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 - God of Miracles (Part 1) | December 8, 2025
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- - welcome friends to the broadcast.
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- I'm so glad that you've tuned in today.
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- We are talking about the god of miracles.
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- Did you know?
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- Most of the time when you see miracles in the scripture,
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- It starts with a problem.
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- Many of you today are facing problems,
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- But i want to remind you
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- That our god is a god of miracles.
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- Stay tuned and be blessed.
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- Friend, it's so good to have you with us.
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- And sharing the word of god.
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- The word of god is full of amazing things,
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- And we're sharing today about a god of miracles.
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- I'm so glad that we serve a god of miracles.
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- - yeah, and really the bible is full of miracles.
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- You know, from cover to cover.
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- It's just full of a lot of miracles.
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- You look at the life of jesus, his ministry.
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- You know, his ministry started off with a miracle.
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- - yes. - the turning
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- Of water into wine.
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- It was a miracle of provision.
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- God still wants to provide for you.
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- He wants to help you in times of need.
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- I've been kind of in a hard place before
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- Where i needed god to come through
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- And help me out with provision, with finances.
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- And he's done the miraculous in my own life.
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- You know, jesus performed lots of healing miracles.
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- People came to him to hear the word taught,
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- But also to be healed, to have miracles.
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- And he's still performing miracles today.
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- We've seen a lot of miracles here in our ministry.
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- And i just wanna encourage you
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- That god is still performing miracles today.
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- He is the miracle worker in jesus.
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- He's the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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- - amen.
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- So, we're gonna start today with one of the,
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- Actually the first miracle of jesus
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- That's recorded in the scriptures.
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- But it's in john 2.
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- And in john 2, there was a wedding at cana of galilee.
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- This was about 20 miles from capernaum
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- Where jesus headquartered his ministry.
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- And the mother of jesus was there.
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- And you know, they,
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- Jesus was called and his disciples to the marriage.
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- So, you know, it was a family ordeal,
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- And they invited jesus and his disciples.
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- And so, but a challenge happened, a problem happened.
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- And many, many miracles, when you look at 'em,
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- They are the result of a problem
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- And god bringing an answer to the problem.
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- So if you're in a problem, you're not alone.
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- There is a god who does miracles.
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- And i'm glad he does miracles today.
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- And so, jesus was called, and they wanted wine.
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- It says in john 2:3,
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- "and the mother of jesus said to him,
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- 'they have no wine.'"
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- Now, the response that jesus gives is very untypical.
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- He said, "woman, what do i have to do with you?
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- My hour is not yet come."
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- Now, a lot of people
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- Would've went home right then, right there.
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- Just said, "call it off. it's over, it's done."
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- But jesus' mother didn't stop there.
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- And a lot of the miracles that you see in the life of jesus,
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- They happen after jesus said, you know,
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- This is not gonna happen right now, basically.
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- Because faith will go ahead
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- And put a demand on the grace of god.
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- And jesus is the embodiment of grace.
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- I'm thinking about the syrophoenician woman
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- That came to jesus and said,
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- "lord, would you heal my sick daughter?"
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- He said, "i haven't been sent to you," you know?
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- "we're only sent to the lost sheep of the house of israel."
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- But anyway, this woman just wouldn't quit coming to jesus.
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- And in the same way, his mother,
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- When jesus kind of put her off,
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- She said, "whatever he says to you, do it."
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- So, here's one of the first keys to me
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- To receiving a miracle.
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- Whatever jesus says, do it.
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- - yeah. and i love that.
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- You know, and it goes on here, and it says in verse 6,
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- "that there were six water pots of stone
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- According to the manner of purification of the jews
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- Containing 20 or 30 gallons apiece."
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- So, i've been to israel and i've seen these, you know,
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- That they're really like a bath of water
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- Where people would wash before they would go to the temple.
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- According to the jewish law,
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- They'd have to purify themselves,
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- To bathe before going to worship.
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- And so, you know, it's basically the size of a bathtub,
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- And it says there's six of those water pots.
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- And this is very symbolic
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- That jesus was doing something new.
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- You know, we're shifting
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- From the old testament to the new testament,
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- From the old covenant to a new covenant where it's,
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- In the old covenant, you had to try to purify yourself,
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- Continually washing herself.
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- And jesus is gonna bring about the wine of the new covenant.
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- And jesus said to his disciples there
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- To fill the water pots with water.
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- It says, "they filled them up to the brim."
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- So, this is a lot.
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- You know, six water pots containing 20 to 30 gallons.
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- This is a hundred gallons.
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- - 150 gallon.
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- - yeah. so, this is a lot of- - if they're 25 gallon apiece.
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- - average. - this is a major miracle.
