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Grace for Today with Lawson Perdue

Lawson Perdue - Unspeakable Joy (Part 1)

April 21, 2025 | 27:29

Lawson Perdue - Unspeakable Joy (Part 1)
Pastor Lawson preaches about the unspeakable joy found in heaven and how it can be experienced in our lives on Earth. He emphasizes that heaven is a happy place filled with joy, and that as believers, we carry that joy within us because the kingdom of heaven resides in our hearts. Despite the trials and difficulties we may face, Pastor Lawson encourages us to maintain a positive confession of faith and trust in God, knowing that our faith will lead us to the salvation of our souls.
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Grace for Today with Lawson Perdue | Lawson Perdue - Unspeakable Joy (Part 1) | April 21, 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.
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  • I'm beginning a brand new series on unspeakable joy,
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  • And you don't want to miss these messages.
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  • Recently, god has given me some revelation in the realm
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  • Of joy in our personal lives,
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  • And it is transforming my life.
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  • I know it'll do the same for you.
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  • So stay tuned and tell your friends
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  • About the broadcast.
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  • Blessings.
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  • (bright music)
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  • My first point today is this.
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  • Heaven is a happy place.
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  • - [congregation] yes sir.
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  • - amen.
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  • Heaven is a happy place.
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  • If you don't believe that,
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  • You don't really know what the bible says.
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  • You know, a lot of people got this picture
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  • Of a somber, angry god.
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  • It did not come from the bible.
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  • It did not come from the scripture.
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  • It came from a lot of religion.
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  • - [congregation] yes.
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  • - heaven is a happy, extremely happy place.
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  • The bible actually says this in psalm 22.
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  • "he that sits in the heavens shall laugh."
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  • Now, david prophesied of jesus,
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  • And in psalm 16, he was prophesying about the death
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  • And resurrection of jesus.
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  • And he says this in psalm 16:9,
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  • "therefore, my heart is glad and my glory rejoices.
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  • My flesh also shall rest in hope
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  • For you will not leave my soul in hell,
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  • Neither will you suffer your holy one to see corruption.
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  • You'll show me the path of life
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  • For in thy presence is fullness of joy."
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  • You know what?
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  • If you don't ever get happy and you are always sad,
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  • The problem is you just haven't been spending much time
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  • In the presence of jesus.
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  • And he says, "at thy right hand,
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  • There are pleasures forever more."
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  • Listen, forever, heaven is gonna be a happy place.
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  • - hallelujah. - amen.
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  • Hallelujah.
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  • So when we look at this, you know, he says right there,
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  • You know, "in your presence, his fullness of joy."
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  • Did you know what?
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  • Hell is not a happy place.
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  • He's prophesying of jesus.
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  • And he said, "you will not leave my soul,"
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  • In verse 10, "in hell.
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  • Neither will you suffer your holy one,
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  • Jesus to see corruption."
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  • You know, jesus was raised from the dead on the third day.
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  • They say the fourth day, the body begins to rot.
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  • Right?
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  • It's corruptible.
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  • It's a corruptible body.
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  • That's why when jesus was going
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  • To raise lazarus from the dead,
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  • He'd already been dead four days.
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  • Jesus said, "well, i left him dead four days."
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  • So for the reason that you'd believe.
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  • They said, "by this time, he's already stinking,
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  • He's already buried.
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  • You know, he's already going, jesus, it's too late."
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  • But jesus said,
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  • "if you believe, you'll see the glory of god."
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  • Amen.
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  • "you're gonna see the power of god.
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  • It's gonna power on display."
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  • Amen.
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  • What is glory it's his presence, his power, his purpose.
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  • Okay, and give you scripture for all that.
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  • So jesus went and he cried, "lazarus, come forth."
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  • And literally, the spirit of god picked up lazarus
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  • And blew him out of that too.
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  • And he's standing there hand and foot in gray clothes.
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  • Bam.
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  • That's what you call the working of a miracle.
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  • - [congregation] yes.
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  • - and jesus said, "loose him and let him go."
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  • Hallelujah.
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  • That's the presence of god, amen.
