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Grace for Today with Lawson Perdue

Lawson Perdue - Foundation of the Gopsel (Part 2)

November 18, 2025 | 29:55

Lawson Perdue - Foundation of the Gopsel (Part 2)
Pastor Lawson Perdue from the Charis Christian Center outreach speaks to viewers across the globe about the practical message of Jesus Christ
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Grace for Today with Lawson Perdue | Lawson Perdue - Foundation of the Gopsel (Part 2) | November 18, 2025
  • (gentle bright upbeat music)
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  • - praise the lord, friend,
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  • And welcome to the broadcast.
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  • I'm so glad that you've tuned in.
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  • Did you know what?
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  • We cannot be saved without believing the gospel.
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  • And we're talking about
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  • The foundation of the gospel today.
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  • We're talking about grace, faith, and righteousness.
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  • But you've gotta hear the gospel
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  • Before you can believe it and receive it
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  • And move into what god has for you.
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  • Stay tuned.
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  • (bright upbeat music)
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  • We're gonna begin right
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  • Where we left off there in romans 1:16-17
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  • And paul makes this statement.
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  • He says, "i am not ashamed of the gospel of christ;
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  • For it is the power of god to salvation,
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  • To everyone who believes it;
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  • To the jew first and also to the gentile.
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  • For therein in the gospel,
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  • The righteousness of god
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  • Has been revealed from faith to faith.
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  • According, as it is written,
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  • The just shall live by faith."
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  • So the first aspect that we talked about
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  • Is what is the gospel?
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  • Paul says, "i'm not ashamed of the gospel of christ."
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  • The gospel, first of all, is the good news.
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  • It's the good news of what jesus
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  • Already has accomplished,
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  • What he's already done in his death,
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  • Burial, and resurrection, amen?
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  • That he's already died, amen,
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  • And rose again,
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  • That we can be free from sin,
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  • That we can be free from anxiety,
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  • That we can be free from sickness,
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  • That we can be free from poverty.
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  • Jesus paid for the whole man.
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  • He says it's the gospel of christ.
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  • He said, it's the power of god to salvation.
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  • Salvation is not just talking about heaven.
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  • When we study the greek word for salvation,
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  • That word in the greek is the word sotiria,
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  • And it means wholeness, wellbeing,
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  • Spirit, soul, and body.
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  • And it includes forgiveness, healing, peace,
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  • Provision and freedom.
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  • That's what salvation includes.
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  • And so paul says, i'm not ashamed of the gospel.
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  • It's the good news.
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  • The gospel simply is the message of jesus.
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  • He says, "i'm not ashamed of the message of jesus."
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  • Jesus is the messenger of the gospel of the grace of god.
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  • We said the grace of god
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  • Is equivalent with the gospel.
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  • So what does that mean when we talk about grace?
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  • Well, first of all,
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  • If we study the the word grace in the greek,
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  • It's the word charis,
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  • And it means divine favor that by which we are saved.
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  • Well, see, ephesians 2:8.
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  • The bible says,
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  • "for by grace you have been saved through faith," amen?
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  • That not of yourself.
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  • So divine favor.
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  • Secondly, it's talking about divine influence.
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  • Strongs defines this word for charis grace
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  • As the divine influence on the heart
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  • And its reflection in the life.
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  • If jesus has affected your heart,
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  • It should affect your life.
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  • And then it means divine ability.
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  • God doing for us what we could not do for ourselves
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  • In the person of jesus christ
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  • When he died and rose again.
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  • In 1 corinthians 15:10,
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  • Paul said this, he said,
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  • "i am what i am by the grace of god.
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  • And the grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain
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  • For i labored more abundantly than they all,
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  • Yet not i, but the grace of god that was with me."
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  • So grace simply means god doing for us
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  • What we cannot do for ourselves in the person of jesus
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  • When he died and and rose again.
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  • So when you hear the gospel preached,
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  • When you hear the grace of god preached,
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  • When you hear jesus preached,
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  • There's really only one of two responses
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  • That you're gonna have.
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  • Either you're going to believe it
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  • Or you're gonna reject it, right?
