Lawson Perdue - Winning In Life (Part 1)

June 9, 2025 | 29:55

Pastor Lawson Perdue from the Charis Christian Center outreach speaks to viewers across the globe about the practical message of Jesus Christ

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Grace for Today with Lawson Perdue | Lawson Perdue - Winning In Life (Part 1) | June 9, 2025

(bright music)
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- praise the lord, friends, and welcome to the broadcast.
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I am so glad that you've tuned in.
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I'm gonna be sharing from a live message in our church
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About winning in life.
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God wants you to win
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And god has a good plan for your life.
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But if you're gonna enter into it,
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You must believe it to receive it.
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Open your heart and receive
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The good word of god today, blessings.
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(upbeat music)
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Open your bible to deuteronomy 30.
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I've got a brand new message,
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I'm gonna be talking about winning in life.
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I believe that god wants every person
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Who's ever been born
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To win in life.
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I believe that god has made that available in the gospel
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And through jesus christ.
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But we have something to do with it.
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It's not automatic.
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First of all, you have to believe it.
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The bible says this in isaiah 7:9.
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"surely, if you will not believe,
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You will not be established."
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You've gotta believe it to receive it.
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Secondly, you've gotta make a choice to walk
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In the good things of god.
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You've gotta make a choice
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To walk in life and blessing.
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And thirdly, you've gotta realize
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The good life is in jesus christ.
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So let's start reading right now in deuteronomy 30:11.
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"this commandment which i command you this day
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Is not hidden from you,
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Neither is it far off.
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It's not in heaven, that you should say,
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'who will go up to heaven and bring it down to us,
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That we may hear it and do it?'
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Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say,
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'who will go over the sea for us and bring it to us,
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That we may hear it and do it?'
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But the word is very near you,
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In your mouth and in your heart,
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That you may do it.
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See, i have set before you this day life and good,
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Death and evil.
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In that, i command you this day to love the lord your god,
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To walk in his ways and to keep his commands,
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His statutes and his judgments,
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That you may live and multiply.
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And the lord will bless you in the land
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Where you're going to possess it.
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But if your heart turns away, so that you will not hear,
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And you're drawn away and worship other gods and serve them,
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I denounce to you today that you will surely perish,
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And you will not prolong your days on the land
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Where you pass over jordan to go to possess it.
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I call heaven and earth to record today against you,
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That i have set before you life and death,
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Blessing and cursing.
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Therefore choose life,
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That you and your seed may live;
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That you may love the lord your god;
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That you may obey his voice and cleave to him,
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For he is your life and length of days;
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That you may dwell in the land
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Which the lord swore to your fathers,
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To abraham, to isaac, and to jacob,
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To give them."
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I wanna go back and just take note of verse 19.
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God says, "i call heaven and earth to record against you."
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In other words, god says, "heaven is my witness,
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And earth is my witness.
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And i'm calling you into accountability
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Before heaven and earth,
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That i am giving you a choice.
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This is your personal choice.
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I set before you life.
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I set before you death.
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I set before you blessing.
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And i set before you cursing."
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Choose life." (laughs)
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This one isn't hard, guys.
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"that both you and your seed may live."
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You know, we make choices,
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And choices that we make have consequences.
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Sometimes the consequences that they have,
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We have no power over those consequences.
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However, we do have power to make choices.
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And sometimes those consequences not only affect us,
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But those consequences can affect others,
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Especially those close to us.
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He says, "choose life,
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That both you and your seed may live."
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Now, the first thing that i wanna share
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About the winning life.
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Winning in life is different for different people.
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When you look at that background,
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Joanie kanneberg has been doing this actually
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For several years for us,
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But she makes backgrounds and then i pick one.
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She's very creative but i picked this one.
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And i picked this one specifically
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Because i believe that winning in life
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Is following jesus.
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Jesus says, "i am the good shepherd."
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The good shepherd gives his life for his sheep.
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David wrote psalm 23 about 1,000 years before jesus came.
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Psalm 22, jesus our savior.
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Psalm 23, jesus our lord.
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Psalm 24, jesus coming king.
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But in psalm 23,
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He prophesied about the lord our shepherd.
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He says, "the lord is my shepherd, i shall not want.
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He makes me lie down in green pastures.
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He leads me beside the still waters.
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He restores my soul.
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He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake."
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To me, winning in life, the good life,
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Is found through knowing jesus
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As our shepherd,
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For knowing jesus as our lord.
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And like i say, that's different things for different people
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Because we're all unique individuals.
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However, i believe that god has a good life
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For every person.
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And he wants that life,
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We're gonna talk more about that next week.
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But you've got to choose to believe it
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If you're gonna receive it,
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And that's what we're gonna talk about today.
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So i want you to go back to verse 11 through verse 14.
