is desperate.
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So we're told in verse 14 that what he does
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Is he makes his way to a dying prophet named elisha.
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And the first words uttered out of his mouth is,
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"my father, my father, israel's horses and chariots."
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In chapter 2 of 2 kings, we find this phrase used,
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Because we see in chapter 2, in verse 11,
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As they were going along, elijah and elisha, talking,
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"behold, there appeared
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A chariot of fire and horses of fire,
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Which separated the two of them.
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And elijah went up by a whirlwind to heaven.
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Elisha," verse 12 says, "saw it and cried out,
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'my father, my father, the chariots of israel
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And its horsemen,' and he saw elijah no more.
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Then he took hold of his own clothes
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And tore them in two pieces."
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So elisha is walking with elijah in chapter 2,
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And he sees heaven come down and lift elijah out of earth
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And into heaven.
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So when he says, "my father, my father,
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My spiritual leader,
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I saw the horses and chariots of heaven
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Come down to earth
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And take a man from earth back up to heaven."
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In other words, "i saw a divine intervention."
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Chapter 6, we see it again.
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Verse 15, "now when the attendant
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Of the man of god had risen early and gone out,
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Behold, an army with horses and chariots
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Were circling the city.
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And his servant said to him, 'alas, my master,
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What shall we do?'
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So he said, 'do not fear, for those who are with us
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Are more than those who are against us.'
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Then elisha prayed and said, 'o lord, i pray
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Open his eyes that he may see.'
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And the lord opened the servant's eyes,
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And he saw and, behold, the mountain
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Was full of horses and chariots of fire
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Around elijah."
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So when the king in chapter 13
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Comes to elisha in a desperate situation,
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He is coming, seeking divine intervention from heaven
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To resolve his crisis on earth.
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So, the king comes to elisha,
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Who is the one who has taken over for elijah,
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And he says, "i need a word
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Because i'm in a desperate situation
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That i am unable to fix."
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And so the king comes for a prophetic word
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From the dying prophet elijah,
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Who now has access
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To the horses and chariots of heaven
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To come down and to intervene
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Because he's in a battle he cannot win, okay?
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So that is the problem.
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So if you are in a battle,
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Or when you get in a battle you can't win,
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That is an opportunity to pursue a prophetic word, okay?
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So he comes to elijah.
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When he gets to elijah, elijah takes a bow and arrows,
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And he says to him, "pick up the bow and arrows."
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So the king picks it up,
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Then he says to the king of israel,
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"put your hand on the bow," so he puts his hand on the bow.
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He says, "now what i want you to do
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Is let me put my hand on top of your hand."
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So the king takes the bow.
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Elijah then puts his hand on top of the king's hand.
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When you have the laying on of hands in scripture,
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It is referring to the transfer of authority.
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So he places his hand, elijah places his hand
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On top of the king's hand,
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Who is now holding a weapon of war
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'cause he's getting ready to go into battle.
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He's holding a bow.
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To put your hand on top of the hand
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Is to sanctify the action.
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Let me explain.
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To sanctify means to bring god into the equation.
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He brings god from the supernatural--
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'cause he asked for it, horses and chariots--
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Into the natural
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'cause the natural man with a natural hand
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Is holding a natural bow.
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But the reason he showed up is he did not have
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The strength to deal with the fight
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He was getting ready to enter,
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So he asked, "can i get heaven's help?"
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Elijah, who represents heaven,
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Places his hand over the king's hand,
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So there's a transfer of heaven to his earthly situation.
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So he sanctifies the action.
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When he sanctifies it, he then gives him instruction.
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He tells him, "what i want you to do
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Is open the window toward the east,"
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The enemy, aram, was in the east,
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"and open it, and shoot."
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And he shot, and this is the lord's arrow of victory.
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Ah, wait a minute.
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We started with a bow and arrow.
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He grabs the bow.
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Prophet puts his hand on him.
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And now shoot through the window,
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And now he calls it the lord's arrow.
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Wait a minute. it was an arrow.
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Now it's the lord's arrow.
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So the arrow, a regular bow and arrow has been sanctified.
