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Grace for Today with Lawson Perdue

Lawson Perdue - The Power of Thanksgiving (Part 2)

April 29, 2025 | S25:E1703

Lawson Perdue - The Power of Thanksgiving (Part 2)
Pastor Lawson Perdue from the Charis Christian Center outreach speaks to viewers across the globe about the practical message of Jesus Christ.
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Grace for Today with Lawson Perdue | Lawson Perdue - The Power of Thanksgiving (Part 2) | April 29, 2025
  • (bright music)
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  • - praise the lord, friends, and welcome to the broadcast.
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  • I'm so glad that you've tuned in today.
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  • We're gonna be talking today about the connection
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  • Between faith and thanksgiving.
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  • Did you know what?
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  • If you're truly a person of faith,
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  • You're going to be a person of thanksgiving
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  • Because thanksgiving is the fruit of faith.
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  • So open your heart, receive the word of god,
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  • And see how you can bring your faith to a new level.
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  • (bright upbeat music)
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  • I want you to turn with me to romans 1,
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  • Where we began last week
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  • And we talked about in romans 1:16-17
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  • Paul is talking about the foundations of the gospel:
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  • Grace, faith, and righteousness.
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  • Of course, grace is what god did.
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  • Amen, in christ, when he died and rose again,
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  • Sent the holy spirit.
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  • Faith is our positive response to the gospel,
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  • To the grace of god, and righteousness is the result.
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  • But then paul goes on after verse 16, in verse 17,
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  • And he begins to talk about the world, the gentile world,
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  • The non-church world that has rejected jesus.
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  • And in this scripture, in verse 20 and 21 of romans 1,
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  • He says this,
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  • "for the invisible things or attributes of god
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  • From the beginning of the world
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  • Are clearly seen being understood
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  • By the things that are made.
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  • Every created being, every creation knows their creator."
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  • That's what the scripture says.
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  • Being understood by the things that are made,
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  • Even his eternal power and godhead.
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  • Do you know, people may be claiming to be atheists,
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  • But there are no true atheists, scriptural speaking.
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  • You know, most people who claim to be atheists
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  • Are really mad at god?
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  • And the reason that they're mad at god
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  • Is because that they believe god did something bad.
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  • That if you study the scripture,
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  • You'll find out that god didn't do,
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  • Because he doesn't have any bad things to give.
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  • That's not who he is.
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  • But they have the wrong understanding of who god is.
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  • But everybody knows there's a god.
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  • There are no atheists in the foxholes.
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  • When people are in trouble, they're calling on god.
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  • (pastor lawson laughing)
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  • I mean, they're crying out to jesus.
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  • Amen?
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  • So he says they are without excuse.
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  • And he talks about an unhealthy progression
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  • Of people who do not believe god, who have rejected christ.
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  • And he says in verse 21,
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  • Because of that, when they knew god,
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  • They did not glorify him as god.
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  • Neither were they thankful,
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  • But they became vain in their imaginations
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  • And their foolish heart was darkened.
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  • Right, so this is the world of unbelievers
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  • Or people who have rejected christ.
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  • But you can turn this around.
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  • And even though this is a very unhealthy progression,
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  • You can turn it around and have a healthy progression.
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  • And when you know the existence of god,
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  • You can begin to glorify him for being god.
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  • You become thankful to him.
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  • Amen, and when you become thankful to him,
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  • You'll begin to have positive, good, healthy imaginations,
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  • And it will bring light and understanding.
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  • It'll bring revelation.
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  • Amen, you know, jesus actually said this.
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  • He said, "i'm the light of the world."
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  • But when you believe on him, did you know what?
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  • Then he went on to say to his disciples,
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  • "you are the light of the world."
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  • And the light, you know what?
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  • That jesus was the light that shined in the darkness,
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  • And the darkness did not overcome it or comprehend it,
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  • John 1 says.
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  • But now paul says in ephesians 5:8,
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  • "you were darkness, but now you are light in the lord.
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  • Walk his children to the light."
