Lawson Perdue - Living By Divine Design (Part 2)

December 3, 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 2) | December 3, 2025

(gentle music)
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- praise the lord.
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Friend, i'm glad that you've tuned in.
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Today, we're gonna be talking about living by divine design.
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Did you know you are either growing in your relationship
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With god or you're going backwards,
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But today, we're gonna find out how god wants you, not only
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To grow in your relationship with jesus christ,
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But he wants you to grow in your experiences
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Of the promises of god.
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So stay tuned. (upbeat music)
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Today, i wanna move forward.
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I wanna begin in colossians chapter two.
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We're gonna be reading verse four through verse 10.
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He says, "as you have
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Therefore received christ, jesus the lord.
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So walk in him, rooted
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And built up in him, established in the faith
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As you have been taught,
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Abounding therein with thanksgiving.
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Beware, lest, any man spoil you,
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Lest any man cheat you, lest any man rob from you
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And take from you that which is rightfully yours
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Through philosophy and vain deceit
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After the tradition of men and
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After the rudiments of this world and not after christ.
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For in him.
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Well, if all of the fullness of the godhead bodily
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And you are complete in him, who is the head
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Of all principality and authority."
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Now, when you look at this, he's talking primarily,
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Paul's talking primarily about two things.
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Number one, he says, "i want you
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To grow in your relationship with jesus
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As you have received christ, jesus the lord.
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So walk in him.
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I want you to grow in your relationship with jesus.
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And he tells us how we do that, right?
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He says, you receive christ, jesus the lord.
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You walk in christ, jesus the lord, you get rooted
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And built up in christ jesus the lord,
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And get established in the faith
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As you have been taught abounding therein
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With thanksgiving."
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Number two, he says this, "i not only want you
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To grow in your relationship with jesus,
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But i want you to grow in your experience of the gospel,
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I want you to experience the promises of god.
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I want you to grow not only in your experience
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Of the promises of god, but the power of god
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And the presence of god in your experiences of the gospel.
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Don't let the devil rip you off.
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Don't let the world rip you off.
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Beware this, any man spoil you, cheat you, rob from you,
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Take from you that which is rightfully yours."
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So we're gonna talk about those two things today.
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So the first one is, how do we grow
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In our relationship with jesus?
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Well, first of all, he says there in verse six,
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"you've gotta receive christ jesus the lord."
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Years ago when we were in kit carson pastoring,
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We had a woman in our church that started a care center
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For older people.
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And so we were having a special week of teaching meetings.
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We called it a revival and we had a good teacher there
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And he was teaching.
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He taught one night. but this woman brought some
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Of these people from her care center
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And this lady came, she was over 80 years old,
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After the evangelist
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Or teacher shared his message and gave an altar call.
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I got up and i gave another altar call.
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And this lady from the care center that was there one
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Of the first times ever came forward
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And received jesus christ as her personal lord and savior.
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And this is what she said, "we went
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To church all of our life."
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Her husband had died and she was actually mad.
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And she said, "no one ever told us that all we needed to do
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Was receive jesus, went to church all of our life
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And nobody preached to us jesus!"
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She's actually really, really mad.
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What she said specifically was, "i'm concerned
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That my husband is dead and in hell today
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Because nobody ever told us
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That all we needed to do was believe jesus."
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You need to receive jesus christ as your personal lord
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And your personal savior.
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But once you receive jesus, then what are you to do?
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He goes on.
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He says, "as you've received him,
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So walk in him, you need to walk like a believer,
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Not just say you're a believer, you need to walk."
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Now, paul was preaching to some people in athens, greece.
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And when he was preaching, on this
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Journey preaching and ministering, he saw
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Altar to the unknown god and it really concerned him.
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And he was teaching and he was speaking.
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It says in verse 18, "as he was ministering there in athens,
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Certain philosophers of the epicureans
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And the stoics encountered him.
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And some said, what will this babbler say?
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Others said, he seems to be a setter forth of strange gods
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Because he preached to them jesus and the resurrection.
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And they took him and brought him to areopagus saying,
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May we know what this new doctrine whereof you speak is,
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For you bring certain strange things to our ears.
