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Gregory Dickow: Power to Change Today

Gregory Dickow - 5 Miracles of Knowing God's Love

December 28, 2024 | S24:E52

Gregory Dickow - 5 Miracles of Knowing God's Love
Pastor Gregory Dickow teaches the life-changing principles of God’s Word.
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Gregory Dickow: Power to Change Today | Gregory Dickow - 5 Miracles of Knowing God's Love | December 28, 2024
  • Gregory dickow: but she kept saying, "give me legal
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  • Protection, give me legal protection, give me legal--" the
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  • Persistent widow in luke 18, she kept saying it, she kept saying
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  • It, she kept saying it.
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  • He finally said, the unrighteous judge finally said, man, i'm
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  • Gonna-- i gotta get this woman legal protection, because she's
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  • Gonna just give me two black eyes.
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  • Literally says in the margin of the bible, she's gonna just
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  • Knock me out, she's just gonna punch me in the head.
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  • I am dead if i don't give her legal protection.
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  • And the bible says that he avenged her, and yet it says if
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  • This unrighteous judge would do that to the persistent widow,
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  • Think about what your heavenly father will do for you if you
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  • Cry out to him.
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  • He will avenge you quickly.
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  • He's coming, he's gonna fix it, he's gonna turn it around, he's
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  • Going to make it right, he's going to turn it to your favor.
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  • He's going to romans 8:28 your life.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Gregory: hi, family of god.
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  • I consider you family because we have the same father, amen.
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  • And welcome to "the power to change today."
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  • Do you know that the devil woke up this morning with one goal,
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  • And that was to distort your view of who god really is?
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  • The devil distorts our view of god through condemnation,
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  • Through shame, through inferiority, through religious
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  • Limiting beliefs, through low self worth, but in today's
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  • Teaching i'm gonna show you how to obliterate every demonic
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  • Stronghold and distortion and replace it with a crystal clear
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  • View of how beautiful god is, how beautiful his faithfulness,
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  • His love, his mercy, and his grace are, so let's get right
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  • Into this teaching.
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  • Share it with someone who needs to hear it, and i'll be back at
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  • The end to pray for you.
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  • Check this out.
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  • Gregory: the devil's number one goal is to distort your view of
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  • God through religion, through condemnation, through shame,
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  • Through inferiority, through a low sense of value, a low sense
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  • Of self worth, and this is why jesus came.
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  • The devil's number one goal is to distort your view of god to
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  • Make you think that god is against you, that he is mad,
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  • That he is mean, that he is angry, that he will judge you,
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  • And, my god, he put it all on the cross, he put all of his
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  • Judgment, all of his wrath, all of his anger, all of his
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  • Perfection, all of his holiness.
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  • Jesus's crucifixion was the evidence of god's perfection,
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  • The evidence of god's holiness, the evidence of god's justice,
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  • And the evidence of god's love.
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  • He is just.
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  • Somebody has to pay the price for mankind's sin.
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  • Somebody has to pay for adams sin, and adam didn't have the
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  • Credit to pay for it himself, so jesus took it, took it all.
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  • Took the beating beyond recognition.
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  • Didn't even wait until he died.
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  • He was beyond recognition before he even was on the cross.
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  • He was scourged, a crown of thorns was put upon his head.
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  • It's the worst thing that could ever-- the worst death anybody
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  • Could ever experience.
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  • He experienced it.
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  • It wasn't instant, it wasn't a shot with a lethal injection, it
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  • Wasn't a gunshot with one bullet goes through his heart or goes
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  • Through his organ or goes through his brain, it was long,
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  • Painful, it was-- he was betrayed, he was hated, he was
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  • Lied about, and everybody knew he was lied about.
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  • He was innocent, and everybody knew he was innocent.
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  • He was good, and everybody knew that he was good, and they
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  • Crucified him anyway.
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  • That is the justice of god.
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  • We deserve that crucifixion, jesus took that crucifixion.
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  • Jesus deserved the love of the father, and we get the love of
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  • The father.
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  • Jesus deserves to be seated at the right hand of the father,
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  • And yet he pulls us up before he takes his seat, he stands up and
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  • Picks us up, and then he sits us with him in heavenly places.
