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Grace for Today with Lawson Perdue

Lawson Perdue - The Grace Advantage (Part 3)

August 27, 2025 | S E | 29:55

Lawson Perdue - The Grace Advantage (Part 3)
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 - The Grace Advantage (Part 3) | August 27, 2025
  • (upbeat music)
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  • - praise the lord, friends, and welcome to the broadcast.
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  • I am so glad that you've tuned in.
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  • Today, we're gonna be talking about the power of the grace
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  • Of god.
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  • It takes the grace of god to change us from who we are
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  • To who god wants us to be.
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  • Paul changed from being a persecutor
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  • Of those who preach the gospel to becoming a preacher
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  • Of the gospel of the grace of god.
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  • Open your heart. blessings.
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  • (upbeat music)
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  • Paul was being attacked by the devil,
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  • By demons, right?
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  • He said it was a messenger of satan to buffet him.
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  • He asked jesus three times to remove this attack.
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  • And jesus responded to him, and jesus said,
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  • "my grace is sufficient for you,
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  • For my strength is made perfect in weakness.
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  • I want to tell you first of all what jesus was not saying.
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  • Jesus was not saying, "paul, suffer with it."
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  • And a lot of people interpret that when you're going
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  • Through hardships that this came from the lord.
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  • It didn't come from the lord, it came from the devil.
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  • And they interpret that that jesus is just saying,
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  • "paul, suffer."
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  • That's not what jesus is saying.
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  • Jesus is saying, "paul, learn to rely on my grace.
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  • And when you learn to rely on my grace,
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  • You're gonna come from that place of challenge
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  • To the place of victory."
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  • So paul says,
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  • "then i will take pleasure in necessities
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  • And reproaches in difficulties,
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  • Because when i am weak, then i am strong.
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  • When i face difficulty, then it's a place for god.
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  • When i rely on the grace of jesus,
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  • It's a place for god to really show himself off
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  • And show himself strong."
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  • So just because you don't have an immediate answer
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  • To your prayer does not mean
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  • That something is not the will of god.
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  • Amen.
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  • And this jesus was not saying, "paul, suffer with it."
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  • He was not saying, "paul, no."
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  • He was saying, "paul learn to rest in the grace of god."
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  • And then last week we talked about that grace moves us.
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  • One thing we said it moves us from frustration
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  • To fulfillment.
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  • And paul said this in galatians 2:21, he said,
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  • "i do not frustrate the grace of god,
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  • For if righteousness came by the law,
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  • Then christ died in vain."
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  • It's frustrating when you're trying to serve god
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  • And accomplish things in your own strength,
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  • In your own ability,
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  • Apart from relying on the grace of god.
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  • But when you begin to allow grace to move you,
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  • Grace will move you from frustration into fulfillment.
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  • Praise god.
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  • Sometimes people are trying to do things
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  • In their own strength and their own power.
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  • They're trying to make things happen,
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  • And they find themselves in this real place of frustration,
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  • And god doesn't want you to be there.
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  • So sometimes that means maybe you need to change,
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  • Sometimes it means you need to rest.
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  • I've been praying prayers that i've never prayed before.
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  • We had people here in the first service,
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  • We had pastors from the ivory coast,
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  • We had pastors from miami in the early service,
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  • And generally this happens every week.
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  • But these pastors from the ivory coast,
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  • They asked me to pray for them and so they said,
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  • "pray this."
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  • And i said, "this is what i'll do.
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  • I'm gonna pray this way."
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  • God open the doors that need to be open,
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  • Close the doors that need to be closed.
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  • I'm praying that prayer for my own life,
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  • And some doors are closing and some doors are opening.
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  • And i'm telling you,
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  • We're on the verge of the greatest growth that our ministry
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  • And our church has ever had.
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  • And god has closed some doors.
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  • I asked you as a church to pray for us a while back
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  • About some decisions,
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  • And god revealed it to us really clearly.
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  • We made some decisions.
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  • And then i got some information this week
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  • And it showed me, yeah, you've made the right decisions.
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  • And then some other things have happened
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  • And we're stepping into other places
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  • And i'm telling you, our ministry,
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  • We really have a lot of world effect,
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  • But it's gonna grow like never before.
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  • And it's super, super exciting.
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  • And some of that is through god closing doors,
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  • And some of that is through god opening door.
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  • So keep praying for us to have wisdom,
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  • But we're taking bold steps of faith
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  • And we're moving forward like never before,
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  • And good things are happening.