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  • But he said, "you're not gonna leave my soul in hell."
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  • Hell is a sad place.
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  • In matthew 8:12, jesus said,
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  • "there is weeping and gnashing of teeth, grating of teeth."
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  • It's a very sad, painful place.
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  • Matthew 25:41 says, "it's a place
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  • Of eternal torment, everlasting fire
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  • Made for the devil and for his angels."
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  • Hell wasn't made for man,
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  • Hell was made for the devil and his angels.
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  • Amen.
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  • So, i'm glad i'm going to heaven.
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  • If you're not, you can turn that situation around today.
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  • You can believe on jesus right here, right now,
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  • And make jesus your lord
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  • And change your eternal destination.
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  • That's what peter's talking about.
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  • He said, "we've been born again to a living hope
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  • By the resurrection of jesus from the dead.
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  • And we have an inheritance that's incorruptible,
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  • That's undefiled, that does not fade away,
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  • And it is reserved for us."
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  • I'm so glad i got. (laughs)
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  • I got a heavenly home.
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  • I got an inheritance that nobody could take away from me.
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  • I've had a couple taken away.
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  • Ah, but god's still my father and i'm still in his family.
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  • And i'm just like aaron said, "i'm already blessed."
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  • What?
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  • What's wrong with you?
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  • Don't you know what the bible says?
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  • You start finding out what the bible says,
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  • You'll start living like it.
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  • - [congregation] yeah!
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  • - and you can experience a little heaven
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  • On earth right here, right now.
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  • That's a promise to glory to god.
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  • Amen.
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  • So heaven is a happy place, hell isn't.
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  • Amen, the second one is this.
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  • Heaven took up residence in us.
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  • Let's go back here and read this
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  • In verse five and verse six, he said,
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  • "to you, who are kept by the power of god through faith
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  • Unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last day."
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  • I like to say we're kept by the grace of god
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  • Because grace releases the power of god.
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  • Amen.
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  • We're kept by the grace of god through faith
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  • To a salvation that's ready to be revealed in the last time.
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  • Now, how many of you're saved right now?
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  • You already been saved, right?
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  • - [congregation] yes.
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  • - how'd you get saved?
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  • You believe jesus, for by grace,
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  • You're saved through faith, not out of yourself.
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  • But not only are you saved, guess what jesus gave himself
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  • For us that he might deliver.
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  • Galatians 1:4, from this present evil, we're being saved.
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  • See, i'm so glad that i got saved.
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  • I received christ when i was eight years old.
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  • My spiritual condition changed from death to life,
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  • From sin to righteousness.
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  • Amen.
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  • I'm glad that that happened when i was eight
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  • But when i was 14 years old,
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  • I was baptized in the holy spirit.
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  • When i was baptized the holy spirit,
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  • I knew that i was called to preach.
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  • And i also began to get a revelation of who i am in christ,
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  • That i am the righteousness of god.
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  • And that really changed.
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  • So i didn't have to go through a lot of the problems,
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  • A lot of the difficulties, a lot of the hell on earth
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  • That other people go through. (laughs)
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  • You know what? it wasn't the good old days
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  • Whether you think it was or not.
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  • Really, heather's testifying to me.
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  • It took her a little longer to get a revelation
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  • Of this to god, but you made it.
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  • Glory to god. hallelujah.
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  • I'm so glad.
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  • It ain't about what we did,
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  • It's about what jesus did, amen.
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  • Hallelujah.
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  • So i have been saved.
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  • I am being saved, and yet i'm gonna be saved.
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  • He says, "there is a salvation that's ready
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  • To be revealed in the last time when jesus comes again."
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  • And so he says this, "wherein you greatly rejoice."
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  • What do you greatly rejoice in?
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  • You're rejoicing in salvation.
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  • How many of you're happy you're saved?
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  • - [congregation] yes.
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  • - how many of you're glad you're saved?
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  • You're glad you're on your way to heaven?
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  • Hallelujah.
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  • So he says, "you greatly rejoice though now for a season.
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  • If it need be, you're in heaviness through many trouble."
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  • Even though you got saved,
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  • How of you still once in a while face a little trouble?
