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Grace for Today with Lawson Perdue

Lawson Perdue - Freedom (Part 5)

July 4, 2025 | S E | 29:55

Lawson Perdue - Freedom (Part 5)
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 - Freedom (Part 5) | July 4, 2025
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  • - welcome, friends of the broadcast.
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  • We're so glad that you've tuned in today.
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  • We've been sharing all week about freedom.
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  • I believe that god wants you to walk in freedom.
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  • You can be free.
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  • That's what jesus preached.
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  • You can be free spiritually, you can be free emotionally,
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  • You can be free physically, you can be free financially,
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  • But how do you receive it?
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  • We're gonna talk about that today.
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  • Stay tuned.
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  • Friend, welcome to the broadcast.
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  • I'm so glad that you've tuned in today.
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  • We're talking about freedom all of this week,
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  • And we've been talking about
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  • How we can receive true freedom.
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  • And i believe that when you read the bible
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  • And believe what it says,
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  • That freedom is available both spiritually, emotionally,
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  • Physically, and financially.
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  • And i believe that freedom is available.
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  • First of all, spiritual freedom can only be found
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  • Through jesus christ.
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  • And if you don't know jesus, you know what?
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  • You need to come to know jesus.
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  • But when you know jesus, then,
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  • And then you begin to understand the promises of the word,
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  • You can not only receive spiritually spiritual freedom
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  • And be free from both the penalty for sin, right?
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  • Which jesus paid for with his blood,
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  • But the power of sin, which he places his spirit within you
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  • To help you overcome.
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  • But you can be free emotionally.
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  • You renew your mind in the word.
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  • You don't have to be a emotional train wreck.
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  • You know, jesus, the bible says,
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  • The chastisement of our peace was upon him in isaiah 53.
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  • And you know, jesus not only took
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  • Our spiritual transgressions and sins
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  • And took our physical healing by his stripes,
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  • The scripture says we are healed in isaiah 53:5.
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  • It says we were healed in 1 peter 2:24.
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  • But it says, "the chastisement of our peace was upon him."
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  • Jesus took our anxiety.
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  • Before jesus went to the cross,
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  • He sweat, as it were, great drops of blood
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  • In the garden of gethsemane.
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  • And only people in extreme emotional trauma
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  • Will sweat blood.
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  • That's a physical reality.
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  • But jesus, it says the chastisement of our peace so we can,
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  • Was upon him.
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  • So we can be free spiritually from sin,
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  • We can be free emotionally from anxiety,
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  • We can be free physically by his stripes.
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  • The scripture says we are healed and we were healed.
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  • Psalm 103 says this in verse three
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  • That he forgives all of our iniquities
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  • And heals all of our diseases.
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  • If you're born again, if you're a believer in jesus,
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  • You have a covenant right
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  • To receive physical healing in your body,
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  • But we can also be free financially.
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  • The bible says that jesus was made poor so that we,
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  • Through his poverty, can be made rich.
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  • That's in 2 corinthians 8:9.
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  • And what that's talking about
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  • Was when jesus died on the cross, he left everything.
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  • He became poor as a beggar
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  • That we might receive, be rich.
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  • When you identify with jesus and the cross,
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  • You can then identify with the promises of god.
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  • But we've been talking about how do we receive it?
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  • We receive it, number one, through receiving jesus.
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  • And we talked about in john 8:36, how jesus said,
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  • "if the son therefore shall make you free,
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  • You shall be free indeed."
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  • Jesus is the only one who was god who became a man.
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  • He was born of a virgin,
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  • And he lived a sinless, holy, perfect life
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  • And died on the cross for our sins.
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  • And then god raised him from the dead in the physical body
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  • And jesus then sent the holy spirit.
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  • Jesus is coming again.
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  • Jesus is the messiah.
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  • Only through jesus can we truly be free
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  • In a spiritual sense.
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  • But emotionally, we can be free
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  • When we receive the truth of the gospel,
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  • When we believe what the bible says about us.
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  • You know, the bible says this in psalm 119:165,
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  • "great peace have they that love thy law
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  • And nothing shall offend them."
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  • We can be free physically.
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  • That jesus took stripes for our healing
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  • And we can be free financially.
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  • Man, when you believe the promises of god,
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  • You know you can be blessed.
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  • God doesn't want you to be poor.
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  • The bible says that god delights
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  • In the prosperity of his servant.
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  • That's in psalm 35:27.
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  • John said, "beloved, i wish above all things
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  • That you prosper and be in health,
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  • Even as your soul prospers.
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  • Philippians 4:19, talking to a body of believers
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  • Who were partners of paul, he said,
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  • "but my god shall supply all your need
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  • According to his riches in glory by christ jesus."
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  • Man, it is through jesus.
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  • True freedom comes through jesus.
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  • So we talked about, first of all, through jesus,
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  • Then we talked about
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  • Through renewing your mind in the word of god.
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  • Man, understanding what the bible says
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  • To those who believed on him.
