Lawson Perdue - Unspeakable Joy (Part 3)

April 23, 2025 | S25:E1604

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 3) | April 23, 2025

(bright music)
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- praise the lord, friends,
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We're going into a live service
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Where i'm talking about the source of true joy.
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You can have joy on the inside
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No matter what's happening on the outside.
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The scripture says that these things are written to us
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That our joy might be full.
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And fullness of joy comes from knowing jesus christ.
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So, stay tuned, open your heart,
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And you're gonna be blessed today.
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(bright music)
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So open your bible.
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We're gonna share a little bit from nehemiah today
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About the joy of the lord is your strength.
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Did you know what?
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If the devil can't steal your joy,
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He can't take your goods.
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Now, i heard that a long time ago from another preacher,
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And it's so true.
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I just stole it from him.
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And i've been preaching it ever since.
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But there's another truth here that i'm gonna show you
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As we go through these scriptures.
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Before i get in these scriptures,
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We're gonna be in nehemiah 8:9-12 today.
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But before i get into 'em,
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Let me lay a little bit of history.
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Nehemiah was a cup barrier
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To the king of persia, artaxerxes.
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This is 400 to 450 bc.
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Nehemiah heard about the walls of jerusalem
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Being broken down and it really grieved him.
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And so, what nehemiah's job was, was to, you know, drink,
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Test what's going in the cup
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Before he gives it to the king to make sure it's not poison.
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So, his job requires loyalty.
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He's a great servant of the king.
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But when he hears about this,
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He prays about, he's very grieved.
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And he goes in before the king one day, and he's very sorry.
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And the king said, "hey, what's up?"
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Because it wasn't like in our day,
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If you went into the king grieved then,
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He could take your head off.
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In fact, i had a good friend.
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He came to this church and preached twice.
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He's from australia.
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Amen.
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What was his name?
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Peter daniels.
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Fantastic, fantastic brother in christ.
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Peter daniels had his own money.
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He was a billionaire.
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But peter daniels had a sign in his office
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And it said, "you have 10 seconds to get happy
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Or get out of my office." (person clapping)
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Because he knew that unhappy people are expensive.
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(congregation laughing)
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Hallelujah.
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Amen?
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Now, part of our culture at this church
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Is you gotta be happy.
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If you're gonna work here, you gotta be happy.
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If you can't be happy, you can't work here.
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That goes for pastor lawson, too.
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So, i've recently had to get the joy back
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'cause the devil tried to steal my joy.
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But you know what?
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I caught him in the act and i got my joy back.
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(congregation cheering)
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Hallelujah.
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And i'm telling you, good things are coming
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In the future, praise god.
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And good things are already happening since i've done it.
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In fact, i call one of my, danny zeigler called me
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On the very day that i had this challenge happen
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That kind of tried to steal my joy,
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More than did steal my joy, to be honest.
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And so, danny called me to thank me
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Because i'd given him and tonya a gift
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For their 20th anniversary, so on and so forth,
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And anyway, he called tanya
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And said, "hey, what's wrong with pastor?"
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So she told him, and he called me back
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And he gave me a word.
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Said, "hey pastor, don't,
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Don't worry about the doors that are closing.
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Rejoice in the new doors that are opening,
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'cause god's got more places for you to go
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And more things for you to do."
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And actually, since this has happened,
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And i got my joy back, doors being opened.
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I haven't been openin' 'em, but god's been opening doors
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And i'm going places that i've never gone before.
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Gonna be doing some things we've never done before.
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Praise god.
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God's gonna take great care of this church.
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Amen.
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And praise god,
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We're gonna reach more people
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Than we've ever reached before, praise god.
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I tell you, good things are in store.
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I am so excited about the future, amen.
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Praise god.
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So nehemiah is there,
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And he tells the king what's going on in jerusalem,
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The walls are broken down,
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The gates are burned with fire.
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And so, the king appoints nehemiah to lead a group
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Of exiles to go back to jerusalem
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To rebuild the walls of jerusalem.
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And nehemiah is an amazing servant leader
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In a very short time, in 52 days,
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With tremendous opposition.
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But you know, just because you're doing the will of god
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Doesn't mean there's not gonna be opposition, right?
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They had sanballat, they had tobiah,
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They had gershom, the arabian.
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You know what, i say misery loves company.
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You know, when the devil comes,
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They usually come more than one way.
