Lawson Perdue - Jesus Influencers (Part 5)

May 30, 2025 | S

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 - Jesus Influencers (Part 5) | May 30, 2025

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- praise the lord.
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Friends, i wanna say a great big thank you
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For tuning in today.
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This is actually our last broadcast
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On being a jesus influencer.
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And realize it or not, as a member of the body of christ,
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You have a sphere of influence.
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You don't wanna miss this last teaching
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Where we're in 1 timothy 4,
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Talking about our response really to the word of god
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And the holy spirit.
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(lively music)
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Friend, i'm so glad that you're here today.
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We've been sharing all this week on being an example
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Of believers, being an influencer for the lord jesus christ.
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And believe it or not, as a believer,
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You have a sphere of influence.
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- that's really true.
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You know, sometimes we think,
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"oh, i don't have that big of an influence.
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Maybe i don't really have a big platform,
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Or i don't have, you know, a big business.
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I don't have a big following."
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But there are people that god has strategically placed
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Around you that you're to impact,
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You're to minister to, you're to influence,
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They might be believers, they might be non-believers.
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- yeah.
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- you know, god has actually placed you next to people
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That you're supposed to minister to,
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That you're supposed to preach the gospel to and get saved.
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- yeah. - on several occasions.
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- many occasions.
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- yeah. do you wanna talk about?
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- well, i mean, when we moved here to colorado springs,
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God moved us right across the street from a retired,
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You know, general in the air force.
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And he had actually, or...
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- colonel. - colonel in the air force.
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He had actually ran three air bases during his career.
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And, you know, i knew immediately when we drove in,
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We moved in with the pickup truck
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And a big stock trailer, 26 foot stock trailer loaded.
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We had three loads, you know,
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And we had this fixer upper house that we bought
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That was about 30 years old that hadn't been touched
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For about 30 years and a lot of work.
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But when we moved in,
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I saw across the street this ford truck
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And a big cowboy hat.
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And i thought, i got a friend over there.
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And i started talking to him and he started talking to me,
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And we became really good friends.
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And he actually had 30 years in military
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And had fought in world war ii,
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Had actually flown bombers
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And different things, flew over 200 missions
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And then ran, you know, three military air bases
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During his career.
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And then he got involved in the cattle business,
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Which i was actively involved in when we moved here
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To colorado springs and had been involved in for years.
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And so we became friends,
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And i started witnessing to him
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As god would give me opportunity.
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And, you know, about a year into us being here, you know,
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His middle son, he had three sons,
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Just like i have three sons.
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His middle son came to my house one day
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And knocked on the door, and he said, "hey, i want you
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To know that god sent you to witness to my dad."
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- and that son actually worked for a very large ministry.
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- yeah. james dobson and his school, yeah.
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- probably at the time that was one
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Of the largest ministries in the country.
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- yeah and his son had a doctorate degree,
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But he said, he told me, "my dad hates preachers."
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- and you had just started a church here.
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You know, you started, you know, 20,
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40 people there at church.
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So you could have thought,
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"well, i don't have that much influence, you know?"
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And this son, he works for james dobson,
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Who, you know, talks to the president
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And has, you know, millions of people listen
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To him on the radio.
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But god placed you there to reach that person.
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- right.
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And so he said,
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"but my dad hates preachers, but he loves you.
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And god sent you to witness to my dad."
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- and his son realized that too.
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His son realized that god put you there.
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- and i mean, we had a relationship where i spoke
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To this person for years.
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We had a really good friendship,
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And he gave me really great advice financially
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And different things.
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He was very successful financially,
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But also, i shared jesus with him,
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But actually on his death bed, you know, i went,
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He asked me if i would watch his dog.
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He had to go in for a little surgery and get in his mail.
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He thought it was gonna be a couple days.
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And he went in and actually, as a result of this surgery,
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He went into a coma.
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And like several weeks into it, the lord told me to go down
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And see him, and they'd put him in the hospital here
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In springs where they just leave people to die.
