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Gather 25: Gathering The Global Church | Gather 25: Gathering The Global Church | March 1, 2025
- >> they.
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- >> heard this is gathered 25.
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- >> 25, 25.
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- >> gather.
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- >> 2525.
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- >> this is gather 25.
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- >> welcome tbn family, to this exclusive broadcast. what you
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- Are about to see is an extraordinary event called
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- Gather 25, a truly historic milestone for the global church.
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- We are the first generation in history that can bring together
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- People from every corner of the world, in real time, to proclaim
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- The gospel and watch god move all across the earth. technology
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- Has opened a door that allows us to gather the entire global
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- Church like we've never seen before, and tbn ensures you
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- Don't miss this historic moment. gather 25 is a 25 hour worldwide
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- Broadcast event connecting the body of christ across every
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- Nation and time zone. you'll be inspired by the stories of how
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- God is moving across this earth, and be excited to share jesus
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- Everywhere, every believer, every continent together. well,
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- Last night this remarkable event kicked off in dallas, texas, and
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- At this very moment, it continues to unfold across the
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- World from continent to continent. believers are uniting
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- In a truly unprecedented way. and if you missed any of it,
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- That's okay. don't worry, tvn has you covered. so let's take a
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- Closer look at what's happened so far.
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- >> 20,000 events are happening with us. live around the world.
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- In over 190 countries. it's truly unthinkable. what you're
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- About to see is going to make you worship god with all and
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- Wonder. you're not going to believe all he is doing on
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- Planet earth.
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- >> i bet there are a bunch of us that are gathered together that
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- You've just decided. despite what i'm facing and despite what
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- I'm going through, and despite what i'm feeling, and despite
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- The disappointment in my life that i wouldn't prefer, i
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- Wouldn't ask for this. but you've just decided. as for me
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- And my house, what we going to do is serve the lord anyway.
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- >> this is more than just a broadcast. it's a defining
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- Moment in history, a time to witness how god is moving across
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- The earth and be encouraged to share jesus everywhere. this is
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- Our moment in history to come together.
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- >> this is gather 25 and we are coming live from the continent
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- Of north america, from the rugged peaks of the canadian
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- Rockies to the niagara falls, down the mighty mississippi
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- River, to the caribbean islands, through the vibrant villages of
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- Central america, to the remarkable panama canal. it has
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- Also been a land of spiritual awakenings, from the great
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- Revivals of the 18th century to the present day. outpourings
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- Across numerous college campuses, baptisms by the
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- Thousands, overflowing arenas of young men and women, university
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- Students repenting and turning to jesus. there continues to be
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- A wind of revival blowing, although overall church
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- Attendance is in decline, there is a renewed passion in north
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- American churches for discipleship, for authenticity,
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- And a purified church. to give you a glimpse of what's
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- Happening across the continent right now, there are gather
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- Groups meeting live in mexico, in cuba, in trinidad and tobago,
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- From canada down to belize, and all 50 states of the united
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- States. and that's where we're headed now, to the lone star
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- State of texas, where gather 25 is coming to you from the city
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- Of dallas.
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- >> every body clap yo hands. oh!
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- I'm gonna take you on a trip to africa real quick. can we go?
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- Hey, my god is good. oh, hey. my god is good. you say? hey, my
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- God is good. oh, hey. my god is good. oh, everything now double,
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- Double. oh, you say now. double double. more power. double
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- Double. oh you say now double double understanding. double
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- Double. oh you say now double double. more wisdom. double
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- Double. oh you say double. hey, my god is good. oh, hey. my god
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- Is good. hey hey hey, your god is good. oh, hey. okay,
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- Everybody wave your hand. new way, new way. yeah yeah yeah
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- Yeah yeah. whoo! oh, yeah yeah. oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
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- Yeah yeah. holy holy holy holy. yes you are holy, holy holy holy
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- Holy holy holy holy holy holy holy holy holy holy holy holy
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- Holy holy holy, mighty, mighty, mighty, mighty, mighty, mighty,
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- Mighty, mighty, mighty, mighty, mighty, mighty, mighty, mighty,
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- Mighty, mighty, mighty, mighty mighty, mighty, mighty, mighty
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- Mighty. fight. fight fight fight fight fight fight.
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- Rejoice in the lord. and again i say rejoice. put a smile on your
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- Face. put a clapping in your hands. put a praise on your
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- Lips. everybody rejoice. yea yea yea yea yea yea yea yea yea yea
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- Yea yea yea yea yea yea yea yea yea yea yea yea yea yea yea yea
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- Yea yea yea yea yea yea yea. yea. yea. yea. yea. yea. yea.
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- Yea. yea. yea. yea. yea. yea. yea. yes. the you are the most
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- High. you are the most high god. you are the most high. you are
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- The most high god. you are the most high. there are other gods,
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- The most high god.
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- >> but you.
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- >> are high. you are the most high. there are other power. you
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- Are the most high.
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- >> but you.
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- >> are strong. you are the most high. there are the spirits. you
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- Are the most high god, but you are greater. you are the most
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- High. you are the most high god. higher than horoscopes. you are
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- The most high. i hope i ain't mess y'all up. you are the most
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- High god. higher than sage and crystals are the most high. you
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- Are. we still get along high god higher than your ancestors.
