Lawson Perdue - Unspeakable Joy (Part 2)

April 22, 2025 | S25:E1603

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 - Unspeakable Joy (Part 2) | April 22, 2025

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- [pastor lawson] praise the lord.
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Friends, i'm so glad that you've joined us today.
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We're gonna be talking about counting it all joy
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When you face different kind of trials.
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Now, that's easier said than done,
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But i believe that we can do that when we put our faith
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And our confidence totally in the lord jesus christ
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And through the power of the holy spirit.
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So stay tuned today.
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Open your heart, receive the word of god.
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I believe you're gonna be blessed.
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Today we're gonna talk about counting it all joy
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When you fall into divers
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Or different kinds of temptations.
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How can we count it all joy
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When we have different kinds of trouble?
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How many of you know,
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If you're living on this earth very long
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Between when you get born again and when you go to heaven
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Or jesus comes, you're going to encounter some trouble?
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But you can believe god, you can count it all joy.
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Now that's a lot easier said than it is done.
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(lawson laughs)
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When some of the trouble comes,
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Did you know what?
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You're not always counting it all joy.
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Do you know i preached some on this last week
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And i had an opportunity one day this week to be upset,
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To be...
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You know what?
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But i stayed at it and i got my joy back
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And it didn't take me very long.
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Amen?
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Because see, you may not be able to control
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What comes to you,
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But you can control how you respond to it.
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Amen?
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So you can respond in faith.
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So we're gonna go to this scripture in james, chapter one,
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Verse two, where it says, "my brethren, count it all joy
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When you fall in the different kind of trouble,
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Different temptations."
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How can you count it joy?
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Well, the first thing is,
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You must keep believing the promises of god to you.
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Keep believing.
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You know, a lot of people start out believing,
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But a lot of people don't finish up in the realm of faith,
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Believing god.
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In other words, you know what?
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Like in 1978, i got baptized in the holy spirit.
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I begin to understand who i was in christ.
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I begin to understand
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That this bible is a bible full of promises
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That i can believe.
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That i don't have to be sick,
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I don't have to be defeated.
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I don't have to be poor and broke, but i can believe god.
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And you know, i've had a lot of opportunities
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Between then and now in the last 46 years to quit believing.
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But rather than quit believing,
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I've chosen to believe and chosen to receive what god says.
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Now, there are a lot of people
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That were in those very same meetings with me
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That heard this very same gospel,
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That heard the very same message,
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Some of those people today aren't even serving god.
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I have questions whether some of those people,
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If jesus came, would make it
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Or if they died, would make it to eternity in heaven.
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Now, that's not up to me, that's a up to god.
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Only god knows their eternal condition.
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But what i'm saying, the message was consistent,
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But how people receive the message is what differs.
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And so you have a responsibility to the word of god
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To believe it so that you might receive it.
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Not only some of those people today aren't even serving god,
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They don't have a...
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You know, there's not evidence, right,
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In their life of that.
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A lot of those people are not walking in victory.
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And it's not because of the message that was preached.
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It's because of how they responded to the message.
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Amen, because faith at the end of the day is your choice.
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And it's your choice when you hear the promises of god,
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When you hear what the scripture says to believe it
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And to receive it, or to doubt it and do without it.
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And so james is telling you, "listen guys,
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You need to count it all joy when different problems,
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Different difficulties, come your way,
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Different trials of your faith."
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He says, "why?
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Because you can receive it."
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He goes on and says this,
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"blessed is the man that endures temptation."
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And he says this in verse 25,
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"whoever looks into the perfect law of liberty
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Calls the new testament the new covenant,
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A perfect law of liberty and continues therein,
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This person, not being a forgetful hearer,
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But a doer of the work, this person shall be blessed."
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I wanna tell you that i'm a very, very blessed person,
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But i have had plenty of opportunities, right?
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I've had plenty of tests
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Between the test and the testimony.
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But not everybody passes those tests.
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And james is telling us a little bit about it.
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The first thing he says,
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"you gotta keep believing the promise."
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Stay consistent in your faith.
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He this in verse three,
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Let's read verse three through eight.
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"knowing this, that the trying of your faith
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Works patience."