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  • Praise god.
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  • Amen.
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  • I just got a report during this break
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  • Between services from julie mapatano.
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  • We helped her...
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  • She came to me a year ago in april,
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  • And she said,
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  • "pastor, there's so many like 30 people meeting
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  • And they're gonna baptize nine people."
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  • I said, "julie, god is gonna give you a church.
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  • You're gonna need a building
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  • And you're gonna have a thousand people.
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  • Now i'm gonna do a gift match and help you."
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  • So we decided to do that too.
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  • I just gave her the second one.
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  • Last week, 314 people met in that church.
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  • (congregants applauding)
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  • So we're growing all around the world,
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  • We're having a world effect,
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  • And it's really, really positive.
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  • I'm super excited
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  • About what the lord is allowing us to be part of.
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  • Amen.
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  • So this is the grace of god
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  • And we need to recognize the grace of god.
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  • Today, i'm gonna talk about how grace changes us,
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  • And i want you to turn with me to galatians 1.
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  • Paul makes some marvelous statements in galatians 1:6.
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  • He says,
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  • "i'm marvel that you're so soon removed
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  • From him who called you into the grace of christ
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  • To another gospel, which is not another."
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  • If you're moving away from grace,
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  • You're moving away from jesus.
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  • Jesus is the grace of god.
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  • But how does grace change us?
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  • Let's look at the very last two verses
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  • Of galatians 1.
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  • Look at what paul says here.
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  • He says,
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  • "that they heard only how he who persecuted us in time past
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  • Now preaches the faith he once destroyed,
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  • And they glorified god in me."
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  • Paul changed from a persecutor to a preacher,
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  • And it caused people to glorify god in him.
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  • When we move into the grace of god
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  • That god has called us to,
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  • And we allow the grace of god to change us,
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  • It will cause others to glorify god in us.
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  • Amen.
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  • So how do we get there?
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  • Well, the first thing, let's go back.
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  • I quoted verse 10, but let's read verse 11,
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  • Or i've quoted verse six.
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  • But let's read verse 11 and 12.
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  • "i certify you brethren that the gospel
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  • Which was preached of me is not after man,
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  • For i neither received it of man neither was i taught it,
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  • Except by the revelation of jesus christ."
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  • So if we're gonna allow grace to change us,
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  • We need to get a revelation of who jesus really is.
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  • Jesus is the embodiment of grace.
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  • There's a lot of people that have information,
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  • But you need more than information.
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  • You need revelation.
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  • A lot of people have information about jesus,
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  • But they don't really have a revelation of who jesus is.
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  • In matthew 16,
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  • Jesus asked his disciples a question.
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  • He said, "who do men say that i the son of man am?"
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  • To which they replied,
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  • "some say you're isaiah, jeremiah, one of the prophets."
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  • But then jesus rephrased the question and he said,
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  • "but who do you say that i am?"
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  • And peter spoke up and said,
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  • "i say that you're the christ,
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  • The son of the living god."
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  • Jesus said, "peter, you're blessed.
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  • And the reason you're blessed is because flesh
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  • And blood did not reveal this to you."
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  • In other words, this is not just information
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  • That came from somebody else's revelation,
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  • That this is personal revelation to you.
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  • And on this rock, on the rock of the revelation of who i am,
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  • I'm going to build my church and the gates of hell
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  • Will not prevail against it.
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  • John talked a little bit about that aspect of revelation
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  • In his gospel.
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  • In john chapter 1:11 it says,
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  • "he came to his own and his own received him not,
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  • But to as many as received him to them gave he power
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  • To become the sons of god, the children of god."
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  • Even to those who believe on his name, which were born,
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  • He says, first of all, not of the blood.
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  • It's not just a human birth.
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  • It's not being a certain lineage.
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  • It's not just being jewish, nor of the will of flesh.
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  • It's not by your works.
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  • It's not by the works of the law, nor of the will of man.
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  • It's not by just having the right doctrines.
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  • It's not just saying, well, i believe this,
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  • But they were born of god.
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  • It's knowing jesus personally and intimately.
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  • If you know jesus, it's gonna change your life.
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  • Titus talks about it in titus 2.
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  • He says,
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  • "for the grace of god which brings salvation has appeared
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  • To all men teaching us that denying ungodliness
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  • And worldly living, we should live soberly, righteously,
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  • Godly in this present world."
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  • Amen.
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  • Now, when he says, the grace of god has appeared to all men,
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  • What's he talking about?