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  • And once you receive jesus, he is the light.
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  • But you know what, you get the light of christ in you,
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  • You begin to re renew your mind,
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  • And then you're gonna begin to move
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  • In a positive and a healthy direction.
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  • Amen?
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  • And so when you think about it,
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  • Thanksgiving is really the fruit of faith.
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  • And if you want good things to happen in your life,
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  • Did you know what?
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  • You need to continually give thanks.
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  • - [congregation] that's right. - i believe thanksgiving.
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  • We celebrate thanksgiving in the united states of america.
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  • I believe it's one of the most scriptural holidays.
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  • But you know what?
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  • I believe we should have a continual feast.
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  • We should continually be thanking god.
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  • We should be continually glorifying god.
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  • We should be continually praising god.
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  • We should be continually magnifying god.
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  • And we all have so much to be thankful for.
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  • And the devil really wants to get you down, right,
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  • And get you not focused on that.
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  • But when you focus on that, good things happen.
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  • Now, the other night, in the middle of the night,
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  • The scripture kept coming to me from psalm 50:23.
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  • And if you'll turn to psalm 50,
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  • I want to go to this scripture and show you something.
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  • Thanksgiving being the fruit of faith.
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  • When you know god, when you see god for who he is,
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  • You need to begin to thank him.
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  • But look at this scripture in psalm 50:23.
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  • It says this.
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  • It says, "who so offereth praise glorifies me.
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  • And to him who orders his conversation, a right.
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  • I will show the salvation of god."
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  • Now, the other night,
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  • I was laying in my bed in the middle of the night
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  • And this scripture just kept coming to me.
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  • In fact, we used to sing a song about it years ago.
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  • ♪ who so offereth praise, glorifieth me ♪
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  • ♪ who so offereth praise, glorifieth me ♪
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  • ♪ and to him that ordereth his conversation all right ♪
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  • ♪ i will show the salvation of god ♪
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  • ♪ i came to glorify his name
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  • ♪ i came to glorify his name
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  • ♪ i came to glorify the name of the lord ♪
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  • ♪ i came to glorify his name
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  • Amen. how many of you loved worship today?
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  • Man, worship was fantastic.
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  • I want to just say a great big thank you
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  • To everybody on the team.
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  • It was literally amazing.
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  • But when we began to praise god,
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  • When we begin to glorify god,
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  • Now every day, what i read for my daily bible reading,
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  • And i read, you know, three to five chapters of the bible,
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  • Six days a week,
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  • Every day i read through the bible every year.
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  • I don't have any set plan,
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  • I just read through the bible, right?
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  • Sometimes i read 15, or 20, or 30 chapters.
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  • I just read it through. amen.
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  • Smith wigglesworth said, "read it through,
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  • Write it down, pray it in, work it out."
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  • Amen?
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  • But i read the modern english version,
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  • And queen elizabeth had the modern english version
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  • Done a few years ago,
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  • And she followed the pattern of the king james.
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  • And i love for a modern translation.
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  • I love the modern english version.
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  • I actually like it better than the new king james,
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  • Although i like the new king james, too,
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  • For a modern translation.
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  • Now, i read lots of different translations sometimes
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  • When i'm studying.
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  • Amen, and i get good things outta almost all of them.
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  • Amen?
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  • I remember one time on halloween,
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  • We were out witnessing to people in lamar, colorado,
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  • And we didn't know where we were going.
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  • We were just knocking on doors.
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  • I had my youth group, i was the head of the youth group,
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  • Like 16 years old, 17 years old.
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  • And we happened to knock on the door
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  • Of the head person from the jehovah witness.
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  • (congregation laughing)
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  • Right, and the jehovah witnesses have this translation
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  • Called the new world translation.
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  • And they've tried to take out the deity of jesus christ.
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  • But the head guy from the jehovah witness had it,
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  • And he was reading in 1 john.
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  • And what they're taught is they try to distract you
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  • So you don't win anybody over, right?
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  • Because they wanna win the 144,000.
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  • They don't think there's gonna be more than 144,000
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  • In people in heaven.