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- High. is in you. we live, we move. and we have. our being is
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- In you. we live, we move and we have. our being is in. you are
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- The most high god. you are. i knew y'all wasn't singing. i
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- Tell him, tell him, tell him i love high higher than my
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- Problem. love higher than my struggles. higher than my
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- Issues, man. i prioritize nothing greater than you. i
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- Prioritize nothing greater. cause you are the most high i
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- Live for.
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- >> what a blessing to be able to be together as the body of
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- Christ, to gather with one another. i'm thrilled to be able
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- To share just a thought with you that i hope will be an
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- Encouragement to you, a challenge to you, and inspiring
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- To you as we all seek to surrender more fully to the
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- Lord. let's pray. lord jesus, i thank you that your word is
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- Alive. speak. we are your sons and daughters and we came to
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- Here in jesus name, amen. not too long ago, a friend came to
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- The door, but i didn't know it was this friend. she knocked on
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- The door loudly, consistently, passionately, aggressively and
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- She would not stop. and it was one of those days where i wasn't
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- Expecting anyone. the kids were gone. my husband was out for the
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- Day. it was just a quiet day. i was intentionally doing what we
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- Call in our family hibernating. i had intentionally gone into
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- The bedroom. i'd closed the door. i was underneath the
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- Covers. i was watching my favorite show. i wasn't
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- Expecting any deliveries. i wasn't expecting anybody to show
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- Up. it was one of those days i was looking forward to. so when
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- I heard the knocking on the door, i thought, well, at some
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- Point this person's going to get the message and they will go
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- Away. but the knocking continued. it was loud and it
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- Was aggressive and it was consistent and i was getting
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- Annoyed. the knocking would not stop. so eventually i got myself
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- Up. i put a robe on. i went to the door. i opened the door and
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- Saw that it was this friend and i said as i would girl, why are
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- You knocking on my door like that? her response to me was,
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- Because i know you. she said, i know that one of two things was
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- Happening on the other side of this door. i knew that either
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- You were in hibernation mode, which means you're intentionally
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- Ignoring the knock on the door, or i knew that the opposite
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- Extreme could also be true, that there's so much chaos going on
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- In here with the kids and the dogs and the washing machine
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- Going and the dishwasher, that there's so much happening in
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- Here that it is possible that you didn't even hear the knock.
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- So she said, what? no matter which extreme it was, i knew
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- That if i did not knock passionately and persistently
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- And consistently, you might not come to this door. so i had to
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- Knock with purpose and passion to get you to pay attention.
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- Jesus speaks in revelation to a man named john, a man who has
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- Walked with him and talked with him in the three years of jesus
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- Earthly ministry. but when we meet the apostle john, who also
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- Wrote the gospel, when we meet the apostle john in the book of
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- Revelation, he is now 80 something years old, and he is
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- Being persecuted for his faith. he is sitting on the isle of
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- Patmos. he has been relegated there because he has refused to
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- Bend the knee. he has refused to give any symmetry in his life of
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- Allegiance to any other emperor, any other leader outside of his
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- Allegiance to christ and christ alone. and it occurs to me that
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- There are very many of you that are on the other side of this
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- Screen as we all join together today, and you know what it
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- Feels like to be persecuted, not because you've done something
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- Wrong, but because not perfectly, but intentionally,
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- You've tried to fix your eyes on jesus. john has been exiled
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- Because not he's done something wrong, but he has done something
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- Right. he has refused to bend the knee to the emperor at the
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- Time, and as a result of that, he's been exiled to patmos and
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- On this island, in the midst of devastation and disappointment,
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- In the midst of a situation none of us would ever prefer to be
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- In. in the first chapter of the book of revelation, john says
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- That even right here on patmos, on the lord's day, i decided i
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- Was going to be on in the spirit, that i was going to
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- Worship the lord anyhow. and i bet there are a bunch of us that
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- Are gathered together that you've just decided, despite
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- What i'm facing and despite what i'm going through, and despite
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- What i'm feeling, and despite the disappointment in my life
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- That i wouldn't prefer, i wouldn't ask for this. but
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- You've just decided. as for me and my house, were we going to
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- Do is serve the lord anyway? john decides i'm going to
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- Worship the lord. so on the lord's day, while sitting in
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- Disappointment and discouragement, he decides to
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- Worship. and y'all worship opens up a window of revelation. this
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- Is a man who'd already walked with jesus. he knew jesus. he
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- Heard jesus speak. he saw jesus perform miracles. and yet in
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- Revelation, jesus is revealed to him more fully. the book of
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- Revelation is basically an unveiling. it's like the cover
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- Being lifted so that jesus is exposed in his fullness. john is
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- Worshiping on the lord's day, and he hears the voice behind
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- Him. and when he turns to see who it is that is talking to
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- Him, he sees seven lampstands and someone standing in the
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- Middle of the lampstands that is like the son of god, and in one
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- Hand he's got seven stars, and he is standing there with power
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- And all authority in his hands. and john and jesus says to john,
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- Write down everything you see and everything that you hear.