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  • And so he says, the gospel is the power of god to salvation,
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  • To everyone who believes it.
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  • If you're gonna receive the benefits of the gospel,
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  • You've gotta believe them.
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  • He's says, for in the gospel, right?
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  • Standing with god is revealed from faith to faith.
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  • The faith of the jew to the faith of the gentile,
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  • As as it is written, the just shall live by faith,
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  • By what they believe.
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  • So faith isn't a movement.
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  • Faith is a lifestyle,
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  • And we need to live the lifestyle of faith.
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  • But what does faith look like?
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  • Well, the first thing that i wanted to say about faith,
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  • And we could preach for a year on the subject of faith.
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  • I could preach forever probably on the subject of faith.
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  • I mean, the bible is full of examples of faith.
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  • But the the foundational thing
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  • Is that faith is founded in the grace of god.
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  • Faith works by love.
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  • In galatians 5:6, paul makes this statement,
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  • "in christ jesus,
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  • Neither circumcision nor uncircumcision
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  • Avails anything but faith that works by love."
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  • And the context that he's sharing that in.
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  • He says, faith works when you understand the grace of god,
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  • When you understand the goodness of god,
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  • When you understand the love of god,
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  • It's the goodness of god that leads us to repentance.
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  • And if we go back to galatians 5,
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  • Beginning in verse 2, he says this,
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  • "behold, i paul say unto you,
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  • That if you be circumcised,
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  • Christ shall profit you nothing."
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  • What paul is saying is if you're trusting your circumcision,
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  • If you're trusting law keeping,
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  • If you're trusting anything except jesus for your salvation,
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  • It's the gospel is not gonna profit you.
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  • And he goes on to say in verse 3,
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  • "for i testify again
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  • To every man who is circumcised,
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  • That he is a debtor to do the whole law."
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  • If you're gonna trust your performance,
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  • If you're gonna trust your ability and your goodness,
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  • You've gotta keep the whole law.
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  • And no one has ever kept the whole law except for jesus.
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  • And he says, "christ," in verse 4,
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  • "has become of no effect to you,
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  • Whoever of you are justified by the law."
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  • Whoever of you are trusting yourself
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  • Or your performance, you are falling from grace.
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  • When paul makes this statement fall him from grace,
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  • He's not thinking, he's not talking about something
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  • That we would consider a big black ugly sin.
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  • He's talking about legalism.
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  • Legalism kills.
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  • Just like sin, the wages of sin is death,
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  • Legalism will kill you.
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  • And so he says, "for we through the spirit
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  • Wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.
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  • For in christ jesus
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  • Neither circumcision avails anything nor uncircumcision."
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  • In other words, he said, it's not by keeping the law,
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  • It's not by your performance,
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  • But faith that works by love.
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  • When you understand the grace of god,
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  • The goodness of god, the love of god,
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  • It will cause your faith to work.
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  • Praise god?
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  • The second thing is salvation comes,
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  • And we've already said this, by grace through faith.
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  • Paul says this in ephesians 2:8.
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  • He says, "for by grace are ye saved through faith;
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  • That not of yourselves: it is a gift of god:
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  • Not by works, not by performance,
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  • Lest any person should boast."
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  • He says, "for we are his workmanship;
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  • Created in christ jesus unto good works."
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  • He says that, "god has ordained
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  • That we should walk in them."
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  • What he's talking about
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  • Is when he says that god ordained us to walk in good works.
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  • From the foundation of the world,
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  • God had a good plan for us to walk in it.
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  • But the way that we start is by believing jesus
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  • And receiving the grace of god and receiving salvation.
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  • Paul talks about this also in romans 4:16.
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  • He's talking about the promise of god.
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  • And he says this in romans 4:16.
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  • He says, "for it, speaking of the promise is of faith,
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  • That it might be by grace;
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  • To the end that it might be sure to all the seed."
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  • He says, "not only to that which is of the law,
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  • But also to that,"
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  • He says, "to those are who are of the faith of abraham;
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  • Who is the father of us all."
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  • The promise works by grace through faith.
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  • Salvation works by grace through faith.