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  • Well, that's way off, guys.
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  • Way off, okay?
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  • But anyway, and i may not have all their doctrine right,
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  • But he got in 1 john 5 and he was reading.
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  • And i was right there.
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  • And i said, "now, just look at this."
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  • I said, "see, right there in your bible."
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  • It says, "he that has the son has life
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  • And he that has not the son has not life.
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  • If you have jesus," that's about 1 john 5:10-12.
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  • "you got life.
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  • And if you don't have jesus, you don't have life."
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  • Sorry, sir, we gotta go.
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  • (congregation laughing)
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  • Praise god? - [congregation] amen.
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  • - and we just kept on tracking. amen?
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  • But you know what?
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  • Jesus is so entwined in the scriptures.
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  • The deity of christ is so entwined in the scriptures.
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  • You can try to get rid of it, but it's still there.
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  • - [congregation] that's right.
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  • - amen, but i...
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  • So in the middle of the night,
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  • I got up the other night.
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  • That song and that scripture
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  • Was going over and over in my brain.
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  • And i went down and i got my modern english
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  • Laying right there.
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  • And my big version,
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  • I thought about preaching out of it today,
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  • It's a big, thick one 'cause they've made it...
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  • I've actually, the person who did it,
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  • He was the head of charisma for a long time.
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  • He actually came when he first did the modern english
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  • And gave me a small print version.
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  • It's about like this bible.
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  • And i like this one 'cause it's real thin and easy to turn.
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  • I like to preach out of it.
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  • But the modern english is so small it's hard to read,
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  • So i actually sent him a message saying,
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  • "hey, could you please make another version,
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  • Make it a little bigger so we can actually read it?"
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  • But i got this great, big, thick one that i read
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  • 'cause it's a large print version.
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  • That's what i read.
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  • So i went and read it,
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  • And it said something that got my attention.
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  • It said this, "whosoever offereth praise..."
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  • And it says, "whosoever offers a thank offering
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  • Glorifies me."
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  • And it says, essentially, it says something like this.
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  • "in doing that, he makes a way.
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  • And to him, i will show the full salvation of god."
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  • Now, that is really, really marvelous
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  • When you begin to think about it.
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  • When you begin to thank god,
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  • When you offer a thank offering to god,
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  • You are glorifying god,
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  • And you are making a way for the lord
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  • To show you his full salvation.
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  • - [congregation] amen. - of course,
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  • When you understand the word salvation
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  • In both the greek and hebrew, right?
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  • In the hebrew, it's yeshua;
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  • In the greek, it's soteria.
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  • But when you study those out in the strong,
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  • Strong's concordance,
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  • Salvation in both hebrew and greek includes it.
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  • It means wellbeing, spirit, soul, and body.
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  • So it's talking about forgiveness, healing, right?
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  • Peace, freedom, and provision or prosperity, okay?
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  • He's talking about all five of those things.
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  • And in both the hebrew and greek words for salvation
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  • Have that wholeness, spirit, soul, and body,
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  • For the whole person.
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  • In other words,
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  • Jesus died not only to bless you spiritually,
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  • But jesus died in rose again to bless you, right?
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  • Spiritually, emotionally, physically, and financially.
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  • Amen, in all those areas, right?
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  • Forgiveness, healing, peace,
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  • Protection, and prosperity or provision.
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  • That's all part of salvation.
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  • (bright upbeat music)
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  • Friend, i hope you've been enjoying this teaching.
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  • We are sharing all this week on the power of thanksgiving
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  • And the compassion of jesus.
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  • And when you understand the compassion of jesus,
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  • You're going to be a thankful person.
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  • I have a lot more teaching on this
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  • And many more subjects available free of charge
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  • On our website at charischristiancenter.com.
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  • (uplifting music)
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  • (bright music)
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  • - i've been dealing with sciatic nerve pain in my right leg
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  • For multiple years.
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  • We're actually about to walk out of service
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  • When my wife redirected me to the front.