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  • Ephesians chapter 2, verse 6, we are seated together with him.
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  • We died with him, we were buried with him, we've been raised with
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  • Him, and now we're seated with him in heavenly places.
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  • The idea that you need to change in order for god to be good to
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  • You, jesus obliterated that.
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  • The idea that he's angry, jesus obliterated that.
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  • The idea that he's distant, jesus obliterated that.
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  • In john chapter 12, verse 45 it says, "and whoever sees me sees
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  • The one who sent me."
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  • Jesus came to reveal the father to us.
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  • The idea that sometimes god says yes and sometimes he says no,
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  • Jesus obliterated that.
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  • The idea that he wants you condemned when you sin or when
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  • You fail, jesus obliterated that.
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  • The idea that maybe he'll heal you or maybe he won't, jesus
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  • Obliterated that.
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  • The idea that god keeps a list of your sins, jesus
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  • Obliterated that.
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  • I might have said this to you last week, but i'm saying
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  • It again.
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  • Hebrews chapter 8, verse 12 says, "and he will remember your
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  • Sins and iniquities no more.
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  • Their sins and lawless deeds, i will remember no more."
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  • God says that.
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  • All because of the blood of jesus.
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  • The idea that god will leave you in your time of tragedy, jesus
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  • Obliterated that, because he came at our worst moments.
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  • Jeremiah 31, verse 1 through 6-- 2 through 6 in the message
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  • Bible, this is the way god put it.
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  • "they found grace out in the desert."
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  • The old way is dried up, people.
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  • The old way of trying to earn god's forgiveness and grace--
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  • You can't earn it.
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  • It's forgive, it's a gift, it's grace, it's a favor.
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  • Somebody said, "what do i have to do to get god to do me
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  • A favor?"
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  • Nothing, because if you have to do something to get god to do
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  • You a favor, it's no longer a favor, it's a trade, and god's
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  • Not trading.
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  • "they found grace in the desert, israel, out looking for a place
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  • To rest, met god, who was out looking for them."
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  • God told them, "i've never quit loving you and never will."
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  • Expect love, love, and more love.
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  • You know, there are some people in my life, and i believe some
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  • People have felt this about me in the past, that, oh, it's
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  • Him calling.
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  • And they're like, oh, dickow's calling me, man.
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  • Like, oh no.
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  • It's like we have this knee jerk reaction to certain people in
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  • Our lives that trigger-- some people, their phone call
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  • Triggers anxiety.
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  • Anybody know what i'm talkin' about?
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  • I'm just sayin'.
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  • Oh, and all the sudden it's because we're traumatized
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  • By our upbringing, we're traumatized by
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  • Tragedy, we're traumatized.
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  • And so, we're now-- we have come to expect something-- god to
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  • Judge us-- we're kinda expecting to be yelled at.
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  • If you grew up with a parent that always yelled at you, you
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  • Became accustomed to being abused, you became-- it became
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  • An expectation, they're gonna yell at me, they're gonna be mad
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  • At me, and that makes people nuts, that makes people crazy.
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  • And you know we are living in the worst mental health crisis
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  • Of any generation, and frankly it's because in our homes, we've
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  • Lived in fear in the very place that we're supposed to feel
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  • Safest, in the very place we're supposed to feel safest, in the
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  • Custody of our parents.
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  • Why is it that we know we're supposed to be safe, but we
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  • Don't feel that way growing up as kids sometimes?
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  • Because our parents were going through things that we didn't
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  • Know they were going through, and we have to, like, we have to
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  • Give them space, give them room, give them, like, you have to
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  • Re-parent yourself, but you have to re-parent them sometimes too.
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  • Re-parent somebody, like, find somebody that needs-- like, do
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  • Somethin' good, re-parent somebody, but start
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  • With yourself.
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  • We were talking about leadership yesterday, me and joseph and his
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  • Mom, and we're talkin' about how leadership begins with
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  • Leading yourself.
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  • You have to lead yourself, you have to-- you have to-- you have
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  • To take personal responsibility for your life.
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  • Yes, you've been abused, you've been hurt, you've been
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  • Mistreated, but this is why the solution is to discover the
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  • Consistent love of the father for you.