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  • So the natural response to the gospel,
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  • To the message of jesus,
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  • To the message of grace when you hear it,
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  • Is to believe it.
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  • And if you don't believe it, you can't receive it.
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  • Paul talks about this in romans chapter 10,
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  • Turn with me to romans chapter 10.
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  • We shared verse 15 in the last message,
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  • But we're gonna move into verse 16 and 17.
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  • Notice what he says.
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  • "how shall they preach except they be sent?
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  • As it is written,
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  • How beautiful are the feet of those who preach
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  • The gospel of peace."
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  • The good news, we can be at peace with god.
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  • He said that bring good news of good things.
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  • The gospel is the good news of good things.
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  • Again, it's more than just forgiveness of sin.
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  • It's more than just going to heaven.
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  • I thank god that we're going to heaven.
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  • I thank god for the hope that we have in the gospel.
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  • Do you know what?
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  • We're all gonna die.
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  • If jesus tarries, we're all gonna die.
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  • Now there will be some people that are alive
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  • That are believers when christ comes
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  • And they're, you know,
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  • Immediately they're gonna get a glorified,
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  • Immortal, eternal body.
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  • But if you die before christ comes,
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  • Did you know what?
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  • We gotta have this hope in the gospel.
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  • Paul says, we're of all men most miserable.
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  • We don't have that hope.
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  • I thank god that i had that hope, even as a young child.
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  • My dad died when i was just 17 years old.
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  • My mom and i went and found him shortly after he passed.
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  • And you know what i told my mom?
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  • I said, "mom, dad is in heaven with jesus.
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  • We're gonna serve the lord."
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  • And you know what?
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  • I've pretty much done that.
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  • Glory to god?
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  • I thank god for the hope of the gospel.
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  • But listen to what he goes on to say here.
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  • He said, it's good news of good things.
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  • But he says in verse 16,
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  • "they have not all obeyed the gospel.
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  • For isaiah says, lord, who has believed our report?"
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  • In other words, obeying the gospel is believing the gospel.
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  • And there's only one of two responses
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  • That you have when you hear the good news,
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  • When you hear the message of jesus,
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  • You either believe it and receive it,
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  • Or you disobey it.
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  • You don't believe it.
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  • Praise god.
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  • I thank god that i heard the gospel at a young age.
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  • I thank god that i heard the full gospel at a young age.
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  • You know, i was born again when i was eight years old,
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  • But i received the baptism of the holy spirit,
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  • Heard the full gospel preach when i was just 14
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  • And i started believing.
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  • Praise god, that i could not only be saved,
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  • But that i could be healthy, that i could be strong,
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  • That i could have peace, that i could live a good life.
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  • You know, the full gospel was so attractive to me.
  • 00:11:25.527 --> 00:11:28.697
  • My parents were having terrible marriage problems.
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  • They were about to get a divorce, right?
  • 00:11:31.266 --> 00:11:33.101
  • When we started going to these bible studies,
  • 00:11:33.101 --> 00:11:35.203
  • My mom asked me if she should divorce my dad.
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  • And you know, if you've had a divorce, god loves you.
  • 00:11:38.573 --> 00:11:41.276
  • Or if you're in the miss one, god loves you,
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  • But you could believe god for better.
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  • And i said, no, let's believe god, you know?
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  • And my mom started believing god.
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  • My dad had terrible medical problems.
  • 00:11:49.684 --> 00:11:52.754
  • You know, my parents just lived,
  • 00:11:52.754 --> 00:11:55.090
  • And you know, we just barely got by.
  • 00:11:55.090 --> 00:11:58.160
  • But that's why the gospel was so attractive to me.
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  • I thought, praise god,
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  • I don't have to be sick,
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  • I don't have to be poor,
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  • I don't have to be defeated,
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  • But i can believe god for his promises.
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  • And do you know what?
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  • If you'll believe the gospel,
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  • The gospel will work for you
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  • Because god has no respecter persons.
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  • He's only a respecter of faith.
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  • And so praise god, just start believing it.
  • 00:12:18.046 --> 00:12:20.515
  • And that's what he says.
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  • He says, "they have not obeyed the gospel.