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We want to know therefore what these things mean.
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For all the athenians and strangers spent their time
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And nothing else.
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Kind of like some charismatics,
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(audience laughs happily)
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But either to tell
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Or to hear some new thing." (audience laughs loudly)
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You know, some people, all they wanna do
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Is hear something new.
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You know, you don't all, you don't need a word
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From god every day.
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Now, sometimes god gives us little directions every day,
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But sometimes god give you a word.
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Do you know god gave me a word in the year 2001,
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January 4th, i was sitting at my desk in kit carson
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And god dropped it in my spirit just
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Before noon, go to colorado springs
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And start a church, charis christian center.
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I went home and told barbara at lunch, he said,
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"i've been telling you for two years we need
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To do something to call sprints."
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Hallelujah.
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She was ahead of me 'cause god was getting her prepared.
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Amen?
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I've been working on that word.
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Amen.
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For 24 years.
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So sometimes, god will give you just a word for the day.
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Sometimes god will give you a word for a season,
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But sometimes, it's a long season
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And you just need to stay at it.
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- [audience] hallelujah.
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- hallelujah.
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You know, this morning, i was getting my offering ready
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And as i was getting my offering ready,
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The lord ministered me to to go up.
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And what we give barbara
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And i give personally is very substantial,
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Especially when you consider our income.
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And the lord said, i want you to go up.
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So as i was preparing it, the lord spoke to me
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And he showed me a little bit about the future.
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Not only the future personally,
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But he really was showing me about the future
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Of this church and where it's going.
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I got so excited. (audience laughs happily)
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I'm like, "wow, jesus!"
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Because he got us things in stages right now.
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You know, we're here and it's amazing where we're i.
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Thank god for where we are.
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I thank god for what we're doing.
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But then i was thinking here and he said, no, think up here
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'cause this is where i'm taking you.
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(crowd react and cheers loudly)
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I'm like, "woo!
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That makes amazing." (laughs loudly)
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That just makes things look a lot differently
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Because when you go to that level,
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There's just a lot more things
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That you can accomplish in the kingdom.
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So i got really excited about it.
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Amen.
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So, you know, we need to hear from god,
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But don't forget to thank god for where you've been.
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It says this in verse 22.
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"then paul stood in the midst of mars hill
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And said, you men of athens, i perceive that in all things.
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You are too superstitious."
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I'm gonna talk a little bit about this today
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In the end of my message.
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You know, sometimes people are superstitious.
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Now the modern english version says this.
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It says, "you are too religious."
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How many of you know there are not only worldy demons,
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They're also religious demons.
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And sometimes, people get in religion,
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And religion really hinders them from receiving
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What god wants them to receive from accomplishing
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What god wants them to accomplish.
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For he says, "i pass by and i beheld your devotions.
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I found an altar with this inscription to the unknown god,
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Who therefore you ignorantly worship him.
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I declare to you, god made the world
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And everything in it, seeing that he is lord of heaven
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And lord of earth does not dwell in temples made with hands.
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Neither is he worship with men's hands
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As though he needs anything.
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See, he gives to all life and breath in all things.
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And he is made of one blood, all nations of men
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To dwell on the face of the earth
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And has determined the times before appointed
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And the bounds of their habitation
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That men should seek the lord.
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People should seek the lord if they might find him.
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Though he is not far from every one of us.
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For in him, we live and move
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And have our very being - [audience] amen.
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- as you have received christ, jesus the lord.
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So walk ye in him.
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Paul says, in him, we live and in him, we move.
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And in him, we have our very being.
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For we are also his offspring.
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Not only do we live in him, but he lives in us."
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Everybody say i
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- [audience] i
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- am a child
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- [audience] am i child
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- of god. - [audience] of god.
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- god is my father - [audience] god is my father
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- and i'm in his family.
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- [audience] and i'm in his family.
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And i'm so glad - [audience] and i'm so glad
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- that he loves me. - [audience] that he loves me.
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- and he always takes care of me
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- [audience] and he always take care of me
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- in grand style. - [audience] in grand style.
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- say that on a regular basis and watch what happens, okay?