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  • In john eight, jesus said, "if you continue in my word,"
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  • John 8:31, "you will know the truth.
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  • You'll become my disciples indeed
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  • And you will know the truth
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  • And the truth will make you free."
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  • It takes the truth of the word of god to be free.
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  • But the third thing is through the holy spirit.
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  • And god wants us to be free
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  • Through the power and the presence of the holy spirit.
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  • - yeah, i wanted to read a verse actually
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  • About the holy spirit just helping us-
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  • - yeah. - experience freedom.
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  • And i wanna read
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  • Here in romans 8:26 is it says,
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  • "likewise, the spirit also helps in our weaknesses
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  • For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought,
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  • But the spirit himself makes intercession for us
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  • With groanings which cannot be uttered."
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  • - yes. - true intercessory prayer
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  • Is when you're actually joining with the intercessor.
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  • - yes. - which is the holy spirit.
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  • Jesus is also our intercessor-
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  • - yeah. - before the father.
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  • So that's true intercessory prayer,
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  • But the holy spirit will help you.
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  • It says in verse 27, "he who searches the hearts
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  • Knows what the mind of the spirit is
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  • Because he makes intercession for the saints
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  • According to the will of god."
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  • And i love verse 28, it says,
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  • "and we know that all things work together for good
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  • To those who love god,
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  • To those who are called according to his purpose.
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  • - amen. - so holy spirit,
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  • He's gonna help you walk in freedom and experience freedom.
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  • And notice he says he'll help you in your weaknesses.
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  • - right. - life isn't always perfect.
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  • We're gonna deal with difficulties.
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  • Things happen.
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  • We live in an imperfect world,
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  • And sometimes there's stressful things that happen,
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  • But i believe that when you love god
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  • And you're living with his purpose-
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  • - right.
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  • - and you have the holy spirit helping you,
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  • He can turn a bad situation around and make it
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  • Better than you even thought. - amen.
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  • And we know. - yeah.
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  • And- - pastor lawson.
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  • - i actually shared this verse recently
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  • For an offering message i did
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  • About god working all things together for good
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  • To those who love god,
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  • To those who are called according to his purpose.
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  • Recently, in my family and i,
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  • We were supposed to take a vacation to florida
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  • And we bought the tickets in our airbnb
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  • Months in advance.
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  • But you know, right when we're supposed to go,
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  • This major hurricane was supposed to hit.
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  • And god, it was a little bit of a struggle,
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  • But we were able to get refunded with our flights
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  • And the airbnb there, and it was just three days
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  • Before we were supposed to go on our trip.
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  • We had, i had work,
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  • You know, off, and my kids were out of school
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  • And, you know.
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  • So three days before,
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  • I just did a search, you know, of where to go.
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  • And i found we could go to hawaii for the same price.
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  • And we actually got an airbnb
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  • That was like a third of the price it normally was.
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  • We had a much nicer vacation
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  • That would normally cost three times that price.
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  • So god took this bad thing- - amen.
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  • - and worked it out for good.
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  • But i believe part of that was because
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  • We live with purpose, we're givers.
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  • You know?
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  • And if you're not really living with purpose
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  • And living with god's purpose for you,
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  • Things don't always work out better than-
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  • - amen. - what you might think.
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  • But i think that's a promise for forgivers,
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  • A promise for people who love god, a promise for people
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  • Who live with purpose. - amen.
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  • - that things are gonna work out
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  • Better than you even thought possible.
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  • - amen. it's great.
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  • You know, this scripture in romans 8:26 when it says,
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  • "the spirit helps our infirmities,"
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  • In the literal greek, it says something like this.
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  • The holy spirit takes hold together
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  • With us against our weaknesses.
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  • You know, where devil tries to attack anyone
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  • Is at their weakest point.
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  • But he says the holy spirit, when we can't deal with it
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  • In our own strength, we have jesus.
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  • We have the word of god, but we also have the holy spirit
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  • And he'll take hold together with us against our weaknesses.
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  • And he moves them out of the way.
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  • And he says we don't know how to pray like we should.
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  • There's times i don't know how to pray,
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  • But you know, i received something when i was 14 years old.
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  • I was born again when i was eight.
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  • So six years after i received jesus as my savior,
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  • I received the baptism of the holy spirit
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  • With the evidence of speaking in other tongues.
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  • And i began to speak in other tongues.
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  • And when i did that,
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  • It's just like the word of god came alive to me.
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  • The promises of god.
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  • - well, and paul talks about praying in tongues quite a bit.
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  • He said, i pray in the spirit,
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  • And i pray with my understanding.
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  • So that means when you're praying in the spirit,
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  • It's not with your understanding.
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  • Your brain isn't understanding what-
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  • - yeah. - what you're praying.
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  • It's your spirit praying directly to god.
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  • And you know, paul said this.
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  • He said, "i thank god that i pray in tongues
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  • More than you all." - yeah.
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  • - you know, what an awesome thing to say.