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- You know? that's more than enough wine.
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- And whenever jesus performs a miracle,
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- It's always more than enough,
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- Especially a miracle of provision.
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- It always, there's overflow to it.
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- It's never in black.
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- You know, even this building that we're in right now,
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- It's a miracle of provision.
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- We're in 120,000 square foot
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- In the best part of colorado springs.
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- And it's a miracle.
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- We bought it for $5.7 million.
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- Today it's valued at like $40 million.
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- - yes. that's amazing. - and when we bought it,
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- We moved in debt free.
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- You know, we have space to grow.
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- We have space to reach people, to minister to people.
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- And it's a miracle.
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- - yeah, it is. - it's a complete miracle.
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- - well, it was supernatural how god gave it to us.
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- I was actually preaching in november,
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- The first wednesday night of november
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- In charlotte, north carolina for a pastor named dean melton.
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- And when i got done preaching,
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- He pointed his finger at me, and he said,
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- "2016 is your year and god's gonna give you a building."
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- And he said,
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- "realize you're gonna have to pay something for it."
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- You know, a lot of times
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- When god says he'll give you something,
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- It doesn't mean that it's just gonna be, you know-
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- - you usually have to set your hand to something.
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- Even hearing this miracle of turning the water into wine.
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- The miracle happened in the hands of the disciples.
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- - right. - he instructed them
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- To take the water and take it to the guests.
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- - right. - so the miracle happened
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- In their hands. - right.
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- - so, you have a part to play,
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- Especially miracles of provision, financial miracles,
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- You know, god can do amazing things,
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- But usually you don't just sit around and wait
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- For a million dollars to fall out of the sky.
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- Your hand is involved with it.
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- And i've studied out miracles
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- Of provision throughout scripture.
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- You know, the widow woman with the oil.
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- You know- - right.
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- - she had a debt to pay.
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- The miracle happened in her hand.
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- - right.
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- - so, you're involved with these oftentimes.
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- And really just, you have to follow
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- What jesus tells you to do.
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- - yeah. - so-
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- - anyway, this dean gave me that word,
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- And when he gave it to me, pastor dean,
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- It shot through me like fire.
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- And i thought that is the word of the lord.
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- And so, i knew what god was up to.
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- And then, three or four weeks later,
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- A member of our congregation came in and he said,
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- "pastor, i'm gonna build a building."
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- There's a ministry building just down the road,
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- 3 to 400 yards from where we were
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- In elkton drive in colorado springs.
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- And i said, "well, how big is it gonna be?"
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- And he said, "well, 20,000 square foot."
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- And i said, "well, what's it gonna cost?"
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- He said, "well, $2 million."
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- I said, "well, by the time you put in this parking lot
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- In the government pond and the street and do all this stuff
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- And buy both lots, then it's gonna cost over 3 million,
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- Probably over three and a half."
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- But i said, "you could have this one.
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- I had 27,000 square foot there.
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- You could have this building for $2 million.
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- I'll let you have it."
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- You know, he asked me, he went and looked around at it.
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- He said, "what would you sell this to me for?"
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- And i built it in the downturn
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- And we had 2.35 million in the building.
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- And i said, "well, we will let you have this building for,
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- Because of what you've done for the body of christ
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- And what you're doing in this city for the kingdom of god.
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- We'd let you have this building for 2 million."
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- And he said, "that's what we're gonna do."
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- And then he sent me buildings out here,
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- And nothing really fit the bill.
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- And so in january, i told him.
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- I said, "hey, you can just go on,
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- Do whichever ever you need to do,
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- Because this was january 17,
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- Because we haven't got a building."
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- And he said, "no, just wait. it's been delayed."
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- And then saturday, march 4th, 2017,
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- He emailed me the building that we're in on a bank auction.
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- A starting bid was $1.5 million.
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- Well, we had been told that it might be for sale,
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- But they said it'll be over $12 million
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- Because it's in foreclosure,
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- And they owe over $12 million on it.
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- But it was starting bid 1.5. so, that was a lot different.
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- So, i got ready to pay all that i could pay,
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- And we had the last bid for 5.4 million
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- That had a $300,000 bank fee,
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- And it cost us 2 million to build it out.
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- So, 7.7, all in million.
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- And today, the tax valuation is $40 million
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- In el paso county.
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- So, god blessed us.
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- But you know, generally a miracle looks like work.
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- You know, the bible says,
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- "a dream comes through the multitude of business."
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- It's kind of like joshua, god spoke to joshua and said,
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- "hey, i'm gonna give you this land.
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- By the way, there's some giants in it." (chuckles)
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- Generally, when god gives us something,
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- It doesn't mean it's gonna be easy peasy.