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When you're tried, you gotta learn how to be patient.
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And sometimes it takes more patience than others.
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You know, this thing aaron talked about
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With the roof.
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I got another testimony i'm gonna tell you later, amen.
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But i'm already telling you, it's a testimony.
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I've been in the test here with this other thing for about,
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You know, two years going on three years.
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But this test lasted from 2020,
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Clear through 2023 when we got it settled.
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And by all odds in the natural, it looked like we weren't...
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It looked like we just were gonna be out.
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But god took care of it.
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And just like i say, he always takes care of us
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In grand style.
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He took care of it very, very well.
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So we thank god for that.
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But the trying of your faith works patience.
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So that was a three year, right, battle that we went through
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Before we ultimately received.
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Sometimes we have physical battles.
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Personally, sometimes we have financial battles.
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A lot of people that hear me preach think,
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"well, pastor lawson never has any challenges."
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I've had people tell me, "well, why doesn't barbara
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Have a reason to..."
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There's no reason she should be sad.
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But those people literally don't realize
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A lot of the difficulties and problems that we've dealt with
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Because we don't talk about it in the problem stage.
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We don't talk about it a lot of times in the test stage.
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We wait till the testimony,
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But it's not like we have never had any difficulties.
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They think, you know, with our children,
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We've never had any challenges.
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No, there've been some challenges,
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But we've chose and they've chosen because
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You can't have faith...
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You can believe god for your kids.
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You can speak the word over 'em.
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You can believe the scriptures,
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But ultimately some things are their choice.
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So they've made good choices, right?
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But at the same point in time, even when they were little,
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I remember one time our son andrew,
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You know, he couldn't breathe in the night
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When we were living in kit carson.
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So we rushed him to the hospital 25 miles away
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At cheyenne wells.
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And he had quick pneumonia
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And they said it's because he had asthma.
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And so they gave him a...
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You know one of the...
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Inhaler.
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And so for several years andrew had an inhaler.
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But did you know what we did?
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We put scriptures up in our house,
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We put a scripture up over our kitchen,
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Over the refrigerator.
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"i'll bless your bread and your water
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And take sickness from the midst of you."
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Amen, we put one over his bathroom mirror,
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Over the bathroom mirror.
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We put isaiah 53, verse four and five.
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Verse five says,
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"but he was wounded for our transgressions.
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Amen, he was bruised for iniquities.
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The chastisement of our peace was upon him or is upon him.
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And by his stripes, we are healed."
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In his bedroom door, we put a three by five card.
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And we wrote, "who his own self bear our sin in his own body
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On the tree, that we being dead to sin
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Should live under righteousness
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By whose stripes you were healed."
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Isaiah said, "it's gonna be done."
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Peter said, "it's already done,"
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And jesus did it.
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Amen?
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Hallelujah, but you know what?
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That battle took a while.
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Andrew was like eight years old.
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And when we moved up here, he was in junior high football
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And he took this, you know, inhaler with him
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To football practice.
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By eighth grade, he said, "listen, i'm healed.
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I don't need it."
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You know what?
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But we have major battles along the...
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And one of the major battles we had,
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He was running in a track meet and couldn't breathe.
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And barbara forgot the inhaler.
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And the kids were saying, "what kind of mother are you?"
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'cause they thought he was gonna die,
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And it looked like he was gonna die.
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It was in sheridan lake, colorado,
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Out in the middle of nowhere.
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But she went over and laid hands on him
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And believed god and said, "you know what?
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I'll show you what kind..."
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She didn't say that, but in her spirit, she said,
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"i'll show you what kind of mother i am.
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I'm a mama of faith and i know how faith works."
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And when they thought he should die,
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He lived. - amen.
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- see, because we've got a bible full of...
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It doesn't mean you never have any battles,
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Doesn't mean you never have any problems.
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You know, we've had some major battles,
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We've had some major financial battles,
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We've had major relational battles,
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But we've chosen to keep believing the promise of god.
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And then so he says, look at this.
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He says, "knowing that the trial of your faith
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Works patience, but let patience have her complete work,
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That you may be perfect or mature
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And entire wanting nothing."
