Lawson Perdue - Living By Divine Design (Part 1)

December 2, 2025 | 29:55

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 - Living By Divine Design (Part 1) | December 2, 2025

(upbeat music)
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- praise the lord, friend.
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Today we're beginning my series
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On living by divine design.
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And there are so many people today
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That have never even begun to enter
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Into what god has ultimately called them to.
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In this program,
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We're gonna be talking about how you can begin
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To move into the purpose
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That god planned for your life.
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So stay tuned and be blessed.
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(upbeat music)
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I believe that god has a plan
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For each and every person.
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From adam till armageddon,
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From the beginning of creation till the end of this world.
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Amen.
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I'm gonna talk about how you can find it and walk in it.
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And today's gonna be a little bit different.
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It's different than what i planned
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When god spoke to me about teaching on this.
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But as i was praying and preparing,
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I felt like the lord wanted me to lay this foundation
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For the message.
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So we're gonna begin in jeremiah chapter one,
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We're gonna read verse four through verse 12.
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"then the word of the lord came unto me saying,
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"before i formed you in the belly, i knew you,
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Before you came out of the womb, i sanctified you,
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And i ordained you,
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I chose you as a prophet to the nations."
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Then i said, "oh lord god,
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Behold i cannot speak for i'm a child."
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But the lord said to me,
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"say not i'm a child,
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For you'll go to everyone i send you to
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And whatever i command you you shall speak.
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Do not be afraid of their faces
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For i am with you to deliver you," says the lord.
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Then the lord put forth his hand and touched my mouth,
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And the lord said unto me,
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"behold i have put my words in your mouth.
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See, i have set you this day over nations,
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Over the kingdoms to root out, to pull down, to destroy,
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To throw down, to build, and to plant."
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Moreover, the word of the lord came to me saying,
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"jeremiah, what do you see?"
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And i said, "i see the rod of an almond tree."
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Then the lord said to me,
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"you have well seen for i will hasten my word
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To perform it.""
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God spoke to jeremiah and god said,
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Before i formed you, in verse five,
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In the belly, i knew you.
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Before you came out of the womb, i set you apart.
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I sanctified you. i chose you.
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I ordained you to be a prophet to the nations.
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Now i believe just like god calls apostles, prophets,
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Evangelists, pastors and teachers,
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I believe god calls different people in the body of christ
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To do different things.
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Keep preaching.
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My pants are messed up.
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Hallelujah.
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So what's new?
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God calls different people to do different things.
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And i believe just like god calls people to preach the go...
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I wouldn't wanna be a preacher
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If god didn't call me to be a preacher.
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I sure wouldn't wanna be a pastor
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If god didn't call me to be a pastor.
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Not only that,
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I would not want to pastor in a place
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That god did not call me to.
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Do you know,
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Actually, god spoke to us a period of time
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Before we came here to do this about it,
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And it kind of challenged my thinking
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And i had to check it out with some different people
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And get a real witness.
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But when god spoke to me
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And told me to come to colorado springs
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And start a church, i'm like, okay.
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But he had been actually dealing with barbara and i
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About change for three years prior to that.
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And then he spoke to us about six months
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Before we actually moved here.
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And when he spoke to us, i'm like, "okay, let's go.
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It's god."
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Hallelujah.
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But he began to draw us and do different things
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And reveal this to us.
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But you know what?
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I wouldn't wanna be a pastor
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If god didn't call me to be a pastor.
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I wouldn't want to be an apostle, prophet, evangelist,
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Or teacher talking about a fivefold ministry gift preacher
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Unless god call me.
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And you know,
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There are people that try to do it in their own strength
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And they fail, even in different ministry gifts.
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I had a friend who was an evangelist.
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I loved him in bible school.
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He had been a drug dealer.
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He had been a mess. he was a hippie.
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In fact, him and i went to russia together preaching,
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And they called us the hippie
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And the redneck preaching team.
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(congregants laughing)
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But this friend was so successful as an evangelist.
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He was going to dr. lester sumrall's church.
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He married a very beautiful woman.
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They had children.
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He was preaching 50 different churches a year,
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All but two sundays.
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That was a miracle.
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That was so difficult.
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And he was doing really, really well.