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- We gotta believe god for it. we gotta move into it.
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- Sometimes we've gotta set our hands to something.
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- Most of the time.
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- You know, we've gotta believe something,
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- Receive something, act on something.
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- And so, when these people came to him with a problem,
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- They have no wine, you know, jesus' mother spoke to him.
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- And he said, "well, what i have to do with you?
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- It's not my time."
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- And his mother said, "whatever he says, do it."
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- Well, if you're gonna move into what god has for you,
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- You gotta do whatever jesus says.
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- And a lot of people are challenged sometimes
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- Doing what jesus says,
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- But we need to do what jesus says.
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- And so, they had these six water pots of stone,
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- 20 to 30 gallons.
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- So, average 25 gallon.
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- That's 150 gallon if they average 25.
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- And jesus said, "fill 'em with water."
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- And they filled them up to the brim.
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- Now, if you had to get water then,
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- You didn't have a faucet that you turned on
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- And ran 'em full of water.
- 00:11:17.586 --> 00:11:19.154
- You had to go dip the water out of the well
- 00:11:19.154 --> 00:11:21.556
- Or go down to the river and get it.
- 00:11:21.556 --> 00:11:23.391
- It took a while to get this water.
- 00:11:23.391 --> 00:11:25.894
- And so, they filled them up to the brim.
- 00:11:25.894 --> 00:11:28.096
- And then jesus told 'em,
- 00:11:28.096 --> 00:11:30.132
- "draw out now and bear unto the governor of the feast."
- 00:11:30.132 --> 00:11:34.236
- Take it to the leader first.
- 00:11:34.236 --> 00:11:36.171
- And so, they did what he said.
- 00:11:36.171 --> 00:11:37.305
- Again, if you're gonna have miracles,
- 00:11:37.305 --> 00:11:39.441
- You gotta do what jesus said.
- 00:11:39.441 --> 00:11:41.076
- - yeah, and notice it's,
- 00:11:41.076 --> 00:11:42.778
- The miracle happened in the hands of the disciples.
- 00:11:42.778 --> 00:11:44.813
- - right.
- 00:11:44.813 --> 00:11:46.014
- - they took the water out of the pots
- 00:11:46.014 --> 00:11:47.516
- And took it to that master of the feast.
- 00:11:47.516 --> 00:11:49.284
- And it says in verse 9, "when the master of the feast
- 00:11:49.284 --> 00:11:51.153
- Had tasted the water that was made wine,"
- 00:11:51.153 --> 00:11:54.156
- You know, and outta those pots, those were baths, you know?
- 00:11:54.156 --> 00:11:58.093
- I always tell, i have a 4-year-old daughter.
- 00:11:58.093 --> 00:12:00.095
- I always tell her, "don't drink the water in the bathtub,"
- 00:12:00.095 --> 00:12:02.230
- 'cause it's not as hygienic as...
- 00:12:02.230 --> 00:12:04.633
- But she always wants to drink the water
- 00:12:04.633 --> 00:12:06.902
- And take the cup and spit it out.
- 00:12:06.902 --> 00:12:08.937
- And yeah. - we take her
- 00:12:08.937 --> 00:12:10.438
- Swimming at the pool, and she's putting her head down
- 00:12:10.438 --> 00:12:12.641
- Like she's drinking the water.
- 00:12:12.641 --> 00:12:13.909
- And i'm like, "ada, don't drink this water.
- 00:12:13.909 --> 00:12:16.444
- - so, i'm sure
- 00:12:16.444 --> 00:12:17.546
- These disciples- - puts a big smile
- 00:12:17.546 --> 00:12:18.547
- On her face. - you know?
- 00:12:18.547 --> 00:12:19.514
- As the master's drinking this
- 00:12:19.514 --> 00:12:21.883
- Stuff that came out of the bathtub, basically.
- 00:12:22.784 --> 00:12:24.786
- They probably have a smirk on their face.
- 00:12:24.786 --> 00:12:27.022
- They're like, wondering what's gonna happen here?
- 00:12:27.022 --> 00:12:29.491
- And it said that, "he had tasted the water
- 00:12:29.491 --> 00:12:33.562
- That was made wine.
- 00:12:33.562 --> 00:12:34.696
- He did not know where it came from."
- 00:12:34.696 --> 00:12:36.598
- - right. - but the servants
- 00:12:36.598 --> 00:12:37.599
- Who had drawn the water knew.
- 00:12:37.599 --> 00:12:39.167
- You know, that makes me think
- 00:12:39.167 --> 00:12:40.268
- They're probably smirking about it.
- 00:12:40.268 --> 00:12:41.803
- And it says, "the master of the feast called the bridegroom.