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  • That's why he says, "expect love, love, and more love."
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  • I used to think i can expect love from god, but then
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  • Sometimes i can expect his anger or his wrath, but maybe he'll
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  • Come around and love me again, or maybe if i pray enough, i'll
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  • Feel love, and all that it's nonsense.
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  • I wake up every day expecting love, and then no matter how bad
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  • My days goin', i'm expecting love, and no matter how bad i've
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  • Been in life, i'm expecting even more love.
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  • Because god has conditioned me and god has trained me and god
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  • Has come to me as love.
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  • And there is-- and if you want to know what is the essence of
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  • God, 1 john 4:8 tells us unequivocably, "god is love."
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  • So, why are we expecting his anger?
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  • He put all that on christ, he put all his wrath, he put all
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  • Sickness, he put all sin on him.
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  • God is not relating to you based on your sin anymore.
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  • You might be relating to him based on your sin, but that's
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  • Because you have a misunderstanding of what he did
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  • For you.
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  • God doesn't come and talk to me about my sin.
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  • If i say, "god, i just feel so bad about that, that one sin
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  • That i did yesterday," a year ago, or whenever, and he's like,
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  • "what, what?"
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  • He's like, "what, what, what, what, what, what?
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  • What sin?"
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  • He says, "what sin?
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  • Well, i don't even know what you're talkin' about."
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  • How can you say that-- how could you say that's what god is like?
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  • Because the bible says, "he will remember my sins no more."
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  • God is perfect in his mind, the reason why he doesn't remember
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  • My sins anymore is not because he's got alzheimers, it's not
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  • Because he's losing his memory.
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  • The reason why he doesn't remember my sins anymore is
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  • Because that's how thorough jesus's blood dealt with
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  • Our sins.
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  • It obliterated our sins, so our sins don't even exist in the
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  • Mind and heart of god.
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  • And in heaven there will be no mention of sin.
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  • The bible says that he will come again without reference to sin.
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  • The first time he came to deal with sin, the first time he came
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  • Was to deal with and obliterate the wrong views we have of god,
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  • And the second time he's coming, hebrews chapter 9 says, "he will
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  • Come again without reference to sin."
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  • Man.
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  • Expect love, love, and more love.
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  • Malachi 1:2 in the new living translation, "'i've always loved
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  • You,' says the lord.
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  • 'i have always loved you.'"
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  • You know, there are five miracles that happen in your
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  • Life when you truly know that god is perfect love.
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  • God's love for you is perfect.
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  • Number one, it calms your heart, "for he himself is our peace,
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  • Who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of
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  • Separation," ephesians 2:13.
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  • Knowing god's love for us calms the heart.
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  • My heart has been anxious, my heart has been-- i felt some
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  • Anxiety in the last year or two, in the last couple of months,
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  • And his love has calmed my heart.
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  • I go back to remembering his love.
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  • It calms my heart.
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  • "knowing his perfect love for you, elevate your expectations,"
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  • Ephesians 3:20, "above and beyond all that you can ask
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  • Or think."
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  • I don't have time to get into that.
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  • Number three, knowing the perfect love of god, it heals
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  • Your soul.
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  • We have to realize the times we're living in, people.
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  • People have faced tragedy and terror, they've faced rejection
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  • And scorn, they've faced comparisons and not
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  • Measuring up.
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  • This world is so caught up in comparing, so caught up in fake,
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  • False realities that we see on social media all the time,
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  • People posting the best or they're posting what took them
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  • 40 times to get the picture right, and you're like, ah, that
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  • Person is so perfect, and i'm so-- stop it.
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  • In the right light, in the right century, you'll look that
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  • Way too.
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  • It just won't be this century.
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  • Ha, ha, ha.
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  • In isaiah 43, he will heal your soul, it says, "a bruised reed,"
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  • Verse 3, "a bruised ra-- a bruised reed he will not break,
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  • And a dimly burning wick he will not extinguish.
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  • He will faithfully bring forth justice."
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  • I love, what the message bible says here.
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  • "he won't brush aside the bruised, he won't brush aside
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  • The bruised or the hurt, he won't disregard the small and
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  • The insignificant, but he'll steadily and firmly set
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  • Things right."