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  • He's talking about jesus.
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  • He's talking about a personal,
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  • Intimate relationship with jesus.
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  • And when you get to know jesus' gonna change
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  • How you lived your life.
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  • Paul talks about it in philippians 3.
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  • Let's go there.
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  • It's not about religion.
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  • In fact, religious people as a whole persecuted paul.
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  • Religious people persecuted jesus.
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  • Jesus didn't have very many positive things
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  • To say about religious people.
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  • He said,
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  • "you take people and you make them your proselytes,
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  • And you make them twice the child of hell
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  • Than they already are."
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  • That's pretty strong language.
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  • Read jesus' words to the religious leaders in matthew 23.
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  • He gets a lot.
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  • He calls 'em snakes.
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  • He's pretty rough on religion.
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  • But in philippians 3, paul talks about this.
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  • I want to turn to philippians 3.
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  • I want you to read with me really quickly these verses,
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  • Beginning in verse five.
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  • Paul's talking about his qualifications
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  • As a religious person, as a persecutor.
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  • Because he was very zealous for jesus or for god,
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  • Thinking he was doing right to god
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  • When he was actually fighting jesus.
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  • And he says this,
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  • "i was circumcised the eighth day of the stalk of israel,
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  • Of the tribe of benjamin,
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  • A hebrew of the hebrews.
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  • As touching the law, i was a pharisee."
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  • So he was strict.
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  • He believed in the scripture,
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  • He believed that you dot every i and cross every t,
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  • And it's all working.
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  • It's all gonna come to pass.
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  • Hi, friends.
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  • So take advantage of this resource.
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  • Concerning zeal, i persecuted the church.
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  • Do you know what?
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  • People can be very zealous for god and still be very wrong.
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  • He says,
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  • "touching the righteousness which is in the law,
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  • I was blameless.
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  • But those things which are gained to me,
  • 00:13:34.856 --> 00:13:36.157
  • Those i counted loss for christ, just doubtless,
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  • And i count all things lost for the excellency
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  • Of the knowledge of christ jesus, my lord."
  • 00:13:42.364 --> 00:13:44.900
  • I want to know jesus, not just ahead knowledge,
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  • I don't wanna just know about him, not just book learning,
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  • But i wanna have a personal, intimate relationship
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  • With jesus.
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  • "for whom i have suffered the loss of all things,
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  • And do count them, but dung, that i may win christ.
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  • And be found in him not having my own righteousness,
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  • Which is of the law,
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  • But that which is through the faith of christ,
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  • The righteousness which is of god by faith,
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  • That i may know him and the power of his resurrection
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  • And the fellowship of his suffering
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  • Being made conformable to his death."
  • 00:14:22.771 --> 00:14:24.739
  • Paul says, "this is the ultimate goal for my life,
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  • Is i want to intimately personally know jesus christ,
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  • Not just about him i want to know jesus."
  • 00:14:33.915 --> 00:14:37.686
  • He goes on and says this in verse 12,
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  • "not as though i already attained,"
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  • This is the principle by which he lived his life.
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  • "either were already perfect,
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  • But i follow after that i may apprehend
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  • That which i have apprehended of christ jesus."
  • 00:14:54.736 --> 00:14:57.305
  • In other words, he said,
  • 00:14:57.305 --> 00:14:58.807
  • "the thing that i'm pressing into is i wanna get ahold
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  • Of what jesus got ahold of me for."
  • 00:15:02.010 --> 00:15:05.480
  • So if we're gonna change into what god wants us,
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  • If we're gonna allow grace to do what grace
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  • Really wants to do with us,
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  • If we're gonna allow that change,
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  • Number one, we need to know jesus,
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  • Number two, we need to pursue
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  • What he got ahold of us for.
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  • And he goes on and says this,
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  • "this is the principle in which i live my life."
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  • Look at verse 13 and 14.
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  • "brethren, i count not myself to have apprehended,
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  • But there's one thing i do,
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  • I forget the things which are behind me
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  • And i reach forward to the things which are before me.
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  • I press toward the mark for the high calling of god
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  • In christ jesus."
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  • I believe that's something that not only needs
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  • To happen once,
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  • But it needs to happen continually in our life.
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  • Letting go of the past and reaching into the future,
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  • Pressing into the things that god wants us to get.
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  • Amen.
  • 00:16:11.413 --> 00:16:12.781
  • So paul says,
  • 00:16:12.781 --> 00:16:14.049
  • "i wanna know him and i wanna get ahold
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  • Of what jesus got ahold of me.