- 00:12:41.803 --> 00:12:43.972
- And he said to him, 'every man at the beginning
- 00:12:43.972 --> 00:12:45.941
- Sets out the good wine.
- 00:12:45.941 --> 00:12:47.876
- And when the guests have well drunk, then the inferior,'"
- 00:12:47.876 --> 00:12:51.613
- It's because their senses are dulled later on
- 00:12:51.613 --> 00:12:54.082
- After they've drank a while.
- 00:12:54.082 --> 00:12:56.785
- But he says, "you've actually kept the good wine until now."
- 00:12:56.785 --> 00:13:00.322
- And it says, "this is the beginning of signs."
- 00:13:00.322 --> 00:13:03.758
- - friends, we've been teaching about the god of miracles
- 00:13:04.860 --> 00:13:08.797
- And how jesus does miracles today.
- 00:13:08.797 --> 00:13:12.868
- I've recently written a book.
- 00:13:12.868 --> 00:13:14.803
- My most recent book is on receiving healing.
- 00:13:14.803 --> 00:13:18.273
- And one of the, at least seven ways that jesus healed people
- 00:13:18.273 --> 00:13:23.545
- Was through the working of miracles.
- 00:13:24.346 --> 00:13:26.715
- You can get it today and share it with your friends.
- 00:13:26.715 --> 00:13:30.185
- They will be blessed.
- 00:13:30.185 --> 00:13:32.487
- - yeah. - so, talking about signs
- 00:13:32.487 --> 00:13:33.688
- And miracles, and wonders,
- 00:13:33.688 --> 00:13:35.490
- That's what we're talking about this week.
- 00:13:35.490 --> 00:13:37.359
- That god is still doing signs, miracles, and wonders.
- 00:13:37.359 --> 00:13:41.029
- That this is the beginning of signs, you know?
- 00:13:41.029 --> 00:13:43.365
- And there's no scripture that says this is the end of signs.
- 00:13:43.365 --> 00:13:46.034
- - right, there's still signs,
- 00:13:46.034 --> 00:13:47.502
- Wonders and miracles being done
- 00:13:47.502 --> 00:13:49.504
- In the name of jesus. - so, this is when it began,
- 00:13:49.504 --> 00:13:51.706
- And it's still continuing today.
- 00:13:51.706 --> 00:13:53.909
- - right. - jesus is still doing signs,
- 00:13:53.909 --> 00:13:56.778
- Miracles, wonders, financial, you know, relational.
- 00:13:56.778 --> 00:14:02.117
- Man, we have a lot of awesome stories
- 00:14:02.918 --> 00:14:04.686
- Of just miracle reconciliation.
- 00:14:04.686 --> 00:14:07.756
- We'll talk about some of these throughout the week.
- 00:14:07.756 --> 00:14:10.091
- And i know some of you might be believing
- 00:14:10.091 --> 00:14:11.993
- For a miracle reconciliation.
- 00:14:11.993 --> 00:14:13.862
- Maybe it's a,
- 00:14:13.862 --> 00:14:15.030
- A prodigal child,
- 00:14:15.030 --> 00:14:18.066
- Someone who is lost to you.
- 00:14:18.066 --> 00:14:20.368
- But god is still doing miracles.
- 00:14:20.368 --> 00:14:22.304
- And it says here-
- 00:14:22.304 --> 00:14:23.371
- - and miracles of healing.
- 00:14:23.371 --> 00:14:24.639
- - yeah. - there are many,
- 00:14:24.639 --> 00:14:25.540
- Many miracles of healing.
- 00:14:25.540 --> 00:14:26.875
- I've seen many miracles of healing,
- 00:14:26.875 --> 00:14:28.710
- You know, in our ministry.
- 00:14:28.710 --> 00:14:31.346
- You know, i saw miracles of healing
- 00:14:31.346 --> 00:14:33.281
- When i was just a young man.
- 00:14:33.281 --> 00:14:35.450
- You know, 18 years old, 19 years old.
- 00:14:35.450 --> 00:14:38.720
- Jesus was doing miracles.
- 00:14:38.720 --> 00:14:40.889
- - or miracles of deliverance.
- 00:14:40.889 --> 00:14:42.357
- People who were- - praise god.
- 00:14:42.357 --> 00:14:43.358
- - who are just afflicted of-
- 00:14:43.358 --> 00:14:45.760
- - right - by the devil.
- 00:14:45.760 --> 00:14:46.962
- - right. - you know,
- 00:14:46.962 --> 00:14:48.396
- I've seen that happen.
- 00:14:48.396 --> 00:14:49.831
- So, this is the beginning of signs
- 00:14:49.831 --> 00:14:51.933
- Jesus did in cana of galilee and manifested his glory,
- 00:14:51.933 --> 00:14:55.670
- And his disciples believed in him.