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  • And if paul prayed in tongues,
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  • You know, if you thought he prayed in tongues
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  • More than everyone else,
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  • I think it's a good thing if paul did it.
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  • - well, he's actually rebuking the church
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  • For being out of order
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  • Because all they were doing when they were coming together
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  • Was speaking in tongues.
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  • And he said, "when we come together,
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  • We need to have some interpretation and revelation.
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  • There needs to be teaching, there needs to be order."
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  • But he said, "i thank god."
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  • Why do you think paul, who didn't walk with jesus
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  • Physically on the earth, right?
  • 00:10:34.876 --> 00:10:37.012
  • He wasn't part of jesus' disciples.
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  • Yet he writes about half of the new testament.
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  • You know, i think he prayed in the holy spirit
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  • And got revelation.
  • 00:10:45.387 --> 00:10:46.955
  • And god gave him revelation.
  • 00:10:46.955 --> 00:10:48.390
  • Now, he was a student.
  • 00:10:48.390 --> 00:10:49.958
  • He studied at the feet of gamaliel.
  • 00:10:49.958 --> 00:10:51.760
  • He had learned a lot of things, but he was a legalist.
  • 00:10:51.760 --> 00:10:54.696
  • But when he got saved, and then shortly after he got saved,
  • 00:10:54.696 --> 00:10:59.301
  • God sent ananias to lay hands on him,
  • 00:10:59.301 --> 00:11:01.903
  • And ananias laid hands on him,
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  • And he received the holy spirit.
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  • And i believe as he prayed in tongues,
  • 00:11:07.442 --> 00:11:09.144
  • The holy spirit brought revelation
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  • To all this old testament knowledge that he had.
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  • And as he brought that revelation and helped him,
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  • And he says, "the spirit prays for us with groanings
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  • That cannot be uttered."
  • 00:11:21.056 --> 00:11:22.057
  • One translation says,
  • 00:11:22.057 --> 00:11:23.592
  • "for groanings that cannot be uttered
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  • In an intelligent language."
  • 00:11:25.460 --> 00:11:27.462
  • And then it says in verse 27,
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  • "and he who searches the hearts,"
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  • Who searches the heart?
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  • Jesus.
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  • I believe the holy spirit comes into agreement
  • 00:11:34.369 --> 00:11:36.471
  • With jesus, right?
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  • He knows the mind of the spirit
  • 00:11:38.240 --> 00:11:39.841
  • Because he makes intercession for the saints
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  • According to the will of god.
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  • What is the will of the father?
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  • It's known in the word.
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  • I believe the holy spirit takes the things
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  • That are the father's will
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  • And jesus is searching your heart.
  • 00:11:50.152 --> 00:11:51.753
  • And the holy spirit comes into agreement
  • 00:11:51.753 --> 00:11:55.724
  • With what god the father promised us.
  • 00:11:55.724 --> 00:11:58.727
  • You know, god's will is for our life.
  • 00:11:58.727 --> 00:12:00.228
  • And what jesus is searching our heart
  • 00:12:00.228 --> 00:12:02.397
  • And knows and causes those things to come to pass.
  • 00:12:02.397 --> 00:12:05.367
  • - and i love that we're talking about the holy spirit
  • 00:12:05.367 --> 00:12:07.169
  • Bringing freedom, true freedom.
  • 00:12:07.169 --> 00:12:08.970
  • You know, there's a lot of churches
  • 00:12:08.970 --> 00:12:10.305
  • That don't really talk about the holy spirit.
  • 00:12:10.305 --> 00:12:12.174
  • They put the holy spirit in a backroom closet somewhere,
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  • And they aren't really surrendered to the holy spirit.
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  • You need to surrender to the father, to jesus, to the word,
  • 00:12:17.813 --> 00:12:21.249
  • But you need to surrender
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  • To the holy spirit- - amen.
  • 00:12:22.250 --> 00:12:23.685
  • - to the ministry of the holy spirit,
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  • To the amen person of the holy spirit.
  • 00:12:25.086 --> 00:12:27.289
  • - you know, this is a spirit-filled church.
  • 00:12:27.289 --> 00:12:29.457
  • And i grew up in a traditional church,
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  • But when i got baptized in the holy spirit
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  • And found out the truth, i thought,
  • 00:12:33.995 --> 00:12:35.297
  • "you know, if i have to drive a hundred miles
  • 00:12:35.297 --> 00:12:36.865
  • To go to a church like this,
  • 00:12:36.865 --> 00:12:38.466
  • I'm gonna go to a church that teaches the full gospel."
  • 00:12:38.466 --> 00:12:41.469
  • And you know, i got people that drive hundreds of miles
  • 00:12:41.469 --> 00:12:44.272
  • To come to this church.
  • 00:12:44.272 --> 00:12:45.340
  • Nearly every sunday,
  • 00:12:45.340 --> 00:12:46.875
  • We have people from across the nation, across the world.