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But nehemiah motivated people, all kinds of people,
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Priests, men, women, right?
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Business people, all kinds of people to come together
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To rebuild the walls of jerusalem,
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To restore the city of god.
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And after he restored the city,
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He not only restored the physical city,
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He restored spiritual leadership.
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Ezra the priest, and different levites.
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He restored spiritual leadership.
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He himself was made the governor, right?
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He was a very generous governor of the city.
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He restored governmental leadership
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And he restored leadership in the family, okay?
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But along the way,
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When he restored the spiritual leadership,
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They began to read the law of god.
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And as they read the law of god,
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The people begin to weep and mourn.
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And so, this is where we're breaking into the story
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In nehemiah 8:9-12.
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Nehemiah, who is a tirshath and ezra, the priest describe,
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And the levites taught the people
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And said to the people "this day is holy
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To the lord your god.
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Mourn not, nor weep
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For all the people wept
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When they heard the words of the lord."
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In other words, he said, "guys, you know what?
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You've got the wrong response to hearing the word of god."
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Now, why are people weeping?
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Sometimes people weeping
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Because, hey, they think we missed out.
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All these years, we haven't been hearing the word of god
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Publicly proclaimed, so on and so forth.
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They may have been weeping
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Because they said, "hey, we missed the mark, right?
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We sinned" because by the law is the knowledge of sin.
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But he said, "listen, don't weep, don't mourn.
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Stop right now!"
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And there's a reason.
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He says, then he said this in verse 10.
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"go your way, eat the fat, drink the sweet
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And send portions to those who have,
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For whom nothing is prepared
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For this day is holy to the lord.
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Neither be sorry for the joy of the lord is your strength."
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That's what we're talking about today.
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The joy of the lord is your strength.
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So, the levites stilled all the people
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Saying, "hold your peace
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For this day is holy and don't be grieved."
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And they had this great party
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Because they had an understanding of the word of god
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That was declared unto them.
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Praise god.
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So number one, start celebrating and stop weeping.
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Amen?
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If you're gonna operate in the joy of the lord
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As your strength, you gotta start celebrating.
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Amen?
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And stop weeping.
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He says it over.
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He says, "mourn not nor weep."
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And then he says again, "don't be sorry
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Because as long as you're overwhelmed with sorrow
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And weeping and mourning, you're not gonna be able
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To move into the victory
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That god already has prepared for you."
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Amen?
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Start rejoicin'.
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And you know, it's all right to mourn
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As long as you keep it to a very brief time.
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The bible actually says this in psalm 30:5.
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It says, "weeping may endure for a night,
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But joy comes in the morning."
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Everybody say joy comes.
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- [congregation] joy comes.
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- in the morning.
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- [congregation] in the morning.
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- how many of you glad the mercies of god are new every day?
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So, you know, that's part of life.
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Sometimes there's different challenges,
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Different difficulties, different problems that we face
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That's just being in the world.
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Jesus said, "in the world, there's gonna be trouble.
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You're gonna have tribulation, but cheer up
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Because i've overcome the world."
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Amen?
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So just don't let it get a hold on you.
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So, stop mourning, start celebrating, amen.
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And we have a great reason to celebrate.
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Jesus is the lord, amen.
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Praise god.
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The angels brought that news
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So many years ago when jesus was born.
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"fear not, for behold, i bring you great news,
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Good news of great joy, which will be to all people."
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Good news, great joy.
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Jesus christ, the messiah is born.
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Praise god.
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Isn't that wonderful? (congregation agreeing)
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So, the first thing is stop weeping, amen.
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Start celebrating.
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The joy of the lord is your strength.
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In 1 samuel 16,
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Samuel actually was being grieved.
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And the reason he was grieved
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Was because saul, he had invested a lot in saul.
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God had invested a lot in saul.
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And saul had turned his back on god.
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Saul had turned his back on, you know, really
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What god called him to do,
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Tried to get into what god called somebody else to do,
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And lost the anointing on his life.
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And samuel was weeping, samuel was mourning.
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God spoke to him in 1 samuel 16:1
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And said, "how long will you weep for saul?"
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I've had that very same thing happen.
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People that we've invested a lot in,
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That we've helped a lot, that we've given a lot of grace to,
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You know, and they leave for some reason.
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Sometimes good, sometimes not so good.
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Many times not so good.
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You know, sometimes people start out good and they end bad.
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That's not my fault.