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And when i went in his room, he came out of the coma
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And he started talking to me.
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And i asked him, his name was ken.
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I said, "ken, do you believe
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That jesus christ died for your sins?
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And god raised him from the dead and made him lord?"
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So on, and so he said yes.
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I mean, and you know what?
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I really believe that ken, you know, as he answered me yes
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In the affirmative in those things, i believe
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That i'm gonna see ken in heaven.
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And you know, he was awake for about a half hour that day,
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Talking to me, conversing with me.
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And then when i left the room,
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He went back into the coma and he never came out.
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But i believe that i'm gonna see ken in heaven.
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You know, god is not trying to keep people out of heaven.
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And heaven depends on what you do with jesus,
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If you believe jesus or if you don't.
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But, you know, that conversation was a result.
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I mean, we'd had a relationship
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For several years before that happened.
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- well, he got to see you live out the gospel.
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You know, we've been sharing from 1 timothy 4:12-13,
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And we'll talk about verse 14 today.
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But, you know, he got to see your example.
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And, you know, the scripture says,
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"let no one despise your youth."
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So you were younger than him.
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You know, he was further ahead of you.
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And you know, he was very high up in the military, very...
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- influential. - in the cattle industry.
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But you were an example to him.
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It says you can be an example to believers in word,
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In conduct and love and spirit and faith and purity.
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- you know, god will give you divine appointments.
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You know, then god moved us
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After ken went home to be with jesus,
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And we bought another house.
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It was a foreclosure, and the men were moving us in.
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And this neighbor who's a, you know,
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Like multi, multi, multimillionaire,
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Probably has a net worth of over 100 million.
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And he said, "what are you doing?"
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They said, "we're moving in our pastor."
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He said, "i hate preachers."
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But, you know, we became good friends.
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And i witnessed to him, and i witnessed to him for 13 years,
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But last year, he received jesus as his lord and savior.
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And he's come to this church a few times.
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He goes to other churches in arizona
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Where he goes for the winter.
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But, you know, thank god,
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God will give you divine appointments
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And put you in people's place so you can be a witness
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To them about the living god, about jesus christ.
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- well, that's one thing i've just noticed about you
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And mom, you guys are always witnessing
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To people just when you're out on a walk
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Or at the gym, at the grocery store.
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- [lawson] i talk to people wherever i am.
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- you're inviting people to church.
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And you might think, well, this is just one person who,
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You know, 10% chance will actually come
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And i actually have 1,000 people i need to minister to
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On a regular basis.
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But you guys are... even those small things.
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- the shepherd goes after the one sheep
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And he rejoices more when the one sheep comes home.
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- and paul wrote to timothy too, who was a pastor, he said,
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You need to do the work of an evangelist.
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- right, we all should be telling people about jesus.
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You know, the other day i was at my gym
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And it happened to be on sunday.
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And i have a retired doctor there.
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He's 94 years old. i love him.
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He loves people. he's served people.
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He's really a blessing.
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But, you know, he's there nearly every day at 4:45,
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Sometimes before me, but we're usually there both at 4:45
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When the gym opens.
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But it was sunday, and i got in the shower
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And i happened to be worshiping the lord
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And this other general,
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And he's run the whole air force.
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He's run the whole mountain over here,
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Cheyenne mountain military base.
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And, you know, he's done all these different things
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And you know, he was in there.
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And this general goes out generally and swims,
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And i swim in the morning.
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So we visit a little bit and i jumped in the shower
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And i was worshiping god.
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And so when i got out of the shower,
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Dr. jim said, "i told the general,
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You were practicing for church."
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Well, i'm really practicing for heaven, you know,
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But you just live your life and just be who you are.
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- i kind of have a word.
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I believe it's for myself,
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But for many people watching right now.
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But it's don't be so busy that you can't take a minute
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To minister to someone, to hear from the holy spirit
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And just pray for someone, witness,
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Just to literally have a minute.