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Notice what he says.
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"this commandment which i command you today
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Is not hidden from you."
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As long as you think it's hidden,
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As long as you think that you can't see it,
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You can't understand it or it's hard to get to,
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You're never gonna get it.
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"neither is it far off."
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Some people think,
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"well, god has something good but it's so far off
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That i can't reach what god has for me,
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I can't get to what god has for me."
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But he says this, notice this in verse 12.
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"it is not in heaven, that you should say,
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'who's gonna go up to heaven and bring it to us,
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That we may hear it and do it?'"
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In other words, we don't have to send somebody to heaven.
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In fact, jesus already came from heaven
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And brought it to us.
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We'll share about that later.
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He says, "neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say,
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'who's gonna go over the sea for us?'"
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Some people think, "well, i could do the will of god,
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But i don't have, you know, the finances it takes,
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I don't know the people it takes,
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I don't have the connection it takes."
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There was a study done that said
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Every person is within four relationships
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Of anybody that they need to be in connection with
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To accomplish what god has called them to do.
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He says...
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"that we may hear it and do it?
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But the word," he says in verse 14,
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"is very near unto you,
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In your heart and in your mouth,
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That you may do it."
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In other words, god said, "i have something good for you."
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Amen? it's near to you.
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But there's something that's gotta happen in your mouth
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And in your heart
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If you're gonna receive it.
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And first of all, you've got to believe it.
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When you really believe the gospel, did you know what?
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You're gonna begin to say some things
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When you believe it in your heart,
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You're gonna begin to say some things in your mouth.
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Now, i believe that jesus in his death and resurrection
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Made the abundance of grace,
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The abundance of the promises available to every person.
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I believe that not only did jesus
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Make forgiveness for our sins available to us,
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Jesus made peace for our mind available to us.
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Jesus made health and healing available to us
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In his death and resurrection.
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He also made physical and financial provision,
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Prosperity available to every person
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In his death and resurrection.
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The scriptures that i use to teach that are isaiah 53,
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Which is a prophecy of christ on the cross,
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Verse 4 and verse 5,
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1 peter 2:24-25,
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And also 2 corinthians 8:9.
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And all those will show you that in the atonement,
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Jesus provided forgiveness for our sin,
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He was wounded for our transgressions
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And bruised for our iniquities.
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Peace for our mind,
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The chastisement of our peace was upon him.
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Healing for our body.
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By his stripes, we are healed.
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Peter says "we were healed" because peter looks back on it.
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But also 2 corinthians 8:9 that says,
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"for you know the grace of the lord jesus christ,
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Even though he was poor, rich,
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Yet for our sakes," the scripture says, "he became poor,
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That we through his poverty might be made rich."
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Study it out in the greek and you'll see
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It means exactly what it says.
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And paul's using jesus really
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As the greatest example of giving
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That's there's ever been,
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He's really talking about the grace of giving.
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You know, most people,
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I just taught a message on this recently
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When i went to another church,
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Most people believe that faith is an act of giving,
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And there's an aspect of faith that goes with it.
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And they believe that there's grace in receiving,
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And there has to be grace for us to receive.
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But when paul presents it
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In 2 corinthians 8,
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He presents grace as giving
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And faith in receiving.
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And what i'm teaching you today is
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You have to believe these things to receive them.
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And if you don't believe them,
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It's gonna be hard for you to receive them.
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See, jesus was really the embodiment of grace.
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John says this about jesus in john 1:14.
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He says, "the word was made flesh and dwelt among us,
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And we beheld his glory,
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The glory as of the only begotten of the father,
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Full of grace and truth."
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Jesus is the embodiment of grace,
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And jesus, as the grace of god,
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Made all the promises of god available to us.
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All the promises of god, 2 corinthians 1:20 says,
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"in him are yes and amen."
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(bright music)
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Hi friends, thanks so much
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For being part of the broadcast today.
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I have a lot more to say about this subject,
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"winning in life," and many others.
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You can get the downloadable audios and downloadable videos
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Free of charge on our website at charischristiancenter.com.
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Check us out there.
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We've got lots of stuff to be a blessing to you.
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- so jesus, as the grace of god, made it available,
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But it still takes faith to receive it.
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Let me give you some examples.
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First of all, from his life.
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In mark 9, a man comes to jesus.
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His son is suffering as an epileptic.
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And so his son is having seizures
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And he's following into the water,
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He's following into the water,
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And the devil's trying to kill him.
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You know the devil wants to kill you?
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This is one thing that's so attractive to me
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About the full gospel.
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You know, i grew up in a church that believed
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That it was god's will for us to be forgiven for our sins.
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But maybe god will heal you or maybe god won't,
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You don't ever really know god's will in that area.
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Maybe god will bless you or maybe he won't,
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You don't really know god's will in that area.