- 00:14:55.670 --> 00:14:58.039
- You know, i saw a miracle recently in our youth ministry.
- 00:14:58.039 --> 00:15:02.911
- A 13-year-old girl
- 00:15:03.345 --> 00:15:04.879
- Was instantly miraculously healed of scoliosis.
- 00:15:04.879 --> 00:15:07.849
- Very, very terrible scoliosis.
- 00:15:07.849 --> 00:15:09.684
- And it was a very prominent miracle.
- 00:15:09.684 --> 00:15:14.022
- Before she was prayed over,
- 00:15:14.022 --> 00:15:15.190
- She said she had constant back pain.
- 00:15:15.190 --> 00:15:17.592
- And as she was prayed over, she said the pain's gone.
- 00:15:17.592 --> 00:15:19.828
- And the minister,
- 00:15:19.828 --> 00:15:21.162
- Our guest minister who prayed for her, said,
- 00:15:21.162 --> 00:15:22.430
- "well, do something you couldn't do before."
- 00:15:22.430 --> 00:15:24.132
- - right. - she bent over
- 00:15:24.132 --> 00:15:25.500
- And touched her toes and came up with just crying.
- 00:15:25.500 --> 00:15:27.602
- - right. - she said,
- 00:15:27.602 --> 00:15:28.703
- "i've never been able to do that."
- 00:15:28.703 --> 00:15:29.871
- And this is about two months ago.
- 00:15:29.871 --> 00:15:32.007
- I was talking to her, just, how are you doing?
- 00:15:32.007 --> 00:15:34.309
- And she said, "i'm completely healed, completely normal."
- 00:15:34.309 --> 00:15:37.612
- - amen. - and her posture
- 00:15:37.612 --> 00:15:38.813
- Has completely changed.
- 00:15:38.813 --> 00:15:40.348
- Before this, the top of her back was kinda hunched over.
- 00:15:40.348 --> 00:15:42.917
- She has perfect posture now,
- 00:15:42.917 --> 00:15:45.020
- And she's actually a recent believer.
- 00:15:45.020 --> 00:15:48.056
- She was saved and water baptized
- 00:15:48.056 --> 00:15:49.791
- Just a month before she got healed.
- 00:15:49.791 --> 00:15:52.060
- But, you know, in our youth ministry,
- 00:15:52.060 --> 00:15:54.362
- She would be very open with people when we had discussions
- 00:15:54.362 --> 00:15:57.132
- And said, "i don't really know if there's a god."
- 00:15:57.132 --> 00:15:59.067
- But she said, "i know that there's a god."
- 00:15:59.067 --> 00:16:01.603
- - amen. - you know,
- 00:16:01.603 --> 00:16:02.737
- Miracles are to point people to god,
- 00:16:02.737 --> 00:16:05.507
- Point people to jesus. - amen.
- 00:16:05.507 --> 00:16:06.674
- - says this miracle caused them,
- 00:16:06.674 --> 00:16:08.643
- His disciples to believe in him.
- 00:16:08.643 --> 00:16:11.012
- - yeah. - and i love something
- 00:16:11.713 --> 00:16:13.081
- That something that the master of the feast said.
- 00:16:13.081 --> 00:16:14.349
- You know, usually things start out good,
- 00:16:14.349 --> 00:16:16.451
- The wine starts out good, then it gets worse.
- 00:16:16.451 --> 00:16:19.587
- And that's how everything in the world is.
- 00:16:19.587 --> 00:16:22.157
- Parties, you know, start out okay,
- 00:16:22.157 --> 00:16:23.591
- But the longer you stay there, the worse it gets.
- 00:16:23.591 --> 00:16:26.061
- - right. - and, you know,
- 00:16:26.061 --> 00:16:27.228
- Just a lot of things in the world.
- 00:16:27.228 --> 00:16:28.763
- They start out good, but then they wear out, break down.
- 00:16:28.763 --> 00:16:34.135
- You know, things get worse and worse.
- 00:16:34.135 --> 00:16:35.103
- - right. - but with jesus,
- 00:16:35.103 --> 00:16:36.304
- It's the opposite.
- 00:16:36.304 --> 00:16:38.173
- His kingdom is opposite the kingdom of the world.
- 00:16:38.173 --> 00:16:40.975
- With jesus, everything gets better and better.
- 00:16:40.975 --> 00:16:43.311
- - right. and another aspect of this is this is jesus.
- 00:16:43.311 --> 00:16:47.615
- This is his first miracle, right?