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Sometimes you can be so busy
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Or have that feeling that you're so busy and just...
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- [lawson] right.
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- like you need to have a little space in life
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For the holy spirit to flow through you, you know?
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- [lawson] and just listen.
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A month ago, my wife and i, once a month,
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We go to a chiropractor,
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And we've been seeing this guy for several years now.
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And he's a great, great person, a father, you know,
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He's been expanding his business,
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But my wife could tell like, something was off.
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He just wasn't his usual self.
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And he told us he was kind of going
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Through some legal things,
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And she just asked, "hey, can we pray for you?"
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- right.
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- and we just spent two or three minutes praying for him.
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And we were busy too.
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We actually had to fly out the next day,
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And we had our four year-old with us,
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And she's climbing all over the chiropractor equipment,
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And it wasn't like a convenient thing for us, you know,
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But we came back a month later
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And it just really ministered to him.
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He just thanked us,
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You know, for doing that.
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And, you know, you mentioned too,
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You visited a church in miami.
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And the pastor's of a different denomination,
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But you just felt led,
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I'm just gonna give this guy $100,
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Just bless him and, you know,
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Be led by the holy spirit in the small things.
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It might be just praying for someone,
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Giving someone a gift.
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- he was really busy that day.
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He had a meeting after church.
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He really couldn't even talk to me.
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But i just put $100, i put $100 in for the church,
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And then i put $100 in the offering for him.
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And i said, this is a personal gift for,
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You know, wrote his name on it.
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And then i put my phone number.
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A little bit after i came home, my phone rang,
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And he left me a really nice message.
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And then i got a really nice thank you from him, you know?
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And even though he pastors, you know, a different church,
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It was just like, you know,
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I can tell the man understands the love of god.
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I can tell he preaches the true gospel of jesus.
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He understands the gospel, the goodness of god.
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And it's just great.
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You know, we can...
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You know, i love the gospel.
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- be an example in the small things as well.
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Sometimes people think, "man, i only i wanna be an example
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In something major, something big."
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But the small things, man, that's what really can speak
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To people and really have a huge impact.
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- [lawson] yeah.
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- you know, like giving someone $100
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Or praying for someone even though you might be busy.
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- yeah, and you know, aaron, i tell you,
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I'm gotta tell you about something that happened last night.
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I was at walmart and i was picking up a couple of things
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For the church plow truck, you know?
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And when i was doing that, you know,
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I saw a man in our church, an older man,
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He's up in his 90s, he doesn't drive,
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But there was another man in our church
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That was walking behind him.
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And i recognized this man brought this other man,
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And it would just touch me.
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And i didn't go try to talk to him, but it just touched me,
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These people just demonstrating the love of jesus christ.
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And i went out in the parking lot
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And we were driving out of the parking lot,
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And here was that man standing in his pickup
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And this other man that he had brought.
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And i know that man took time out of his day
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Just to demonstrate the love of god.
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Sunday here, there was a woman, she's up in her 90s,
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And she recently got put in a nursing home,
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And there was another woman with her.
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And i went and sat down by her, talked to her
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Because it took her a lot of time to go get this woman,
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She's clear on the other end of town,
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To bring her to church
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And then to take her back after church.
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But it's just really great when you see people
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That are really living out the love of god
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And demonstrating jesus.
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- and that influence, it might seem like a small thing,
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But it can be a very big thing.
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- it's a huge thing to me.
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- yeah. and that's how you live it out.
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That's how you be an example is in those things.
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- amen.
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- we're gonna take a brief break.
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It's gonna be really awesome.
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Get the entire teaching it, it's really gonna bless you.
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It says, "some brought for 30, some 60, some 100-fold."
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I believe the 100-fold ground.
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That's the ground is talking about our heart.
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The word is talking about the seed.
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How many of you know the seed is consistent?
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The word is consistent, but our heart is what changes.