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- And jesus gives him seven messages for seven churches,
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- Warnings. and the seventh of those churches is a church
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- Called the church of laodicea. the complacent, indifferent,
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- Casual christian. and to those believers he says, i stand at
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- The door. revelation 320 and i knock if anyone will hear my
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- Voice, if anybody will decide that they're going to open up
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- The door, he said, i'm going to come in and i'm going to feast
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- With you. i'm going to open up fellowship and communion with
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- You, the likes of which you have never experienced before. jesus
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- Says, i'm standing at the door and knocking. he describes his
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- Own posture to his own people as being outside the door. most of
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- The time when we hear that verse, it is used appropriately
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- So in an evangelistic way to invite people to respond to
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- Jesus as their savior. but when jesus said it, he was talking to
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- The church. he said, i am standing outside of the door of
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- My own church, and i am knocking on the doors of those who have
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- Already placed faith in me, of those who've already said that
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- They're going to be followers of mine, he says. somehow i've
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- Gotten relegated to the periphery of my own bride's
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- Life. lord, help us if we're in here and he's out there, help
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- Us. if we're busy and brimming with ministry activity and good
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- Works, and celebrating and singing songs and waving our
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- Hands and on our knees and participating in religious
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- Events, and jesus is outside the door. jesus says, i'm standing
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- Outside the door. not just corporately, not just the global
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- Body of christ, not just your local church that you attend,
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- Whether in north america or on whatever continent on which in
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- Which you live. he says, not only am i standing outside of
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- The door of the church corporately, but i'm standing
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- Outside of the door of your own heart because you are the
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- Church. the holy spirit of god lives on the inside of you and
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- On the inside of me. and he says to those who are already my
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- Bride, to those that have redeemed. to those that have
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- Accepted me as savior, i am still outside of your door,
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- Constantly knocking, inviting you to open up the door, to
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- Surrender more, to walk in step with me more fully. to hear my
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- Voice more completely. to be filled with my spirit more
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- Fully. he says. i am always at the door, inviting you, drawing
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- You, calling you if you'll listen. even now, you will hear
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- Him at the door. everything you and i have experienced in all of
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- Our individual lives and experiences over the last week,
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- Month, year, the disappointments that was him at the door. the
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- Discouragements. that was him at the door, the mountains, the
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- Joys, the triumphs, the good days. that was him at the door.
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- The diagnosis you weren't expecting, the difficulty in
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- Your finances, the struggle you had in that relationship. all of
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- It was jesus saying, draw near to me. and i will draw near to
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- You. he speaks to the complacent, the indifferent, the
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- Lukewarm, the casual christian. and he says, i'm still calling
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- You. i'm still at the door. i cannot get over this picture of
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- Jesus standing at the door because this is jesus we're
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- Talking about. he in ancient culture. knocking at the door is
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- Very different than what you and i would think about in our
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- Minds. i, very many of us, we think about going to our next
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- Door neighbor's house, and we're knocking on an actual physical
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- Structure in their inside. living quarters weren't that way
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- In the first century in jesus day, or john at the time that he
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- Was living, it wasn't the same structural context as what you
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- And i might have in our minds. instead, there was not just one
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- Single family dwelling, but they were basically looped together
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- All in a compound. there was generational living. so you had
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- Toddlers and teenagers and parents and grandparents and
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- Your cousins and your momma and them. they all lived together in
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- The exact same compound. there was land around the entire
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- Compound creating a courtyard of sorts. and then on the outside
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- Of that property, that compound where there was not only just
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- The family, but also the workers that were tending and taking
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- Care of those structures or their gardens or their all of
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- The nuances of living there. they also had their cattles and
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- Their goats and their sheep, all of those nuances happening in
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- The courtyard. and then there was a fence line. there was an
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- Enclosure, so to speak, and the door was on that that exterior
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- Enclosure, that fence line. so when an ancient visitor would
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- Come to a compound, that ancient visitor knew they might be
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- Outside of that exterior door for quite some time before
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- Anybody on the inside even recognized their presence. they
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- Knew up front they were going to have to be incredibly patient if
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- They came to visit, because depending upon the time of day,
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- One of two extremes might be happening inside that compound.
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- Either the people that lived there had already gone inside of
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- The interior quarters, which would make it even more
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- Difficult for them to be aware of the visitor outside of that
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- Gate, because they were in hibernation mode, or the other
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- Extreme could be happening, that it's so noisy and so busy with
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- All the generations that are living together and the animals
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- That are bleeding and mooing and, and all of the chaos of the
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- Workers that are busy on the inside, it could be so busy and
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- Noisy. either extreme let the visitor know before they even
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- Arrived that this might take some time. they knew they had to
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- Be patient if they were going to come, and if someone was going
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- To become aware of their presence. think about the fact
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- That jesus patiently stands at your door. jesus, we're talking
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- About the king of the universe. we're talking about the one who
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- Has all power in his hands. we're talking about the one who
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- Sits on high, who controls the throes of the universe, who is
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- Right now, as we're in this room and in that room where you are,
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- He is controlling the throes of the galaxies that scientists
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- Haven't even yet discovered yet. neighborhoods they're not even
- 00:21:48.356 --> 00:21:51.960
- Aware, are there? he is the one who hangs the stars in the sky.
