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Grace for Today with Lawson Perdue

Lawson Perdue - Life Altering Power Of God's Word

August 29, 2025 | S E | 29:55

Lawson Perdue - Life Altering Power Of God's Word
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 - Life Altering Power Of God's Word | August 29, 2025
  • (light music)
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  • - praise the lord, friends,
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  • And welcome to the broadcast today.
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  • I'm so glad that you've tuned in.
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  • The word of god says that man shall not live
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  • By bread alone, but by every word
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  • That proceeds from the mouth of god.
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  • Today, my son aaron is gonna be sharing
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  • About the life-changing power of god's word.
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  • You don't wanna miss this broadcast.
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  • If you get ahold of this truth,
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  • It will revolutionize your life.
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  • (upbeat music)
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  • - i wanna be talking about the power of god's word today,
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  • The life-altering power of god's word today.
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  • So i'm not gonna go down that rabbit hole,
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  • But that was a little bonus for y'all.
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  • I'll just quote that scripture.
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  • It's from mark 7:13.
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  • I'm gonna read from the amplified.
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  • Mark 7:13, sorry, it's not in my notes.
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  • I know the scripture guy's already,
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  • I'm already throwing him off.
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  • But it says, "thus, you are nullifying and making void
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  • And of no effect the authority
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  • Of the word of god through your tradition,
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  • Which you in turn hand on.
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  • And many things of this kind you are doing."
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  • So anything that nullifies the word of god
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  • And its power is is just tradition.
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  • It's not god, it's from man.
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  • So i wanna talk about prioritizing the word of god
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  • Like your life depends upon it, because it does.
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  • And pastor max is here.
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  • He said he is getting a doctorate,
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  • Probably in ministry or theology.
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  • What is it?
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  • - theology. - theology, okay.
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  • So i also have a doctorate from rice university,
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  • But it's not in theology.
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  • It's in blowing hot air through a silver pipe.
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  • But i have a theological question, and it's in scripture.
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  • Who is the first person that jesus
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  • Just fully revealed himself to?
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  • Fully just flat out said who he was?
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  • It was actually the devil.
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  • It was right after he had been baptized by john the baptist,
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  • And there was an audible voice from the father, saying,
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  • "this is my son in whom i'm well pleased."
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  • Then he was led by the spirit into the wilderness
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  • To be tempted by the devil.
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  • And the devil tempted him the same way he tempts
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  • A lot of people today in his identity.
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  • "if you are the son of god."
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  • He had just heard from the father, the audible voice,
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  • "this is my beloved son."
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  • And then the devil, in the three temptations said,
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  • "if you are the son of god, if you are the son of god,
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  • If you are the son of god."
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  • The first thing that jesus said
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  • Was he answered the devil and said,
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  • "it is written, man shall not live by bread alone,
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  • But by every word that proceeds from the mouth of god."
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  • Every rhema word, every command, every living,
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  • Now word that proceeds from the mouth of god.
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  • The devil tempted him again,
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  • And then he just flat out said, "it is written,
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  • You shall not tempt the lord your god."
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  • He said, "i am lord," all caps.
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  • "you shall not tempt yahweh, jehovah, your god."
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  • Devil tempts him again, and he said,
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  • "away with you, satan,
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  • For it is written, you shall worship the lord your god.
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  • You shall worship me.
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  • You rejected me in heaven
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  • Before the heavens and earth were created,
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  • But you shall worship me."
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  • And the enemy is tempting him in his identity.
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  • And i told the youth, that's the number one way
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  • The enemy still tries to attack people today,
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  • Especially the young generation is in their identity.
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  • Actually, heather and i have been doing
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  • Youth now for a year and a half.
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  • We're taking our teachings
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  • And we're turning it into a youth curriculum.
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  • And we actually, just this week,
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  • It's up there today on our website.
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  • We have the first quarter of our youth curriculum there.
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  • So we have our teachings,
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  • And the way we teach, we just teach 20 to 30 minutes max,
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  • But we break off into small groups
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  • And have questions that they discuss
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  • Kind of by age and gender.