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In fact, your heart is producing a harvest.
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If you don't like the harvest you're getting,
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You gotta change the seed you're allowing
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To remain in your heart.
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Praise the lord. friends, i'm glad you stayed with us.
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We're right here, and we're in 1 timothy 4.
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We've actually been here all week, and we've been talking
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About how you can be an example for jesus.
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You can be a jesus influencer.
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In fact, if you're born again,
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If you're a believer, you are an influencer for jesus.
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So he says, "be an example in your words,
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In your lifestyle, in your love for one another, in spirit,
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In your attitude, in faith, in purity.
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Give attendance, keep reading the word.
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Keep exhorting people.
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Stay in a place where you're being exhorted
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And to doctrine."
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But then we're gonna get into verse 14 through verse 16
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Where the scripture says,
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"don't neglect the gift that is in you,
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Which was given to you by prophecy."
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Paul knew timothy, physically, right?
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He was like a spiritual father to him,
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But he also knew him by the spirit.
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"with the laying on of hands of the presbytery.
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Meditate on these things.
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Give yourself holy to them
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That your profiting may appear to all.
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Take heed to yourself
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And also to your doctrine,
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To what you believe.
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Continue in them for in doing this,
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You're both gonna save yourself
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And those that hear you."
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You know, it's important
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What you stay at and what you believe
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Because it affects not only you, it affects those
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That you're influencing.
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- yeah, and i love verse 14.
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It says, "do not neglect the gift that is in you."
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God has placed certain things in you,
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But you have to draw it out.
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You have to remember it's there and to grow with it.
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- [lawson] right.
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- you know, at a young age,
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You and mom realized that i had musical giftings,
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Musical abilities, but i couldn't just neglect it.
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You have to develop it.
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So certain things that god gives us, we have to put to use,
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We have to develop, we have to put to use consistently.
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- [lawson] amen.
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- and, you know, he's given you specific giftings.
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He's placed you in certain areas
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To reach certain people,
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But you have to use what he's given you.
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And i like that it says too that these certain gifts
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Are given by the laying out of hands with prophecy.
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Your prophecy actually speaks things out.
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It calls things out. you can prophetically create something.
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- [lawson] amen.
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- you know, and to me that's really important
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That you're in a place, you're in a church
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Where they understand the gift of prophecy,
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The gift of speaking life, the gift of...
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- well, and all the manifestations of the holy spirit.
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You know, there's really two parts of the church today.
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There's the church that believes in salvation, right?
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And water baptism.
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Most churches believe in salvation, water baptism.
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But there's also the church that believes in salvation,
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Water baptism, and the baptism of the holy spirit.
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And we're one of those churches.
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Inevitably, the churches that have really grown,
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Especially in the last few years,
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And in the last century, are the churches
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That are actively teaching the baptism of the holy spirit
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With the evidence of speaking in other tongues.
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And this isn't only a gift for a few believers.
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I don't believe that it was an odd thing
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For someone to be baptized in the holy spirit
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And speak in tongues in the new testament.
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I believe that most believers, if not,
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I believe nearly every believer in the book
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Of acts spoke in tongues.
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Not only did they receive salvation,
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Were they water baptized, but they spoke with tongues.
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They prayed the personal prayer language.
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- and paul himself said,
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"i thank god that i pray in tongues,
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That i speak in tongues more than you all.
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- right, and he was not even born again
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Till a number of years after the church was born.
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- last night, i was up in the middle of the night
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Around 3 o'clock,
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And god was speaking to me about prophecy
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And just how a lot of people,
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Even in charismatic churches,
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Don't really understand that ministry.
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And a lot of people look to it and are excited about it
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Because they think
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It's like a fortune telling kind of thing.
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But god was telling that prophecy and true prophets,
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They're not fortune tellers.
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- [lawson] right.
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- and some people kinda go around
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Acting like fortune tellers.
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- you know, i told this minister,
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And he has a very viable ministry, and i really love him.