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That is, the spiritual has been infused
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Into the normal.
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Now, don't go too fast.
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The help did not come until he picked up the bow.
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Until he did what he was supposed to do,
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He didn't get the hand and he didn't get
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The transfer for victory.
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It is called the lord's arrow,
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Which means god is now taking responsibility
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Because you have taken responsibility.
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This is all the way through the bible,
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Where god would not do something
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Until somebody else picked up a tool on earth first.
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When israel got between pharaoh and the red sea,
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Moses had thrown down his rod, his shepherd's hook.
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It became a snake.
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God told him pick it up by the tail.
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He picked it up.
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It became a hook again, but now it's called
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The rod of god.
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It was the rod of moses, but once it got sanctified,
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It became the rod of god.
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Once it became the rod of god
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And no longer the rod of moses,
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He could stand at the red sea,
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And god would not open up the red sea
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Until he held out that rod.
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God says, "why you standing here?
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Hold out the rod
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'cause i now have empowered that rod to do something
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That rod could not do before it got sanctified,
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And that is the supernatural can enter into the natural."
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So over and over and over again.
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God sanctified five stones in the hand of david.
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Why did david pick up five stones?
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Because the bible says goliath had four brothers.
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He was gonna take out the whole family.
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Those were regular stones that got sanctified,
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So they hit the bull's-eye.
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They knocked down goliath
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Because god entered into the natural,
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Sanctified it,
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So now it could function supernaturally.
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So what you and i have to understand is
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You may want, i may want, we may want victory,
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But the question is, "have you done
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And used what i placed at your disposal to use
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In order to invade it with my presence?"
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And so over and over again, in exodus chapter 17,
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They're fighting the amalekites,
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And moses has the rod in his hand.
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And it says, "whenever he held up the rod,
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Israel prevailed.
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But when he dropped the rod, israel lost,"
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Because god had infused his presence
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By sanctifying the rod
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That used to be a shepherd's hook
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To determine whether there would be
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Victory or defeat in the battle.
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So one of the reasons we could be defeated
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And not get to victory
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Is we haven't had our natural actions sanctified.
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God has not entered into it
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In order to give it supernatural capacity,
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Because either we don't know we have it,
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Or we don't use it, having god touched it.
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So he tells him, "what i want you to do
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Is shoot through the window,"
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And he shoots through the window,
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And now it is the rod of god.
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So, he told peter, peter had a--
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Peter was a fisherman. peter had a natural net.
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That's all he had was a net, but he caught nothing,
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Luke chapter 5.
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He caught nothing, and jesus sanctified the net.
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He touched the net, so to speak, and he said,
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"now go out into the deep
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With a net that i done touched, with a net.
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Now, i'm not gonna make a net from heaven.
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You got a net right here on earth.
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I'm just gonna sanctify it.
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And once i sanctify the net,
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Your natural can now do supernatural."
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And the bible says he had
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The biggest fish haul in his life
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Because he was now operating using the natural
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To accomplish the supernatural, okay?
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So, he shoots it through the window.
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And when he shoots it through the window,
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He gets a promise.
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And the promise is, he says,
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"you will defeat the armenians at aphek
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Until you have destroyed them."
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Now, he's scared.
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He's getting ready to lose, but he gets a promise,
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"you are not only gonna win.
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You're gonna wipe them out."
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Now see, when you get a promise from god like that,
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It makes you wanna get your praise on.
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And when you get a promise like that,
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You ever been in church, and you hear a promise of god
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And you get all excited?
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Well, before you clap, let me tell you something.
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God's promises are in your reach.
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That does not mean they're in your hand.
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You can have a promise of god that doesn't become
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An experience for you or for me,
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Even though the promise is true.
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So we've got a promise.
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"you are going to destroy your enemy completely,"
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He says, "'cause you shot the arrow through the window."
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You said, "praise the lord.
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Ain't god good all the time?
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All the time, god is good."
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You done shout it.
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You done come to church.
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You done amen.
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You done shouted through the window,
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"yeah, i heard the word of god."
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So i got the promise, and the promise
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Is a promise of victory.