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  • Have you been bruised?
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  • He won't brush you aside.
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  • Have you been hurt?
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  • He won't disregard you.
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  • Have you been small and felt insignificant?
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  • He's gonna steadily and firmly make it right.
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  • Have you been mistreated?
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  • He's gonna turn it around.
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  • Have you been lied about?
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  • He's gonna comfort you.
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  • Have you been ashamed?
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  • He's gonna wash your shame away.
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  • He's a healer of the soul.
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  • Have you had tragedy?
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  • Have you had disaster?
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  • Have you had calamity?
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  • Job had it too, and he said, "yet, i will trust him."
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  • It wasn't god who slayed job.
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  • We know that satan did, we know, if we read it, satan smote job,
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  • Satan attacked job.
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  • Job actually thought god did it and still said, "yet, i will
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  • Trust him."
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  • We know god doesn't bring calamity, but we still have a
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  • Hard time trusting him.
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  • This guy thought the calamity came from god, and yet still
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  • Trusted god.
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  • I want to-- that's why the bible says have the patience of job.
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  • Like, he trusted god no matter how bad it looked.
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  • He trusted god no matter what bad things happened in his life.
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  • There is only one way, gang.
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  • Trust god, love people, and trust god.
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  • Stop putting your trust in people.
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  • They will let you down, every human being in your life will
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  • Let you down in one way or another eventually if they're in
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  • Your life very long, but god will never let you down.
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  • And that doesn't mean you need to be dismissive of them.
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  • People are human.
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  • When somebody lets you down, it's a gift.
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  • It's a gift to you to look to god, and so, you know what?
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  • I was putting too much emphasis on them doing me right.
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  • I'm not lo-- i'm no longer expecting much from them, i'm
  • 00:16:51.667 --> 00:16:54.903
  • Expecting from god to make up for it.
  • 00:16:54.903 --> 00:17:02.244
  • This miracle of love will heal your soul.
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  • He won't tire out or quit.
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  • He won't stop until he's finished his work to set things
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  • Right on earth.
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  • There's a lot of injustice in this world.
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  • You might have been on the wrong end of it.
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  • You might have been the one giving the injustice.
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  • I don't know.
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  • I don't judge.
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  • But i can tell you this, god is gonna set it right.
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  • He will avenge you.
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  • This woman cried out to him day and night, to an unrighteous
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  • Judge, an unrighteous judge, and she said, "give me legal
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  • Protection, give me legal protection, give me legal
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  • Protection," and he would not do it, but she would not stop.
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  • And she kept saying, "give me legal protection, give me
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  • Legal protection."
  • 00:17:41.383 --> 00:17:42.718
  • She'd come over to his house, yelling at his window,
  • 00:17:42.718 --> 00:17:44.086
  • "give me legal protection, give me legal protection.
  • 00:17:44.086 --> 00:17:45.420
  • These people are taking advantage of me."
  • 00:17:45.420 --> 00:17:47.089
  • And he wouldn't do it.
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  • He said, "i don't fear god, i don't respect you."
  • 00:17:48.423 --> 00:17:51.126
  • But she kept saying, "give me legal protection, give me legal
  • 00:17:51.126 --> 00:17:53.395
  • Protection, give me legal--" the persistent widow in luke 18.
  • 00:17:53.395 --> 00:17:56.832
  • She kept saying it, she kept saying it, she kept saying it.
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  • He finally said, the unrighteous judge finally said, man, i'm
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  • Gonna-- i gotta give this woman legal protection, because she's
  • 00:18:02.871 --> 00:18:06.208
  • Gonna just give me two black eyes.
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  • Literally says in the margin of the bible, she's gonna just
  • 00:18:07.943 --> 00:18:10.913
  • Knock me out, she's just gonna punch me in the head.
  • 00:18:10.913 --> 00:18:13.649
  • I am dead if i don't give her legal protection.