- 00:16:47.615 --> 00:16:50.518
- Jesus is the, you know,
- 00:16:50.518 --> 00:16:53.288
- Bringing into existence the new covenant.
- 00:16:53.288 --> 00:16:56.891
- The new covenant is greater than the old covenant.
- 00:16:56.891 --> 00:17:00.462
- So the new wine, it's representing of covenant, right?
- 00:17:00.462 --> 00:17:03.932
- And the new covenant's greater than the old covenant.
- 00:17:03.932 --> 00:17:08.036
- And there's also the parable of the wine skins, right?
- 00:17:08.036 --> 00:17:11.306
- And when you put new wine,
- 00:17:11.306 --> 00:17:14.275
- You don't put it in old wine skin, the bible says,
- 00:17:14.275 --> 00:17:16.878
- Because it'll break it, or in an old bottle,
- 00:17:16.878 --> 00:17:19.180
- It'll break it and run out.
- 00:17:19.180 --> 00:17:21.449
- But you put it in a new wine skin, then it can move with it.
- 00:17:21.449 --> 00:17:24.886
- So, you got the old wine skin of the law,
- 00:17:24.886 --> 00:17:27.388
- But you gotta get a new wine skin
- 00:17:27.388 --> 00:17:28.890
- For the wine of the new covenant.
- 00:17:28.890 --> 00:17:31.726
- And if you don't, if you try to take this new covenant
- 00:17:31.726 --> 00:17:34.129
- And put it in the old wine skin of the law,
- 00:17:34.129 --> 00:17:36.097
- It's just gonna break it, and it's gonna run all over.
- 00:17:36.097 --> 00:17:38.900
- And you're not gonna get any good out of it.
- 00:17:38.900 --> 00:17:40.969
- You don't mix the law on grace.
- 00:17:40.969 --> 00:17:42.604
- But when you take the new covenant wine
- 00:17:42.604 --> 00:17:45.740
- And you put it in the new covenant wine skin,
- 00:17:45.740 --> 00:17:50.011
- It's gonna minister to a lot of people.
- 00:17:50.011 --> 00:17:53.381
- - well, in the old testament, you know, people had,
- 00:17:53.381 --> 00:17:55.583
- And if you read the laws of purification,
- 00:17:55.583 --> 00:17:56.985
- There's a lot to it.
- 00:17:56.985 --> 00:17:58.520
- You know, just for blowing your nose,
- 00:17:58.520 --> 00:18:00.421
- You'd be impure till evening.
- 00:18:00.421 --> 00:18:02.123
- You have to wash to go to the temple that evening.
- 00:18:02.123 --> 00:18:05.760
- But now, it's not this ritual continual self purification
- 00:18:05.760 --> 00:18:11.633
- That makes you able to come before god.
- 00:18:11.633 --> 00:18:13.468
- It's the cleansing of the blood.
- 00:18:13.468 --> 00:18:15.103
- - the blood of jesus. - so, here you see this.
- 00:18:15.103 --> 00:18:16.971
- You know that- - right.
- 00:18:16.971 --> 00:18:18.173
- - that water being turned into wine.
- 00:18:18.173 --> 00:18:19.707
- Now, it's his blood.
- 00:18:19.707 --> 00:18:21.276
- It's the wine of the new covenant.
- 00:18:21.276 --> 00:18:22.810
- It's his blood that continually cleanses us.
- 00:18:22.810 --> 00:18:25.680
- - amen. - and it's, you know,
- 00:18:25.680 --> 00:18:27.248
- We're being perfected forever by the blood of the lamb.
- 00:18:27.248 --> 00:18:30.518
- - amen. - yeah.
- 00:18:30.518 --> 00:18:32.287
- - you know, and when you think about this,
- 00:18:32.287 --> 00:18:33.721
- That they went from something of little value, right?
- 00:18:33.721 --> 00:18:37.091
- They had the cheaper wine.
- 00:18:37.659 --> 00:18:39.694
- Then jesus brought the good wine.
- 00:18:39.694 --> 00:18:41.829
- And, you know, good wine costs a lot more than cheap wine.
- 00:18:41.829 --> 00:18:45.567
- So, they went from something
- 00:18:45.567 --> 00:18:46.668
- Of a little value to great value.
- 00:18:46.668 --> 00:18:48.236
- And we go to things of little value,
- 00:18:48.236 --> 00:18:50.605
- To things of great value, right?
- 00:18:50.605 --> 00:18:53.041
- The old covenant had to deal with the outward
- 00:18:53.041 --> 00:18:55.176
- And carnal washings of the physical man.
- 00:18:55.176 --> 00:18:58.012
- But the new covenant has to do with the spiritual man.