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- He knows every single one of them by name. and he knows every
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- Single one of them by number. this is the god of the universe
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- Who is making sure that the entire earth rotates on its axis
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- At just the right speed, to make sure that every single one of us
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- Has enough oxygen to be able to sustain life on this planet. he
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- Is the one that makes sure the sun rises and stays at it at its
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- Post. he is the one that makes sure it swaps places with the
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- Moon at the exact right time. he is the one who is in control of
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- It all, and that great, majestic, almighty, omnipresent,
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- Omniscient, all sovereign god is at your door. it's unbelievable.
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- It's unbelievable to think that we have a savior who patiently
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- Stands waiting on us. what manner of man is this? what
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- Manner of love is this? what manner of mercy and patience and
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- Grace is this, that when he knows us, he knows that we go
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- Into hibernation mode. he knows when your heart is indifferent.
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- He knows when you've been lukewarm. he knows when you've
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- Become defensive. he knows when you've been hurt and want to
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- Walk away. he knows when you've intentionally locked yourself
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- Away and turned your back on him. he knows you. he knows when
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- You've been too busy. he knows when the chaos surrounding your
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- Life, the exterior noise of your life, or the internal noise of
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- Your life has made it difficult for you to recognize his
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- Presence. he knows, and grace comes anyway.
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- >> come on.
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- >> i just can't get over the fact that he keeps on coming for
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- Me and he keeps on coming for you. i'm so grateful for a
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- Savior who passionately, patiently stands. but this is
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- Also a messiah who passionately knocks, and a sovereign who
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- Clearly speaks. an ancient visitor knew that they couldn't
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- Just stand at the door. nobody would recognize them for sure if
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- They just stood there. no, they had to knock aggressively and
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- Passionately and consistently and over time to make sure that
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- Someone was aware that they were standing outside of that
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- Exterior enclosure. and then they had to compound the noise.
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- They had to level it up. they couldn't just stand. they
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- Couldn't just knock. they had to call out with a loud voice to
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- Make sure that the people on the other side could hear the one
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- Who was speaking. do you know that you serve a savior who is
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- Not just standing? you serve a god who loves you so much that
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- He takes the initiative to keep on knocking, and to keep on
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- Calling the conviction in your heart. that is not coincidence.
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- That's the voice of god. all of the things that have lined up in
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- Your life directing you in a particular way. someone else
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- Might call it coincidence. that's your savior at the door
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- He is knocking. he is calling. he is drawing, he is reaching
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- Out to you and he is reaching out to me. and he says, if you
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- Will respond to the savior who passionately stands, and the
- 00:25:26.407 --> 00:25:30.812
- Messiah who passionately knocks, and the savior who clearly
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- Speaks, he says, if anybody hears my voice and opens the
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- Door. he says, i'm coming in. i open the door. church, open the
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- Door. the price. he paid is too high. for us to be out here
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- Playing games. he has redeemed us from too much. he has
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- Delivered us from so deep a pit for us to be casual about his
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- Persistent pursuit of us. he that hath an ear, let him hear
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- What the spirit says to the church. i'm at the door. open
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- It, and i will come in. in jesus name. amen.
- 00:26:39.247 --> 00:26:51.893
- >> god is so.
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- >> here's what gives me hope. revival. it's already happening.
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- It's happening on college campuses. it's happening in
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- Cities and in countrysides. it's happening in both stadiums and
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- Underground churches, and it's happening everywhere. how do we
- 00:27:07.709 --> 00:27:11.946
- Know that? because for the first time ever, technology has
- 00:27:11.946 --> 00:27:16.284
- Connected us. we're the first generation in history that can
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- Bring together people from every corner of the world in real
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- Time. technology has opened a door that allows us to gather
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- The church like never before. so for the sake of those 5.5
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- Billion people who don't know jesus, it's time to do something
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- Bold and unprecedented. it's time to do something that wasn't
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- Even possible at any point in time until now. it's time to
- 00:27:41.175 --> 00:27:47.381
- Gather the entire global church together. it's crazy, i know,
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- But it's time for gather 25.
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- >> the lord bless you and keep you. make his face shine upon
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- And be gracious to you, the lord turn his. face towards you and
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- Give you peace. we receive it all together. amen. i. i. i
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- Amen. i. me, i. i. the lord
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- Bless you and keep you. make his face shine upon you and be
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- Gracious to you, the lord turn is face toward you. and give you
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- Peace. amen, amen. i'm. i'm. amen. i'm amen. i'm. i'm, i'm.
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- Amen. i'm. i thank you for your love. god. we receive your love
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- I our. i. i bless. i, i amen i.
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- I. amen, amen.
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- >> amen all. day. be's favor be upon you. and a thousand
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- Generations. and your family and your children and their children
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- And their children. may his favor be upon you. and a
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- Thousand generations, and your family and your children and
- 00:30:49.764 --> 00:30:54.468
- Their children and their children.
- 00:30:54.468 --> 00:30:57.772
- >> may his favor be. upon you. and a. thousand generations. and
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- Your family and your children and their children and their
- 00:31:05.012 --> 00:31:10.952
- Children. his favor be upon you. and a thousand generations, and
- 00:31:10.952 --> 00:31:18.526
- Your family and your children and their children and the
- 00:31:18.526 --> 00:31:25.166
- Children. may your presence go before you and behind you and
- 00:31:25.166 --> 00:31:31.405
- Beside you. all around you and within you. he is. with you.