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  • So it's a really powerful tool,
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  • And it's focused on who we are in christ.
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  • Identity, it's focused on purpose,
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  • It's focused on the power of god.
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  • We need the power of god, amen?
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  • And they want it.
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  • I was just so touched to see
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  • A third of the students just put their hands out like that.
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  • Just like that.
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  • And they wanted it.
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  • So you gotta prioritize the word of god
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  • Like your life depends upon it, because it does.
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  • Jesus said, "man shall not live by bread alone,
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  • But by every word that proceeds from the mouth of god."
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  • Let's go to luke 5.
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  • And we're gonna dive in here and break it down a little bit.
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  • I like that theological question.
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  • I think i'm right, pastor max.
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  • Can be part of your dissertation.
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  • I know you got a lot of pages to fill, probably.
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  • My dissertation was a hundred pages long
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  • And we gotta make it happen somehow.
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  • Luke 5.
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  • This is really interesting here.
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  • So it says, "so it was as the multitude pressed about him,"
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  • I love why they pressed about him here in this instance,
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  • To hear the word of god.
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  • Why would multitudes gather around jesus?
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  • For revival, that there's healing going on,
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  • That they pressed about him to be healed.
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  • People would gather around him to kill him.
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  • Riots, revivals.
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  • But here, they wanted to hear the word of god.
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  • And in the new testament, there's two words,
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  • Greek words used for the word of god,
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  • Either rama, i mentioned rhema or logos.
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  • So logos is scripture.
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  • It's a teaching, it's a doctrine.
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  • So right here, it says,
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  • "they gathered by him to hear the logos."
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  • They wanted to hear the scripture.
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  • They wanted to hear what he had to share from the scripture.
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  • Jesus would open up scrolls and read from scripture.
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  • He would talk about the logos, word of god.
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  • And it's so cool to hear what logos has to say about logos,
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  • Because john said, "in the beginning was the word of god,
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  • And the word was with god and dwelt among us.
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  • And that word became flesh."
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  • That 'logos' word.
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  • If you want to hear the word of god, you got to go to jesus.
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  • Logos, the doctrine, scripture has to be foundational.
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  • And this is why they're gathering around him
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  • To hear that scripture expanded upon,
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  • They gathered about to hear the logos word of god,
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  • That he stood by the lake of gennesaret
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  • And saw two boats standing by the lake,
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  • But the fishermen had gone from them
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  • And were washing their nets.
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  • Then he got into one of the boats, which was simon's,
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  • And asked him to put out a little from the land,
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  • And he sat down and taught the multitudes from the boat.
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  • Now, i love what it says here in verse four.
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  • Now, jesus is on simon peter's boat,
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  • Preaching, teaching, expounding, sharing a logos.
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  • And it said, when he stopped speaking, he said,
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  • So i imagine it's just like time just freezing right here.
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  • Jesus is preaching.
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  • Peter doesn't really know jesus.
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  • He's probably just cleaning his nets, doing whatever,
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  • Doing what some people do.
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  • They're not really paying attention to what's going on.
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  • But he's speaking and said.
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  • So here, jesus actually shifts from logos to rhema.
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  • He gets a now word, he gets a command, he gets the living,
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  • Breathing, active word of god.
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  • He says to simon, "launch out into the deep
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  • And let down your nets for a catch."
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  • Now, simon answers and said to him, he argues with jesus,
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  • "yeah, you can be a great person of faith
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  • And still have areas where you're trying to figure it out."
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  • He didn't quite get it.
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  • He said, "master, i'm an expert fisherman.
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  • You aren't.
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  • I saw some chairs you made, but i'm the fisherman.
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  • I know what i'm doing.
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  • I've toiled all night, caught nothing.
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  • That's what my expertise tells me.
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  • That's what my knowledge tells me.
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  • That's what my emotions tell me."
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  • Working all night and catching nothing,
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  • It's frustrating.
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  • - [congregant] yeah.
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  • - this is such a great picture of the law,
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  • Performance and grace.
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  • The law and performance is all about you.
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  • You're working, working, toiling, toiling,
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  • And get nothing for it.