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  • She told me that you were talking
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  • About nerve damage yourself, aaron,
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  • And your dad were in the back of me,
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  • And you guys were praying over me.
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  • I just felt this movement in my hips and in my back
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  • That i haven't felt like a freedom.
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  • The next morning,
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  • I tried to move in the ways that i didn't in the past,
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  • And it felt completely healed.
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  • (uplifting music)
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  • - so he said, "when we offer a thanks offering,
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  • A thanksgiving offering,
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  • When we offer thanks to the lord, a thank offering,
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  • We are making a way for god to show us his full salvation."
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  • How many of you know that god wants to show us,
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  • As believers, his full salvation?
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  • He doesn't want you just to go to heaven
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  • So he can spend eternity with you
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  • And you can spend eternity with them.
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  • But he wants you to be blessed along the way.
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  • - [congregation] that's right.
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  • And you know why he wants you to be blessed?
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  • So you can be a blessing. - [congregation] amen.
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  • - praise god.
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  • Now, there's a great example of this
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  • Found in luke 17.
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  • Turn with me to luke 17.
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  • In luke 17,
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  • Jesus had been ministering
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  • And he was going to jerusalem in verse 11.
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  • We'll start reading in verse 11.
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  • Read through verse 19.
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  • And as he went to jerusalem,
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  • He passed through the midst of samaria and galilee.
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  • As he entered into a certain village,
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  • There met him 10 men who were lepers who stood afar off.
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  • So if you had leprosy,
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  • It's so contagious you could associate with other lepers.
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  • But you could not associate with the general society
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  • Because they didn't want the general society to get leprosy.
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  • In fact, there are a lot of laws about leprosy
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  • In the old covenant.
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  • When you lead it, it's kind of a type of sin.
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  • How many of you know,
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  • Sin will take you farther than when you go, want to go,
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  • Keep you longer than you want to stay,
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  • Costs you more than you wanna pay, so...
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  • - [congregation] that's right. - stop it.
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  • (congregation laughing)
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  • You got authority over it in jesus' name.
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  • So they stood afar off,
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  • And they lifted up their voices and said to jesus,
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  • "master," they cried out to jesus for healing.
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  • "have mercy on us."
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  • And when he saw them, he said to them,
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  • "go show yourself to the priests."
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  • And it came to pass.
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  • As they went, they were cleansed.
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  • So what the old testament said, the old testament said,
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  • "if you had leprosy and you were healed,
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  • You had to go to the priest
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  • And the priest could declare that you were healed, right?"
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  • And once the priest declared that you were healed,
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  • However that process was, then you could reenter society.
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  • So jesus basically is telling them,
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  • "go act like you're healed."
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  • And when they acted on what jesus said,
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  • When they took a step in the right direction,
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  • When they started moving,
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  • And if you wanna be healed, start acting like you're healed.
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  • They started moving in that direction.
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  • And as they went,
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  • As they were moving in that direction, amen?
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  • They were healed.
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  • Bob helen comes here to church, and a number of years ago,
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  • He went to the doctor
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  • And he was doing his annual checkup or whatever,
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  • And whatever they did,
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  • They saw this tumor in his body somewhere, in his insides.
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  • And they said...
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  • They were concerned about it.
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  • And he said, "well, i'll tell you what i'm gonna do.
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  • I'm gonna go to my pastor and i'm gonna go to my church,
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  • And i'm gonna get prayer.
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  • And until i get prayer, you're not gonna touch me."
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  • So he came and he got prayer,
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  • And the tumor was however big it was.
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  • But anyway, they checked him out in about a month,
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  • And they said, "well, it has shrunk considerably."
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  • And so they checked him out next year,
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  • They said, "we're not gonna do anything."
  • 00:16:58.726 --> 00:17:00.128
  • And it was about the size of a pencil eraser,
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  • Like the little bitty.
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  • So they said, "it's almost gone."
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  • And then they checked him out another year,
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  • And they said it's completely gone.
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  • And sometime, healing is a process.
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  • And so, you know what,
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  • Just start looking at what you have, right?