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  • For isaiah said, lord, who has believed our report?"
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  • That's isaiah 53:1.
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  • He's talking about the message of jesus.
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  • What jesus accomplished.
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  • It is death on the cross, hallelujah.
  • 00:12:33.261 --> 00:12:34.963
  • So he says, "then faith comes by hearing,
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  • And hearing by the word of god," in verse 17.
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  • What that really says in the literal greek
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  • Is something like this,
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  • Faith comes by declaration
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  • And declaration by the mouth of god.
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  • Faith comes when someone comes and declares to you,
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  • Who god said that he is.
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  • (bright upbeat music)
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  • Sometimes you think, well now that i'm believing god,
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  • I'm not gonna have these difficulties.
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  • I'm not gonna have these problems.
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  • He said, immediately after,
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  • You know, the light turned on.
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  • When the word is sown in their heart,
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  • The enemy comes to steal the word.
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  • Satan is a enemy of the word.
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  • Remain bold in your confession of faith.
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  • (bright upbeat music)
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  • See, faith is really rooted in the goodness of god.
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  • And god told the children of israel, "this is who i am.
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  • I'm a good god.
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  • I'm full of mercy.
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  • I'm full of grace.
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  • I wanna do good things in your life.
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  • This is who i am."
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  • His promises come from who he is,
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  • And he revealed that to us in the person of jesus, amen.
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  • So faith is based in the grace of god.
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  • It takes the grace of god plus faith to be saved, amen.
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  • You're not just automatically saved.
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  • You've gotta believe it to receive it.
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  • For by grace, are you saved through faith
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  • That not of yourselves, it is a gift of god.
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  • But then the promises of god,
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  • This is the third point.
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  • You've got to believe these things to receive them.
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  • If you don't believe it, you're not gonna receive it.
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  • Isaiah 7:9 says, "surely,"
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  • He says, "if you believe not,
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  • You will not be established."
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  • If you wanna be established in the things of god,
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  • You gotta believe him.
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  • Praise god, i'm glad that at a young age,
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  • Again, i started believing.
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  • And i believe the bible.
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  • I believe the promises of god.
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  • Hebrews 11:6 says, "without faith,
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  • It's impossible to please him;
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  • For he that comes to god must believe that he is,
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  • And that he is a rewarder of those who diligently seek him."
  • 00:14:44.225 --> 00:14:49.197
  • The message says this, you must believe both that god is,
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  • And that he rewards those who diligently seek him.
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  • You must believe both that god is and that god is good.
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  • Do you really believe that god is a good god?
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  • That he wants to do some good things in your life.
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  • I believe that at a heart level.
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  • Now, what's this look like?
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  • Well, jesus came to show us this.
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  • And so i want to show you in the life of jesus,
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  • A day in the life of jesus.
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  • Turn with me to mark chapter 5,
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  • Mark chapter 5.
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  • We're gonna start reading in verse 21.
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  • It says this, "as jesus was passed over again by ship
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  • To the other side, many people gathered to him;
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  • As he was near the sea.
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  • And behold, there came one of the rulers
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  • Of the synagogue, jairus by name;
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  • And when he saw him, he fell at his feet.
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  • And he besought him greatly, saying,
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  • My little daughter lies at the point of death.
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  • And he says, i pray that you would come lay hands on her
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  • That she may be healed and she will live.
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  • And jesus went with him,
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  • And many people followed him and thronged him."
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  • So undoubtedly, this ruler of the synagogue had heard
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  • How jesus was healing the sick.
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  • How he was delivering the oppressed,
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  • And so he came to jesus.
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  • His little daughter was sick,
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  • Nearly to the point of death.
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  • And while jesus was going,
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  • And these people were thronging him,
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  • It says in verse 25,
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  • "there was a certain woman who had an issue of blood.
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  • She had been bleeding from her body for 12 years.
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  • She had suffered many things and many physicians,
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  • She had spent all of her money
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  • And she was nothing better, but rather grew worse.
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  • When she heard of jesus, she came in this press
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  • And this people that were thronging him behind him.
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  • When she heard of jesus, she came and it says,
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  • And she touched his garment for, she said,
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  • If i may but touch his clothes, i shall be whole."