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  • But if you have jesus come in,
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  • If you have the rhema word of god to act upon, he says this.
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  • He says, "this is my experience.
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  • This is what i've been doing.
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  • This is my performance.
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  • This is my life.
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  • Working, toiling, doing nothing."
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  • Nevertheless, at your word, at your rhema, he said,
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  • "this isn't just logos here, this isn't just your teaching.
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  • This isn't just doctrine.
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  • This is your command.
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  • There, you stopped speaking
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  • And said something to me.
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  • At your word, i will let down the net."
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  • This is god's grace.
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  • God's grace, his power is in that rhema word.
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  • When the logos becomes rhema,
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  • When scripture becomes alive to you,
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  • Becomes real to you, it speaks to you.
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  • I've been sinning in church before
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  • And i'm hearing the logos, i'm hearing pastor lawson,
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  • He's full of logos.
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  • I didn't get a doctorate in theology,
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  • But i went to the pastor lawson produce seminary
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  • For 18 years of my life.
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  • He's a walking bible almanac.
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  • He can just quote anything from the king james
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  • And even knows the punctuation.
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  • (congregants laughing)
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  • But he'll be preaching, and god will just speak.
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  • In one instance, it's like he stops speaking,
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  • And god says to me and just gives me a whole three month
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  • Of what i need to communicate to the youth or something.
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  • Just in one minute, just like that.
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  • "nevertheless, at your word, i will let down the net."
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  • And when they had done this,
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  • They caught a great number of fish
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  • And their net was breaking.
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  • So they signaled to their partners
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  • In the other boat to come and help them.
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  • And they came and filled both the boats.
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  • So they began to sink.
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  • When simon peter saw it,
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  • He fell down at jesus' knees, saying,
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  • "depart from me, for i'm a sinful man, lord."
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  • He's repenting.
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  • He's coming to jesus, knowing him as his lord and savior.
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  • And it says, "for he and all who were with him
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  • Were astonished at the catch of fish, which they had taken."
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  • And also, there was james and john, the sons of zebedee,
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  • Who were partners with simon.
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  • And jesus said to simon, "do not be afraid.
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  • From now on, you'll catch men."
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  • And this is my word for the young generation.
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  • You need to be a fisher of men or you'll be fished by men.
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  • You have to be a leader.
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  • You have to be all in with jesus christ,
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  • Or you'll be the one that gets caught.
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  • So take advantage of this resource.
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  • - and i just love this.
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  • He toiled all night.
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  • He worked all night, caught nothing.
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  • That's performance.
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  • That's you on your own.
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  • But with jesus, with his word, explosion, abundance,
  • 00:12:05.100 --> 00:12:11.039
  • You know, a year ago for father's day,
  • 00:12:11.840 --> 00:12:13.408
  • Heather bought me and her a guided fly fishing experience.
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  • There's a lady here who's come to church for a long time.
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  • Her grandson guides for the broadmoor.
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  • And he gave us a great deal to go
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  • Up 11 mile in the canyon there
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  • And fish in one of the greatest spots
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  • In the nation for fly fishing.
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  • And we had this guide with us.
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  • And i caught two or three trout
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  • That were like massive and four or five.
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  • Heather caught a few.
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  • I thought i was an expert.
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  • After that, i went and bought all the stuff.
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  • I bought the poles, the gear, i did all this stuff.
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  • And then i went with them.
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  • Aaron scaggs, rachel's here,
  • 00:12:53.215 --> 00:12:54.683
  • He is one of our worship leaders.
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  • And i went with aaron.
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  • The two aarons are fishing.
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  • And i kept getting my hooks caught and stuff.
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  • I actually fell down in the water twice,
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  • Got completely drenched.
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  • Two times.
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  • My waiter's filled up with water.
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  • I caught zero fish.
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  • I know what peter feels like when he tells jesus,
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  • "i'm done."
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  • (congregants laughing)
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  • It's frustrating.
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  • - [heather] you were so mad.
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  • - heather said i was so mad.
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  • I wanted to just go take everything.