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  • See, jesus never said you wouldn't have any trouble.
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  • He actually said you would have some trouble.
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  • He said this in john 16:33.
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  • He said, "in the world, you shall have tribulation.
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  • You're gonna have problems because you're in the world."
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  • Because the world has.
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  • Now god's not the author of those problems, right?
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  • He's not the author of those,
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  • But it's because you're in the world that's been affected
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  • By sin and by satan,
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  • The devil is the author of your trouble and the problems.
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  • And so he says this, and sometimes it's you, okay?
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  • But we'll stop right there.
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  • He says, "you're kept by the god through faith,
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  • And you're rejoicing greatly in salvation
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  • Even though for a season,
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  • You may be having a little trouble."
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  • Because you got saved, it didn't exempt you from trouble.
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  • But you can overcome the trouble through faith in god.
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  • And that's what he begins to talk about.
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  • So the first point is this.
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  • Heaven is a happy place in hell isn't, amen.
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  • The second point is heaven took up residence in you.
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  • See, i'm not trying to get to heaven.
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  • I'm a citizen of heaven on loan to the earth from god.
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  • Philippians 3:21 reveals that and 20-21, amen.
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  • So i'm not trying to get to heaven.
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  • I'm a citizen of heaven.
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  • I'm heaven is my home.
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  • Amen.
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  • Now, i'm on loan to the earth for a little bit.
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  • Amen.
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  • From god.
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  • I'm a citizen of heaven.
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  • Now, let's talk about this just for a minute.
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  • You see, because what is the kingdom of god
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  • Or the kingdom of heaven?
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  • Jesus or paul actually said this in romans 14:17,
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  • He said, "the kingdom of god is not meet and drink."
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  • In other words, the kingdom of god
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  • Is not about a bunch of religious rules and regulations,
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  • But it's righteousness, peace, and joy in the holy ghost.
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  • The kingdom of god reveals right standing with god.
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  • That's what righteous.
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  • When you have the kingdom of god in you,
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  • You have the righteousness of god in you,
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  • It's something you didn't earn.
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  • It's something that you were given
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  • By god's grace when you believed jesus by faith.
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  • The bible says this in second corinthians 5:21,
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  • "for god made him," jesus "to become sin,"
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  • "or a sin offering for us who never sin."
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  • Jesus never sin.
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  • Yet he became a sin offering for us.
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  • He who never sinned, that we might be made,
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  • We who were sinful, might be made
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  • The righteousness of god in him.
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  • So righteousness is not about what you do,
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  • Righteousness is about who you believe.
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  • Jesus is the righteousness of god.
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  • And when you believe him, righteousness is placed
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  • On your account and the righteousness of god
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  • Is also placed in you.
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  • And you're placed in him in his righteousness.
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  • All those things are true.
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  • Amen.
  • 00:11:16.051 --> 00:11:17.619
  • He says, "the kingdom of god is not rules and regulations,
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  • But righteousness and peace."
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  • When you believe on jesus, you are at peace with god.
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  • When jesus was born, the angel sang in heaven, glory to god.
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  • Amen.
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  • Peace on earth and goodwill to men
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  • Because jesus made peace between god and men.
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  • You can receive god's goodwill in your life.
  • 00:11:40.175 --> 00:11:43.078
  • Therefore, being justified by faith,
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  • We have peace with god through jesus.
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  • Romans 5:1.
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  • I'm at peace because of what jesus did.
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  • It's righteousness, right?
  • 00:11:51.920 --> 00:11:53.488
  • Standing with god.
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  • It's peace.
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  • Thank god we can live at peace with god
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  • And it's joy in the holy ghost.
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  • That's not joy because of the outward situation.
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  • It's joy because of a spiritual condition.
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  • Joy in the holy ghost.
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  • Now, jesus said this in luke 17:21.
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  • He said, "the kingdom of god
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  • Or the kingdom of heaven is in you."
  • 00:12:14.876 --> 00:12:18.180
  • Now, what was he saying?
  • 00:12:18.180 --> 00:12:19.548
  • "the kingdom of heaven is in you."