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But then he got this idea,
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Some of them were called, and some of them were sent,
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And some of them got up and went.
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So he decided that he was gonna go back to his hometown
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And start a church and be a pastor.
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There was one problem.
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God did not call him to be a pastor.
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And he went there and he worked, and he worked,
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And he worked, and he worked, and he worked, and he worked,
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And he worked.
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And he was very unsuccessful.
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You know why?
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Because god did not call him to be a pastor.
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Did you know what?
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He ended up back in drugs,
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Divorced his wife,
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And in prison
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Because he thought that he could be a minister
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Of the gospel in his own strength.
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I believe just like god calls people
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To be in the fivefold ministry,
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God calls people to be in business.
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God calls people to be school teachers.
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God calls people to be in medicine.
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God calls people to be attorneys.
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God calls people to do different things.
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And you know what?
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Wherever you're at, whatever you're doing,
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You need to be 100% there with all of your heart
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And do a good job.
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Praise god.
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And i believe if you do that,
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Then god can promote you and bless you.
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You can learn how to be a blessing
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And to be blessed wherever you're at.
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Sometimes people think it's always greener
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On the other side of the fence.
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I'm gonna tell you in the natural,
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It's a lot harder to be in the ministry
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Than most people think.
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Did you know only about 10% of people
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Who go to bible school end up in the fivefold ministry?
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Then of those that get in the fivefold ministry,
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80% of them quit within the first five years
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Because it is much more difficult than you think.
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- [congregant] amen.
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- you don't know how it is, i'll be honest with you.
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And did you know over 90% of people
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Who get in the fivefold ministry
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Quit before they're 65 years old?
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I'm 61 as i stand here today preaching to you.
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I've been preaching for well over 40 years.
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I've been preaching since i've been about 16 years old.
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I'm telling you, i have no intention of quitting.
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- [congregants] amen.
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- i have no intention of retiring.
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My personal opinion is retirement is not scriptural.
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Now i am planning, my roles will change.
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And what i do, i will do different things when i get older.
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Hallelujah.
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I'm speaking for myself.
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But i think a lot of people miss their most productive years
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And their most productive assignments
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Because they quit too soon.
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Hallelujah.
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Now, part of that might be opinion,
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But part of it might be bible.
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So i just want you to think about some things
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'cause a lot of people think,
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Well, i can't be happy if i'm not in the ministry.
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You don't know.
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Most people, it's a lot different than they think,
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And it's a lot more difficult than they think.
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Just being really, really honest.
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So be where you're at, whatever you're doing.
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The scripture says,
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Whatever you do,
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Do it with all your might, and do it as unto the lord,
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And be a blessing.
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And i believe god
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Will help you get where he wants you to go.
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Amen.
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So god spoke to jeremiah and he told him,
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This is what i called you.
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Did you know what?
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God has a purpose for our life.
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We were created for a purpose.
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God told jeremiah,
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"before i formed you in the belly,
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I knew you, and i set you apart, and i chose you."
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Created with a purpose.
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Did you know every person is created with a purpose?
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God has a purpose for all of his creation.
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Did you know there's an epidemic in america,
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An epidemic of teenage suicide?
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Do you know why?
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Because we've taught them that they evolved
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Rather than that they were a created being.
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And you must teach people primarily you are the creation
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Of god and you are a unique creation of god.
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God has a purpose for your life.
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Turn with me to psalm 139,
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And let's look at this scripture right here in psalm 139,
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Beginning in verse 13.
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"for you have possessed my reigns,"
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It says in the king james,
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The modern english says, my inward parts.
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"you have covered me in my mother's womb.
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I will praise you for i am fearfully and wonderfully made.
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Marvelous are your works that my soul knows right well.
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My substance was not hid from you when i was made
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In secret and curiously wrought
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In the lowest part of the earth.
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Your eyes did see my substance yet being unformed,
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And in your book, all of my members were written,
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Which in continuance were fashioned
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When as yet there was none of them."
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In other words, god had a plan for you, your physical being.
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I believe he had a plan for you, spirit, soul,
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And body before you were ever born.
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"how precious are your thoughts to me?
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Oh god, how great is the sum of them?
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If i would count them,
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They are more in number than the sand,
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And when i awake, i am still with you."