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  • (congregants laughing)
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  • I was thinking, i actually bought two of everything too
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  • 'cause i thought i'm gonna teach my son fisher
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  • How to do this.
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  • This is gonna be our bonding time.
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  • I'm like, "i don't want fisher to see me in this state."
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  • (congregants laughing)
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  • I'm trying to be a good dad and not swear and-
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  • (congregants laughing)
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  • Not die, not drown.
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  • - [heather] you haven't used that since.
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  • - i haven't used it since.
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  • It's sitting in my garage to this day.
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  • (congregants laughing)
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  • It's a picture of my performance.
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  • It's a picture of i need a guide.
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  • It's a picture of why you need jesus and the holy spirit.
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  • - woo! - come on.
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  • - and some of y'all think you're an expert,
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  • But there's one minute away from jesus-
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  • - [congregant] come on. (congregants laughing)
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  • - it ain't gonna be pretty.
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  • - yay! - woo!
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  • - [congregant] that's good.
  • 00:14:25.507 --> 00:14:28.476
  • - and i love reading the bible.
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  • I didn't go to bible school,
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  • So i just look at the bible for instruction.
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  • I look at what paul tells timothy
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  • And what he tells thomas, how to do my job.
  • 00:14:34.449 --> 00:14:37.953
  • And paul made it really simple to timothy in 2 timothy 4:2.
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  • He said, "preach the word.
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  • Preach the logos."
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  • Preach the logos, preach the word of god, preach scripture,
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  • Be ready in seasonalities and convince, rebuke,
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  • Exhort with all long suffering and teaching.
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  • And this is really true.
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  • This is what i love about all of our speakers,
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  • All of our ministers here,
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  • That they all love the word of god.
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  • They love the logos.
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  • And if anyone gets away from the logos,
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  • If any church, any denomination,
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  • Any person gets away from that,
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  • From the written, inspired, infallible scripture,
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  • From the person of jesus who is logos manifest,
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  • You're not gonna hear and experience the rhema word of god.
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  • God's word has the power to breakthrough impossibilities.
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  • Let's look at psalm 138:2.
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  • You can go there to psalm 138:2.
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  • I just wanna talk about what god says about his own word,
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  • What jesus says about his own word as well.
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  • Psalm 138:2 says, "i will worship toward
  • 00:15:47.055 --> 00:15:50.492
  • Your holy temple and praise your name."
  • 00:15:50.492 --> 00:15:52.160
  • I love just singing about the name of jesus.
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  • There is power in the name of jesus to break every chain,
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  • Break every chain.
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  • There is so much power in the name of jesus.
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  • That is the only name by which men can be saved.
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  • But this is what god has to say about his word
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  • In comparison with his own name,
  • 00:16:10.311 --> 00:16:12.514
  • The name of jesus, the name yahweh,
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  • Jehovah jireh, jehovah rapha, jehovah tsidkenu,
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  • Jehovah shalom, jehovah.
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  • This is what he has to say about his word.
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  • I'm gonna worship towards your holy temple.
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  • Praise your name for your loving kindness and your truth.
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  • The hebrew word there, "hesed,"
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  • For love and kindness, it's grace.
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  • Grace and truth.
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  • His name is grace and truth.
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  • We beheld him full of grace and truth.
  • 00:16:40.108 --> 00:16:43.745
  • And god says this.
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  • "you have magnified your word above all your name."
  • 00:16:45.547 --> 00:16:50.785
  • If there is that much power in the name of jesus,
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  • There is that much power even more so in the word of god.
  • 00:16:55.090 --> 00:16:59.828
  • There is no greater power than the word of god.
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  • His word is eternal.
  • 00:17:02.564 --> 00:17:04.532
  • Jesus said this in matthew 24:35,
  • 00:17:04.532 --> 00:17:07.936
  • "heaven and earth will pass away,
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  • But my words will by no means pass away."
  • 00:17:09.370 --> 00:17:14.809
  • That is a divine statement.
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  • - [congregant] yes.
  • 00:17:17.445 --> 00:17:22.417
  • - god's word is a creative force.
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  • - [congregant] amen.