  • 00:12:46.875 --> 00:12:49.244
  • And you know, people that are driving hundreds of miles
  • 00:12:49.244 --> 00:12:51.413
  • To be here and receive the word of god.
  • 00:12:51.413 --> 00:12:53.548
  • But if you need a good church,
  • 00:12:53.548 --> 00:12:54.850
  • We'd love to have you at charis christian center.
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  • (bright music)
  • 00:12:57.352 --> 00:12:59.120
  • Friends, we've been sharing on freedom,
  • 00:12:59.120 --> 00:13:01.223
  • And i have a lot to share about freedom.
  • 00:13:01.223 --> 00:13:03.325
  • Actually, my book, "absolute victory in christ,"
  • 00:13:03.325 --> 00:13:06.862
  • Covers the way we teach about being free.
  • 00:13:06.862 --> 00:13:10.065
  • Number one, through knowing jesus.
  • 00:13:10.065 --> 00:13:12.400
  • Number two, through believing the word.
  • 00:13:12.400 --> 00:13:14.536
  • And number three, through receiving the holy spirit.
  • 00:13:14.536 --> 00:13:17.205
  • You can get that book on amazon
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  • Or on our website at charis christian center,
  • 00:13:19.140 --> 00:13:21.343
  • And also many free teachings on freedom.
  • 00:13:21.343 --> 00:13:24.512
  • Friends, i'm so glad you stayed with us.
  • 00:13:25.380 --> 00:13:27.115
  • We've been talking about how it takes both jesus,
  • 00:13:27.115 --> 00:13:30.418
  • First jesus,
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  • Then it takes renewing your mind in the word of god,
  • 00:13:31.853 --> 00:13:34.756
  • But it also takes the holy spirit,
  • 00:13:34.756 --> 00:13:37.525
  • You know, to begin to walk in true freedom.
  • 00:13:37.525 --> 00:13:41.263
  • And the holy spirit actually helped,
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  • Will help you renew your mind too.
  • 00:13:42.864 --> 00:13:44.733
  • - well, i've seen people that,
  • 00:13:44.733 --> 00:13:46.601
  • You know, for whatever reason, that they'd received jesus,
  • 00:13:46.601 --> 00:13:48.870
  • But for years they hadn't received
  • 00:13:48.870 --> 00:13:50.538
  • The baptism of the holy spirit.
  • 00:13:50.538 --> 00:13:52.407
  • But when they received the baptism of the holy spirit,
  • 00:13:52.407 --> 00:13:53.975
  • That's actually ushers in a lot of freedom in their life.
  • 00:13:53.975 --> 00:13:56.645
  • I've seen people that received the baptism holy spirit,
  • 00:13:56.645 --> 00:14:00.081
  • And they were set free physically.
  • 00:14:00.081 --> 00:14:02.717
  • They might've had a physical disability,
  • 00:14:02.717 --> 00:14:06.021
  • A physical ailment-
  • 00:14:06.021 --> 00:14:07.122
  • - right. - that really plagued them
  • 00:14:07.122 --> 00:14:10.258
  • Was bondage and they were set free from that.
  • 00:14:10.258 --> 00:14:12.694
  • You know, the ministry of the holy spirit
  • 00:14:12.694 --> 00:14:14.696
  • Brings freedom.
  • 00:14:14.696 --> 00:14:16.031
  • And i've seen people too that have just dealt
  • 00:14:16.031 --> 00:14:18.667
  • With a lot of oppression, anxiety, depression,
  • 00:14:18.667 --> 00:14:22.771
  • And just emotionally in their mind,
  • 00:14:22.771 --> 00:14:25.507
  • Just be set free when they receive the holy spirit,
  • 00:14:25.507 --> 00:14:27.943
  • Pray in tongues, just experience that freedom.
  • 00:14:27.943 --> 00:14:30.879
  • - yeah.
  • 00:14:30.879 --> 00:14:32.380
  • And so we've been studying here in romans chapter eight
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  • Where it says, "the spirit helps our weaknesses.
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  • We don't know how to pray like we should,
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  • But the holy spirit himself intercedes for us
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  • With groanings that cannot be uttered."
  • 00:14:40.255 --> 00:14:42.390
  • And i believe it.
  • 00:14:42.390 --> 00:14:43.792
  • In verse 27, he's talking about the holy spirit
  • 00:14:43.792 --> 00:14:45.760
  • Searches the hearts and knows the mind of the spirit
  • 00:14:45.760 --> 00:14:48.363
  • Or jesus is searching the heart
  • 00:14:48.363 --> 00:14:50.198
  • And knows the mind of the spirit
  • 00:14:50.198 --> 00:14:51.866
  • Because jesus makes intercession
  • 00:14:51.866 --> 00:14:53.601
  • And the holy spirit makes intercession
  • 00:14:53.601 --> 00:14:55.437
  • For the saints according to the will of god.