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So before i go any further,
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Does anybody need a promise of victory?
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Oh, okay, well, i'm talking to everybody, all right.
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You need a prayer.
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You got something you can't fix on your own.
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You need a promise of victory,
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But god's promise is in your reach,
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They're not yet in your hand.
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Let's look at what happens.
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After he shoots it through the window,
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Elijah says to him, "take the arrows," verse 18.
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"he took them, and he said to the king of israel,
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'strike the ground,'
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And he struck it three times and stopped.
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So the man of god was angry with him.
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The man of god said, 'you should have struck it
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Five or six times,
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Then you would have struck aram
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Until you would have destroyed it.
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But now you shall strike aram only three times.'"
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He had a promise, "you're gonna completely
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Have victory."
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He had an experience that says,
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"you were gonna have partial victory."
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Why when he was promised complete victory
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Was he only gonna get partial victory?
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'cause he only had partial commitment.
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He had a quiver full of arrows.
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He says, "shoot the arrows on the ground, on the earth."
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Remember, the arrow that was the lord,
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He shot through the window.
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Pew!
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That was calling on heaven to intervene
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'cause it's called the arrow of the lord,
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So i want the spiritual.
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But now elijah says, "now take the rest of the arrows,
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And shoot them on the earth,"
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'cause the earth is where my problem is.
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The earth is where my challenge is.
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The earth is where my crisis is.
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The earth is where my defeat is.
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The earth is where i'm desperate.
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I'm desperate down here, but i need up there.
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So i shoot and call for up there, but he says,
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"no, you also gotta shoot your arrows down here."
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So he shoots three arrows, and elijah is ticked off.
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He's ticked off because he wanted
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A complete victory with partial commitment.
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In other words, he wasn't all in.
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He wasn't fully committed to this.
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The principle that we need to grab today
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Is the difference i told you a few weeks ago
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Between blessing and miracles.
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Blessings require cooperation.
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Miracles do not.
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Miracles are outside of nature.
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Miracles are outside
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Of the laws that govern the universe.
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It's where god trumps his own laws.
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That is a miracle.
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That's not a blessing.
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A blessing is something god does in cooperation with you.
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So a lot of people are looking for their blessing,
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But they're looking for something
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That they're not cooperating with.
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And they wonder why they're not getting
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Their blessing, 'cause god is not getting cooperation.
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The bible says, "we are workers together with him,"
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So there is a cooperation with god
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For the blessing to be experienced.
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A miracle is where he trumps everything,
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And no need for you to do anything
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'cause it's outside of the human sphere.
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But a blessing requires you to be involved.
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You can't say, "lord, i want a job.
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I'm gonna sit here by the phone until it rings."
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You can say, "heaven, i need a job in history,"
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But now you better go online.
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You better go job hunting, so that the spirit
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Can sanctify your looking to lead you to the place
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That employment may be available to you.
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You must fulfill what god's expectations are
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For him to infuse it with the supernatural.
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He was half committed.
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He shot three.
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The prophet was angry.
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The prophet was saying, "you are not serious.
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You're not going all in."
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He had a faith that was part time.
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And he says, "god is going to reward you
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According to your level of commitment.
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You shot three arrows?
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You're only gonna get three blessings."
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So let me tell you a secret.
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Shh, don't tell nobody i told you this.
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You can limit god.
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I can limit god.
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We can limit god.
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And you say, "wait a minute.
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You've taught god is omnipotent.
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God is all powerful."
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He is.
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There's nothing that god can't do
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If he decides to do it.
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You can affect whether he decides to do it or not, okay?
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There are many times in the bible
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Where decisions of people limited god.
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In mark chapter 6, verses 5 and 6, it says,
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"jesus could no longer do miracles there
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Because of their unbelief."
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Their unbelief blocked him doing the supernatural.
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They didn't stop his power.
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They stopped his decisions.
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In matthew chapter 23, verse 37, jesus says,
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"jerusalem, jerusalem, oh how i would have gathered you
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Like a hen gathers its little one,
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But you would not.
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You stopped me from doing something
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I was gonna do, in healing your nation,
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And you blocked me."
