In this episode; Pastor Gregory Dickow explains how God paid the highest price and gave up everything for us! This new teaching will show a new perspective of identity!
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Gregory Dickow: Power to Change Today | You Are Beautiful - Beautiful Pearls Create Beautiful Gates | July 14, 2021
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- Gregory Dickow: We need to start walking in the temple praising
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- God, because we believe that we are the beautiful gate.
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- We believe we're valued, and we believe that God will
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- give us strength.
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- We gotta be the church that's leaping again.
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- We gotta become the beautiful gate that leaps.
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- We gotta become the people that are leaping with joy and
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- praising God, not because we knew the words of the song,
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- but we're praising God because we know how good God has been
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- to us, and we know how valued we are in his eyes.
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- Gregory: Well, welcome to "The Power to Change Today."
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- I want to take you into a teaching that I did recently at
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- our church, it's all about you and how beautiful you are, and
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- how precious you are to God.
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- I'm so thankful for each and every one of you.
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- Thank you for being a part of such a special global family
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- here in this ministry.
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- And what I'm gonna share with you is gonna blow your mind.
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- It's really a revelation that God showed me about how much
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- value you have, the parable of Jesus talking on the pearl
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- of great price.
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- Many people have thought that Jesus is the pearl of great
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- price, but he is the greatest pearl of all.
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- But you are the pearl of great price.
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- We are the pearls of great price.
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- And I want to show you what a miracle it is to know that about
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- yourself, that God would sell everything he had to have you.
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- That's how valuable you are to Jesus.
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- That's how valuable you are to God.
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- So many people miss this truth.
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- They think we're trash, we're nothin,' you know, we're just
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- pitiful creatures that God had mercy upon.
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- But he valued you so much that he traded everything he had to
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- buy you back and redeem you from darkness, and redeem you from
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- Adam and Eve's DNA, and puts you into the greatest purpose and
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- greatest family that you could ever experience, the family
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- of God.
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- So, check this out.
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- God's not mad at you, he's mad about you.
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- I want you to hear about this, and I'll be right back to pray
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- for you as well.
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- Check this out.
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- Gregory: Matthew chapter 13, I left off there talking about
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- the pearl of great price, the beautiful Pearl.
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- You are a beautiful pearl.
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- And it says in Matthew chapter 13 verse 45, he says again,
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- Jesus says, "Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant
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- seeking beautiful pearls."
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- Now, there's somebody seeking here.
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- Many people have interpreted the Scripture to believe that we're
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- the one seeking, but the Bible says in Luke chapter 19 verse
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- 10, "For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which
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- was lost."
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- He has come to seek and to save that which was lost.
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- So, the merchant here that is seeking is the Lord.
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- He's the one seeking.
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- So, when we look at Matthew 13 verse 45 again, "The kingdom of
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- heaven is like a merchant seeking beautiful pearls."
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- And it says, "When he had found one pearl of great price, he
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- went and sold all that he had and bought it."
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- Now, this obviously is telling us, unlike what religion tells
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- us sometimes is, we are the merchant, and we're supposed to
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- find Jesus, and then sell everything we have to
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- have Jesus.
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- I'm sorry, but Jesus isn't for sale.
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- And if he was, you wouldn't have enough to buy him.
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- If you gave up everything you had, it would never be enough
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- to value him.
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- But he gave everything he had because he values you.
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- He sold everything he had, and he bought it.
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- I wanna read this to you from the Holman translation.
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- Verse 46, "When he found one priceless pearl," "When he found
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- one priceless pearl," "When he found one priceless pearl."
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- You see how God describes you.
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- I wish we would stop describing ourselves based on how we grew
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- up, or how other people describe us.
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- I wish we would start seeing ourselves the way God sees us.
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- You know how he sees you?
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- "When he found one priceless pearl, there was there was no
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- price tag high enough, so he went and sold everything he had,
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- and bought it."
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- You see, God didn't steal you from the devil.
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- God didn't steal you from this world's system.
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- God didn't steal you from death and destruction.
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- He bought you. He bought you.
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- This is how God looks at us.
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- This is how God sees us.
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- This is how--we need to see ourselves like this.
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- And I want to show you how this connects me and you.
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- How this connects us together.
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- How we're supposed to see each other this way, as well as
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- seeing ourselves this way.
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- I wanna read this to you from the Passion translation, verse
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- 45 and 46 of Matthew.
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- "Heaven's kingdom realm is also like a jewel merchant in search
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- of rare pearls," you're rare.
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- "When he discovers," one how does he describe it?
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- "When he discovered one very precious and exquisite pearl, he
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- immediately gave up all he had in exchange for it."
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- Notice the word "exchange."
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- That's the word renew.
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- That word is changes.
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- He became sin so that we would become the righteousness of God.