  • 00:18:13.649 --> 00:18:15.951
  • And the bible says that he avenged her, and yet it says,
  • 00:18:15.951 --> 00:18:20.289
  • "if this unrighteous judge would do that to the persistent widow,
  • 00:18:20.289 --> 00:18:24.126
  • Think about what your heavenly father will do for you if you
  • 00:18:24.126 --> 00:18:26.662
  • Cry out to him.
  • 00:18:26.662 --> 00:18:28.030
  • He will avenge you quickly."
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  • He's coming, he's gonna fix it, he's gonna turn it around, he's
  • 00:18:29.665 --> 00:18:32.935
  • Going to make it right, he's going to turn it to your favor.
  • 00:18:32.935 --> 00:18:36.705
  • He's going to romans 8:28 your life.
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  • If you ask me why i love him, it's because his love eliminates
  • 00:18:41.743 --> 00:18:46.148
  • All my doubts.
  • 00:18:46.148 --> 00:18:48.383
  • When god says i love you, he means, "i will never break my
  • 00:18:48.383 --> 00:18:50.886
  • Promise to you."
  • 00:18:50.886 --> 00:18:57.326
  • My favorite miracle of the perfect love of god is that it
  • 00:18:57.326 --> 00:19:06.301
  • Makes me safe to be vulnerable.
  • 00:19:06.301 --> 00:19:12.507
  • It makes me safe.
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  • We can be vulnerable with him.
  • 00:19:14.943 --> 00:19:17.546
  • We can be honest.
  • 00:19:17.546 --> 00:19:20.282
  • The secret to intimacy with god is to know that he won't judge
  • 00:19:20.282 --> 00:19:25.287
  • You, is to know that he is for you, not against you, is to know
  • 00:19:25.287 --> 00:19:30.459
  • That he is love.
  • 00:19:30.459 --> 00:19:34.663
  • If you ask me why i love him, i tell you in song of solomon,
  • 00:19:34.663 --> 00:19:39.668
  • Chapter 5, verse 10 through 16 in the passion translation, "he
  • 00:19:39.668 --> 00:19:45.073
  • Alone is my beloved."
  • 00:19:45.073 --> 00:19:46.775
  • If you ask me why i love him, i'll tell ya, "he alone is
  • 00:19:46.775 --> 00:19:50.145
  • My beloved.
  • 00:19:50.145 --> 00:19:51.513
  • He shines in dazzling splendor yet is still so approachable--
  • 00:19:51.513 --> 00:19:56.385
  • Without equal as he stands above all others, outstanding
  • 00:19:56.385 --> 00:20:02.491
  • Among 10,000.
  • 00:20:02.491 --> 00:20:04.726
  • The way he leads me is divine.
  • 00:20:04.726 --> 00:20:07.296
  • His leadership-- so pure and dignified as he wears his crown
  • 00:20:07.296 --> 00:20:13.135
  • Of gold.
  • 00:20:13.135 --> 00:20:14.936
  • Upon this crown are letters written in black on a background
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  • Of glory.
  • 00:20:19.808 --> 00:20:21.943
  • He sees everything with pure understanding.
  • 00:20:21.943 --> 00:20:25.247
  • How beautiful are his insights-- without distortion,
  • 00:20:25.247 --> 00:20:30.152
  • Without distortion.
  • 00:20:30.152 --> 00:20:32.554
  • His eyes rest upon the fullness of the river of revelation,
  • 00:20:32.554 --> 00:20:40.062
  • Flowing so clean and pure.
  • 00:20:40.062 --> 00:20:44.099
  • Looking at his gentle face, looking at his gentle face, i
  • 00:20:44.099 --> 00:20:50.472
  • See such fullness of emotion.
  • 00:20:50.472 --> 00:20:54.476
  • I look at his gentle face, i see his emotion, his passion, his
  • 00:20:54.476 --> 00:20:59.648
  • Love, his joy, his happiness to see me.
  • 00:20:59.648 --> 00:21:04.519
  • Like a lovely garden," it says, "where fragrant spices grow--
  • 00:21:04.519 --> 00:21:08.790
  • What a man!"
  • 00:21:08.790 --> 00:21:10.992
  • That's your savior.
  • 00:21:10.992 --> 00:21:12.661
  • "what a man!"
  • 00:21:12.661 --> 00:21:14.396
  • You ask me why i love him, "what a man!