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He said, "listen, some of these battles," right,
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He says that in first peter one, verse seven,
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Where we were last week,
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"the trial of your faith is more precious
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Than gold that perishes."
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He says right here,
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"he says that you may be perfect and tired,
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That you may be mature, lacking nothing,
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Wanting nothing.
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Sometimes you need some wisdom to go along with it.
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If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of god
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Who gives liberally to all men and does not rebuke us,
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And it will be given to him."
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But when you're praying, when you ask god,
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Let him ask in faith, nothing wavering.
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For he that wavers
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Is like a wave of the sea
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Driven with the wind and tossed.
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You know, some people are like that.
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Any little wind comes along
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And they're just like, "oh,"
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And they're back in the gutter again.
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Well, you gotta keep believing.
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Amen?
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And you know what happens with the waves,
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They go back forth, right?
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One coming in covers it up
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And it goes the other side of the sea
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And then it comes up again.
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So what you gotta do is you've gotta choose,
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"you know what?
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I'm gonna believe god,
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I'm gonna believe the promises of god
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No matter what it looks like."
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And you've gotta make a decision.
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You look in the mirror of the word and see the promise,
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You look at in the mirror of the circumstances
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And see the circumstance and then you choose.
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I'm going to believe what god says about me.
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I'm gonna believe what god says about my situation.
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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 at
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Charischristiancenter.com, absolutely free of charge.
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So go there and be blessed.
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(upbeat music)
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I want you to know that paradise is not found
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In the lifestyles of the rich and the famous.
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Paradise is found through knowing jesus christ.
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And if you don't know jesus, you are poor.
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You are poor spiritually, you may have a lot of money,
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But spiritually you are bankrupt if you don't know jesus.
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(upbeat music)
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And he says...
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He goes on and he says,
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"for let not that man think."
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If you're always back and forth,
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You're not rooted and grounded and established in the word,
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"let not that man think
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That he'll receive anything of the lord."
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Some of you have a really bad habit of whining.
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And you know, i'll just be honest with you,
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As long as you're whining, it's hard to win.
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Amen?
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So if you wanna have the victory,
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You gotta get the whine outta your voice.
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Amen?
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And you gotta get the victory back in your voice.
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We'll talk about that in a little bit, okay?
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But he says this, let that...
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Not a double-minded...
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He says, "a double-minded man."
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If you're one of these,
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Yeah, you look in the word and you see the...
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And there's a lot of people like that, right?
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Mark, chapter four talks about the parable of the sower.
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And the first type of soil is immediately
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When the word is sown in your heart,
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The enemy comes to steal.
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It's spiritual maturity.
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That word outta you...
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The devil wants to get the word outta your heart
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Because he knows if you believe it,
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You'll become a major threat to his kingdom.
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But the second kind of soil is like the stony soil
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And the word grows up.
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It looks beautiful,
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It looks amazing.
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It looks like it's gonna produce,
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But because it has no root in itself
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When persecution and affliction comes
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Do you know what?
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Some of you get persecuted just 'cause you come
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To a church like this,
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Just because you come to a church that actually believes
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That the promises of god are real
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And that they're for today.
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Some religious people will persecute you.
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But you gotta choose.
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I don't care what they say.
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You know, i don't care.
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Right, but he says, "a double-minded person
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Is unstable in all their ways."
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So you've gotta make a choice.
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I'm gonna believe the word of god.
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Let me give you another example of this.
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So number one, i'm gonna make a choice.
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If i'm gonna count it all joy, when different problems come,
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When different trials come,
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When different difficulties or tests come,
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I'm gonna believe god's promises above everything else.
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Romans five says it this way in the first five verses,
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"therefore being justified..."
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Or i like the new king james,
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"having been justified by faith,
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We have peace with god through our lord jesus christ."
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He goes on and says this,
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"and we have access," in verse two
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"by faith into grace wherein we stand."
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So we're gonna call this grace.
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We're gonna say there's like an imaginary room here
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Called grace.
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And in grace we have everything that we need.
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We have healing for our bodies, we have peace for our mind,
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We have provision for our needs, right?
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We have favor, we have increase,
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We have all these things in grace, right?