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That's not god's fault.
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That wasn't god's fault what saul did, it was saul's choice.
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But samuel was weeping about it.
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Said, "hey, stop weeping."
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He said, "fill your horn with oil."
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In other words, he said, "i have somebody to move forward."
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Amen?
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And he said, "i want you to go
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And i want you to call jesse and his sons to sacrifice."
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And so he went and he called jesse to go sacrifice,
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And his sons.
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Jesse comes in.
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Seven of his sons passed before samuel, the lord.
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He looks at the first one, said, "boy, he's big.
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He's good looking, he must..."
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God said no.
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God said no seven times.
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So he looks at jesse, he said, "do you have any more sons?"
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He said, "oh yeah, little david.
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He's out there taking care."
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He said, "go get him."
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So they bring david in, he's red-haired and pretty.
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He says, "stand up.
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Don't sit down until he gets in here."
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He comes in, god says, "arise, anoint him."
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Amen?
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"because this is the one that i've chosen."
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See, the bible says that man looks
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On the outward appearance, but god looks on the heart.
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The bible says that god chose david
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When he was among the sheep folds,
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When he was taking care of, you know,
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He's out there playing his harp, playing his flute,
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Worshiping god, blessing the lord, amen.
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Doing what?
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But you know, nobody else really knew a lot about david,
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But god knew where david was,
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And god knew what he was doing, amen.
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And so, whatever's, you know, causing you to mourn,
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Stop weeping, stop mourning.
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Don't be sorry.
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Start rejoicing.
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Praise god.
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The second thing he tells him in nehemiah 8:10.
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He says, "go your way.
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Move forward."
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It's time to move forward.
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Guess what?
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You can't go forward looking back.
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(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 absolutely free of charge.
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So, go there and be blessed.
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(bright music)
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(exciting music)
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You're not prosperous
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Because of what you have on the outside.
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You're prosperous because of what you have on the inside.
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But if you begin to understand what you've received
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On the inside, you can change that
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And begin to see what you've received on the inside flow
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To the outside.
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Watchman nee said the greatest challenge
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In all of christianity
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Is getting what is on the inside of us to the outside.
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You gotta begin to see what god says about you.
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(gentle music)
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He says, "for the joy of the lord is your strength.
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Learn how to enjoy the goodness of god."
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In fact, when we started the series,
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We started with this verse in acts 2:46 and 47.
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I got this from max cornell.
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Why did the early church grow?
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This was done by a secular study.
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The early church grew because of healings,
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Because of miracles and deliverances,
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And because of extreme joy.
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Everybody say
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Extreme joy. - extreme joy.
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- acts 2:46 and 47 says,
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"they ate their meat with gladness."
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That in the greek means extreme joy.
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"praising god and having favor with all the people.
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And the lord added to the church daily,
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Such as should be saved."
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You know, the disciples many times face persecution.
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In fact, somebody asked me about suffering
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In the end of 1 peter 4.
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Most of the time, when you see suffering
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With the disciples of jesus,
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It's because of one thing called persecution.
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And in acts 13, paul had been preaching.
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He had been preaching at antioch.
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And when he got done there,
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The religious people stirred people up.
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They had great miracles, they had great wonders.
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They had great things going on.
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Many people, almost the whole city
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Was coming out to hear them preach.
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And yet, because the religious people stirred them up,
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They ran them out of town.
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"but it says they shook the dust off their feet,
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And they were filled with the holy ghost
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And with joy," amen.
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They were filled.
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In fact, the next place they went,
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When they went from antioch, they went to iconium.
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At iconium, the same thing happened.
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They had a great response.
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And yet those religious people came from the last place,
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Stirred the people up.
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They didn't last very long there.
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And they ran 'em out of town again.
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So they went to the next place.
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They went to lystra.
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At lystra, they had great miracles.
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There was a man, he was born a cripple.
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He had been crippled for many years.
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And paul, as he was preaching, looked at him
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And perceived the man had faith to be healed.
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And he spoke to him, right?
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And he says, "listen, the lord is healin' you, get up."
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And he got up and was completely healed.
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The people nearly worship paul,
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But yet those same people came and stirred the people up,
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And they turned against paul.
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And you know what?
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They stoned paul,
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And they dragged him out of the city,
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And they left him for dead.
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Now, how many of you think you could tell
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If somebody was dead?
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But you know, i'm not only talking about unspeakable joy.