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There's a plan.
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God has a plan, i believe, for every person.
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Paul told timothy, this is an amazing scripture to me.
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In 2 timothy chapter 1:9, he said,
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"he saved us and called us with a holy calling.
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Not according to our works,
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But according to his own purpose and grace,
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Which was given to us in christ jesus," get this,
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"before the world began."
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(upbeat music)
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This is a problem with many people.
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They're identifying with the problem
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Rather than identifying with the promise.
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And if you identify with the problem
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Rather than the promise,
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It's gonna be hard for you to receive the promise.
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Now, what would you act like if you really believed
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That god had already answered your prayer?
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Praise god. hallelujah.
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There you go, you'd start shouting.
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(upbeat music)
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Ephesians chapter one says this in verse 11 and verse 12,
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Pay attention to the first two verses,
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Two words, excuse me in this verse.
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Ephesians one 11 and 12.
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"in whom," so who's he writing to?
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This is written to believers.
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It's written to those who are in him or in christ.
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"in christ, we have obtained an inheritance,
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Being predestinated according to the purpose of him
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Who works all things after the counsel of his will."
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So first of all, you have to be in christ
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To be included in that.
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And in christ, god has an amazing plan for your life,
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But it's not automatic.
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You have to believe it to receive it.
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- [congregant] amen.
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- see, grace makes it available,
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But faith makes it a reality.
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And if you don't believe it, you won't receive it.
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He goes on to say this,
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"that we should be to the praise of his glory
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Who first trusted christ."
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That term to the praise of his glory:
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Paul uses that term prior to this in ephesians 1:6
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Where he makes the statement
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"to the praise of the glory of his grace
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Wherein he made us accepted in the beloved."
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That term to the praise of the glory of his grace
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Means this.
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When god looks at you,
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When god sees you in christ,
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God sees you in your full potential in christ.
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And god accepts you based on your full potential
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In christ.
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In other words, he's not looking at all your faults,
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All your failures, all your flaws, all your misgivings,
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All the things that you did wrong.
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He sees you in your full potential in christ
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To the praise of the glory of his grace.
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That's what that term means.
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Wherein, that word wherein means
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When you come to a fixed position
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Of rest in the grace of god.
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And when you rest in the grace of god,
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He makes you accepted.
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So he sees you in your full potential.
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If you begin to see that and you rest in his grace,
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Then he says, you're accepted,
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Accepted not according to all the things you've done right,
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Not according to all the things you've done wrong,
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Not according to any of that.
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You're accepted because of grace wherein he made you.
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Everybody say, i'm accepted.
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And you know, there's so many people dealing with rejection.
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My husband rejected me, my wife rejected me,
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My child rejected me, my parent rejected me,
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My boss rejected me, my pastor rejected me,
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The church rejected me.
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Well, who cares?
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'cause it doesn't matter what they say about you.
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Did you know the most important person's opinion
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Of you is jesus?
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I've had people that i really look up to
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That i highly esteem,
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Maybe as much as anyone in the world
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At times say very negative things about me.
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And guess what?
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I knew my mind had changed,
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I knew i was rethinking some things,
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So i thought they just don't know where i'm going.
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Now those same people say completely different things
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In the same area.
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Why? because i changed my thinking in that realm.
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I was already going there and i already knew
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Because i changed my thinking.
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I thought,
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"oh, they just remember how i used to think
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And how i used to operate."
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And now they talk about me in a completely different realm.
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But who cares?
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Even if they're your...
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See, because it doesn't matter to me really
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What the world thinks.
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This is not a secret sensitive church, by the way.
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(congregants laughing)
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I was sitting on a plane the other day
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Coming back from a full gospel meeting.
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It was a man sitting next to me and then his wife,
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And she was talking to her kids on the phone
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That were in the back of the plane and telling,
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They're gonna straighten up or she's gonna come back there.
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I said, "mama, you're doing a great job with your kids."
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And i happened to take my bible outta my backpack
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And i stuck it right there.
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And the guy said, "that's a good book."
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Ends up, he's a young adults pastor
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At a very, very large church.
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And so as i was reading my bible,
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He's looking and he said,
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"you've read that thing a lot."