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I really do love him.
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But i told him one time, the difference between you and me
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Is you're trying to, you know,
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Be the voice of god for people.
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And i'm trying to teach people how to hear the voice
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Of god for theirself.
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And i believe you're in a lot stronger position
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When you can hear the voice of god for yourself
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Than run around from meeting to meeting trying
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To just hear the voice of god, right?
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I'm all for prophetic meetings.
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I'm all for, you know, evangelistic meetings.
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I'm all for all of these things, teaching the...
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You know, i'm all for the fivefold ministry,
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Apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor, teacher.
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But i believe as believers mature, they don't have
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To just look for a word from a prophet, so to speak,
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But they can really hear god for themselves.
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- well, and sometimes prophecy might be happening
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And you don't even realize it.
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Like, it might be in the worship.
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There might be a song that's declaring things,
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That's calling things out prophetically from people,
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Or when, you know, the pastor gets up and prays.
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They might be...
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And just because they're not saying abracadabra
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And doing a fortune telling show, sometimes people miss it.
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- right, see, prophecy, a biblical definition of prophecy,
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It says, "he that prophesies," in 1 corinthians 14:3,
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"speaks to man exhortation."
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We've been talking about that.
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Edification, to build up, and comfort.
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Simple prophecy is just exhortation,
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Edification, and comfort.
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And that can come in many different ways.
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- that's awesome.
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So, you know, don't neglect the gift.
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We all have certain gifts that god has given us.
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Can you read that verse?
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- yeah, he says, "don't neglect the gift that is in you,
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Which was given to you by prophecy."
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In other words,
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They recognized it with called the laying on of hands
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Of the presbytery.
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Meditate on these things.
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So there's words, for instance,
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Andrew wommack has spoken about 23 words
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Of wisdom over me in the last 47 years
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That we've been friends.
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And 22 of them have come to pass.
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There's one of them that hasn't, i still believe it,
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And it was given over 10 years ago,
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But i believe it's coming to pass.
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I think i've began to get insight
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What the holy spirit's doing
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And how it's gonna happen in this next season
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That the church is in.
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But he says, "meditate on these things."
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I've meditated on it. i've thought about it a lot.
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I can quote it to you verse.
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You know, i have a leader here, and i'd given her a word.
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I thought it was last year,
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But there was a transition
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That was happening in our ministry staff.
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And i went and said, "do you remember that word?"
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And she spoke the word exactly as i gave it to her.
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She told me the exact date she's been meditating
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On that thing.
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It was two years ago.
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- well, and she recognized that it was prophetic.
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- right. - what was happening.
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- and so it says, "give yourself holy to them."
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She has been applying herself to the things
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That she's doing, so she's prepared.
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And i said, "well, your overseer here
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In the ministry said this."
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And she said, "well, i was at that place,
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But i'm in a completely different place
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Because i've done this."
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And so she's been giving herself to those things.
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"that your profiting may appear to all."
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And listen, the word that i gave her is promotion is coming
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And her profiting is gonna appear
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To other people in the future.
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He said, "take heed to yourself."
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First of all, you gotta guard yourself.
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And he says, "and unto your doctrine
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And to what you believe"
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Because if you're believing wrong,
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You're gonna start acting wrong
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And you're gonna start leading others astray.
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"continue in them for in doctrine, in the right doctrine
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And in the things of the spirit,
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And taking heed to yourself for in doing this
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In the word of god also, you're gonna both save yourself
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And those who hear you."
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And it's important what you're giving yourself to.
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Man, if you give yourselves to, you know, flintstones,
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You're gonna be a fruity pebble.
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So don't give yourself the flint.
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You need to give yourself to the word of god.
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You need to give yourself to the things of the spirit.
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You need to give yourself to these.
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That's what he's talking about, this whole verse is.
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- and this is awesome.
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You know, we've actually spent the entire week
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Just going through three verses in 1 timothy,
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1 timothy 4:12-14.