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  • The amplified says this,
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  • Actually, i believe
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  • It's in matthew chapter 9's version of this,
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  • The amplified says, she said, and she kept on saying.
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  • It says that in the king james,
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  • That she said within herself.
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  • You know, she had been bleeding for 12 years,
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  • Undoubtedly she was weak.
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  • People were thronging you.
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  • But i could see this woman just crawling
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  • Through the dirt,
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  • Just saying, "if i could just touch him,
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  • If i could just touch him, if i could just touch him,
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  • If i could just touch, if i could just, if i touch."
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  • And then she touched him
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  • And she felt the power of god flow through her.
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  • It says, she said, "if i could touch him,
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  • I'll be whole and straight away immediately
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  • This bleeding stopped.
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  • This blood was dried up, and she fell in her body
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  • That she was healed of that plague."
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  • I thank god for the power of god.
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  • You know, we have one of our partners
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  • That contacted us from india
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  • And wanted me to pray for him.
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  • And so, you know, it took us a little bit.
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  • But the other day we got ahold, he got ahold of us,
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  • We got ahold of him, we got tied,
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  • And i was praying for him.
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  • But as i was ministering to him and praying for him,
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  • And he had problems with his wrists and with his hands
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  • And with his shoulders.
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  • I began to feel the power of god
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  • Flow through my right arm.
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  • I could feel it tingling and into my hand.
  • 00:18:12.433 --> 00:18:14.369
  • And so i told him, he's in india and we're here,
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  • And we've got him on the phone.
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  • Tanya's right there.
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  • We've got the door to the office open.
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  • And you know, i've said now
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  • The power of god's on you right now.
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  • You can feel the power of god.
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  • It's in your right arm and right hand.
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  • He said, "i feel it right now."
  • 00:18:26.714 --> 00:18:28.049
  • And as i was praying for him in minister,
  • 00:18:28.049 --> 00:18:29.817
  • I said, "now it's flowing through your shoulders
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  • And you can feel it flowing in your other shoulders."
  • 00:18:32.086 --> 00:18:34.255
  • And he said, "i feel it right now.
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  • I feel the power of god."
  • 00:18:36.191 --> 00:18:38.393
  • And we got a testimony the next day
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  • That he was already a lot better by the next day.
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  • I told him the power of god would be on him
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  • For a period of time.
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  • Thank god for the power of god.
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  • - amen. - amen.
  • 00:18:48.770 --> 00:18:50.071
  • We were just in these meetings, you know,
  • 00:18:50.071 --> 00:18:51.706
  • With brian clark.
  • 00:18:51.706 --> 00:18:53.341
  • Brian came from our church
  • 00:18:53.341 --> 00:18:54.809
  • And we helped him plant a church in north carolina.
  • 00:18:54.809 --> 00:18:56.678
  • Then we helped him buy a church.
  • 00:18:56.678 --> 00:18:58.479
  • And we were there holding
  • 00:18:58.479 --> 00:18:59.781
  • Our first charis east coast camp meeting.
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  • And saturday night, max cornell was preaching.
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  • Pastor max that we helped start a church in kansas city.
  • 00:19:04.686 --> 00:19:08.089
  • He's got a great church there, but he was ministering.
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  • It was really ministering to me.
  • 00:19:10.725 --> 00:19:12.460
  • But there was this man that came to church
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  • And he was in a wheelchair.
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  • And i thought, i wanna pray for this man.
  • 00:19:16.331 --> 00:19:18.533
  • And i didn't know that they'd already told me about him.
  • 00:19:18.533 --> 00:19:21.302
  • I didn't know they'd said something,
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  • But i didn't realize who it was.
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  • I don't know people there.
  • 00:19:24.872 --> 00:19:26.407
  • But at the end of the service,
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  • He came up and max was ministering to people,
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  • And they were receiving the power of god.
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  • And i was up on the stage kind of walking and praying,
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  • And i thought i want to pray for this man,
  • 00:19:33.848 --> 00:19:35.817
  • But i'm not gonna pray for him unless pastor brian comes
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  • And asked me to pray for him.