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But we're gonna stay right here,
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It is where we're coming from
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And it says we have access.
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We're gonna say, "this is the door into grace."
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Now, you know, jesus is the embodiment of grace.
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But verse two says, "by faith..."
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So faith is like the key that unlocks the door.
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We have access into grace.
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And we stand in grace.
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Right, we stand in hope of the glory of god.
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Now, when we say in hope of the glory of god,
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When we talk about the glory of god,
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Primarily we're talking about his presence,
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We're talking about his power,
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And we're talking about his purpose.
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We could also be talking about the manifestation
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In this case of the promise.
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And so faith, right?
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Faith is the key that opens the door to grace.
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And we stand in grace.
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He says, "in hope of the presence of god,
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The power of god, the purpose of god,
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And the manifested promise of god."
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Now, when we think about this standing in grace,
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That's why we don't claim what we've done.
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When you're in a fight of faith,
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The bible calls faith a fight in timothy.
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It says, "fight the good fight of faith," right,
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"lay hold on eternal life," right?
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And he also talks about professing a good profession.
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That's part of the fight of faith.
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But when you get over here,
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You don't stand over here in grace.
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You don't stand and you say,
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"well, i went to church and i prayed
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And i read my bible and i gave, and i loved my neighbor,
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And i didn't cuss and i didn't lie,
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And i didn't steal and i didn't get drunk,"
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That's not what you say when you stand in grace.
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"and i didn't go to the movies and i didn't play cards,
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And i didn't go dancing"
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Because i've actually seen a church membership card
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In my younger days, i was a member of this church.
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Now my pastor knew better than this.
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But he said, "if you sign this membership card
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That you're not gonna go to the movies
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And you're not gonna play cards
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And you're not gonna go dancing," right?
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And all these things.
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And you know what?
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It's a bunch of legalism.
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And legalism is a killer, you know.
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So i'm glad right now that we live in a happy place.
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The kingdom of god is not meat and drink.
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It's not rules and regulations,
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But it's righteousness, peace and joy in the holy ghost.
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In fact, last week after this service,
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I went out and my granddaughter ada was here,
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And somehow she got away from whoever she was with,
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And she was running in the entryway,
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She was headed for the front door.
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So i headed her off and she went in the children's church
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And most of the kids were out there,
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But she was just...
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She was running from me and she was just...
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And they were playing jingle bells.
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And i liked it.
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Amen, because you know what?
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I think children's church needs to be a happy place.
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It's okay to have fun in church.
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I'm here more than most people.
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So i decided a long time ago, i'm gonna have fun.
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Amen, so don't get too religious on me, okay?
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But ada was having a good time
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And i was running trying to catch her,
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But i was having a hard time and i wasn't getting her.
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And then heather,
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You know, figured out where she was and came to the door.
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I said, "ada, there's your mama, you go see her."
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And i was running behind her.
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And then heather caught her at the door.
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Hallelujah, amen.
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But you know what?
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We don't wanna get a bunch of rules and regulations.
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We don't wanna get a bunch of legalism
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Because legalism is a faith killer, right?
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So we have access by faith through the door, jesus.
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And we go into grace and we stand in christ.
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We stand in jesus, right?
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We stand in the work that he's done
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And we say, "hey, it's not about me.
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By his stripes, i was healed."
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He is my righteousness.
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He is my peace, right?
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He is my provider.
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Hallelujah, amen.
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And we stand in grace and rejoice in the hope.
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But listen to what he goes on to say in verse three.
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He says, "and not only so, not only so."
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Because sometimes it takes a while between
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When you believe and you receive.
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But he says, "we also glory,
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We also rejoice in tribulation, in trouble."
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Same thing as james is saying, right?
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He says, "knowing that tribulation works patience
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And patience works experience and experience works hope.
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And hope makes us not ashamed
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Because the love of god is shed abroad in our heart."
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Now, let me explain that to you.
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He says, "we rejoice in trouble."
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And he says, "because we know
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That patience works experience..."
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If you patiently believe god,
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Hebrews six says the same thing.
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He says, "don't be lazy," hebrews 6:12.
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"but be followers of those who through faith and patience
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Inherit the promises," right?