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But really, this entire book, you know,
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2 timothy as well, paul just has loads
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And loads of leadership principles here.
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And they apply to everyone.
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They especially apply to pastors, you know?
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When i became a pastor nine years ago,
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I didn't have an education in pastoral ministry,
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But i could learn from a great pastor just from by example.
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That's the greatest way to learn.
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So i've been close to you,
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- you know, we have a series on leadership,
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Actually from 1 and 2 timothy
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That i taught with pastor max cornell.
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And before you came to pastor,
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Max cornell came here to church.
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And max, one of the leaders at charis bible college,
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Greg mohr said that max is probably the greatest teacher
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That's ever graduated from charis bible college.
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But he came to our church and he worked for me
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For three years and as assistant pastor.
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And max says, "you know what?
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I wouldn't have known a lot of things about pastoring,
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But i learned 'em from you."
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And now he's in kansas city, in the west side of kansas.
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Pastors charis church there in the west side
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Of kansas city in johnson county.
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And he's a great pastor, but max learned
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And he's applied those things.
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And him and i taught the entire book
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Of timothy really on leader.
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Andit's on our website, it's free of charge.
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- and he's learned by example too, you know?
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Paul says you gotta be an example.
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And the greatest way that people learn is by example.
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And it's not just the big things.
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Again, the small things is what really, really counts.
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You know, i remember, you know,
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And i mentioned this before,
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But i have a background in classical music.
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I play the flute, have a doctorate in music.
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And the primary way you learn an instrument is by example.
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- [lawson] right.
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- you know, the teacher, they don't just describe
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To you, you don't just read a book,
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But you have to meet with that teacher one-on-one
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And learn by example how they do it.
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But i remember once i studied, you know,
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With one of the greatest teachers in the world,
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And she has students in top orchestras,
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Top universities all around the world.
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But i remember once we were gonna go surprise her
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On her birthday.
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This is in houston, texas, like in february,
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But i remember the, the eight of us,
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We all got together at our house at like 10 pm.
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We're all just gonna start playing our flutes
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And piccolos outside of her house really loud,
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Happy birthday and surprise her.
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But we all just show up, you know,
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On her front lawn at 10 pm
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And she was in her house.
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We could hear her practicing at 10 pm.
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You know, she was in her 70s.
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Like, she didn't have to practice,
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She didn't have to be doing this thing.
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But she was a great example in those little things.
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You know, that really inspired me.
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Hey, like you could be in your 70s
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And still be learning, still be growing,
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Still be doing things.
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- and she's played for the boston symphony.
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- so, i mean, years before, i mean,
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She's a tremendous, tremendous, you know, person
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In this area, but she's still living it
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And she's practicing it on a daily basis.
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- i was talking to someone recent too, they're asking about,
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"in that classical music field, was it very competitive?"
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And i said, "well, our teachers set a good example
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On how to celebrate each other's successes."
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So it's not a competitive thing,
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But we're all gonna learn from each other
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And grow and celebrate achievements.
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- that's a great example for the body of christ.
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- but you have to set the example.
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- celebrate each other's success.
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- [aaron] amen.
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- man, we need to do that in the church.
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That's a great example.
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Well, i wanna say great big thank you
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To all you who've been watching.
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I also wanna let you know that, you know,
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We have our website, we have great teaching.
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It's downloadable, audio, video, it's free.
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You can check us out on youtube.
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In fact, you know, we live stream our sunday services,
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Our wednesday service on youtube.
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If i'm not here, i live stream myself many times,
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Or i go back and live stream
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If i'm preaching somewhere else.
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After the service, i got pastors, they go preach
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And then they watch us on youtube
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Or they watch us on youtube and then they go preach.
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But you can check us out on the website
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And you can come to church here
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If you're in colorado springs.
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We'd love to see you. blessings.
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Lawson Perdue - Jesus Influencers (Part 5)

May 30, 2025 | S

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