  • 00:12:19.548 --> 00:12:21.249
  • Actually, if you study it out in the greek,
  • 00:12:21.249 --> 00:12:23.051
  • It means the kingdom of heaven is among you.
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  • Jesus represented the kingdom of heaven on earth.
  • 00:12:26.354 --> 00:12:29.658
  • So he was among them, so he was with them, right?
  • 00:12:29.658 --> 00:12:33.662
  • But he said, "i'm with you,
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  • But i'm gonna be" right talking about the holy spirit.
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  • "i'm gonna be in you."
  • 00:12:38.600 --> 00:12:40.969
  • (bright music)
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  • Friends, we've been sharing on unspeakable joy.
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  • I trust that you've been enjoying the broadcast,
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  • But we have a lot more to share about this subject
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  • And many others.
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  • Actually, we have downloadable audio,
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  • Downloadable video on our website
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  • At charischristiancenter.com
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  • Absolutely free of charge.
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  • So go there and be blessed.
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  • The word of god will work for you.
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  • It doesn't matter where you're from.
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  • It doesn't matter where you came from.
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  • Glory to god, it matters what you believe.
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  • And you need to begin to believe what god said about you,
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  • Because anywhere in the world
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  • Of people will believe the bible, they can prosper.
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  • And he said, you have a revelation of it.
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  • So i want you to teach it.
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  • Hallelujah.
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  • (bright music)
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  • So the kingdom of heaven, right?
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  • And there's this question about the kingdom of heaven.
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  • Is the kingdom to heaven a future kingdom
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  • Or is it a present kingdom?
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  • Is it a physical kingdom or is it a spiritual kingdom?
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  • And the answer is yes.
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  • All right?
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  • The kingdom of heaven, the kingdom of god, right?
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  • Is a spiritual kingdom
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  • Of believers on the earth presently.
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  • And the kingdom of god is a physical kingdom
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  • To come when jesus comes again.
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  • We have that hope.
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  • In the gospel, if you don't have that hope,
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  • Paul says, "you're of all men, most miserable."
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  • I don't wanna be most miserable.
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  • Amen, i wanna let his joy rule my life.
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  • So i know that the kingdom of heaven,
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  • Heaven took up residence in you.
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  • When did it take residence in you?
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  • When you got born again, when you believed in jesus.
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  • Amen.
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  • Isaiah prophesied about it in isaiah 12:3.
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  • And he said, "therefore, with joy
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  • Shall you draw water from the wells of salvation."
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  • I remember when i was a kid riding in my ag teachers,
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  • He was a believer's track.
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  • He had a '08 track in there of the oak ridge boys said,
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  • ♪ if you want a little sweet water ♪
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  • ♪ you gotta dig a little deeper in the well ♪
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  • That's talking about you got spiritual joy,
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  • You have a spiritual condition on the inside of you.
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  • It's called christ in you, right?
  • 00:15:01.710 --> 00:15:05.680
  • Paul says, christ in you is the hope of glory.
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  • This is the mystery
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  • That's been hidden from ages and generation.
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  • So it's in you in christ.
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  • Now we begin to look at it.
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  • He said, "you're kept by the power of god to salvation,
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  • Ready to be revealed in the last time.
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  • And you're greatly rejoicing in salvation."
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  • Praise god.
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  • How do we rejoice in that salvation?
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  • We begin to realize
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  • That jesus is already living on the inside of it.
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  • But how do you get it?
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  • Well, you've gotta believe it to receive it.
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  • If you don't believe it, you're not gonna receive it.
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  • Now, look at this, in verse seven.
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  • He says that, "the trial of your faith
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  • Being much more precious than gold that perishes.
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  • Though be tried with fire, might be found to praise, honor,
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  • And glory at the appearing of jesus christ."
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  • The present test, the present difficulties,
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  • The present problems can lead to something greater.
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  • He says, "whom, even though you haven't seen jesus,
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  • You love him.
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  • And even though we're not presently seeing him,"
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  • How many of you believe in jesus?
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  • You don't presently see him physically,
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  • But you believe in him, and he says this,
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  • "and you rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory."