- 00:18:58.012 --> 00:19:01.849
- And you know, it's not the letter of the law
- 00:19:01.849 --> 00:19:04.686
- That we're cleansed, but it's by the spirit
- 00:19:04.686 --> 00:19:06.955
- Of the living god in the hearts of men
- 00:19:06.955 --> 00:19:09.857
- That changes us from the inside out.
- 00:19:09.857 --> 00:19:12.227
- And we actually, if we look into hebrews,
- 00:19:12.227 --> 00:19:14.662
- Hebrews is a comparison of the covenant.
- 00:19:14.662 --> 00:19:17.599
- And i want to turn to hebrews 9.
- 00:19:17.599 --> 00:19:21.236
- I wanna read just a little bit in hebrews 9.
- 00:19:21.236 --> 00:19:24.572
- And just before we do that,
- 00:19:25.173 --> 00:19:28.109
- We're talking about the new covenant.
- 00:19:28.109 --> 00:19:30.078
- If you get over there, i'm having a hard time in this bible
- 00:19:30.078 --> 00:19:32.347
- Getting to the book of hebrews.
- 00:19:32.347 --> 00:19:34.048
- But turn to hebrews 9, read verse 12 through verse 15.
- 00:19:34.048 --> 00:19:39.220
- - so, here it says.
- 00:19:39.687 --> 00:19:40.955
- "not with the blood of goats and calves,
- 00:19:40.955 --> 00:19:41.823
- But with his own blood,
- 00:19:41.823 --> 00:19:43.191
- He entered the most holy place once for all,
- 00:19:43.191 --> 00:19:45.360
- Having obtained eternal redemption.
- 00:19:45.360 --> 00:19:48.529
- For the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer
- 00:19:48.529 --> 00:19:51.666
- Sprinkling the unclean sanctifies
- 00:19:51.666 --> 00:19:53.167
- For the purifying of the flesh.
- 00:19:53.167 --> 00:19:54.769
- How much more shall the blood of christ,
- 00:19:54.769 --> 00:19:56.671
- Who through the eternal spirit,
- 00:19:56.671 --> 00:19:58.840
- Offered himself without spot to god,
- 00:19:58.840 --> 00:20:01.075
- Cleanse your conscience from dead works
- 00:20:01.075 --> 00:20:03.244
- To serve the living god?"
- 00:20:03.244 --> 00:20:05.313
- - yeah. so, that's verse 14.
- 00:20:05.313 --> 00:20:07.015
- So, in verse 14 there,
- 00:20:07.015 --> 00:20:08.750
- It talks about the blood of bulls and goats
- 00:20:08.750 --> 00:20:10.785
- That dealt with the purifying of the flesh.
- 00:20:10.785 --> 00:20:12.787
- Just like you're talking about.
- 00:20:12.787 --> 00:20:15.123
- All those carnal ordinances, they dealt with the flesh.
- 00:20:15.123 --> 00:20:18.826
- Physical ordinances with the outward men.
- 00:20:18.826 --> 00:20:21.462
- But he says the new covenant, what's it do?
- 00:20:21.462 --> 00:20:24.432
- It deals with the spirit.
- 00:20:24.432 --> 00:20:27.368
- So this, we have the spirit of a living god,
- 00:20:27.368 --> 00:20:29.837
- And we've had a change of spirit.
- 00:20:29.837 --> 00:20:32.440
- We got a brand new spirit.
- 00:20:32.440 --> 00:20:33.841
- We're a brand new creation in christ.
- 00:20:33.841 --> 00:20:36.944
- And so he says, he says,
- 00:20:36.944 --> 00:20:38.880
- "how much more shall the blood of christ
- 00:20:38.880 --> 00:20:41.149
- Who through the eternal spirit, offered himself without spot
- 00:20:41.149 --> 00:20:44.352
- Purge your conscience?"
- 00:20:44.352 --> 00:20:46.587
- Our conscience needs to be purged from dead works,
- 00:20:46.587 --> 00:20:50.491
- From physical things, from the outward man to the inward man
- 00:20:50.491 --> 00:20:55.063
- To make us servants of the living god.
- 00:20:55.063 --> 00:20:57.598
- It's not our performance,
- 00:20:57.598 --> 00:20:58.900
- It's not all the things that we do,
- 00:20:58.900 --> 00:21:00.968
- But it's his performance.
- 00:21:00.968 --> 00:21:02.503
- We need to get our eyes off of ourself
- 00:21:02.503 --> 00:21:04.706
- And our eyes onto jesus.
- 00:21:04.706 --> 00:21:06.507
- When you look at this scripture
- 00:21:06.507 --> 00:21:08.076
- That we're talking about in john 2,
- 00:21:08.076 --> 00:21:11.012
- This beginning of miracles
- 00:21:11.012 --> 00:21:13.481
- Did jesus in cana of galilee, right?