  • 00:17:25.854 --> 00:17:26.988
  • - god spoke and there was light.
  • 00:17:26.988 --> 00:17:29.791
  • And still today, romans 4:17,
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  • God is the one who gives life to the dead
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  • And calls those things
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  • Which do not exist as though they did.
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  • His word is a creative force.
  • 00:17:39.334 --> 00:17:44.105
  • God's word is life itself.
  • 00:17:44.672 --> 00:17:47.175
  • Jesus said in john 6:63,
  • 00:17:47.175 --> 00:17:48.910
  • "it is the spirit who gives life.
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  • The flesh profits nothing.
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  • The words that i speak to you are spirit
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  • And they are life."
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  • God's word is fire in your mouth.
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  • - yes, sir. - it has to be in your mouth.
  • 00:18:00.655 --> 00:18:03.825
  • - yes, it is. - right.
  • 00:18:03.825 --> 00:18:06.127
  • - if it's not in your mouth, there's nothing to burn.
  • 00:18:07.162 --> 00:18:11.633
  • God's word needs your mouth.
  • 00:18:12.233 --> 00:18:14.435
  • I'm gonna talk about that in just a moment,
  • 00:18:14.435 --> 00:18:16.037
  • But god's word needs your mouth.
  • 00:18:16.037 --> 00:18:19.674
  • Jeremiah 5:14 says, "behold,
  • 00:18:19.674 --> 00:18:21.442
  • I will make my words in your mouth fire."
  • 00:18:21.442 --> 00:18:24.946
  • God's word has the power to break through impossibilities.
  • 00:18:24.946 --> 00:18:29.617
  • Let's look at luke 1 starting in verse 26.
  • 00:18:29.617 --> 00:18:32.687
  • Luke 1:26.
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  • This is when gabriel spoke to mary, the christmas story.
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  • And i love this, this reminds me of peter's
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  • Encounter with jesus as well.
  • 00:18:49.270 --> 00:18:51.839
  • He didn't quite understand what jesus was telling him.
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  • "i've toiled, i've worked, i've done this all night.
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  • Nevertheless, at your word, at your rhema,
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  • I'm just gonna do it."
  • 00:19:00.782 --> 00:19:02.584
  • You don't always have to understand
  • 00:19:03.318 --> 00:19:05.720
  • Everything to just do it and make it happen.
  • 00:19:05.720 --> 00:19:08.823
  • You don't have to have the same level of understanding
  • 00:19:09.924 --> 00:19:12.260
  • As dr. max, pastor lawson, apostle mark.
  • 00:19:12.260 --> 00:19:18.633
  • You just gotta hear it and do it.
  • 00:19:19.367 --> 00:19:21.703
  • A couple years ago, i got a brand new truck.
  • 00:19:21.703 --> 00:19:23.438
  • It's a nice truck.
  • 00:19:23.438 --> 00:19:24.372
  • I know nothing about trucks.
  • 00:19:24.372 --> 00:19:26.874
  • When i got this, i'd drive and i parked
  • 00:19:26.874 --> 00:19:28.509
  • Next to some guy at walmart
  • 00:19:28.509 --> 00:19:29.978
  • And he'd have his truck and he'd be like,
  • 00:19:29.978 --> 00:19:32.347
  • "how does that thing pull?
  • 00:19:32.347 --> 00:19:33.715
  • What's its pulling capacity?"
  • 00:19:33.715 --> 00:19:35.149
  • I don't know.
  • 00:19:35.149 --> 00:19:36.651
  • He's like, "well, what's the horsepower?"
  • 00:19:37.518 --> 00:19:38.987
  • I don't know, but there's a lot of horses in there.
  • 00:19:38.987 --> 00:19:41.256
  • (congregants laughing)
  • 00:19:41.256 --> 00:19:42.557
  • I know i can pass about anyone
  • 00:19:42.557 --> 00:19:44.659
  • I need to pass on the interstate now.
  • 00:19:44.659 --> 00:19:46.928
  • I know it.
  • 00:19:46.928 --> 00:19:48.129
  • I push that pedal down and it goes.
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  • You don't have to know everything.