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  • That this exceeding extreme joy.
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  • You're rejoicing in him
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  • Because you believe you love him, you believe him,
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  • And that moves you into the joy.
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  • "receiving," he says in verse nine, "the end of your faith,
  • 00:16:43.344 --> 00:16:48.083
  • Even the salvation of your soul."
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  • In other words, if you believe it, you can receive it, amen.
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  • So the christian life
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  • Doesn't mean believe in the promises,
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  • Doesn't mean you're never gonna have any problems.
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  • In fact, some people think that i never have any problems.
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  • But see, generally, they think the reason they think
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  • That i don't have a lot of problems.
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  • I don't have a lot, but i've had plenty.
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  • But the reason they don't think i have any problems
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  • Because i generally don't tell you about the problems
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  • Until after that test becomes a testimony.
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  • Amen.
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  • So they think i always have the victory.
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  • And we do have the victory in the spirit,
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  • But i don't generally tell you about it
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  • Until i've already got the victory over it.
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  • Amen. now, i thought about a couple things
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  • And i actually wanted to share this
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  • Because different people have different problems
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  • That they deal with.
  • 00:17:44.672 --> 00:17:46.708
  • Some of them are more challenging than others, you know,
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  • And what may be my problem may not be your problem.
  • 00:17:50.278 --> 00:17:53.681
  • But this actually came up a couple of times
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  • As i was praying.
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  • I felt like i needed to share just a little bit
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  • From larry and carla gifford
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  • Because they endured
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  • An extreme challenge a number of years ago.
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  • And that is that they lost their son, zach.
  • 00:18:11.666 --> 00:18:15.603
  • And it was a very tragic situation.
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  • It was a very tragic death.
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  • And one of the most difficult things
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  • That a parent will ever have to deal with
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  • Is the loss of a child,
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  • And especially the loss of a child at a younger age,
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  • And especially when it's a very tragic situation.
  • 00:18:34.956 --> 00:18:37.859
  • But i actually called larry
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  • And i asked him, you know, if i could share about this,
  • 00:18:39.961 --> 00:18:42.830
  • And he said that i could.
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  • So i just wanted to share this
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  • Because, you know, larry was working
  • 00:18:48.036 --> 00:18:51.139
  • For me at this time when it happened.
  • 00:18:51.139 --> 00:18:52.774
  • It was so tragic when it happened that the coroner
  • 00:18:52.774 --> 00:18:57.245
  • In kiowa county actually knew
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  • That i knew them, and he knows me.
  • 00:18:59.447 --> 00:19:01.516
  • And he's actually a pastor of a church.
  • 00:19:01.516 --> 00:19:02.884
  • He called me and he said, "hey, can you check
  • 00:19:02.884 --> 00:19:06.154
  • And see if larry and carla, are you home?"
  • 00:19:06.154 --> 00:19:07.822
  • I said, "yeah.
  • 00:19:07.822 --> 00:19:09.023
  • And he said, "can you go over there
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  • To their house and then i'll call and speak to them?"
  • 00:19:10.425 --> 00:19:14.429
  • I said, "yeah."
  • 00:19:14.429 --> 00:19:15.563
  • And so i called larry and he's home.
  • 00:19:15.563 --> 00:19:16.531
  • And so i called him back
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  • And said, "listen, i'll be there in 20 minutes.
  • 00:19:17.799 --> 00:19:19.167
  • I'll give you a call when i get there."
  • 00:19:19.167 --> 00:19:21.102
  • And so i went and he called and broke the news.
  • 00:19:21.102 --> 00:19:24.839
  • But i observed larry in this whole time,
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  • And i just saw how great of faith that he really had.
  • 00:19:27.709 --> 00:19:33.481
  • In fact, i was preaching a message recently
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  • And i said, "faith that is not faith in trial
  • 00:19:35.350 --> 00:19:38.553
  • Is really not faith at all."
  • 00:19:38.553 --> 00:19:41.256
  • And larry said, "big amen."