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You know what i'm talking about.
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I'm talking about unstoppable joy.
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They stoned him and they left him for dead.
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But his disciples found him, and they joined around him.
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I believe what they did was they begin to worship god
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And glorify god, and they raised paul up from the dead.
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Amen.
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And you know what he did?
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He turned right around, and he retraced his steps,
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And he went right back to those people that just stopped.
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You know, that just stoned him, that tried to stop him.
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And you know what he preached?
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He said, "jesus christ is the son of god."
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He said, "you crucified him and you put him in the grave.
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But god raised him from the dead
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And jesus christ is lord."
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He went right back to lystra.
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He went right back to iconium.
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He went right back to antioch, and he preached the gospel
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Because it's not only unspeakable joy, it's unstoppable joy.
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I got something to tell you.
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Not only if the devil can't steal your joy,
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He can't take your goods.
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If the devil can't steal your joy,
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He can't take your testimony.
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- [congregant] amen.
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- amen.
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So, enjoy the goodness of god.
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Now, as they were there, a couple things they brought out,
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Keep going forward and keep ministering to other people.
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But they said, "hold your peace."
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You know, if you don't know what to say,
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Don't say anything at all.
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Your tongue gets you in trouble.
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Your mouth.
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Guard your mouth, guard the words of your mouth!
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Sometimes i listen to people and i'm like.
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There's a person pretty close to me not long ago,
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They're just whining.
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I said, "listen, you're not a poor victim!
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Listen to what you're saying."
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Right?
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Quit whining, quit singing the victim song.
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Start singing the victor song.
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Start praising god.
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Start glorifying god.
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Start thanking god.
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Start being thankful for what god's given you.
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Proverbs 13:3 says this, "he that keeps his mouth,
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Keeps his life, but he that opens wide his lips
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Will have destruction."
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The other thing they said in verse 11 is this.
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Nehemiah 8:11, "neither be grieved, don't be grieved."
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You know what grief is?
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Grief at the heart is an overwhelming sense of loss.
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And maybe you've lost a loved one,
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You've lost a relationship.
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Maybe you've had a major loss in finances.
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You know, i've had that happen.
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And the lord's spoken to me
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And said, "lawson, don't look at what you lost.
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Look at what you have."
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Amen?
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If you've lost a loved one,
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They've went home to be with jesus.
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Don't look at what you've lost.
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Look at what they've gained.
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Amen?
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And think about eternity.
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Eternity with jesus is a long time,
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And we're gonna be together.
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And so, jesus not only took our sin,
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Did you know jesus took our shame and he took our grief.
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He took our rejection.
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Jesus was rejected of men.
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Talk about suffering, rejection.
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When jesus was on the cross, everybody,
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Even his closest disciples rejected him.
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Let's read about it, isaiah 53:3.
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"he's despised and rejected of men."
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In fact, before the election,
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I was watching a trump rally, and dr. phil was speaking.
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And dr. phil said this, he said the number one thing
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That people worldwide fear is rejection.
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The number one thing that people worldwide want
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Is acceptance.
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You know, i was reading this book that jesse duplantis wrote
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On the most wonderful time of the year,
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And he was talking about
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How god many times uses unbelievers.
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And jesse, i'm amazed when i have him with me
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At the people that respond to him.
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I'm amazed at how many people he's reached.
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But you know what?
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I found something about jesse, sinners love jesse.
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You know why sinners love jesse?
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Because jesse loves sinners.
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He loves 'em.
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Man, one time years ago, we were at applebee's
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And this waitress, we bought a meal for 10 of us, for $60.
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I got all the deals, right?
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(congregation laughing)
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Jesse, jesse actually went down
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At kenneth copeland's big summer camp meeting,
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Whatever it's called.
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And he talked about pastor lawson perdue,
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He tells it, "he is a negotiator."
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And he told this story about me negotiating at applebee's.
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And i really wasn't negotiating,
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I just making sure we got the deal.
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(congregation laughing)
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But jesse gave this waitress a $200 tip,
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And she started weeping.
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And she told us this story
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That years ago she was in prison.
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And she said, "i heard you on tv
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And i received jesus christ as my savior."
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I'm amazed at the people that respond to him.
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But you know what?
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They know he loves 'em.
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He tells a story in this book about how a sinner came
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And gave him a sack with $10,000 cash in it,
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And said, "i don't want a receipt
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And i don't want you to know my name,
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(lawson laughing)
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But god told me to give this to you."