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  • You know, a lot of times,
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  • We're believing god for a lot, but it's a process,
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  • And we start believing god.
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  • But anytime you see anything that you can thank god for,
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  • Then you start thanking god and offering a thank offering.
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  • And what you're actually doing
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  • Is you're making a way for god
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  • To show you his full salvation.
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  • The fullness of wholeness, the fullness of provision,
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  • The fullness of blessing.
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  • So don't get discouraged
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  • Because that's what the devil wants you to do.
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  • Amen?
  • 00:17:56.451 --> 00:17:57.352
  • But look for what...
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  • I thank god for any positive movement we see, however it is.
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  • Amen, we need to learn to thank god
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  • For whatever positive thing we could see.
  • 00:18:05.627 --> 00:18:07.462
  • So as they went, they were cleansed.
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  • Now, one of them,
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  • In verse 15, when he saw that he was healed, turned back,
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  • And with a loud voice, he glorified god.
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  • He began to glorify god,
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  • He began to thank god, he began to praise god,
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  • And he fell down at his feet giving thanks to jesus.
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  • And he was a samaritan.
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  • The jews considered samaritans, as a whole, to be dogs.
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  • But you know what?
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  • It doesn't matter whether you're a jew
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  • Or whether you're a gentile.
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  • It doesn't matter who you are.
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  • It just matters what you believe.
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  • - [congregation] amen. - amen?
  • 00:18:51.439 --> 00:18:52.840
  • It doesn't matter whether you're a man,
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  • Whether you're a woman, whether you're a boy,
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  • Whether you're a girl,
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  • Whether you're rich, whether you're poor.
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  • Well, right?
  • 00:18:58.513 --> 00:18:59.814
  • None of those things matter.
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  • That's what the gospel says.
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  • It's not about gender.
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  • It's not about religion.
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  • It's not about class.
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  • It's not about race. - [congregation] that's right.
  • 00:19:10.725 --> 00:19:13.428
  • - it's not about anything.
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  • It's about jesus. - [congregation] yes.
  • 00:19:15.863 --> 00:19:17.599
  • - it's about the gospel's about jesus.
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  • And if you got jesus, you got everything.
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  • But if you don't have jesus, you don't have anything.
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  • So jesus, jesus answers.
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  • He looks, he says, "weren't 10 healed?
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  • Didn't 10 get set for..."
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  • Now, listen, if you had leprosy,
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  • You're separated from society.
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  • It's basically a death sentence.
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  • - [congregation] yeah, that's right.
  • 00:19:38.620 --> 00:19:42.190
  • - it's terrible, and they're all 10...
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  • Didn't all 10 of them get healed?
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  • And only one, this samaritan,
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  • Who the jews consider to be a dog, only one.
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  • Jesus is kind of marveling that only one gives thanks.
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  • I remember years ago, you know, we'd had...
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  • This was years and years ago.
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  • We'd had like 8,000 people contact us
  • 00:20:04.512 --> 00:20:07.048
  • When we were on television.
  • 00:20:07.048 --> 00:20:08.883
  • And i was telling andrew wommack in request free materials,
  • 00:20:08.883 --> 00:20:11.853
  • We used to give away free cds.
  • 00:20:11.853 --> 00:20:13.688
  • Now, we just made everything free on the internet.
  • 00:20:13.688 --> 00:20:16.557
  • And so, you know, we just...
  • 00:20:16.557 --> 00:20:18.159
  • I've spent hundreds of thousands of dollars.
  • 00:20:18.159 --> 00:20:19.927
  • But we're reaching actually a lot of people with it
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  • In different ways,
  • 00:20:22.463 --> 00:20:23.865
  • And we're making a lot of different things free,
  • 00:20:23.865 --> 00:20:25.533
  • Except our books because of tax laws,
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  • We have to run them through amazon.
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  • Unless you're here, praise god.
  • 00:20:29.103 --> 00:20:30.972
  • And if you're...