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And i got saved really in a church somewhat like that.
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I received jesus, you know,
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And i received jesus when i was eight years old
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And the reason i received jesus is my sunday school teachers
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Were teaching from matthew, mark, luke, and john,
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And they just kept saying, "you need jesus."
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Well, i was a really ornery child,
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So it was really evident to me that i needed jesus.
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And so after several months of them teaching
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From matthew, mark, luke, and john about jesus,
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And "you need jesus,"
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I told mama, "make appointment with the preacher,
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I need to see the preacher."
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Well, she didn't do it right off,
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But not only was i an ornery child,
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I was a persistent child.
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And so i persisted
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And she made an appointment with pastor phil
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At fringe church in penrose, colorado.
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Pastor phil brought me in,
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Sat me in the second or third row and pews
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On this side of the church.
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He brought a wordless book and he explained different colors
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And how they represented different aspects of the gospel,
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Which he didn't really need to know
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Because i knew that i needed jesus
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Because the sunday school teachers were teaching about jesus
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From matthew, mark, luke, and john.
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And i received jesus christ as my savior
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When i was just eight years old.
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Then we moved back to lamar, colorado
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Where my parents were from
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And we went to the church
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That my grandparents had helped start.
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That church was really the church that said,
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"maybe god will, maybe god won't.
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You don't ever know about god."
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Like lotto god, pull the lever.
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If you get three jacks, you win.
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Well, god's the same and his promise is always true.
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Amen? - amen!
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- and you can believe
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He'll do what he said he would do, amen?
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Because he is who he said he is, amen?
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But my mom started going to a bible study
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When i was just 14 years old.
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Andrew wommack
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Was teaching when almost nobody knew andrew wommack,
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He was 29.
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And i remember the first time my mom told me,
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I was 14, we lived in the country, i loved fishing,
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My mom said, listen,
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"if you go to bible study with me,
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I'll buy you some fish bait."
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I said, "oh, i'm in, i love fish bait."
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My parents didn't have a lot so that was a big offer to me.
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So i'm like, "i'll go!"
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So she took me to kmart, bought me some fish bait,
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And then we went to bible study.
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Andrew was his own worship leader,
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He was playing a 12-string guitar, i tell you.
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He'd turn here and we'd sing out of the psalms or whatever.
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And then he got done, he had one cassette deck,
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At little morans cassette deck, he had a mic,
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He plugged a single mic into this single cassette deck
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And turned it on to record.
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But before he started teaching,
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He held the bible in his hand just like this.
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And i was born again, the holy spirit lived in me,
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The spirit of jesus christ.
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And the holy spirit on the inside of me said,
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"listen to this man.
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He knows what he's talking about."
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That was 47 years ago.
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And i started listening 47 years ago
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And i'm still listening today.
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And what i heard changed my life
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Because this is what i heard on the inside
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That very first time that i went,
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Loud and clear.
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You don't have to be sick, you don't have to be poor,
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And you don't have to be defeated by the devil.
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You've got a bible full of promises that you can believe.
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And you know, that was so exciting to me.
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My dad was an epileptic.
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My dad suffered with seizures.
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My dad could have got every kind of government help
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That they had to offer,
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But he wouldn't take it
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Because he said,
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"you don't ask what your country can do for you.
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You do what you can do for your country."
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My mom was a school teacher, she didn't make a lot of money,
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They lived in a trailer house.
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They drove cars with hundreds of thousands of miles.
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Life was difficult.
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My parents were just about to have a divorce,
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They were on the verge of a divorce.
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My mom actually asked me, "should i divorce dad?"
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And i told her no.
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Now if you've had a divorce, god loves you.
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Half of the church is divorced, right?
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So god loves you, we love you.
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You can't unscramble eggs.
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Go forward and believe jesus wherever you're at, amen.
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Praise god, but god can help you, amen?
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But i started believing god, and do you know what?
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Our life, as we began to believe the word,
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Began to get better and better and better.
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And you know, since that time i've had time,
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I've had opportunity to die.
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More than once.
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I've had opportunities to go broke a few times,
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Which i passed 'em up, amen?
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I've had opportunities to be crazy,
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And sometimes you might think i'm a little crazy.
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(congregation laughs) amen?
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But i just keep believing the promises, amen?
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I keep believing god, amen?
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And i keep passing up these challenges
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And the word keeps working in my life.
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And it's not only working in my life,
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It's working in my family.
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It's working in all my children's lives, and you know what?
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I don't believe that i'm an anomaly.
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I believe it's available to everybody everywhere
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Because that's who i believe that god is.
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See, jesus never...
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He said, "have faith in god,
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For whosoever will say to this mountain."
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Are you a whosoever?
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"be thou removed and be thou cast into the sea.