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- There's an exchange.
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- He became the curse so that we would be blessed.
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- There's an exchange.
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- When you get ahold of the Christianity that is an actual
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- exchange, rather than the Christianity where you're
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- earning points with God, that's not the Christianity of the
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- Bible, earning points with God.
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- The Christianity of the Bible is an exchange.
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- He sees how valuable we are, and he exchanges his Son to
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- buy us back.
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- And that's why he says one pearl at a time.
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- One precious, exquisite pearl at a time.
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- Because each person has enough value that if it was only
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- one person that got saved, it would be worth it to God to send
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- Jesus just for that one person.
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- He describes this pearl precious and exquisite, that's you.
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- Precious and exquisite, that's you, that's me.
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- That's you, that's your neighbor, that's the Democrats,
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- that's the Republicans.
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- Let this heal you today.
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- Let this heal you of the former view that you had of yourself.
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- What does God, how does God see you?
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- Very precious, how does God see you?
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- Exquisite, how does God see you?
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- As a pearl.
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- Oh, now there's a use for pearls, you're gonna see
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- in a few moments.
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- There's an incredible use, incredible purpose for pearls.
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- But he immediately gave up all that he had.
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- "God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son."
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- Immediately, gave up all he had in exchange for this pearl.
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- In exchange, it's an exchange.
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- Pearls are meant to be together.
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- They're meant to create something together that they
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- could not have created on their own, a necklace.
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- In Revelation chapter 21 verse 21, look at what it says,
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- describing the city that was gonna come from heaven down
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- to the earth.
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- "The twelve gates were twelve pearls, each individual gate was
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- one pearl, and the street of the city was pure gold, like
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- transparent glass," the glory of the new Jerusalem.
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- Now what were the twelve gates?
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- The twelve gates were twelve what?
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- The gates of heaven are people.
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- We are the gate.
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- Each of us together makes a gate.
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- He said the twelve gates, we make up the church.
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- Look at what he says, "The twelve gates were twelve pearls,
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- each individual one was one pearl."
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- And what was the one thing that Jesus, the Father said
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- he went after?
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- One pearl of great price, priceless, priceless.
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- That's you, that's me, that's every human being that gets born
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- again becomes the gate, a pearl that becomes a gate.
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- Everyone who's not saved is a pearl, but everyone who is saved
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- becomes a part of the gate.
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- Now, I want you to see this, because in verse 25 it says
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- something very amazing.
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- In Revelation chapter 21 verse 25, it says, "And its gates
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- shall not be shut at all."
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- The gates shall not be shut at all.
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- Now listen, the real church, when the doors of all churches
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- throughout the world, when the doors of all churches had to be
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- closed, some churches opened their gates, and some didn't.
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- You know, you can have open doors in a church, but not have
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- open gates.
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- You know what an open door versus an open gate is?
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- Open door is you have a church where it's, you know, people
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- gather for church, but an open gate is welcoming to anybody.
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- The open gate doesn't judge where a person's at, 'cause
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- they're only in a chapter of their story, just like you're
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- only in a chapter of your story.
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- An open gate is love is--will not fail.
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- We're not in a church where love ends if you blow it.
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- We're in a church where love never fails, because the only
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- way that we can reach a world, the only way that people are
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- gonna want to come to the church is when they realize, and can
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- feel, and see the love.
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- The gates are open, the love is offered freely.
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- We've received freely, therefore we give.
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- By this will all men know you're my disciples, by your love for
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- one another.
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- They're not gonna know we're his disciples because we voted
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- a certain way.
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- They're not gonna know we're his disciples because we never had
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- COVID, 'cause I had it, some of you had it.
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- We're not his church because of the doors physically were close
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- for a year, because we're the church that continued to love.
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- I don't mean just us, many churches.
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- Many churches have done that.
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- But I want you to see that you're a pearl.
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- And the pearl, when the pearl is found, God turns the pearl
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- into a gate.
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- And we're either a closed gate, 'cause we're judgmental, and
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- we're religious, and self-righteous, or we're an open
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- gate, because we know that we need mercy, and we're the chief
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- of all sinners.
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- Like Paul said, I'm the chief of all sinners, and he became
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- a great apostle, why?
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- Because he became a gate.
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- You are a gate. I'm a gate.
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- We have to realize that God doesn't just save us to make us
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- a part of a community so that we can just have fun together,
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- although we should have fun together.
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- He makes us a part of the community so that we make up the
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- gates that open the doors to a church where people feel,
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- and sense, and know that they can be accepted.
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- They know they can be delivered.
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- They know they can be saved.
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- They know they can be healed, because first and foremost,
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- they are valued.
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- First and foremost, we don't condemn their lifestyle.
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- We don't condone their lifestyle, we cultivate
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- their worth.