  • 00:20:30.972 --> 00:20:32.140
  • Or if you're a meeting physically,
  • 00:20:32.140 --> 00:20:33.141
  • Then you can get it,
  • 00:20:33.141 --> 00:20:34.509
  • Do a donation of whatever you want to and receive.
  • 00:20:34.509 --> 00:20:37.478
  • Amen?
  • 00:20:37.478 --> 00:20:38.579
  • But anyway, when i told andrew
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  • That we had had 8,000 people contact us,
  • 00:20:40.148 --> 00:20:44.519
  • You know, and actually get material, he said,
  • 00:20:44.519 --> 00:20:46.421
  • "well, that means at least 80,000.
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  • You've affected at least 80,000."
  • 00:20:49.324 --> 00:20:51.859
  • Because he said, "for everyone who's contacted you,
  • 00:20:51.859 --> 00:20:55.396
  • Then there's at least 10 because..."
  • 00:20:56.197 --> 00:20:58.900
  • And sometimes i'd go places and preach.
  • 00:20:58.900 --> 00:21:01.436
  • I remember i was in minneapolis preaching,
  • 00:21:01.436 --> 00:21:03.338
  • And there was this guy,
  • 00:21:03.338 --> 00:21:04.872
  • And he had been on medication for his heart for 50 years
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  • Since he'd been like 10 years old.
  • 00:21:09.977 --> 00:21:12.280
  • And i prayed for him and god healed him.
  • 00:21:12.280 --> 00:21:14.716
  • And then i went to minneapolis three years,
  • 00:21:14.716 --> 00:21:16.584
  • And the directors of the bible school told him,
  • 00:21:16.584 --> 00:21:18.319
  • "hey, you should tell pastor lawson."
  • 00:21:18.319 --> 00:21:20.722
  • And he told me after three years,
  • 00:21:20.722 --> 00:21:22.023
  • "oh, yeah, you prayed for me three years ago,
  • 00:21:22.023 --> 00:21:24.292
  • And i was on this medication for 50 years.
  • 00:21:24.292 --> 00:21:26.160
  • And after you prayed for me, i went and got checked out,
  • 00:21:26.160 --> 00:21:28.029
  • And the doctor said i could go off it
  • 00:21:28.029 --> 00:21:29.630
  • 'cause i'm completely healed.
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  • And that condition that i had for over 50 years is gone."
  • 00:21:31.199 --> 00:21:34.369
  • And we have miracles all the time,
  • 00:21:34.369 --> 00:21:36.104
  • But a lot of times, people don't tell us.
  • 00:21:36.104 --> 00:21:39.374
  • But you know what, we're reaching a lot of people.
  • 00:21:39.374 --> 00:21:40.842
  • Last month, we had 58,000 people got on our website.
  • 00:21:40.842 --> 00:21:44.812
  • 28,000 of them were new,
  • 00:21:45.313 --> 00:21:46.848
  • So we're reaching a lot of people all around the world.
  • 00:21:46.848 --> 00:21:49.484
  • Amen?
  • 00:21:49.484 --> 00:21:50.685
  • And you know where they're going?
  • 00:21:50.685 --> 00:21:53.020
  • They're going primarily to what we teach
  • 00:21:53.020 --> 00:21:54.956
  • On finances and healing
  • 00:21:54.956 --> 00:21:56.324
  • 'cause a lot of people don't teach it.
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  • We get criticized more for teaching that,
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  • But that's where people are coming.
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  • And i would disobey god if i didn't teach on that
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  • Because god's anointed me to teach on that.
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  • Amen?
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  • And our seo people, right?
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  • We started doing something a year ago called seo
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  • 'cause jim looked at...
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  • He tried to find charis christian center on the internet,
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  • And we were like number 44 or number 45.
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  • Well, now, we're in the top 10.
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  • And they told me, "we'll get you there within a year."
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  • They actually had us there within three months.
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  • And we're getting lots of new people coming,
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  • Lots of new people looking.
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  • Amen, we're actually reaching more people
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  • Than we've ever reached before.
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  • Hallelujah?