  • 00:19:41.256 --> 00:19:43.591
  • See, james says,
  • 00:19:43.591 --> 00:19:45.693
  • "count it all joy," in james 1:2,
  • 00:19:45.693 --> 00:19:48.630
  • "when you fall into different kinds
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  • Of troubles or problems."
  • 00:19:51.833 --> 00:19:53.935
  • And larry really did that.
  • 00:19:53.935 --> 00:19:55.236
  • Now, there's a couple of answers that go later.
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  • Number one, it says this, it goes on to say in verse 12,
  • 00:19:57.672 --> 00:20:00.475
  • "when you're tempted with evil, don't blame god
  • 00:20:00.475 --> 00:20:06.314
  • Because god doesn't tempt any man with evil,
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  • Because god is not the author of evil."
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  • He's not the author, just like pastor aaron was saying,
  • 00:20:14.022 --> 00:20:16.624
  • Of death or destruction in any way, shape or form.
  • 00:20:16.624 --> 00:20:21.296
  • So don't blame god.
  • 00:20:21.296 --> 00:20:23.865
  • It goes on to say this, it says in verse 16,
  • 00:20:24.766 --> 00:20:27.168
  • "do not air, don't change from us, my beloved brethren."
  • 00:20:27.168 --> 00:20:30.905
  • And then in verse 17, he says, "for every good
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  • And every perfect gift comes down from above,
  • 00:20:34.375 --> 00:20:38.313
  • From the father of lights
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  • With whom there is no variableness,
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  • Neither shadow of turning."
  • 00:20:42.617 --> 00:20:44.285
  • In other words, if it's not good
  • 00:20:44.285 --> 00:20:46.254
  • And not perfect, it couldn't come from god
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  • Because that's all god has to give.
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  • - [congregation] amen.
  • 00:20:52.727 --> 00:20:53.895
  • - but i want to tell you something.
  • 00:20:53.895 --> 00:20:55.963
  • Whenever i observed larry, even when they were going
  • 00:20:55.963 --> 00:20:58.633
  • Through this terrible, tragic loss,
  • 00:20:58.633 --> 00:21:01.869
  • He always had a positive confession of faith.
  • 00:21:01.869 --> 00:21:07.175
  • In fact, when i called larry yesterday, i said,
  • 00:21:07.175 --> 00:21:09.610
  • "larry, how are you doing?"
  • 00:21:09.610 --> 00:21:11.346
  • He said, "i'm doing fantastic.
  • 00:21:11.346 --> 00:21:13.414
  • How are you, pastor?"
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  • Praise god.
  • 00:21:15.183 --> 00:21:16.484
  • But did you know what?
  • 00:21:16.484 --> 00:21:18.753
  • Your feelings don't have the power to change your faith,
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  • But your faith has the power to change your feelings.
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  • - amen. - amen?
  • 00:21:28.863 --> 00:21:30.965
  • Now, i told you recently i went through this issue
  • 00:21:30.965 --> 00:21:35.303
  • And where i perceive that these people
  • 00:21:35.303 --> 00:21:37.739
  • I respect rejected me.
  • 00:21:37.739 --> 00:21:40.942
  • And in a sense, they did.
  • 00:21:40.942 --> 00:21:42.643
  • But you know, the lord's ministered to me since then said,
  • 00:21:42.643 --> 00:21:44.612
  • Listen, it's not rejection, it's preparation,
  • 00:21:44.612 --> 00:21:48.750
  • It's protection and it's promotion, so don't worry about it.
  • 00:21:48.750 --> 00:21:52.220
  • So i had to get my eyes off that.
  • 00:21:52.220 --> 00:21:54.021
  • But i reacted in a negative way and i didn't really know,
  • 00:21:54.021 --> 00:22:01.763
  • And i've had this going on for a period of time.
  • 00:22:01.763 --> 00:22:04.298
  • But then my daughter-in-law, heather gave me this word
  • 00:22:04.298 --> 00:22:07.001
  • And she said, "pastor lawson,
  • 00:22:07.001 --> 00:22:08.936
  • Because you have dealt with rejection from people
  • 00:22:08.936 --> 00:22:12.340
  • Close to you in the past, you do not respond well
  • 00:22:12.340 --> 00:22:18.546
  • Even when god is removing people from your life."