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I said, "i sure have.
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I use it."
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Praise the lord.
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And so he found out i was pastor and found out what i do.
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And he says,
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"can you tell me what you think is the most negative thing
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That's been in the church or the body of christ
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In the last few years?"
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I said, the secret sensitive movement.
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It has been very destructive.
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Who ever heard being secret sensitive?
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Who cares what the world thinks?
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Why don't we be god sensitive, christ sensitive,
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Holy spirit sensitive, and word of god sensitive?
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Why don't we set the standard?
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We wanna look like the world, act like the world,
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Talk like the world to make the world accept you,
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And you got a worldly pergamos church.
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Read what jesus said to pergamos.
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We don't need a pergamos church.
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You know what we need?
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We need a philadelphia church.
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The church of brotherly love,
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The church that's taken the world with missions,
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The church that's doing what jesus called them to do.
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Amen.
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Jesus didn't have any rebuke for two churches,
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The persecuted church
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And the church of brotherly love
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That was taking the world.
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I've set before you an open door.
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Hallelujah.
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That's what i wanna be.
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There's two last stage churches
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Laodicea and philadelphia.
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You know what laodicea is?
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The lukewarm church.
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"i have some things against you," jesus said,
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"and i'm gonna vomit you out.
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I would rather you be hot or cold than lukewarm."
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Did you know jesus even offers grace
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To the church in its worst condition, which is laodicea.
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He says,
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"behold, i stand at the door and knock.
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If any man will hear my voice and open the door,
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I will come into him
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And i will have fellowship with him."
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By the way, did you know the book of revelation
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Is not the revelation of gloom, doom, and damnation?
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It is the revelation of jesus christ.
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Savior, chapter one;
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Lord of the church, chapter two and chapter three;
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And coming king, chapter four through chapter 22.
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It is the revelation of jesus christ, chapter one verse one,
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Chapter 22, the last verse, i think it's verse 21,
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The grace of our lord jesus christ be with you all.
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Amen.
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It's a revelation of grace.
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Hallelujah.
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But you just didn't see it that way
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Because you didn't see jesus in the revelation.
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And it is the revelation of jesus.
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God said, i called you a prophet before you were ever born.
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What's god called you to be?
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Did you know what i believe true successful?
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Is found out in what god called us to be.
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Now, let's go back over here.
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God had a plan.
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God had a purpose for your life.
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Paul speaks about it.
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"he saved us and called us with the holy calling,
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Not according to our works,
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But his purpose and grace.
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In him, we've obtained an inheritance
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And he's predestinate us according to the purpose of him
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Who calls all things after his, the counsel of his will,
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That we should walk out his purpose and plan,
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The praise of the glory of his grace."
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So we're created with purpose.
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There's a purpose for everyone.
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Did you know his purpose for everyone
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Begins with the creation?
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Let's go to genesis chapter one
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And read about the creation beginning in verse 26.
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"and god said, "let us make man in our image.""
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We are created in the image of god.
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I had this lady years ago and she used to say,
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"oh, i just don't know how god looks.
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I don't know."
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I said, "he looks a lot like you."
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Don't get religious on me.
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"after our likeness, the father, the son,
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And the holy spirit.
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Let them have dominion," we're created with authority,
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"over the fish of the sea,
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The birds of the air, over cattle, over all the earth,
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Over everything that creeps on the earth.
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So god created man in his own image,
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In the image of god created he him,
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Male and female created he them."
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There's not only a dilemma of teenage suicide in america,
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There's also a dilemma of sexual identity.
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And god made them male and female.
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To deny male and female is to deny god.
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Verse 28, "and god blessed them."
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Do you know you're created for the blessing?
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You're created in his image.
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You're created in his likeness.
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You're created with authority.
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You're created a physical person.
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And you're created for the blessing.
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"and god said unto them,
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"be fruitful and multiply,
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Replenish the earth and subdue it,
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And have dominion over the fish, over the birds,
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And over everything that moves on the earth."
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Not only are we created in the likeness,
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In the image of god, created to have authority,
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Created male and female, created for the blessing,
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But we are created to be productive.
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Lawson Perdue - Living By Divine Design (Part 1)

December 2, 2025 | 29:55

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