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Hallelujah.
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Glory to god.
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Do you know what?
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God doesn't care who he use, he'll use whoever's willing.
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Glory to god.
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Amen, but start loving sinners,
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Start reaching out to sinners,
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Start telling 'em about the goodness of god.
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You know, i won my neighbor too,
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My neighbor came to jesus after i witnessed
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To him for 13 years.
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You know what he told the people?
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When we were moving in, the men's groups helped me move in.
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He said, well, he said, "what's going on?"
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They said, "we're moving in our pastor."
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He said, "i hate preachers."
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But he's my friend
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And he's been to this church several times.
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Hallelujah.
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And he received jesus, glory to god.
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The place we lived before that,
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You know what the man across the street
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Was a retired colonel in the air force.
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His son came across the street
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And he said, "listen, my dad hates preachers!
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But he loves you and god sent you."
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And you know what, i won his dad to jesus on his deathbed.
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- [congregant] amen.
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- amen.
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I witnessed to him for years,
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But on his deathbed, he was actually in a coma.
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And i went in the room and god woke him up out of the coma
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And he received jesus.
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And then i left the room.
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He was awake talking to me for about 30 minutes.
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I left the room and he went back into his coma
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And he never came out.
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That's what you call last minute.
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That's what you call last hour of the day, baby.
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- [congregant] yeah!
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- but i believe that i'm gonna see ken in heaven with me.
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Amen?
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So just keep loving sinners and keep sharing jesus
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And keep doing it with joy.
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Amen?
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Now, one more thing.
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Praise god.
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So, the first thing is quit weeping and start rejoicing.
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The second thing, move forward.
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The third thing, enjoy the goodness of god.
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But when we think about grief, jesus, jesus took our grief.
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He took our sorrow.
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Let's read this.
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"jesus has been rejected.
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A man of sorrows acquainted with grief."
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Sorrow in the hebrews, pain, sorrow,
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Physical or mental pain.
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Grief is sickness, disease, grief, malady,
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Anxiety, or calamity.
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I love when aaron was talking about ada
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Putting it back in the bag and then unpacking it again.
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Amen?
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Do you know what?
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Sometimes you need to go back to the word and you need
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To unpack it again. - amen.
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- you need to go back to these scriptures
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And not forget what they've said.
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He carried our sorrows.
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He bore our griefs in verse four,
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Carried our, "he bore our sickness and carried our pain.
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Yet we did esteem him stricken,
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Smitten of god and afflicted.
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For he was wounded for our transgressions."
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You know when it says he was smitten of god,
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Did you know the cross was not the work of man?
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The cross was not the work of religious people.
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The cross was not the work of the devil.
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The cross was the work of god.
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Christ was cursed on the cross by god
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So that you and i could receive the blessing.
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That's what galatians 3:13 and 14 say.
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He says this in verse five,
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"but he was wounded for our transgression.
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He was bruised for our iniquities.
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Jesus took our sin.
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The chastisement of our peace was upon him."
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Jesus took our anxiety.
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Barbara's mom, when barbara was young, struggled
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With extreme mental anxiety.
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In fact, she struggled to the point that she was on drugs
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For her mental health and wellbeing.
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But she got a hold of the word of god
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And she started believing god.
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And barbara said this, she changed
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And she turned into a faith fanatic.
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And i'm not saying this is the answer for everybody,
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But it was the answer for her mom.
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Her mom took all her drugs
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And threw 'em in the toilet and flushed 'em down.
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Praise god, and jesus completely healed her mind.
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Jesus changed her, praise god.
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And she lived to love god's word.
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We need to live to love the word of god.
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We need to keep going back to the word of god
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And unpacking it and saying, "woo, the pink one!
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Woo, the red one!
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Whoa!"
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(lawson laughing)
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Amen?
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We need to keep remembering the good things
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That god has for us.
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(bright music)
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Jesus became the curse so that we can be blessed.
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And when you understand the gospel
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And what jesus provided in his death, burial,
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And resurrection, you can begin to live in the victory
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That god promised you through the payment jesus made
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And the power of the holy spirit.
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When i got ahold of the true gospel, the full gospel,
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It liberated me.
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So, if you need prayer today, give us a call.
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Lawson Perdue - Unspeakable Joy (Part 3)

April 23, 2025 | S25:E1604

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