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(laughs happily)
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So he says, "for as much as we're the children of god,
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We shouldn't think of god like an idol, like with a head
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Of gold or silver or stone graven by art
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And man's device.
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At times of this ignorance, god winked.
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But now he commands all men everywhere to repent."
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What does that mean to repent?
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- [audience with loud tone] turn around.
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- turn around in one aspect, right?
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It means like if you're going to the bar every night,
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Turn around, go to church. (audience laughs happily)
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Amen?
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But in another aspect, it means to change the way
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That you think
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Because sometimes, your thinking is wrong.
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And if your thinking is wrong,
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It will limit you in the realm of receiving.
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(gentle music)
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The bible tells us in the book of james chapter one
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That if we lack wisdom, we should go to god
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And we should ask him.
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And he said, "we should ask him in faith
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With nothing wavering."
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When you pray in faith,
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There is a knowing about your prayer.
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What thing so you desire when you pray,
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Believe that you receive them
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And you shall have them. (gentle music)
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How many people start out in the word
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But somewhere get off track?
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I could tell you in 1978, i got a whole new revelation.
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This bible is full of promises that i can believe.
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And if i believe them, i don't have to be sick and poor
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And defeated by the devil.
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I believe in believe in this bible.
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Amen.
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And this bible has changed my life.
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This bible is changing what i am receiving in this life.
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Not only does this bible affect me in heaven,
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This bible is affecting me on earth
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And affecting it is the living word of god.
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Man will not live by bread alone, but by every word of god.
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Continue in the apostles doctrine
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And continue in fellowship.
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What's that mean? to me, that means church.
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So many people start out, but they don't continue.
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Hallelujah. but i've continued.
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Halle, i keep receiving good things.
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And he says, "continue in the breaking of bread."
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What's that talking about?
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It's talking about relationships.
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Did you know i could tell a lot about you
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By who you hang around and you know what?
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If you hang around turkeys, it's gonna be really hard
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For you to fly with eagles.
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You've gotta guard your key relationships.
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Praise god.
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So they continued in the apostles doctrine and in fellowship
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And in a breaking of bread, relationships and in prayers.
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What's prayer look like?
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You know what prayer is?
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Prayer is communicating with god.
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It's communion with god.
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Hallelujah.
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I like to commune with god.
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I like to talk to jesus.
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I like to spend time in the presence of god.
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Now, did you know i've been to nepal
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And there are a lot of hindus and buddhists.
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Did you know, they pray circles around christians
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Because it's not about relationships,
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It's about all the things that you do
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And they're trying to reach god.
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We're not trying to reach god by our prayers.
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I've been around some muslims, they pray circles
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Around christians most times.
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But prayer did you know, prayer is life.
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It's like breathing.
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Somebody said, "i'm sure pastor prayed about this."
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You know, i just spend time in fellowship
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With god all the time.
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And you, when you stop, spend time in fellowship with god,
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It's like he direction.
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Amen.
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Sometimes the ship might need a little correcting,
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But he he'll correct it.
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Amen.
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When you spend time and fellowship with god,
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So they continued.
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So as we look at this, as you've received christ,
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Jesus the lord, walk in him, get rooted and built up in him.
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Get established in the faith.
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Look at this as you have been taught.
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Did you know the spirit of faith is both taught
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And caught and people who don't have faith?
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There's a lot of people that talk about faith, right?
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But if they don't have it, if they're not operating in it,
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They can't take you
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Where they're not where they haven't been.
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So he says, continuing this.
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He says, "in faith, as you have been taught, i like
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To hang around people of great faith, right?
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People that know god abounding therein with thanksgiving."
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What happens if you're walking in faith?
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Number one, you're gonna be a thankful person.
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Number two, you're gonna always be rejoicing.
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First thessalonians chapter five, verse 16 to verse 18 says,
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"rejoice evermore, pray without ceasing in everything.
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Give thanks."
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That is showing us the fruit of faith.
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If you are a person of faith
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And really operating in faith, you're gonna operate in joy
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Because joy is the result of faith.
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You're gonna be a thankful person
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Because thanksgiving is the result of faith.