  • 00:14:55.437 --> 00:14:58.073
  • Man, the holy spirit and jesus know the will of god
  • 00:14:58.073 --> 00:15:00.976
  • And they bring you in to the things of god.
  • 00:15:00.976 --> 00:15:04.179
  • But i love this verse in 20, verse 28, it says,
  • 00:15:04.179 --> 00:15:06.948
  • "and we know."
  • 00:15:06.948 --> 00:15:08.984
  • You know, we just went through a really hard time here
  • 00:15:08.984 --> 00:15:11.386
  • In the church, different problems that happened,
  • 00:15:11.386 --> 00:15:13.188
  • Different people had separated,
  • 00:15:13.188 --> 00:15:15.223
  • But i had this minister of the gospel came in
  • 00:15:15.223 --> 00:15:17.959
  • And minister to me, and he just said, "and we know."
  • 00:15:17.959 --> 00:15:22.797
  • And i got a hold of that.
  • 00:15:22.797 --> 00:15:24.232
  • And we know that all things work together for good
  • 00:15:24.232 --> 00:15:28.269
  • To those who love god
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  • And who are called according to his purpose.
  • 00:15:29.971 --> 00:15:32.407
  • Man, we know.
  • 00:15:32.407 --> 00:15:33.942
  • You know, i've seen things that are very negative.
  • 00:15:33.942 --> 00:15:35.910
  • But when you know, and that was just ministering to me
  • 00:15:35.910 --> 00:15:40.248
  • Even as we're sharing it in the broadcast.
  • 00:15:40.248 --> 00:15:42.684
  • And we know.
  • 00:15:42.684 --> 00:15:43.985
  • I was thinking about some different things
  • 00:15:43.985 --> 00:15:45.487
  • That you'd look at that you could think were negative.
  • 00:15:45.487 --> 00:15:46.988
  • And god said, "no, we know."
  • 00:15:46.988 --> 00:15:48.690
  • We know that all things work together for good
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  • To those who love god
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  • And who are called according to his purpose.
  • 00:15:53.428 --> 00:15:55.830
  • Man, we can know these things.
  • 00:15:55.830 --> 00:15:57.799
  • And these things are working together for our good.
  • 00:15:58.833 --> 00:16:00.869
  • And what the devil meant to destroy us many times,
  • 00:16:00.869 --> 00:16:03.571
  • God will turn around and use for our good.
  • 00:16:03.571 --> 00:16:06.641
  • Amen.
  • 00:16:06.641 --> 00:16:07.742
  • And we gotta keep the scriptures.
  • 00:16:07.742 --> 00:16:09.044
  • So keep renewing your mind in the word of god.
  • 00:16:09.044 --> 00:16:11.479
  • Keep believing jesus and keep praying in the spirit.
  • 00:16:11.479 --> 00:16:15.583
  • You know what? turn to another scripture.
  • 00:16:15.583 --> 00:16:17.218
  • And this one's found in 2 corinthians chapter three.
  • 00:16:17.218 --> 00:16:20.455
  • And in 2 corinthians chapter three,
  • 00:16:20.455 --> 00:16:22.624
  • What's happening is paul is comparing the old covenant
  • 00:16:22.624 --> 00:16:25.760
  • In the new covenant.
  • 00:16:25.760 --> 00:16:27.395
  • And he's talking about how the old covenant
  • 00:16:27.395 --> 00:16:29.097
  • Had a glory, you know?
  • 00:16:29.097 --> 00:16:30.732
  • When the law was given.
  • 00:16:30.732 --> 00:16:32.634
  • But people died, you know?
  • 00:16:32.634 --> 00:16:35.236
  • And there are people that are still caught up with the law
  • 00:16:35.236 --> 00:16:37.872
  • And the old testament.
  • 00:16:37.872 --> 00:16:39.240
  • And i'm thinking sometimes why are these people
  • 00:16:39.240 --> 00:16:41.042
  • So enamored with all this?
  • 00:16:41.042 --> 00:16:42.744
  • - whenever you see a great move of god,
  • 00:16:42.744 --> 00:16:44.813
  • A great move of the holy spirit, it always,
  • 00:16:44.813 --> 00:16:48.383
  • It really brings, there's freedom there too.
  • 00:16:48.383 --> 00:16:50.819
  • - yeah. - i was thinking about the
  • 00:16:50.819 --> 00:16:54.322
  • Early pentecostal revivals,
  • 00:16:54.322 --> 00:16:58.093
  • Like in the early 1900s, the azusa street with john g. lake,
  • 00:16:58.093 --> 00:17:01.062
  • And you know, the world was very separated,
  • 00:17:01.062 --> 00:17:03.431
  • Very divided, but like at that revival,
  • 00:17:03.431 --> 00:17:06.267
  • There were white people, there were black people,
  • 00:17:06.267 --> 00:17:08.603
  • There was male, there was female,
  • 00:17:08.603 --> 00:17:10.972
  • There was a rich, there was poor.
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  • The true minister of the holy spirit,
  • 00:17:14.676 --> 00:17:16.544
  • It just breaks those divisions.