- 00:31:31.405 --> 00:31:37.745
- >> he is with you.
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- >> for he. in the.
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- >> guard and you call him. there's going to be.
- 00:31:43.217 --> 00:31:48.389
- >> and rejoicing he.
- 00:31:48.389 --> 00:31:49.890
- >> is for you. he is for you, he is for you. he is for you. he's
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- For you, he's for you, he's for you. he is the god you.
- 00:31:57.398 --> 00:32:05.006
- >> i bet, i. bet i in our. i.
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- Oh, i, i amen i. i. may his
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- Favor. may his favor be upon you and a thousand generations. and
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- Your family and your children and their. and left. may you
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- Rest. go before. you, behind you and beside you. around you and
- 00:32:48.582 --> 00:32:57.058
- Within you. he is with you. he is with you in the morning. he.
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- He is now. it. and you go. he's going. and rejoicing. he is for
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- You. god is for us. hallelujah!
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- >> and we keep hearing that revival is happening. i sat
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- Across from greg laurie, who experienced a lot of the 70s
- 00:33:33.494 --> 00:33:37.298
- Revival, the jesus movement, and i was telling him the stories of
- 00:33:37.298 --> 00:33:42.470
- What we're seeing on campuses, what we're seeing in prisons.
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- And he said, man, it sure sounds like the 70s. sure feels like
- 00:33:44.071 --> 00:33:47.842
- The 70s. and i said, well, how do you know? how do you know?
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- Revival is here? and he said, well, it starts by just hearing
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- It's raining somewhere. it's sprinkling. i heard about this
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- Place. it's raining. i heard about this place. it's raining.
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- And then it just starts to rain. yeah. and then in our wildest
- 00:34:03.023 --> 00:34:08.129
- Dreams, it starts to storm. we are praying for a storm. we are
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- Praying for.
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- >> a storm. but let.
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- >> me be clear why. we don't know how long we have all of
- 00:34:21.942 --> 00:34:27.214
- This gather. 25 began because i had a vivid dream. one night a
- 00:34:27.214 --> 00:34:30.985
- Friend prayed that i would hear from god. and you may not
- 00:34:30.985 --> 00:34:33.854
- Believe in visions and dreams. and believe me, i have been
- 00:34:33.854 --> 00:34:37.091
- Trained up in conservative places that did not teach me
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- About dreams and visions. but i had a dream, okay, i had a dream
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- And i dreamed. when my friend prayed it. i had a dream and it
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- Was vivid. and it was that jesus was coming back in ten years.
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- And let me be crystal clear, i do not know when jesus is coming
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- Back. okay, this isn't some prophetic word. i'm just saying
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- It's what i dreamed. i can't help it. it's what happened. and
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- So jesus was coming back, and i'm going to tell you it wasn't
- 00:34:59.680 --> 00:35:02.650
- Good news. and i ran. we were on boats and i ran and ran to every
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- Boat. and i said, can you come help? can you come help? can you
- 00:35:06.820 --> 00:35:09.757
- Come help? jesus is coming back. help! come! help! and i woke up
- 00:35:09.757 --> 00:35:13.494
- And i thought, what would we do if he were coming back soon? we
- 00:35:13.494 --> 00:35:16.997
- Should gather the church. we should have a big potluck like
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- We used to have when my when my husband was a little church
- 00:35:20.100 --> 00:35:23.170
- Planter, like, we used to have good potlucks and we'd all bring
- 00:35:23.170 --> 00:35:27.007
- Casseroles. so all of you eating out there, we're hungry in here.
- 00:35:27.007 --> 00:35:29.443
- But all of you eating out there? yes. for you. that is what i
- 00:35:29.443 --> 00:35:32.980
- Pictured. eating good food in a home and watching god's glory
- 00:35:32.980 --> 00:35:35.783
- Rain down. that's what i pictured. but anyway, we'll eat
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- Soon. but this is the story. this is the story. he could come
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- Back. he could come back tomorrow. how do we live our
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- Lives? if jesus is coming back soon? the church is waking up. i
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- Pray it's true, i don't know. and what i'm about to speak on.
- 00:35:57.438 --> 00:36:04.278
- I don't know if the storm of revival is coming. and let me be
- 00:36:04.278 --> 00:36:08.916
- Clear what revival is. revival is an awakening and an
- 00:36:08.916 --> 00:36:12.987
- Individual in a community, in a church, in a family, to the
- 00:36:12.987 --> 00:36:18.726
- Goodness and beauty of all that god is and to what he has for
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- Us. it's an awakening. it's where we felt like, gosh, i, i
- 00:36:22.963 --> 00:36:26.900
- Was missing some of what god is and now i see more clearly. but
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- If storms of revival are coming, i don't personally know if we
- 00:36:34.975 --> 00:36:38.846
- Could get in the way of it. in my opinion, god moves no matter
- 00:36:38.846 --> 00:36:42.883
- What, but i do believe we could miss it. i do believe we could.