- 00:21:13.481 --> 00:21:17.485
- And it's at a wedding. jesus blessed this wedding.
- 00:21:17.485 --> 00:21:20.688
- He blessed this marriage and manifested his glory.
- 00:21:20.688 --> 00:21:24.692
- Miracles have to do
- 00:21:24.692 --> 00:21:26.527
- With the manifestation of the glory of god.
- 00:21:26.527 --> 00:21:30.765
- The power, the presence, the purpose of god.
- 00:21:30.765 --> 00:21:33.267
- And it says, "and his disciples believed on him."
- 00:21:33.267 --> 00:21:36.437
- It caused 'em to believed on him.
- 00:21:36.437 --> 00:21:38.639
- Well, there's a marriage that's taken place.
- 00:21:38.639 --> 00:21:40.908
- And today, we've come into relationship with jesus christ,
- 00:21:40.908 --> 00:21:44.479
- The son of the living god.
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- And that marriage has changed us from the inside out.
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- And so, it's not this physical carnal ordinance
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- Of all these things that we do.
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- The washing of the flesh, so on and so forth.
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- He says the blood of bulls and goats,
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- The ashes of a heifer here in hebrews 9:13,
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- "they sanctified to the purifying the flesh."
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- But he said it, he says, "how much more
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- Shall the blood of christ, who through the eternal spirit,
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- Offered himself without spot?
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- He was the spotless, sinless lamb of god, the son of god.
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- And it purges our consciousness from our performance
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- And makes us put our focus on the performance of jesus
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- To make us servants of the living god."
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- And so it's not that, it's not the outward carnal things,
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- It's not the physical things.
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- But it's the spirit of god has come to, you know,
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- In our heart as a result of the blood of jesus.
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- That wasn't possible without jesus
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- Shedding his blood and taking our sin.
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- But because the blood of jesus has been shed
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- And he's taken our sin,
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- Now the spirit of god lives on the inside of us.
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- And that was the result of this miracle.
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- Miracles are for a purpose, right?
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- And not only to solve that problem, right?
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- It solved a problem.
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- They ran outta wine, right?
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- Jesus solved that problem.
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- But it showed a greater glory, right?
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- That jesus is the son of god.
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- And when this, jesus did this first miracle
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- And manifested his glory,
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- It says his disciples believed on him.
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- And that's the greater purpose of miracles,
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- That people would believe on jesus.
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- - yeah, and faith, faith is always involved
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- With a miracle as well.
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- You know, i wanna mention that jesus actually,
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- In that moment, he didn't really care
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- About the wine at the party.
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- - right. - but mary had faith.
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- - right. - you know?
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- She had faith in jesus and who she knew he was
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- And his ability. - right.
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- - and that he could perform miracles
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- Even though he hadn't performed one yet to that time.
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- Mary's faith put a demand
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- On that miracle working power.
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- Some people are just kinda waiting for, you know,
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- "jesus, i want you to will it. i want you to do it."
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- Right here, jesus, you know, with his response, you know,
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- "woman, what do i have to do with this?"
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- You know, his will wasn't really to solve that problem
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- At that moment, but her faith put a demand on that power.
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- - yeah, she cared about this, you know?
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- - situation. - wedding.
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- - yeah. - and this family.
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- And so, she wanted something done about it.
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- So she, by faith, put a demand on jesus.
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- - so, this week we're sharing on the god of miracles,
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- But we're wanting a stir of faith.
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- You know, just showing that jesus is the miracle worker.
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- We serve a god of miracles.
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- But you have to- - right.
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- - you have to put faith. faith has to be in the mix.
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- Every single miracle i've seen in scripture,
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- Faith is involved. - right.
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- - every single miracle i've witnessed myself,
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- Faith is involved.
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- - somebody believes. - someone believes.
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- Someone puts a demand on the miracle working power of god.
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- And notice, you know, when jesus performed
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- That first miracle in cana of galilee, it said,
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- "this is the beginning of signs."
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- - right.
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- - there's not a single scripture that says,
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- "this is the end-
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- - right - "of signs."
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- "this is the end of miracles.
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- This is the end of the power of god."
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- There's a certain portion of the body of christ
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- That says it ended. - right.
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- - but there's no proof of that.
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- And if you see one miracle, you know, in modern time,
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- That puts that theology,
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- That puts that doctrine out of commission.
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- - amen. well, praise god.
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- I want to thank you for staying tuned to the broadcast.
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- And some of you right now, your faith has been stirred.
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- Some of you need a miracle of healing.
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- You need a miracle of financial provision.
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