  • 00:17:16.544 --> 00:17:18.580
  • - amen. - and people always try
  • 00:17:18.580 --> 00:17:20.548
  • To bring back these divisions, you know?
  • 00:17:20.548 --> 00:17:22.550
  • - amen. - but the true move
  • 00:17:22.550 --> 00:17:24.452
  • Of the holy spirit, it's not about race.
  • 00:17:24.452 --> 00:17:26.421
  • It's not about rich or poor, it's not about gender.
  • 00:17:26.421 --> 00:17:29.324
  • It's man,
  • 00:17:29.324 --> 00:17:30.758
  • And you see that all through scripture too
  • 00:17:31.659 --> 00:17:33.027
  • When there's an outpouring of the holy spirit.
  • 00:17:33.027 --> 00:17:35.063
  • You know, even on the day of pentecost,
  • 00:17:35.063 --> 00:17:36.865
  • There were jews from all around.
  • 00:17:36.865 --> 00:17:39.934
  • You know, from all around the world,
  • 00:17:39.934 --> 00:17:42.103
  • Gathered there for that feast.
  • 00:17:42.103 --> 00:17:43.505
  • And the ministry of holy spirit impacted all of them.
  • 00:17:43.505 --> 00:17:46.441
  • - right, the holy spirit brought revelation to them.
  • 00:17:46.441 --> 00:17:49.444
  • Actually, it talks about this
  • 00:17:49.444 --> 00:17:51.746
  • Here in 2 corinthians 3:13.
  • 00:17:51.746 --> 00:17:56.417
  • It's talking about this comparison, right?
  • 00:17:56.417 --> 00:17:58.319
  • Of the old covenant and new covenant.
  • 00:17:58.319 --> 00:18:00.622
  • And it says,
  • 00:18:00.622 --> 00:18:02.123
  • "seeing that we have this hope in jesus," in verse 12.
  • 00:18:02.123 --> 00:18:04.259
  • "we use great boldness of speech
  • 00:18:04.259 --> 00:18:05.827
  • And not as moses who put a veil over his face
  • 00:18:05.827 --> 00:18:08.596
  • That the children of israel could not steadfastly look
  • 00:18:08.596 --> 00:18:12.867
  • At the end of that which is lost."
  • 00:18:12.867 --> 00:18:15.270
  • He's talking about the law.
  • 00:18:15.270 --> 00:18:16.471
  • We've come into a greater covenant.
  • 00:18:16.471 --> 00:18:18.540
  • Right, the new covenant.
  • 00:18:18.540 --> 00:18:20.375
  • But their minds were blinded for until that day
  • 00:18:20.375 --> 00:18:24.579
  • Remains the same veil untaken away
  • 00:18:24.579 --> 00:18:26.681
  • In the reading of the old testament.
  • 00:18:26.681 --> 00:18:28.116
  • When moses came off that mountain
  • 00:18:28.116 --> 00:18:30.051
  • And had been in the presence of god,
  • 00:18:30.051 --> 00:18:31.352
  • He had to put a veil over his face
  • 00:18:31.352 --> 00:18:32.587
  • 'cause they couldn't look at him
  • 00:18:32.587 --> 00:18:33.521
  • 'cause the glory was so bright.
  • 00:18:33.521 --> 00:18:35.356
  • But he says, "even to this day, when moses is read,
  • 00:18:36.357 --> 00:18:39.561
  • A veil lies on their heart.
  • 00:18:39.561 --> 00:18:41.129
  • Nevertheless, when it, when their heart turns to the lord,
  • 00:18:41.129 --> 00:18:45.233
  • The veil is taken away."
  • 00:18:45.233 --> 00:18:47.335
  • For you to get revelation,
  • 00:18:47.335 --> 00:18:49.137
  • You gotta turn your heart to jesus, right?
  • 00:18:49.137 --> 00:18:52.207
  • But it says, "now the lord is that spirit
  • 00:18:52.207 --> 00:18:55.710
  • And where the spirit of the lord is, there is liberty."
  • 00:18:55.710 --> 00:18:59.214
  • Right?
  • 00:18:59.214 --> 00:19:00.048
  • There is freedom.
  • 00:19:00.048 --> 00:19:01.216
  • How do we get free?
  • 00:19:01.216 --> 00:19:02.650
  • Through knowing jesus, through believing the word,
  • 00:19:02.650 --> 00:19:05.453
  • And through allowing the holy spirit to work in our life.
  • 00:19:05.453 --> 00:19:09.257
  • But we all, with an open face, right?
  • 00:19:09.257 --> 00:19:12.493
  • The veil has been removed,
  • 00:19:12.493 --> 00:19:14.462
  • Beholding as in a mirror, the glory of the lord.
  • 00:19:14.462 --> 00:19:17.665
  • We look into the mirror of the word and we see jesus.