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He was gonna raise lazarus from the dead.
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He told martha, 'cause you gotta do your thing,
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"move the stone, 'cause you're not gonna see
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What i'm gonna do in secret
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Until you do exactly what i told you to do."
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What martha wanted to do was give him a lesson
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In mortuary science.
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Martha says, "he's been dead four days,
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And he stinketh."
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She says, "rigor mortis has set in.
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The cells has collapsed.
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The green substance has come up.
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Decay has set in.
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Jesus, look, i've had enough college education
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To know that when decay takes place,
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There's no need to move the stone."
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Jesus got a little upset.
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He said, "didn't i tell you?
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Now i ain't ask you for a lesson
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In mortuary science.
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I just told you move the stone.
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Just move the stone."
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When she finally stopped giving jesus an education
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And moved the stone,
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Then she saw the supernatural take place
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Because she did what she was asked to do.
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So with--until she did it, he did not do anything,
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So you and i can limit god.
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We are waiting on god when god is waiting on us.
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And when we do this, then we begin to see
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The supernatural infuse the natural.
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You're not just waiting for it to drop from heaven.
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You're waiting for it to be infused on earth
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With the action you have taken consistent
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With the word and will of god.
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So when they prayed, when elijah prayed
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In chapter 6, he prayed, and then it says,
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"the servants saw the spiritual enter into the natural,
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The horses and the chariots of god."
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And so the new testament concept of this
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Is found a number of times in the new testament,
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Like in matthew chapter 16, verse 19, it says,
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"whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven.
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Whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven,"
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Binding and loosing.
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To bind and loose is to permit or forbid, okay?
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It is to allow or restrict.
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So to bind is to hold it so it can't go anywhere.
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To loose is to let it free so it can go somewhere.
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So he says, "whatever you binding on earth
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Will be bound in heaven.
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Whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven."
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So, couple things you need to notice.
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It's not whatever i bound.
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Jesus said, "it's whatever you bind
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And whatever you loose,
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So i'm waiting for you to bind and loose."
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Now, "whatever you bind and loose," the greek text says,
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"will have been bound in heaven."
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In other words, heaven is waiting on you
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Before he does it.
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Whatever you bind and loose, you're binding and loosing,
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Will have already been bound and loosed in heaven,
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Which means god has already decided
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What he's gonna do, but he's not gonna do it
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Until he sees that you have done
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All that he expects you to do.
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So, a lot of us have victories floating up in the atmosphere
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That won't drop down 'cause god's saying,
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"y'all taking too long.
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It's all up here 'cause i've already decided
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What i'm gonna do,
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But y'all taking so long,
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I can't get around to dropping it,
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So that you experience victory in your situation,
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In your difficulty, in your trial,
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In your tribulation.
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And the reason i've allowed it is
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So that you can see heaven at another level,
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But i need to know you're cooperating with me."
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So a lot of our prayers are a waste of time
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Because we're asking god to do something
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Without our cooperation, and he will not do it
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Without your cooperation if it's a blessing.
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If it's a miracle, he just does it
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'cause it trumps everything.
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But if it's a blessing, his normal pattern is
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To wait for your cooperation.
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And that's why so many times in the bible,
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God would not do something until the people did it first.
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I already told you about moses had to hold the rod out
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Before the red sea opened.
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The priest had to step in the jordan river
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Before god would block the river,
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So the people would cross.
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Abraham had to bring the knife to slay his son
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Before god showed him the ram.
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In other words, the people had to do something first
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Before they saw the supernatural,
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Not because god was holding the supernatural back,
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He just wanted to see he had somebody to work with,
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Somebody who's gonna act in faith
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While they are expecting heaven to put its hand
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On their circumstance.
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So if you're here today, and you need victory,
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And you have become a victim
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Of some situation and circumstance
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That has claimed to defeat you,
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And your human options are out,
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You have no place to go but up.
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You are a candidate for a prophetic word.
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You're in a perfect position
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For the horses and chariots of heaven
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To visit you on earth.
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♪♪♪
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Tony Evans - Releasing God's Victory

July 19, 2026 | 27:30

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