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  • For me to do that,
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  • I gotta forget about some things
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  • That were passed and i've got to reach forward
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  • Into what god has for me.
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  • I wanna know him."
  • 00:16:28.463 --> 00:16:29.564
  • Now, let's go back to galatians 1.
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  • First thing, we need to know him.
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  • The second thing is we need
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  • To find out what jesus got a hold of us for.
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  • We need to get a revelation of what he wants us to do.
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  • Notice what he says in galatians 1:13,
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  • We'll read through verse 16:
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  • "for if you have heard of my behavior, my conversation,
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  • My lifestyle in the time passed,
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  • And the jews' religion,
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  • How that beyond measure
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  • I persecuted the church of god and wasted it.
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  • I profited in the jews' religion above many of my equals
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  • In my own nation,
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  • Being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions
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  • Of my father."
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  • You can be zealous about tradition and it can be wrong.
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  • Jesus said, "by your traditions, you make the gospel,
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  • You make the word of god of no effect."
  • 00:17:23.251 --> 00:17:26.154
  • But when it please god, notice what he says,
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  • "who separated me from my mother's womb
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  • And called me by his grace."
  • 00:17:32.293 --> 00:17:34.762
  • Not only are we saved by his grace,
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  • But we've been called by his grace.
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  • "when it pleases god to reveal his son in me,
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  • That i might preach him among the heathen,
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  • Immediately i did not confer with flesh and blood."
  • 00:17:47.609 --> 00:17:52.947
  • So first of all, he got a revelation of who jesus is.
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  • And secondly, he got by revelation,
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  • This is what jesus wants me to do.
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  • And inevitably, when you read about paul's encounter
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  • With jesus, guess what?
  • 00:18:07.028 --> 00:18:08.196
  • Jesus knew paul before paul knew jesus.
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  • And when you read about paul's encounter,
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  • We're gonna read some of these scripture in a little bit.
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  • When you read about it, jesus immediately said,
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  • "paul, i have appeared to you for this purpose,
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  • And for the things that i'm gonna continually reveal
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  • To you."
  • 00:18:35.056 --> 00:18:35.990
  • In other words, it doesn't stop.
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  • You need to keep pressing the envelope for god.
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  • What do you want me to do?
  • 00:18:41.496 --> 00:18:42.797
  • And i find the closer i get to the lord jesus,
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  • The more i pursue him,
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  • There are some things that in the past were okay,
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  • But now they're not.
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  • There's something, they might even be good,
  • 00:18:55.810 --> 00:18:58.680
  • They might have been acceptable before,
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  • But they're no longer acceptable,
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  • Because i'm growing in grace.
  • 00:19:04.519 --> 00:19:08.389
  • So how do i allow grace to change me?
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  • Number one, know him.
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  • Get a revelation of who he is.
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  • Number two, get a revelation of what he's called us to do.
  • 00:19:14.629 --> 00:19:17.665
  • Now, part of getting a revelation of what he called us
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  • To do is this.
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  • I look back and i'm able to look back in my life
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  • And see even before i knew him,
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  • Some of what he was doing,
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  • Because paul said he called me and separated me
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  • From my mother's womb.
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  • Paul talks about that a little bit.
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  • In acts 22:3 he talks about,
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  • He was raised at the feet of gamaliel.
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  • Gamaliel was a very notable teacher of the law.
  • 00:19:46.961 --> 00:19:53.368
  • In acts 5:34,
  • 00:19:53.735 --> 00:19:55.737
  • The scripture talks about gamaliel.
  • 00:19:55.737 --> 00:19:57.238
  • They were actually persecuting peter and john
  • 00:19:57.238 --> 00:19:59.907
  • For healing the sick and preaching the gospel.
  • 00:19:59.907 --> 00:20:02.644
  • And so gamaliel had the religious leaders
  • 00:20:02.644 --> 00:20:05.146
  • Put out all the disciples,
  • 00:20:05.146 --> 00:20:07.215
  • And then he had a little visit with them,
  • 00:20:07.215 --> 00:20:09.250
  • And this was his discussion.
  • 00:20:09.250 --> 00:20:10.418
  • He said,
  • 00:20:10.418 --> 00:20:11.719
  • "guys, if this thing, if this movement is of god,
  • 00:20:11.719 --> 00:20:14.689
  • You can't stop it.