  • 00:19:53.701 --> 00:19:56.204
  • You just gotta believe it and do it
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  • And push the pedal to the metal.
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  • - [congregants] amen.
  • 00:19:59.941 --> 00:20:03.344
  • - gabriel shows up here.
  • 00:20:03.845 --> 00:20:08.116
  • He'd been waiting for thousands of years for this moment.
  • 00:20:08.116 --> 00:20:10.918
  • He probably came in a little hot.
  • 00:20:10.918 --> 00:20:13.187
  • He probably freaked mary out.
  • 00:20:13.821 --> 00:20:16.658
  • "rejoice!"
  • 00:20:16.958 --> 00:20:18.960
  • She's just in there like praying, doing the dishes.
  • 00:20:18.960 --> 00:20:24.032
  • I don't know what she was doing.
  • 00:20:24.666 --> 00:20:27.001
  • She just pops in and just like straight from heaven,
  • 00:20:27.001 --> 00:20:29.804
  • Waiting for thousands of years to announce the messiah
  • 00:20:29.804 --> 00:20:34.309
  • And who's gonna give birth to him.
  • 00:20:34.309 --> 00:20:35.443
  • "rejoice!"
  • 00:20:35.443 --> 00:20:37.312
  • (congregants laughing)
  • 00:20:37.812 --> 00:20:40.014
  • "highly favored one, the lord is with you.
  • 00:20:40.014 --> 00:20:42.116
  • Blessed are you among women."
  • 00:20:42.116 --> 00:20:43.685
  • It says in verse 29.
  • 00:20:43.685 --> 00:20:45.553
  • There are three responses of mary.
  • 00:20:46.321 --> 00:20:48.456
  • The first response, she was troubled.
  • 00:20:48.456 --> 00:20:52.193
  • Sometimes when you hear the word of the lord
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  • And you know it's from him, you might be troubled.
  • 00:20:54.829 --> 00:21:00.735
  • She was troubled at his saying
  • 00:21:01.369 --> 00:21:03.838
  • And considered what manner of greeting this was.
  • 00:21:03.838 --> 00:21:07.075
  • It's probably a polite way of saying
  • 00:21:07.075 --> 00:21:08.409
  • She was about ready to run or something.
  • 00:21:08.409 --> 00:21:11.546
  • Then the angel said to her, "do not be afraid."
  • 00:21:12.480 --> 00:21:14.682
  • So i'm sure she was afraid.
  • 00:21:14.682 --> 00:21:16.551
  • It's like, "i'm sorry i freaked you out there."
  • 00:21:16.551 --> 00:21:18.586
  • "but mary, you have found favor with god.
  • 00:21:18.586 --> 00:21:20.254
  • Behold, you'll conceive in your womb and bring forth a son.
  • 00:21:20.254 --> 00:21:23.558
  • You shall call his name jesus.
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  • He'll be great and will be called the son of the highest.
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  • The lord god will give him the throne of his father, david."
  • 00:21:27.628 --> 00:21:30.832
  • I'm sure he was preaching it
  • 00:21:30.832 --> 00:21:32.800
  • Like how pastor lawson preaches.
  • 00:21:32.800 --> 00:21:35.169
  • Just loud and proud.
  • 00:21:35.169 --> 00:21:37.705
  • "he will reign over the house
  • 00:21:37.705 --> 00:21:39.006
  • Of jacob forever and of his kingdom.
  • 00:21:39.006 --> 00:21:40.375
  • There will be no end."
  • 00:21:40.375 --> 00:21:41.876
  • This is mary's second response.
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  • She kind of questions,
  • 00:21:44.812 --> 00:21:46.214
  • She's first troubled, now she's questioning it.
  • 00:21:46.214 --> 00:21:48.716
  • "how can this be?
  • 00:21:48.716 --> 00:21:50.818
  • I don't understand since i do not know a man."
  • 00:21:50.818 --> 00:21:53.321
  • So you can hear the word of the lord,
  • 00:21:53.321 --> 00:21:54.622
  • You can be troubled, you cannot understand,
  • 00:21:54.622 --> 00:21:56.557
  • But it can still work for you.