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And shall not doubt in his heart but shall believe
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That those things which he says shall come to pass,
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Shall have whatsoever he says."
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I don't care what you say about me,
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I don't care what other people say about me.
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You know what's important is what i say about me,
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And i'm saying what jesus says about me.
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And if you find out what jesus says about you
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And start agreeing with him,
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You'll start seeing what jesus says about you
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Come to pass in your life.
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Because this isn't just for a chosen few,
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This is for everybody everywhere.
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God said, "whosoever calls on the name of the lord
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Shall be saved.
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Whosoever shall say whatsoever
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Shall have whatsoever he sayeth."
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Therefore, i say to you,
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What thing soever you desire?
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What do you want?
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When you pray, believe that you receive it
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And you shall have it."
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You have something to say about what you receive in life.
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But you've gotta decide that, number one,
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You believe god above every other voice that's out there,
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That you believe his promises, that you believe his word,
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That you believe what he says about you.
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So this man came to jesus and he said,
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"lord, if you would do anything, if you can do anything."
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Now most people in the church believe that god can,
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They just don't know that he will.
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Have compassion on us and help us.
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Mark 9:22.
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But you know what?
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Jesus responded and said something back to him.
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He said, "if you can believe,
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All things are possible to him who believes."
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Jesus said this is a possibility.
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Jesus said this can be a reality.
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It doesn't have to be something that's somewhere out there.
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It's possible, amen? it's attainable.
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It can be a reality in your own life.
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It's doable, but you've gotta believe it.
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If you can believe it, you can receive it.
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I wanna take you to a day in the life of jesus
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From matthew 9.
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Go with me to matthew 9:18.
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In matthew 9:18,
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A man comes to jesus and his daughter is very, very sick.
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When you read in mark 5 and luke 8,
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She was at the point of death.
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It says in matthew 9:18,
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"while he spoke these things,
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Behold there came a certain ruler
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And worshiped him, saying,
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'my daughter is even now dead.'"
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Mark and luke both said she's at the point of death.
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"'but come and lay your hands on her and she will live.'
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And jesus arose and followed him, and so did his disciples.
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And while jesus was on the way, a woman,
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Who was diseased with an issue of blood for 12 years."
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Mark 5 says that she had been to many physicians
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And she had spent all that she had
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And she was nothing better, but rather grew worse.
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But when she heard of jesus,
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It says, "she came here behind him
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And touched the hem of his garment."
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Verse 21 says here in matthew 9,
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"for she said within herself."
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The amplified says, "she said and kept on saying."
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Something got on the inside of her.
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And she said, "if i could just touch him,
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If i could just touch him, if i could just touch him,
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I'm gonna be healed."
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There was hope when she heard the word
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And there was faith.
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"if i could touch him, i will be healed."
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In mark, it says, "the crowd was thronging him."
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When she touched him,
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Jesus felt the goodness of god flow out of him,
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The virtue and the power of god flow out of him.
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And he said, "who touched me?"
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The disciples in mark said,
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"lord, the multitude is strong in you
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And you say, who touched?"
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Did you know the touch of faith is different?
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Do you know there was enough power in jesus
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To get everybody in that crowd healed?
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But one person received,
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And her touch was different
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Because faith made her touch different.
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And so jesus looked around.
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And when he saw her, it says in matthew 9:22,
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"he said, 'daughter, be of good comfort.
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Your faith has made you whole.
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Your faith has saved you, your faith has healed you.'
00:24:05.620 --> 00:24:09.991
And the woman was healed whole from that very hour.
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When jesus came into the ruler's house."
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Now, when you read mark it says
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While jesus was there ministering to this woman,
00:24:23.638 --> 00:24:26.140
Some people came from jairus' house.
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They said, "don't trouble the master anymore, she's dead."
00:24:28.042 --> 00:24:32.213
In luke, jesus responds, in luke 8:50, he says,
00:24:33.147 --> 00:24:35.917
"fear not, only believe."
00:24:35.917 --> 00:24:37.952
Jesus stops words of fear with words of faith.
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And jesus kept right on going.
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"when he came to the ruler's house,
00:24:49.030 --> 00:24:51.232
He saw the minstrels and the people making a noise.
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He said, 'give place, for the maid is not dead but sleeps.'
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And they laughed him to scorn."
00:24:57.972 --> 00:25:00.141
Guess what? if you're gonna follow jesus,
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If you're gonna be a person of faith,
00:25:03.678 --> 00:25:06.614
It's gonna cause you to look
00:25:06.614 --> 00:25:07.815
A little bit different sometimes.
00:25:07.815 --> 00:25:10.484
Friend, thanks so much for being with us
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And watching the broadcast today.
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Lawson Perdue - Winning In Life (Part 1)

June 9, 2025 | 29:55

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