  • 00:20:14.689 --> 00:20:17.225
  • And if it's not of god, it's gonna die.
  • 00:20:18.059 --> 00:20:20.161
  • So why don't we just let it work itself out?"
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  • (lawson laughing)
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  • I think paul got some of his mentality about grace
  • 00:20:27.068 --> 00:20:29.637
  • From gamaliel.
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  • I think gamaliel taught paul the law so well
  • 00:20:32.206 --> 00:20:37.612
  • That paul could get a revelation of the gospel.
  • 00:20:38.613 --> 00:20:42.517
  • Amen.
  • 00:20:42.517 --> 00:20:43.451
  • Because the law points to jesus.
  • 00:20:43.451 --> 00:20:47.055
  • Amen.
  • 00:20:47.288 --> 00:20:48.523
  • And i believe some of the revelation that paul had,
  • 00:20:49.590 --> 00:20:52.327
  • And it's tremendous revelation,
  • 00:20:52.327 --> 00:20:54.662
  • Was really because he was taught the law so well
  • 00:20:55.630 --> 00:20:58.132
  • From gamaliel.
  • 00:20:58.132 --> 00:20:59.334
  • And i believe paul actually realized,
  • 00:20:59.334 --> 00:21:01.636
  • "hey, way back then, before i knew him,
  • 00:21:01.636 --> 00:21:05.506
  • God was preparing me for where i'm at today."
  • 00:21:05.506 --> 00:21:10.011
  • Can i be honest with you?
  • 00:21:10.578 --> 00:21:12.647
  • We spent the first 13 years of our ministry
  • 00:21:12.647 --> 00:21:15.283
  • In kit carson, colorado.
  • 00:21:15.283 --> 00:21:17.518
  • I looked up the population the other day.
  • 00:21:17.518 --> 00:21:19.253
  • It's 250 now.
  • 00:21:19.253 --> 00:21:22.156
  • It's went down a little bit since we were there.
  • 00:21:22.156 --> 00:21:25.426
  • The county is 2,400 square miles.
  • 00:21:25.426 --> 00:21:28.463
  • I didn't check out the county,
  • 00:21:28.463 --> 00:21:29.697
  • But the county population used to be 2200.
  • 00:21:29.697 --> 00:21:33.534
  • So it's less than one person a square mile.
  • 00:21:33.534 --> 00:21:37.638
  • Now, i graduated from bible school,
  • 00:21:37.638 --> 00:21:39.607
  • Dr. lester sumrall's bible school,
  • 00:21:39.607 --> 00:21:41.576
  • And i was the salutatorian of my class.
  • 00:21:41.576 --> 00:21:44.879
  • And people were actually mad at me,
  • 00:21:44.879 --> 00:21:47.448
  • Some of my friends,
  • 00:21:47.448 --> 00:21:48.716
  • Even some of my mentors for going to kit carson.
  • 00:21:48.716 --> 00:21:51.819
  • They're like, "what is he doing going to kit carson?"
  • 00:21:51.819 --> 00:21:55.623
  • Well, there's only one challenge with that.
  • 00:21:56.524 --> 00:21:57.959
  • Jesus told me to go there.
  • 00:21:57.959 --> 00:22:01.162
  • And i'll tell you,
  • 00:22:01.596 --> 00:22:02.964
  • I don't believe that we would've done near as well
  • 00:22:02.964 --> 00:22:04.465
  • In colorado springs or near as well as we're gonna do
  • 00:22:04.465 --> 00:22:08.636
  • If we didn't have that in our history.
  • 00:22:08.636 --> 00:22:11.939
  • In other words,
  • 00:22:11.939 --> 00:22:13.241
  • I believe we've made a lot less mistakes here,
  • 00:22:13.241 --> 00:22:15.977
  • Not that we haven't made mistakes
  • 00:22:15.977 --> 00:22:17.912
  • Because we've made plenty of mistakes,
  • 00:22:17.912 --> 00:22:20.782
  • But we made less mistakes
  • 00:22:21.349 --> 00:22:23.317
  • Than we would've if we didn't have that experience.
  • 00:22:23.317 --> 00:22:26.788
  • But i had one friend,
  • 00:22:26.788 --> 00:22:28.256
  • He was telling me he was going to bible school with me.
  • 00:22:28.256 --> 00:22:30.024
  • "why are you going to a town of 300?
  • 00:22:30.024 --> 00:22:32.427
  • You ought to be going to a church of 300."