  • 00:21:56.557 --> 00:21:58.593
  • That's what i'm gonna get to.
  • 00:21:58.593 --> 00:22:00.461
  • She said, "i don't know how this is gonna happen."
  • 00:22:00.461 --> 00:22:02.096
  • The angel explains, says to her,
  • 00:22:02.096 --> 00:22:03.664
  • "the holy spirit will come upon you.
  • 00:22:03.664 --> 00:22:05.366
  • The power of the highest will overshadow you.
  • 00:22:05.366 --> 00:22:06.934
  • Therefore, also the holy one
  • 00:22:06.934 --> 00:22:08.536
  • Who is to be born will be called the son of god.
  • 00:22:08.536 --> 00:22:11.906
  • Indeed, elizabeth,
  • 00:22:12.340 --> 00:22:13.775
  • Your relative has also conceived a son in her old age.
  • 00:22:13.775 --> 00:22:16.344
  • Now, this is now the sixth month
  • 00:22:16.344 --> 00:22:17.879
  • For her who is called barren."
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  • And this probably doesn't make sense to her scientifically.
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  • Even with that explanation,
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  • She probably doesn't quite get it.
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  • And gabriel says something really powerful here.
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  • He says, "for with god, nothing,
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  • No thing will be impossible."
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  • And in the greek, it says, "for with god, no rhema,
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  • No command, no living, breathing word of god
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  • To you right now will be impossible."
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  • He is saying that the power of god
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  • To complete this thing is in the word itself.
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  • - [congregant] yeah.
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  • - the power of god to break through the impossibilities
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  • Is right there in the word itself.
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  • You don't have to go find the power somewhere else.
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  • You don't have to conjure it up yourself
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  • Through your deeds, through your actions,
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  • Through your own understanding even.
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  • The power is right there in the word itself.
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  • And mary, her third response, was the right one.
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  • She said, "let it be to me according to your word,
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  • Your rhema.
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  • Just let it be done.
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  • It might trouble me, i might not understand it,
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  • But let it be done nevertheless at your word."
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  • - right. - amen.
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  • - [congregant] hallelujah.
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  • - we have to build our life on the word of god.
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  • - [congregant] amen.
  • 00:23:42.063 --> 00:23:43.364
  • - well, which one?
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  • Logo or rhema?
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  • Both.
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  • - [congregant] yes.
  • 00:23:46.767 --> 00:23:48.469
  • - you can't have one without the other.
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  • - [congregant] right.
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  • - if you wanna understand the logos,
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  • If you want it to be alive through you,
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  • If you want it to be spirit to you,
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  • It has to be rhema to you as well.
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  • - [congregant] yeah.
  • 00:24:01.415 --> 00:24:02.917
  • - when i was getting my master's and doctorate
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  • At rice university,
  • 00:24:04.752 --> 00:24:06.053
  • I was part of a graduate christian bible study.
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  • I just wanna connect with other christians on campus
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  • And i didn't talk a lot about me being filled
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  • With the holy spirit, but some of the teachers said,
  • 00:24:13.661 --> 00:24:16.364
  • "you're charismatic.
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  • I can just tell."
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  • And i know what they meant,
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  • 'cause when we would talk about scripture,
  • 00:24:22.904 --> 00:24:24.839
  • It wasn't just a history book.
  • 00:24:24.839 --> 00:24:26.941
  • It wasn't just a poetry book.
  • 00:24:26.941 --> 00:24:29.043
  • It wasn't just something to analyze
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  • And dissect with my theological phd brain.
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  • - [congregant] amen.
  • 00:24:37.385 --> 00:24:39.086
  • - it was rhema, it was spirit.
  • 00:24:39.086 --> 00:24:40.821
  • It was life. - that's right, amen.
  • 00:24:40.821 --> 00:24:43.357
  • - that's what the holy spirit,
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  • If you love jesus, if you love the word of god,
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  • Man, get filled with the holy spirit.
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  • - hey! - amen.
  • 00:24:49.564 --> 00:24:50.731
  • - you shall receive power.
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