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Also, you'll be a praying person.
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Do you know what all people of faith pray?
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Not all prayers are prayers of faith.
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Jesus told a parable in luke chapter 18
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That men ought always to pray and not to faint.
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Luke 18:1, and then he said in verse eight, "when the son
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Of man returns, will he find faith on the earth?"
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If you are really a person of faith, amen.
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You're gonna spend time in the presence of god.
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You're gonna spend time in communion.
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Amen.
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Time in thanksgiving,
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Time in worshiping jesus.
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Amen.
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As you've received christ, jesus the lord,
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Walk in him, get rid of the belt up in him
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And established in the faith abounding therein
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With thanksgiving.
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Grow in your relationship with god.
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But paul says, "not only do i want you to do that, he said,
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I want you to grow in your experience of the gospel,
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In the promises of god, in the power of god, in the presence
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Of god, i want you to grow.
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Beware, he says in verse eight, be watchful, be worry.
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Lest any man spoil you, lest any man cheat you,
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Lest any man take from you, that is rightfully yours."
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How do they do it?
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Through philosophy, four things,
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"through philosophy, through vain deceit
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After the tradition of men and
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After the elementary principles
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Or the basic principles of the world and not after christ."
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I'm gonna talk about some of those today.
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I'm gonna talk specifically about some of those
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That are rampant in the church
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'cause you know, sometimes, the church is teaching more
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A principle that comes from the world than
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That really comes from the world.
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Now, the first one he talks about, these things will rob you
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Of experiencing what god has for you.
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He says, "philosophy."
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Did you know there's basically two philosophies.
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There is the philosophy of the world,
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And there's the philosophy of the word.
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I love psalm chapter one.
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It talks about two different kinds of people.
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Let's go there and read psalm chapter one.
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He says, "blessed is the man
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Who walks not in the council of the ungodly."
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Did you know what?
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If you start walking in the council of ungodly people,
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And you can see the results sometimes,
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Sometimes people don't appear outwardly ungodly,
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But they are ungodly
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Because there are not only worldly demons,
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There are also religious demons.
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He says, "blessed is the man who walks
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Not in the council ungodly nor stands
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In the way of sinners."
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If you start walking in the council of ungodly people,
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You'll start standing in the way of sinners,
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Nor sits in the seat of the scornful.
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You start sitting in the seat of the scorn.
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See, it's an ungodly progression.
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But what's he say about the blessed man?
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The blessed man delights in the word of god.
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You need to delight in the word of god.
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You need to delight in the promises of god.
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You need to delight in the principles of god.
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He says, "and in his word,
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Does he meditate day and night."
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What does it mean to meditate the word?
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It means this.
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It's the hebrew word haga.
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It means to think.
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It means to ponder. it means to imagine.
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Can you imagine what god, when he spoke to me today,
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As i was preparing my offering for this morning, god spoke
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To me and he showed me not about really
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Where i'm i know where i'm going."
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It's good.
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Amen.
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And it's already been good.
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Amen?
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I've been meditating the word of god for a long time.
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You know, i heard somebody preach this years and years ago,
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But they said, "if you keep meditating the word
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And you keep operating by the principles of the word,
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There'll come a day that you cannot hide what god has done",
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And we're in living in that day.
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And some people get mad and some people get jealous.
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But listen, it's available to everybody who believe it.
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- [audience] amen.
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- so keep meditating the word.
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He meditates it.
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He thinks that he ponders.
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He imagine, my imagination just went to a brand new place
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And wow, jesus!
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That's amazing.
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He said, "you've been operating at this level, this is
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Where you're going", and i don't believe it's that long.
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Woo jesus!
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Then you start uttering it,
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Then you start muttering it.
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You start.
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Why you get a picture on the inside of you,
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Aaron, that scripture that he was sharing
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In matthew chapter six, it talks about your eye.
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If your eye is evil, your whole body be full of darkness.
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But if your eye is good, your whole body is full of light.
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Did you know you have a picture on the inside of you?
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And you can develop that picture
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By meditating the word of god.