  • 00:22:32.427 --> 00:22:34.295
  • Well, the problem was,
  • 00:22:34.295 --> 00:22:35.630
  • God didn't call me to go to a church of 300.
  • 00:22:35.630 --> 00:22:37.999
  • God called me to go and start a church in a town of 300.
  • 00:22:37.999 --> 00:22:42.270
  • You see, your success is really connected to knowing him,
  • 00:22:43.404 --> 00:22:48.709
  • Jesus, and knowing what he called you to do.
  • 00:22:49.610 --> 00:22:53.548
  • Hallelujah.
  • 00:22:53.881 --> 00:22:55.116
  • Now, if we go to acts 9,
  • 00:22:55.616 --> 00:22:57.251
  • In acts 9, i wanna read just a couple of verses here.
  • 00:22:57.251 --> 00:23:00.521
  • The first six verses.
  • 00:23:00.521 --> 00:23:02.056
  • This talks about when jesus arrested saul, who became paul.
  • 00:23:02.056 --> 00:23:10.598
  • And it says this,
  • 00:23:11.032 --> 00:23:12.166
  • "saul, yet breathing out threatenings
  • 00:23:12.166 --> 00:23:13.801
  • And slaughter against the disciples of the lord
  • 00:23:13.801 --> 00:23:16.771
  • Went unto the high priest
  • 00:23:16.771 --> 00:23:18.439
  • And desired of him letters to damascus,
  • 00:23:18.439 --> 00:23:22.009
  • To the synagogues that he found any of this way,"
  • 00:23:22.009 --> 00:23:25.079
  • Paul was persecuting the church.
  • 00:23:25.079 --> 00:23:27.548
  • "whether they were men or women,
  • 00:23:28.182 --> 00:23:30.151
  • That he might bring them bound to jerusalem."
  • 00:23:30.151 --> 00:23:32.220
  • I mean, paul was saul before he became paul,
  • 00:23:32.220 --> 00:23:35.923
  • Was bound and determined to stop this movement.
  • 00:23:35.923 --> 00:23:46.167
  • "as he journeyed,
  • 00:23:46.601 --> 00:23:48.135
  • He came to damascus and suddenly there shined roundabout him
  • 00:23:48.135 --> 00:23:50.438
  • A light from heaven.
  • 00:23:50.438 --> 00:23:51.806
  • He fell to the earth and he heard a voice saying,
  • 00:23:51.806 --> 00:23:53.841
  • "saul, saul, why do you persecute me?""
  • 00:23:53.841 --> 00:23:57.378
  • Now listen to his answer.
  • 00:23:57.945 --> 00:24:00.281
  • "who are you, lord?"
  • 00:24:00.281 --> 00:24:02.183
  • Now he knew immediately the one who was speaking
  • 00:24:02.183 --> 00:24:06.787
  • To him was lord.
  • 00:24:06.787 --> 00:24:11.125
  • And jesus said,
  • 00:24:11.492 --> 00:24:12.426
  • "i'm jesus whom you persecute."
  • 00:24:12.426 --> 00:24:14.028
  • But listen to this.
  • 00:24:14.028 --> 00:24:15.363
  • He said,
  • 00:24:15.363 --> 00:24:16.764
  • "it is hard for you to kick against the pricks."
  • 00:24:16.764 --> 00:24:21.235
  • Some people are just bound and determined
  • 00:24:22.103 --> 00:24:24.405
  • To go the wrong way
  • 00:24:24.405 --> 00:24:28.109
  • So much that it's even hard for them.
  • 00:24:28.910 --> 00:24:33.481
  • (lawson laughing)
  • 00:24:33.915 --> 00:24:36.484
  • But they wanna do it their way.
  • 00:24:36.484 --> 00:24:39.754
  • Guess what?
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  • His way is always better than your way any day of the week.
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  • And if you find it's difficult, if you find it's hard,
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  • If you find it's frustrating,
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  • It's probably 'cause you're trying to do it
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  • In your strength
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  • Rather than let jesus do it in his strength.
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  • Or maybe you're not going quite the right way.
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  • Paul was going completely the wrong way,
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  • And yet jesus was working on him.
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  • "and he trembling and astonished and said,
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  • "lord, what..."
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  • He asked him a question,
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  • "what will you have me to do?"
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  • And the lord said,
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  • "arise and go in the city
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  • And you'll be told what you must do."
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  • Do this, and then i'll tell you what you're to do next.
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  • Until you do the last thing that god told you to do.
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