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And like i said some battles take longer than others to win,
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But you keep believing, you never quit believing.
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Or he says be follow...
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But he says this, "patience works."
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If you patiently believe god,
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You patiently believe the promises,
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There will be a day that you will receive.
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Patience works experience,
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You will experience the faithfulness of god
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And experience works hope.
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If i believe god and receive in this area,
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Whether it's an area of healing or finances or joy
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Or relationship, whatever it is.
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Now you can't control other people.
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I want you to understand that.
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You can only control yourself
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And you can't control many times the different difficulties
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That may come to you,
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But you can control how you deal with them.
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Right, so he says, "experience works hope."
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What happens is when you experience the faithfulness of god,
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When your faith's on trial, again, you say,
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"uh oh, i know who this is."
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Right, this is the devil.
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And mr. devil, i'm gonna believe god.
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And experience works hope.
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And hope does not make us ashamed
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Because the love of god is shed abroad in our heart
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By the holy ghost.
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Hope doesn't make us ashamed
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Because we know that god is good and he's always good.
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He never ever changes from being good.
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So if you're gonna count it all joy
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When you fall into different kind of problems, number one,
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You need to keep believing the promises of god.
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But number two, you need to believe at a heart level
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That god is always good and he never changes.
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And james goes on and talks about that, right?
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Let's go on down here in james, chapter one, verse 12.
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He says, "blessed is the man who endures temptation,
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For when he's tried he will receive the crown of life,
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Which the lord has promised to those who love him."
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Let no man say when he's tempted,
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"i'm tempted of god" because he says this,
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"for god cannot be tempted with evil.
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Neither temps he any man."
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God is not the author of death, of destruction, of sin,
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Of sickness, of lack.
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In fact, i heard lester sumrall,
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Dr. lester sumrall say this years ago.
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He said, "i hate sickness just like i hate sin
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Because it comes from the same place."
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And i'll just add onto that, i hate poverty,
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Just like i hate sin because it comes from the same place.
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I hate it, right?
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But i'm not gonna blame god for sickness.
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I'm not gonna blame god for lack.
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I'm not gonna blame god for destruction in any way
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Because god's not the author of it.
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And he goes on and says this,
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If we go on down to verse six...
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16, excuse me, he says,
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"don't err, don't change from us, my beloved brother."
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He says, "for every good and every perfect..."
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Notice, it's good.
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Everybody say good. - good.
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- and perfect. - perfect.
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- "gift is from above
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And comes down from the father of lights,
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From god, our heavenly father,
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With whom there is no variable..."
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He doesn't change from this.
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"variableness, neither shadow of turning."
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Anywhere he turns is light.
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Anywhere he turns is good, anything he gives is good.
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If it's not good, if it's not perfect,
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It did not come from god.
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And sickness, disease, destruction,
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Poverty, lack, does not come from god, period.
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- friend, we've been talking about understanding
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At a heart level the goodness of god.
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And if you're gonna walk in joy,
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You have to know that god is good all the time.
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And that isn't just a saying,
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That is the bible truth.
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Jesus said, "i am the good shepherd
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And i'm giving my life for the sheep."
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He said, "it's the thief that comes to steal,
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Kill, and destroy.
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But i've come to give you that life and that life abundant."
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And then james went on to say that
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Every good and perfect gift comes down from above,
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From the father of lights
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With whom there is no variableness,
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Not even a shadow of turning.
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If you need prayer today, if you want products
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That help you understand the goodness of god,
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Give us a call today at the church
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Or go on our website at charischristiancenter.com
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Where we have lots of free product blessings.
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- hey everyone, i want you to mark your calendar
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For family camp meeting.
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We're gonna have great teaching with mark hankins
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And pastor max cornell.
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Great worship with philip renner,
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Sharing the grace of jesus all around the globe.
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And we're gonna have great children's meetings,
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Great youth meetings, something for the entire family,
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Right here at charis christian center in colorado springs.
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We want to see you here.
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Blessings.
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- [narrator] thanks for watching "grace for today."
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Lawson Perdue - Unspeakable Joy (Part 2)

April 22, 2025 | S25:E1603

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