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But if you don't like the pictures that's on the outside
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Of you, you change the picture on the inside of you
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And the picture on the outside of you will come
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And conform to the picture on the inside of you.
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You do it through the word of god and the holy spirit.
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So he says in his word, "does he meditate day and night?
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You begin to think about it.
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You begin to ponder.
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You begin to dream about it.
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You begin to imagine it, then you begin to utter it,
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Then you begin to mutter it, then you begin to speak it,
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And finally, you roar.
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Hallelujah!
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You know you can have a holy roar.
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Years ago, there was this person in my church,
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And did you know what?
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He went to the doctors and they told him,
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"this was in kit carson over 35 years ago.
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And the doctors told him, you have ms and all this.
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And you know what he told the doctor, i don't have ms
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And i will not be back."
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You know why?
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Because one peter 2:24 was more real
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To him than the doctor's report.
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And over 35 years later, he doesn't have ms in his body
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And he's not been back. (audience applaud loudly)
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Woo! (audience chattering loudly)
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That's worth shouting about.
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- [audience] yeah. - i mean,
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You know what?
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You need to meditate on what god said.
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You need to think about what god says.
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You need to dream about what god's doing.
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You know, just few weeks ago,
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About a month ago on a sunday morning in this service,
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Barbara gave a word and she said, "there's someone in here
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And you have a tumor at the base of your neck.
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And i got up and i said, i wanna pray for that person,
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Whoever they are."
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There's a young woman, she may be here now,
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And she came up, she in her, you know, 20
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Or you know, early 20s,
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And she had this tumor about this big around at the base
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Of her neck on this.
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It was on the right side of her neck right there.
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And so did you know, she said,
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"i've been thinking about going to the doctor.
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And so i said, i want it. so she came up
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And i prayed for it and i cursed it.
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And then i told her, now when that tumor is gone,
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I want you to come and tell me."
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So she came last week.
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I mean, it was that big around and about that heck it is.
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You know, she hadn't yet been to the i cursed it.
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Amen.
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She came last week and she said, "immediately
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After you cursed it, it split and due.
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(audience cheers loudly) and she said,
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Now it's shrieking and it's almost gone."
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(audience cheers loudly) glory to god.
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(audience cheers loudly) you see, she got a picture.
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- [audience] hallelujah!
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- i said, you come tell me when it's gone.
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She got a picture of gone.
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- [audience] amen. - hallelujah.
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You need to get a picture that comes from one peter 2:24.
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"look, by his stripes, you were healed.
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You need to get a picture."
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Amen.
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That comes from philippians chapter four verse 19.
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"but my god shall supply all your needs according
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To his riches in glory by christ jesus."
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You need to get a picture.
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And if you could change the picture on the inside,
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Woo!
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God began to expand the picture on the inside
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Of me this morning.
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Woo jesus!
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Hallelujah!
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Thank you, jesus.
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And i got a picture.
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And all of a sudden, there are new possibilities that begin
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To pop into my mind as i begin
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To think about at a new level.
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He said, "you've been thinking at this level."
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(gentle music)
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- [audience with deep tone] amen.
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- he said, "now i want you to think at this level."
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Woo.
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Friend, i'm so glad that you've been watching
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And maybe you need prayer
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To help you move into the promises
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That god has for your life.
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Or any of the promises of god.
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(gentle music)
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- [voice with soft tone] you are created with great care
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And unlimited potential.
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God wants you to live with purpose.
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Get yours today when you go to charischristiancenter.com.
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- friend, i want you to get my book "destined to win."
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Because when you understand the scriptures in the book
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Of ephesians, you can understand
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That god wants everyone to win.
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And when you understand what christ has done for you,
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It changes how you live your life in this world
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And how you stand against the devil.
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So go to our website
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And get my book, ephesians "destined to win."
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- [narrator] thanks for watching grace for today.
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This broadcast has been made possible in part
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By our faithful partners.
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If you would like to become a partner,
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Or to partner online,
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You can write us at po box 63733, colorado springs,
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Colorado, 80962.
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See you next time on grace for today.
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Lawson Perdue - Living By Divine Design (Part 2)

December 3, 2025 | 29:55

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