  • 00:22:19.547 --> 00:22:23.451
  • How many of you know, sometimes, god is removing people
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  • Form your life?
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  • And sometimes, that's even very healthy.
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  • But because you don't deal with rejection well,
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  • Even when god is removing them,
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  • You have not dealt with it well.
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  • And i just felt like she was right.
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  • And then shortly after that, peggy shirley,
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  • She was here, dr. delron, shirley's wife, he was the dean
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  • Of my bible school in south bend, indiana.
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  • When i went to dr. lester sumrall's
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  • World harvest bible college, his wife gave me a word,
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  • And not everybody deals with this,
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  • But she said, "listen, i tell you
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  • What you're dealing with, lawson.
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  • You're dealing with the spirit of rejection."
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  • So she said, "this is what you need to do.
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  • You need to just step over it and walk by it and let it go."
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  • And she said, "listen, i have dealt with this."
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  • She said the same thing.
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  • "they don't even affect del on this way.
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  • Why?
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  • Because he never dealt with rejection that i dealt with
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  • As a younger person and at the level i dealt with it."
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  • And i'm like, "you know what?
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  • She's right.
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  • My daughter-in-law's right.
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  • And peggy's right."
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  • So i received that.
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  • Then shortly after that, we were traveling
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  • And we were flying down to miami,
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  • And i was reading this book on traction.
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  • It's a secular business book,
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  • But as caleb who works here now
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  • And helps me, had given it to me.
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  • And i was reading through this
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  • And i was reading about a lawn care company.
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  • And they were talking about their culture,
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  • And i thought, man, i have never been able
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  • To define these things.
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  • But this lawn care company, their culture define,
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  • And this lawn care company,
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  • When they employed these practices, they grew by 300%.
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  • In fact, when i was reading it on the plane,
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  • This guy came by and he squeezed me on the shoulder
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  • And said, "listen, i got three businesses.
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  • I've employed the principles in that book
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  • In every one of them, and it's made them prosper."
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  • And so i was reading the first one was,
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  • Do whatever it takes.
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  • I thought, man, that's me.
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  • I always tell people,
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  • Your job description at charis christian center
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  • Is do whatever it takes.
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  • Amen.
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  • Just do whatever it takes.
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  • Amen.
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  • Second one was this.
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  • Whatever you do, do it with integrity.
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  • I thought, "well, that's who i am.
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  • I believe in telling the truth."
  • 00:24:37.418 --> 00:24:39.120
  • In fact, i've had people in spiritual leadership tell me,
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  • "we know how it is, pastor.
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  • And when you're a pastor, you gotta just lie, lie, lie."
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  • I hate lying.
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  • And i don't believe that, and i don't lie.
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  • And i know lots of christians that lie
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  • For different reasons and i don't like it.
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  • And so i believe in doing everything with integrity.
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  • I thought, man, that is who i am.
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  • Amen.
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  • The third one was be passionate.
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  • I thought, wow.
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  • (congregation laughing)
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  • I went to this conference on with pastors.
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  • There's 2,500 people physically present plus a bunch online.
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  • They said the number one reason people come to a church
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  • Is because the pastor is passionate.
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  • And i prayed, god, don't make me any more passionate.
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  • I am the most passionate person in this place.
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  • I told pastor max and he helped me for three years
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  • Before we helped him plant a church in kansas city.
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  • He said, "i agree with you.
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  • You don't need any more passion."
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  • Oh jesus, i need to tone it down a little bit.
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  • Okay, praise god.
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  • But the fourth one was this.
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  • It was have fun.
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  • And i thought, "you know what?
  • 00:25:38.179 --> 00:25:39.080
  • I have really slipped
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  • (congregation laughing)
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  • In the fun realm.
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  • I have really slipped in the joy realm
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  • And i need to get my joy back."
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  • (congregation cheering)
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  • Friends, i certainly hope
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  • That you've been enjoying the broadcast.
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  • And if you have let the devil steal your joy,
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  • I want you to get it back
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  • And you can get it back today when you understand
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  • What the gospel says and what jesus has done for you.
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