  • 00:19:38.519 --> 00:19:40.855
  • So within two minutes, pastor brian came over
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  • And he said, "pastor lawson,
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  • I want you to go pray for this man."
  • 00:19:44.125 --> 00:19:45.994
  • So i went there and i went to minister to this man,
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  • And i asked me,
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  • And he was saying all the right things with his mouth,
  • 00:19:49.664 --> 00:19:52.667
  • But i could tell that he was still very sick.
  • 00:19:52.667 --> 00:19:55.370
  • And i said, "now listen, i love you,
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  • But i hate this disease and i wanna pray for you."
  • 00:19:58.172 --> 00:20:01.542
  • And right now i'm gonna pray
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  • And i'm gonna take authority.
  • 00:20:02.877 --> 00:20:04.279
  • And i curse that disease.
  • 00:20:04.279 --> 00:20:05.813
  • And then i loose the life of god to flow through him.
  • 00:20:05.813 --> 00:20:09.117
  • And you know, even though he was saying
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  • All the right things,
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  • I knew that he needed to get outta that wheelchair.
  • 00:20:12.720 --> 00:20:14.422
  • And so i just spoke to him.
  • 00:20:14.422 --> 00:20:16.024
  • I said, "you know,
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  • Do you wanna get outta that wheelchair?"
  • 00:20:17.825 --> 00:20:19.761
  • And he said, "yes."
  • 00:20:19.761 --> 00:20:20.928
  • I said, "well, get up and walk."
  • 00:20:20.928 --> 00:20:23.031
  • Now i didn't know that he'd been on his couch for weeks.
  • 00:20:24.165 --> 00:20:26.100
  • He hadn't been up for weeks.
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  • It was a miracle to even have him at the meeting.
  • 00:20:27.402 --> 00:20:29.871
  • And you know what?
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  • He got up and started walking,
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  • And i reached my hands around him and i was praying.
  • 00:20:32.240 --> 00:20:34.742
  • And we walked across the front of the church,
  • 00:20:34.742 --> 00:20:36.611
  • But it was still difficult, right?
  • 00:20:36.611 --> 00:20:39.213
  • And finally he said, "well, you know, i need to sit down."
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  • I said, "okay."
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  • And then they brought his wheelchair back.
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  • But you know, we got an email the next day,
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  • And he had all this tingling and numbness in his feet,
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  • And all the numbness had left
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  • And all the tingling had left.
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  • And i believe he's beginning to receive a miracle.
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  • But i knew that, listen,
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  • If he's gonna get healed, he's gotta get moving.
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  • He's gotta start acting on the word of god.
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  • We gotta start believing like it's so.
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  • We need to start doing, you know, what we could not do,
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  • So on and so forth.
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  • But i thank god for the power of god.
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  • And so jesus was ministering
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  • And she felt in her body when she touched him.
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  • Now let's notice what happened in the very next verse.
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  • "jesus immediately knowing in himself,
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  • He felt the virtue of god.
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  • He felt the goodness of god flowing out of him."
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  • Virtue means two things.
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  • Goodness, but it also means power.
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  • You know, where great graces preach,
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  • Great power is released.
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  • So jesus felt the goodness of god flowing from him,
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  • The grace of god.
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  • And he also felt the power of god flowing from him.
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  • And he said, "who touched me?
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  • And he looked around to see the disciples said,
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  • You know, who touched my clothes?
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  • You see the multitude thronging you.
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  • And you say, who touched me?"
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  • Guess what?
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  • The touch of faith is different.
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  • - [congregation] amen.
  • 00:21:56.090 --> 00:21:58.059
  • - if you believe god,
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  • It'll set you apart from the majority.
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  • - [congregation] yes.
  • 00:22:01.529 --> 00:22:02.897
  • - and even though these people were thronging him,
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  • They weren't receiving a lot,
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  • But this woman said,
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  • "if i could but touch him, i'm going to be healed."
  • 00:22:06.801 --> 00:22:09.837
  • And so jesus sensed the power of god had flown from him.
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  • And so he looked around to see who had done the thing.