- 00:36:42.883 --> 00:36:46.920
- It could pass us by. it could pass our family by. it could
- 00:36:46.920 --> 00:36:50.357
- Pass our church by. i do believe we could miss the storm. the
- 00:36:50.357 --> 00:36:53.627
- Storm could be flying mad and we would be completely unaware of
- 00:36:53.627 --> 00:36:57.564
- It, because in our own life, we stopped the storm. so how do you
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- Stop the storm? we're going to look at a moment in exodus. but
- 00:37:05.105 --> 00:37:10.244
- Before we get there, let me set the moment up because the
- 00:37:10.244 --> 00:37:13.080
- Details matter. the israelites have seen the wonders of god.
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- I'm telling you, they have seen the wonders of god. they are
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- Leaving egypt. they are getting gold flung at them by the
- 00:37:22.489 --> 00:37:27.394
- Egyptians. they've seen plagues. and the egyptians are like, go
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- On out of here. goodbye. we don't want you to be here
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- Anymore. so god worked all these wonders. then they're out in the
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- Desert. all the egyptians decided, we want you back. we're
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- Going to go kill you. and the red sea parts. i don't know if
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- You've thought about that miracle in a while, or if you've
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- Ever heard about it, but i want you to picture being on the edge
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- Of the sea and an egyptian army running after you to kill you,
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- And the water parts on both sides, and you're supposed to go
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- Walk through that. i think that's a little bit crazy. and
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- As someone that has been living a little bit of a red sea moment
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- In my life, i'm going to tell you something. it's not just
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- Scary on the edge, it's scary in the middle to. but they've seen
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- Wonders. now they're out of egypt, they're safe and they've
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- Got to eat. so all the sweet bread, like, starts just falling
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- From the sky. and they have to know where to go. so they're
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- Being led by a cloud and a pillar of fire like these. this
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- Is this is their tuesday. this is their tuesday. and now moses
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- Has been called up to mount sinai to meet with god so that
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- He can bring more of god's presence, more of god's word,
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- More of god to them. there's smoke around the mountain. it's
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- Really quite a scene, and it's pretty incredible. and god is
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- Showing off like he does. so this is where we find ourselves.
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- Moses is up the mountain in exodus 32. the plagues were sent
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- To get them out of slavery. all of these miracles happened. and
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- This is what they say. moses has been gone and they say, come
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- Make us gods who will go before us. so all the people took off
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- Their earrings and brought them to aaron. he took it and he made
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- It in the shape of a calf. he built an altar in front of the
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- Calf and announced this. to morrow there will be a festival
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- To the lord to yahweh. they made a cow and worshiped it, and
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- Built an altar around it. and then they had a feast to the
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- Lord. they worshiped god, and a cow. so cute! this is little
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- Texts. this is what they wanted. and guys, we do the exact same
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- Thing. we worship god and a cow. and we find in our hearts other
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- Things that we love and want besides god. and then there are
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- Times that we find in our hearts cynicism that has grown so big
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- That some of you are watching this and critical of every
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- Little thing. and it's okay. like we can handle your god can
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- Handle your criticism. i'm okay with that. i fully expect it.
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- But we've lost our ability to wonder. we have traded wonder
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- For cynicism. we have traded worship of god for cynicism. we
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- Have. we have traded. watching souls get saved in the mission
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- Of god for comfort and ease. and every single one of us, in some
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- Form or fashion, has bowed a knee to something else besides
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- Our god. even if you have followed him since kindergarten.
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- Because we're so good, we love to worship what we see. so
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- There's a lot of ways. there's a lot of ways we do it.
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- Complacency. big one comfort. this one's mine. i love to be
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- Comfortable. doubt, secrets, sin, cynicism. fear. i don't
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- Know what it is for you. for some of you, it's good
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- Things. for some of you, you have worshiped good things
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- With god's stamp on it. you. for some of us, we've worshi
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- For some of us, we've worshe for some of us, we've worshd
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- For some of us, we've worshd the mission of god instead of
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- God himself. is the revival storm going to hit the church? i
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- Don't know, but i believe it could. and if it did, it would
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- Begin with repentance. and i am not asking you to do something
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- That god has not asked you to do. i am inviting you with his
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- Loving kindness to get rid of a stupid, cute little cow. when
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- The glory of god is available to us. that is what i'm asking you
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- To do. and that is kind. it is his loving kindness that leads
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- Us to repentance. i think we want revival. i think we pray
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- For it for our kids. i don't want it to stop with our kids in
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- Prisons. i want it to come. i want it to take over the world i
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- Want, and not for any other reason that we understand what
- 00:43:03.964 --> 00:43:08.969
- The greatest reality about our lives is. that there is a god,
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- That there is an evil one, and they are both after you. that's
- 00:43:14.574 --> 00:43:21.381
- It. that's the story. there's nothing more true. there's
- 00:43:21.381 --> 00:43:24.985
- Nothing more real than that fact right there.