  • 00:21:14.396 --> 00:21:19.167
  • He speaks words so anointed, no one speaks words like him--
  • 00:21:19.167 --> 00:21:25.707
  • Words that both pierce and heal, words like lilies dripping
  • 00:21:25.707 --> 00:21:31.046
  • With myrrh.
  • 00:21:31.046 --> 00:21:32.447
  • See how his hands hold unlimited power!
  • 00:21:32.447 --> 00:21:35.517
  • But he never uses it in anger."
  • 00:21:35.517 --> 00:21:39.921
  • You ask me why i love him.
  • 00:21:39.921 --> 00:21:41.490
  • "see how his hands hold unlimited power!
  • 00:21:41.490 --> 00:21:45.727
  • And yet he never uses it in anger, for he is always holy,
  • 00:21:45.727 --> 00:21:52.367
  • Displaying his glory.
  • 00:21:52.367 --> 00:21:54.636
  • His innermost being is a work of art-- so beautiful and bright.
  • 00:21:54.636 --> 00:22:02.043
  • How magnificent and noble is this one-- covered in majesty.
  • 00:22:02.043 --> 00:22:07.516
  • He's steadfast in all that he does.
  • 00:22:07.516 --> 00:22:09.985
  • His ways are the ways of righteousness, based on truth
  • 00:22:09.985 --> 00:22:12.754
  • And holiness.
  • 00:22:12.754 --> 00:22:14.122
  • No one can rival him, but all will be amazed by him.
  • 00:22:14.122 --> 00:22:20.729
  • Most sweet are his kisses, even his whispers of love.
  • 00:22:20.729 --> 00:22:26.635
  • He is delightful in every way and perfect from every point
  • 00:22:26.635 --> 00:22:31.406
  • Of view.
  • 00:22:31.406 --> 00:22:33.442
  • If you ask me why i love him, i will tell you it's because there
  • 00:22:33.442 --> 00:22:38.814
  • Is none like him.
  • 00:22:38.814 --> 00:22:43.051
  • Everything--
  • 00:22:43.051 --> 00:22:47.789
  • Everything about him fills me with holy desire!
  • 00:22:47.789 --> 00:22:53.929
  • And now he is my beloved-- my friend forever."
  • 00:22:53.929 --> 00:23:00.936
  • If he's your beloved and your friend forever, if you, like me,
  • 00:23:00.936 --> 00:23:06.508
  • When somebody-- if you are also like me when you realize, if you
  • 00:23:06.508 --> 00:23:12.547
  • Ask me why i love him, if you could say that's why i love him
  • 00:23:12.547 --> 00:23:15.550
  • Too, how his hands-- this really gets me.
  • 00:23:15.550 --> 00:23:21.523
  • How his hands hold unlimited power, yet he never uses it
  • 00:23:21.523 --> 00:23:30.332
  • In anger.
  • 00:23:30.332 --> 00:23:33.101
  • I've had a lot of anger in my life.
  • 00:23:33.101 --> 00:23:37.205
  • I've had anger towards me, i've had anger towards others.
  • 00:23:37.205 --> 00:23:41.877
  • But the one constant, the one consistent, the one who has
  • 00:23:41.877 --> 00:23:47.349
  • Never been mad, never been angry, never been impatient with
  • 00:23:47.349 --> 00:23:51.686
  • Me is this man.
  • 00:23:51.686 --> 00:23:55.023
  • What a man.
  • 00:23:55.023 --> 00:23:56.725
  • Gregory: i'm so thankful that you joined me today, and,
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  • And he's working it all out together for your good, so when
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  • Importantly, it's gonna make something good come out of it.
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  • Come on, let's pray.
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  • Lord, i thank you that you are the turnaround king.
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  • You are our turnaround specialist, you're gonna turn
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  • This thing around for our good.
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  • Thank you for your love that empowers us to love you back,
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  • And now we thank you for the miracle of that love that will
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  • Make our faith work today.
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  • In jesus's name, give us hope that everything can change,
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  • Beginning today.
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  • Amen.
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  • Well, listen, thank you again for connecting with me, and i
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  • Remember, god's not mad at you, he is mad about you.
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