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  • "but the woman fearing and trembling,
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  • Knowing what was done in her,
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  • Came and fell down before him,
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  • And told him all the truth."
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  • In fact, what did she do in the realm of faith?
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  • Number one, she said it;
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  • Number two, she did it;
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  • Number three, she received it;
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  • And number four, she told it.
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  • She told him.
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  • And then jesus said unto her,
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  • And jesus says this a lot in the gospels, right?
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  • He says, "daughter, your faith has made you whole.
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  • Your faith has made you well;
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  • Go in peace, and be whole of thy plague.
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  • And while he yet spoke, there came
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  • One from the ruler of the synagogue's house
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  • Certain which said,
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  • Your daughter is dead.
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  • Why do you trouble the master anymore?
  • 00:22:55.183 --> 00:22:57.885
  • And jesus heard the word that was spoken.
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  • And he said to the ruler of the synagogue,"
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  • Notice jesus countered words of unbelief
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  • In words with death, with words of life.
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  • And he said, "be not afraid, only believe."
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  • - [congregation] amen.
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  • - and he suffered no man to follow.
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  • When jesus was facing a difficult problem,
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  • He didn't bring a lot of people.
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  • He got two or three people
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  • That knew how to believe god.
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  • And so that's what.
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  • If i'm facing a difficult problem,
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  • I'm not calling 20 or 30 or 40 people.
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  • You know what?
  • 00:23:31.352 --> 00:23:32.386
  • I get two or three people
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  • That know how to believe god.
  • 00:23:33.888 --> 00:23:36.057
  • And so jesus speaks into this situation.
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  • And he said, "don't be afraid, only believe.
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  • And he suffered no man to follow him.
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  • But took peter, james and john,
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  • His three closest, the brother of james.
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  • And he came to the house of the rule of the synagogue.
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  • And he sees the tumult,
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  • And those who are weeping and wailing greatly.
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  • And when he has come in, he said to them,
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  • Why do you make all this a do and weep?
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  • For the damsel is not dead, but sleeps."
  • 00:24:00.681 --> 00:24:02.550
  • You know, they think jesus is crazy.
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  • It doesn't matter what they think.
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  • - that's right. - yes, that's right.
  • 00:24:07.555 --> 00:24:08.723
  • - you know what?
  • 00:24:08.723 --> 00:24:09.590
  • If you're gonna step,
  • 00:24:09.590 --> 00:24:10.725
  • Take a step of faith once in a while.
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  • It'll look like you're crazy.
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  • - [congregation] yes.
  • 00:24:13.995 --> 00:24:15.463
  • - amen, smith wigglesworth was praying for a woman.
  • 00:24:15.463 --> 00:24:18.933
  • She was full of cancer.
  • 00:24:18.933 --> 00:24:21.369
  • They brought her on a stretcher.
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  • He said, "stand her up."
  • 00:24:22.603 --> 00:24:23.638
  • And he hit her in the belly
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  • And she fell to the ground.
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  • He said, "stand her up again."
  • 00:24:27.508 --> 00:24:29.677
  • They stood her up again and he hit her in the belly again
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  • And she fell to the ground again.
  • 00:24:32.246 --> 00:24:35.049
  • And some guy said, "stand her up again."
  • 00:24:35.049 --> 00:24:36.984
  • And some guy hollered out, "leave her alone, you beast!"
  • 00:24:36.984 --> 00:24:41.122
  • You know, most people would've quit right then.
  • 00:24:41.122 --> 00:24:43.090
  • You know what smith wigglesworth said?
  • 00:24:43.090 --> 00:24:44.759
  • He said, "you sit down, you take care.
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  • I know my business."
  • 00:24:46.894 --> 00:24:49.864
  • And he hit her again and the cancer fell out,
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  • And she was healed by the power of god.
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  • - [congregation] amen. (congregation cheering)
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  • - you gotta get bold enough sometimes
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  • That you know what?
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  • Some religious person might criticize you
  • 00:25:02.376 --> 00:25:04.745
  • Or come against you or fight you,
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  • But you're gonna stand up and say, you know what?
  • 00:25:06.881 --> 00:25:09.283
  • Right here, this is gonna stop.
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