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  • And there's different ways that we're reaching out, amen?
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  • And we want to keep reaching out.
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  • One of the best ways we can reaching out
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  • Is you go tell people about what jesus has done for you.
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  • Go tell people about how the word has changed your life.
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  • But this one, he turned around, fell down, glorified god,
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  • Fell down at jesus' feet and gave him thanks.
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  • And he was a samaritan.
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  • And jesus said, "weren't there 10 healed?
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  • Where were the other nine?"
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  • That's sometimes how we think,
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  • "where are the rest of them?"
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  • There's only found this one
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  • Who returned to give glory to god except this stranger.
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  • You know, sometimes, i give gifts to people,
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  • And it's just amazing.
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  • We'll have about 10% of them will say, "thank you."
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  • Man, just say, "thank you."
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  • I like to say, "thank you."
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  • Amen?
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  • Hallelujah, i write hundreds of thank yous.
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  • And i love to say, "thank you,"
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  • Because i don't take for granted what god's given me.
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  • Amen?
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  • And so he says this.
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  • He says, "only this stranger, only this samaritan?"
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  • You know what, you could find faith in amazing places.
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  • And he said, "arise, go your way,
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  • And your faith has made you well."
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  • Thanksgiving is a fruit of faith.
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  • And when you have faith,
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  • One thing you're gonna do is thank god
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  • And you're gonna glorify god.
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  • Now, i wanna go to another scripture, turn with me to...
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  • I love this scripture, to colossians 2:6.
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  • And we're gonna read verse 6 through verse 10,
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  • And then we're gonna go back and share about it.
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  • He says, "as ye therefore
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  • Have received christ jesus the lord,
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  • So walk ye in him."
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  • How many of you have received jesus as your lord?
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  • Walk in him.
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  • He says, "get rooted and built up in him
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  • And established in the faith."
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  • I want you to get rooted and built up in christ.
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  • I want you to get established in the faith
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  • As you have been taught.
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  • Faith is something that can, in one way, be taught,
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  • And in another way, the spirit of faith has to be caught.
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  • Amen?
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  • And i like to be around people who really operate in faith
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  • 'cause it's a spirit and you can catch it.
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  • Amen?
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  • Hallelujah.
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  • I have mark hankins come here and preach like every year.
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  • Some people never come, really hear him, especially.
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  • They had him at kenneth copeland's
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  • Southwest believers' convention on the stage last year.
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  • Amen?
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  • Jesse duplantis, some of you never come out and hear jesse.
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  • Jesse is a great man of faith.
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  • You ought to come and hear some of this.
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  • - [congregation] yes. - praise god.
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  • But it can be taught and caught.
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  • Those guys are great people of faith.
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  • They have really amazing faith,
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  • And you ought to just receive the anointing.
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  • - [congregation] yes. - hallelujah.
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  • It'll help you. - [congregation] that's right.
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  • - but he says this.
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  • He says, "so walk in him, rooted, built up,
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  • And established in the faith as you have been taught,
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  • Abounding therein.
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  • Abound in faith with thanksgiving."
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  • If you're abounding in faith,
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  • You are going to abound in thanksgiving.
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  • And if you're not abounding in thanksgiving,
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  • You're probably not really abounding in faith.
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  • Amen.
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  • (bright upbeat music)
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  • Friend, we've been talking about receiving the miracle
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  • Working power of god through faith in jesus christ.
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  • But when you understand the power of thanksgiving,
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  • That will release that faith
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  • So you can receive from god.
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  • If you need healing, if you need salvation,
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  • If you need the holy spirit, call us today.
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  • We have trained prayer ministers
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  • Waiting to receive your call.
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  • (bright upbeat music)
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  • - friends, i want to thank you for being with us today.
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  • It's our pleasure to share with you the word of god.
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  • We believe it changes lives,
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  • And because of that,
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  • We're broadcasting all around the world.
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  • It costs me, right now, around $2 million a year
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  • Just for my staff and paying for our broadcast cost.
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  • And help us share the message all around the world,
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