  • 00:19:17.665 --> 00:19:21.669
  • We are changed into that same image,
  • 00:19:21.669 --> 00:19:24.272
  • Into the image of jesus from glory to glory,
  • 00:19:24.272 --> 00:19:27.275
  • Even as by the spirit of the lord.
  • 00:19:27.275 --> 00:19:28.843
  • If you take this in context,
  • 00:19:28.843 --> 00:19:31.079
  • What he's saying is we go from the glory of the law
  • 00:19:31.079 --> 00:19:33.581
  • To the glory of grace by the spirit of god.
  • 00:19:33.581 --> 00:19:36.918
  • It takes the spirit of god, it takes the holy spirit
  • 00:19:36.918 --> 00:19:40.054
  • To give us a revelation of the true gospel.
  • 00:19:40.054 --> 00:19:43.157
  • And the true gospel is the gospel of jesus.
  • 00:19:43.157 --> 00:19:46.761
  • And it brings freedom.
  • 00:19:46.761 --> 00:19:48.630
  • It's the message of freedom.
  • 00:19:48.630 --> 00:19:50.965
  • Jesus, when he opened his earthly ministry,
  • 00:19:50.965 --> 00:19:53.735
  • Preached freedom to set at liberty those who are bruised,
  • 00:19:53.735 --> 00:19:57.972
  • To preach the acceptable year of the lord,
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  • To preach to deliverance to the captives.
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  • The gospel is the message of freedom.
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  • You can be free spiritually.
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  • You don't have to be bound in sin.
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  • Jesus came to deliver you from not only the penalty for sin,
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  • But the power of sin spiritually, emotionally.
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  • You can renew your mind in the word of god, right?
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  • But also physically and financially.
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  • These promises can come to you.
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  • Praise god you got promises for physical healing,
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  • For financial provision.
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  • And when you believe the word of god, amen,
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  • And let the holy spirit work, the holy spirit will bring you
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  • Into revelation of these things
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  • And you can begin to walk in that freedom.
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  • And it's not by our performance, it's by his grace.
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  • And the spirit of god makes these things a revelation.
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  • You know, years ago we had this teacher
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  • At charis bible college, and i was teaching there,
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  • But he did not have a revelation of grace.
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  • He's a great man, a good man.
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  • Operated in the gifts of the spirit.
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  • Amazing person, kept his word,
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  • But he didn't have a revelation of grace.
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  • And so i got this teaching from a minister on grace
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  • On jesus plus nothing.
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  • And i actually have a series on our website.
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  • You can get it.
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  • It's on the book of galatians,
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  • Jesus plus nothing talking about freedom.
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  • And you can download the audios.
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  • There are videos there you can download.
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  • They're free of charge.
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  • We give them free of charge.
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  • It's costing me hundreds of thousands of dollars
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  • To make this available to you.
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  • But i got this teaching from this other man
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  • And i put it on this guy's desk.
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  • And then i told andrew wommack, you know, the president,
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  • Founder of charis bible college at that time, i said,
  • 00:21:31.065 --> 00:21:33.735
  • "hey andrew, i took this teaching on jesus plus nothing
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  • From this certain teacher, a pastor of a church,
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  • And put it on this guy's desk."
  • 00:21:39.474 --> 00:21:41.008
  • And andrew said, "do you know who taught that man that?"
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  • I'm like, "no."
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  • He's like, "i taught that pastor that."
  • 00:21:44.712 --> 00:21:47.482
  • And he said, "when i taught him that,
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  • He was pastoring this church of several hundred."
  • 00:21:48.916 --> 00:21:50.651
  • But he said, you know, he started teaching grace
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  • And this gospel of freedom.
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  • And the elders kicked him out of his own church
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  • And he had to go start over.
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  • But now he has several thousand people.
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  • So he said, "i guess it worked out good."
  • 00:22:02.196 --> 00:22:04.665
  • But he said, "i taught them.
  • 00:22:04.665 --> 00:22:05.867
  • But andrew made a statement to me."
  • 00:22:05.867 --> 00:22:07.135
  • He said, "i believe that it takes the holy spirit
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  • To give you a revelation of the gospel,
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  • A revelation of freedom, a revelation of grace.
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  • And if the holy spirit doesn't give it to you,
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  • You're not gonna get it."
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  • Man, i pastored for about seven years
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  • Before i got a revelation of grace.
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  • And it changed my ministry, changed my family,
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  • Changed my life.
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  • Man, it changed almost everything.
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  • But it takes the holy spirit.
  • 00:22:32.360 --> 00:22:34.595
  • And i said, "andrew, that's right."
  • 00:22:34.595 --> 00:22:37.165
  • And andrew said, "i've preached the grace of god
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  • All over the world,
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  • But there are people who just, they just don't get it."
  • 00:22:41.969 --> 00:22:45.273
  • And i was like that until god made it a revelation.
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  • You know what? i didn't get it.
  • 00:22:48.509 --> 00:22:49.744
  • But when the holy spirit made the gospel,
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  • Made the grace of god,
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  • I've actually pastored for seven years
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  • Before i got a true revelation of grace.