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- >> this is the 25, and we're moving together across the earth
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- To oceania. right now. there are other groups meeting together in
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- Fiji, nauru and micronesia. gather groups in samoa,
- 00:43:54.014 --> 00:43:58.752
- Australia and papua new guinea. christianity first arrived in
- 00:43:58.752 --> 00:44:04.157
- Oceania in 1797 on the shores of tahiti. from there, the gospel
- 00:44:04.157 --> 00:44:09.963
- Spread rapidly through both missionaries and indigenous
- 00:44:09.963 --> 00:44:13.800
- Believers, who carried the message from island to island.
- 00:44:13.800 --> 00:44:17.804
- Now we're on a journey to new zealand, known to the maori as
- 00:44:17.804 --> 00:44:23.243
- Aotearoa. for many years in the 20th century, new zealand
- 00:44:23.243 --> 00:44:27.080
- Retained the world's highest rate of sending missionaries.
- 00:44:27.080 --> 00:44:31.518
- Today, new zealand is a beacon of unity among the churches, and
- 00:44:31.518 --> 00:44:37.023
- It's there that we are going live for. gather 25 in the city
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- Of auckland.
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- >> jesus. we say, and you give life and do our love. do bring
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- Life to the darkness. you give hope and you restore. imperiale
- 00:45:03.884 --> 00:45:14.294
- That is broken.
- 00:45:14.294 --> 00:45:20.333
- >> let our.
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- >> you, oh lord. sing that line again. great, great. are you
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- Lord. and this your breath in our lungs. so we pour out our
- 00:45:33.079 --> 00:45:43.456
- Praise. pour out our praise. it's your breath in our. so we
- 00:45:43.456 --> 00:45:52.499
- Pour out our praise to you. oh. come on, pour out your praise.
- 00:45:52.499 --> 00:46:01.441
- Come on, lift it up, pour it out, pour it out. let the world
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- Go. by your. lake is rising and you give us. and you are love.
- 00:46:07.948 --> 00:46:19.726
- You rely to the dark. you give hope and you restore every heart
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- That is broken. great. great. are you. sing it even louder. we
- 00:46:31.705 --> 00:46:44.384
- Declare. great are you lord. it's your breath. is your
- 00:46:44.384 --> 00:46:53.960
- Breath. in our arms. so we pour out our praise. pour out our
- 00:46:53.960 --> 00:47:02.369
- Praise. it's your breath in our. so we pour out our praise to you
- 00:47:02.369 --> 00:47:10.577
- All. it's your breath in our lungs. so we pour out our
- 00:47:10.577 --> 00:47:19.219
- Praise. pour out our praise. is your breath in my lord.
- 00:47:19.219 --> 00:47:26.493
- >> so we pour out our praise. all. come on men, pour out your
- 00:47:26.493 --> 00:47:33.266
- Praise. come on. hey! every nation, tribe and tongue. yes!
- 00:47:33.266 --> 00:47:47.881
- Hallelujah!
- 00:47:47.881 --> 00:47:49.115
- >> let's sing it.
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- >> family and all the will shout your praise. the lord. great.
- 00:47:50.684 --> 00:48:03.596
- Our. you, lord, king jesus, all the earth and all the earth will
- 00:48:03.596 --> 00:48:13.173
- Shout your praise. our hearts will cry. these bones will sing
- 00:48:13.173 --> 00:48:20.547
- Great. our you are. great. and all the earth. and all the earth
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- Will shout your praise. our hearts will cry. these bones
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- Will sing. great are you lord? and is your breath. in our
- 00:48:38.932 --> 00:48:51.711
- Lungs. so we pour out our praise. pour out our praise.
- 00:48:51.711 --> 00:48:57.917
- It's your. in our lungs. so we pour out our praise. come on, we
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- Testify. is your breath in our lungs. so we pour out our
- 00:49:06.893 --> 00:49:14.367
- Praise. for our praise. is your breath in our lungs. so we pour
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- Out our praise. and all the earth and all the earth will
- 00:49:23.109 --> 00:49:30.216
- Shout your praise. our hearts will cry. these bones will sing.
- 00:49:30.216 --> 00:49:37.190
- Great are you lord? all the earth and all the earth will
- 00:49:37.190 --> 00:49:49.769
- Shout your praise. our hearts will cry. these bones will sing.
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- Great are. you, lord, all the earth. all the earth will shout
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- Your praise. our hearts will cry. these bones will sing.
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- Great are you lord? we sing great are you lord? great are.
- 00:50:16.429 --> 00:50:28.575
- You lord. great are great. are you? come on, let the earth
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- Shout and praise. baaaaaaa.
- 00:50:44.858 --> 00:50:50.063
- >> this is the persecuted church. a story that often
- 00:50:50.063 --> 00:50:53.366
- Remains silent, hidden in the shadows. but today we shed light
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- On the unwavering hope, strength and resolve of those who
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- Continue to stand firm in their faith despite unimaginable
- 00:51:03.276 --> 00:51:07.780
- Adversity.
- 00:51:07.780 --> 00:51:09.816
- >> there's an incredible work happening in north korea. there
- 00:51:09.816 --> 00:51:13.186
- Are. so the underground church is growing exponentially like
- 00:51:13.186 --> 00:51:17.056
- Never before. we just don't realize it because there's a
- 00:51:17.056 --> 00:51:21.494
- Lot, a lot of barriers in communication and a lot of
- 00:51:21.494 --> 00:51:24.764
- Safety precautions and things like that. but we also have a
- 00:51:24.764 --> 00:51:28.034
- Different picture of what success and christianity is.
- 00:51:28.034 --> 00:51:31.638
- Yeah, we might think it's a big church or a lot of people or
- 00:51:31.638 --> 00:51:35.408
- Influence or some sort of cultural power, but for them,
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- It's not that. for them, it's nearness to god. and persecution
- 00:51:38.511 --> 00:51:42.882
- Has brought them so close to god that they don't feel like they
- 00:51:42.882 --> 00:51:47.187
- Need help from the outside world. god's already there.
- 00:51:47.187 --> 00:51:49.322
- God's doing everything he needs to. he's doing in that place. so
- 00:51:49.322 --> 00:51:52.325
- It redefines what we understand even as church success,
- 00:51:52.325 --> 00:51:57.463
- Faithfulness, what this whole christianity thing is about.
- 00:51:57.463 --> 00:52:01.401
- >> yeah. you know, when i think about we're about to watch
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- Pastor hughes story. yeah. and what i love about pastor cue,
- 00:52:05.038 --> 00:52:08.041
- The first time i saw his story, i was so confused. he is so
- 00:52:08.041 --> 00:52:12.278
- Joyful. he is running into these villages. but in northern
- 00:52:12.278 --> 00:52:15.481
- Nigeria, more people are killed for the gospel than the rest of
- 00:52:15.481 --> 00:52:20.286
- The world combined that we know of. and so this is one of the
- 00:52:20.286 --> 00:52:23.923
- Most dangerous places to be a christian. but you're not going
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- To believe this. you're going to love it. watch this.
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- >> this story takes place in nigeria.
- 00:52:33.566 --> 00:52:38.171
- >> and this was where a christian girl who is a student
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- Was stoned to death, and then her body burned to ashes. here
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- In this school. he was accused of blaspheming the prophet of
- 00:52:48.715 --> 00:52:53.686
- Islam. but if it is christianity that you are bringing, you are
- 00:52:53.686 --> 00:52:57.223
- Bringing the gospel. you are not welcome here. islam came into
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- Nigeria over 200 years ago and this is where it started. there
- 00:53:04.197 --> 00:53:09.636
- Is that pride of saying this is the root of islam. so to come
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- And bring anything that would uproot islam out of this place
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- Is really, really resisted by the people and the system that
- 00:53:17.577 --> 00:53:21.247
- Is in place. there is a position persecution silently and
- 00:53:21.247 --> 00:53:27.620
- Sometimes violently. but when you go into a place like this,
- 00:53:27.620 --> 00:53:33.226
- You have to respect what they do and honor the tradition in the
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- Place without having to compromise your stand as a child
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- Of god.
- 00:53:43.469 --> 00:53:50.276
- >> pastor q and his team have a mapping system to reach all of
- 00:53:50.276 --> 00:53:54.147
- Northern nigeria with the gospel.
- 00:53:54.147 --> 00:53:57.216
- >> and those who are discipled from northern nigeria as they
- 00:53:57.216 --> 00:54:00.586
- Move across the sub-saharan africa, they are able to take
- 00:54:00.586 --> 00:54:03.356
- The gospel with them. so these are micro sd cards. we put in
- 00:54:03.356 --> 00:54:08.861
- Them the audio bible, the jesus theme, discipleship materials,
- 00:54:08.861 --> 00:54:12.298
- All the recorded because our audience are mostly not
- 00:54:12.298 --> 00:54:17.670
- Literate. it is what they see and what they hear. jesus
- 00:54:17.670 --> 00:54:22.408
- Outreaches are very interesting because it's so amazing when you
- 00:54:22.408 --> 00:54:27.046
- Go put your projector, and it gives us the opportunity to tell
- 00:54:27.046 --> 00:54:30.249
- Them that this is god's plan of salvation. god is giving us
- 00:54:30.249 --> 00:54:35.188
- Victory because every day we see people come to receive jesus as
- 00:54:35.188 --> 00:54:38.725
- Lord and personal savior. we have been able to bring impact
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- In so many villages this year. we have been to almost 2000
- 00:54:43.363 --> 00:54:49.435
- Villages. this work is not going to stop. i mean, there's nowhere
- 00:54:49.435 --> 00:54:53.473
- Else i'd rather be than here doing exactly what god has asked
- 00:54:53.473 --> 00:54:57.143
- Me to do, and i'm never going to stop it until we hear the
- 00:54:57.143 --> 00:55:00.646
- Trumpet sound and we see jesus in the clouds, and then we join
- 00:55:00.646 --> 00:55:04.417
- Him and return back to heaven. that is when this will ever
- 00:55:04.417 --> 00:55:07.754
- Stop. but if not, we keep going.
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- >> what an incredible event. gather 25 has been so far
- 00:55:18.431 --> 00:55:22.602
- Through the power of technology. tbn has been honored to bring
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- This historic event directly to you. and the event isn't over
- 00:55:26.739 --> 00:55:31.444
- Yet. gather 25 is in full swing right now with the global church
- 00:55:31.444 --> 00:55:37.016
- Gathering from all over the world. don't miss the
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- Opportunity to gather alongside and be a part of this historic
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