  • 00:22:54.549 --> 00:22:57.285
  • And i was actually ministering with andrew the other day,
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  • And mike and carrie pickett on one of their tv shows,
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  • And carrie pickett grew up in our church,
  • 00:23:02.924 --> 00:23:05.293
  • But andrew said, asked me this question,
  • 00:23:05.293 --> 00:23:07.795
  • Or mike pickett actually asked me this.
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  • He said, "how did the revelation of grace
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  • Affect you personally?"
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  • The number one thing it did for me
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  • Is it freed me from self-condemnation.
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  • And you know what?
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  • There's a lot of believers
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  • That are operating in a lot of condemnation
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  • And it is not god.
  • 00:23:23.945 --> 00:23:25.980
  • And it takes the holy spirit
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  • To give you a revelation of the gospel,
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  • A revelation of the grace of god.
  • 00:23:29.784 --> 00:23:31.252
  • But if you get it, you don't have to walk condemned
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  • And you can begin to walk in the blessing of the lord
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  • In the promises of god, in the good things of god
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  • At a brand new level.
  • 00:23:39.427 --> 00:23:41.062
  • And so it says, "where the spirit of the lord is,
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  • There is freedom."
  • 00:23:43.197 --> 00:23:44.966
  • And it says, "and we, with a open face, we've opened,
  • 00:23:46.033 --> 00:23:49.470
  • Removed the veil of the law,
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  • And we're looking into the word of god and seeing jesus
  • 00:23:51.072 --> 00:23:55.176
  • And we're changed in the image of jesus
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  • From the glory of the law to the glory of grace,
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  • Even by the spirit of the lord."
  • 00:23:59.447 --> 00:24:02.316
  • - i believe, you know, as you just surrender to jesus,
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  • Surrender to the holy spirit,
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  • Just keep trusting the word of god,
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  • You'll experience freedom like never before.
  • 00:24:08.189 --> 00:24:10.758
  • You know, enemy's always trying to put these weights
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  • And burdens on people.
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  • - amen. - and he's always trying
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  • To weigh down believers, try to weigh down people of faith.
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  • But you can come to jesus, you can let the holy spirit
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  • Minister to you- - amen.
  • 00:24:22.803 --> 00:24:23.704
  • - and experience freedom.
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  • You don't have to stay stuck. - praise god.
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  • You know, we've got all these teachings,
  • 00:24:27.141 --> 00:24:28.910
  • Hundreds of hours of teaching on this and many more,
  • 00:24:28.910 --> 00:24:31.746
  • And they're on our website at charischristiancenter.com.
  • 00:24:31.746 --> 00:24:34.782
  • They're free of charge.
  • 00:24:34.782 --> 00:24:36.284
  • We also have a children's curriculum that we've developed
  • 00:24:36.284 --> 00:24:39.987
  • And i was paying $900 a year
  • 00:24:39.987 --> 00:24:42.823
  • For a subpar children's curriculum and i developed it.
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  • We're in over 50 countries with this,
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  • But i made it free of charge.
  • 00:24:47.895 --> 00:24:50.064
  • And you know, a lot of homeschoolers are using it,
  • 00:24:50.064 --> 00:24:52.233
  • Different people are using it,
  • 00:24:52.233 --> 00:24:53.701
  • People are using it for bible studies with their kids,
  • 00:24:53.701 --> 00:24:56.037
  • Churches are using it.
  • 00:24:56.037 --> 00:24:57.338
  • But man, you can get on our website
  • 00:24:57.338 --> 00:24:59.140
  • At charischristiancenter.com and find this.
  • 00:24:59.140 --> 00:25:01.542
  • And i want just to invite you to come
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  • And be a part of charis christian center.
  • 00:25:05.279 --> 00:25:07.682
  • And we have people in church every sunday.
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  • You know, generally from different nations in the world,
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  • Different states.
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  • We have people that drive here in the state of colorado
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  • That come on a regular basis from over a hundred miles away.
  • 00:25:16.591 --> 00:25:20.628
  • And did you know what?
  • 00:25:20.628 --> 00:25:22.063
  • If you don't have a good home church,
  • 00:25:22.063 --> 00:25:23.864
  • You can attend online at charischristiancenter.com.
  • 00:25:23.864 --> 00:25:27.435
  • You can live stream, youtube, facebook,
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  • All these other things.
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  • But we wanna invite you to come here physically.
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  • God may be calling some of you
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  • To come to be a part of a great church.
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  • We've got great worship, great teaching, great children,
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  • Great youth, great programs that will help you
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  • And your family move into the grace of god
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  • And move into the good things, the freedom, really,
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  • That god has for you.
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  • And so we'd love to hear from you if you want a partner.
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  • Thank you so much.
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  • Blessings
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  • I had people from 10 nations in several states.
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  • They watch us on a regular basis online
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  • And they said, "this is amazing."
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