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- I'm not here as your pastor, somebody said, "Pastor, do you
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- know that person?
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- Do you know that person over there has got some sins in their
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- life, and you should address those things."
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- That person over there is me looking in the mirror.
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- That person over there is you looking in the mirror.
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- I'm not here to condone people's life choices.
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- I'm not here to condemn their life choices.
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- I'm here to cultivate your worth, 'cause when you
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- understand your worth and cultivate it, your life just
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- takes off, and the way you treat people becomes you.
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- You treat people like they are a prince and there are princess,
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- and you love them into the kingdom of God.
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- You love them into--you're the gate that they are like, "Whoa."
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- Acts chapter 3, look at this, verse 1 It says, "And it was the
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- hour of prayer, and Peter and John went together to the temple
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- at the hour of prayer."
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- And it says, and the ninth hour that is, "And a certain man,
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- lame from his mother's womb, was carried, whom they laid daily at
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- the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful."
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- They laid him at the gate of the temple, which the gate is
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- called Beautiful.
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- It's a beautiful gate.
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- Some of you remember me talking about this beautiful
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- gate before.
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- But he would sit at this beautiful gate and ask for
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- alms from anybody who entered the temple.
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- Who seeing Peter and John asked for alms, and in verse 4,
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- the Bible says, "Peter fixed his eyes on him, and said,
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- 'Look at us.'"
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- And notice what he says in verse 5, "So he gave them his
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- attention, expecting to receive something from them."
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- You see, the the beautiful gates of Acts chapter 3 aren't just
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- the gates of the temple building, but the beautiful
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- gates of Acts chapter three are really the Apostles,
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- Peter and John.
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- And the the Apostles, Peter and John, are a gate into healing.
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- They're a gate into blessing.
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- They're a gate into salvation.
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- They're a gate into what money can't buy.
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- They're a gate into this man being healed.
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- They're a gate into this man being restored.
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- They're a gate into this man having hope.
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- They're a gate into this man receiving what God intended
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- for him to receive.
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- My goodness, when you get ahold of this, you realize God sees us
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- as beautiful pearls, and then what does he do with the
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- beautiful pearls?
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- He turns us into a gate, and what are the gates for?
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- They're not to close and hold people out, they're to open
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- and welcome people in.
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- We are created to be a gate together, a beautiful gate.
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- We are the beautiful gate that is talked about in Acts chapter
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- 3. If you look back in Revelation chapter 21, look at
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- what it says about this gate.
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- It says, "And the twelve gates were twelve pearls, each of the
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- gates made of a single pearl."
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- You're the gate. I'm the gate.
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- We're supposed to be a gate for people to come in,
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- and watch this.
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- Watch what it says about this gate.
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- Go down to verse 25.
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- It says, "And these gates will never be shut at all."
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- The church is to never be shut.
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- The gates are to never be shut.
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- It's not talkin' about a building, he's talking about
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- a people.
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- The church has been--the church doors have been opened in a lot
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- of places, but the gates have been closed, because they
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- didn't understand.
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- People don't understand, churches have not understood.
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- We're pearls, every person.
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- I don't care if they're homeless, homosexual, dealing
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- with drugs, having an addiction, they're a beautiful pearl,
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- flawed but beautiful to God.
- 00:17:28.971 --> 00:17:32.274
- And we have a few pearls among us that we like to judge.
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- "Well, that pearl's not holy enough.
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- That pearl's not"--and you know what?
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- If you really go down that path, you forget what you're doing now
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- is you're shutting the gates rather than opening the gates.
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- Well, this is not a fancy sermon, but just to give you
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- some picture of why it's so important that you understand
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- you're a beautiful pearl that God went after, because so
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- is everybody else.
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- God is seeking to save all the lost.
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- Not everybody's gonna receive his salvation.
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- Not everybody's gonna receive his gift.
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- Some people he's gonna seek, and they're gonna run, and
- 00:18:12.247 --> 00:18:15.717
- never come, but it's not because he's not seeking, and it's not
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- 'cause they're not valuable, and it's not because they're not
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- beautiful to God, they are.
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- Simply because they are choosing.
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- Maybe because the church is not the beautiful gate.
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- Maybe we have gates, but they're not beautiful.
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- We're all gates.
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- See how the gate is a pearl?
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- You and I are a gateway for people to enter the kingdom
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- of God through, because we kept open.
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- We looked at people not to condone their lifestyle choices
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- or condemn their lifestyle choices, but to truly help them
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- cultivate their worth, really point out to people how valuable
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- they are.
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- They shall bring the glory and the honor of the nations
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- into it.
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- You see, we are the beautiful gate.
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- We are the healers.
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- We're the doors.
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- What does a person see in you as a child of God?
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- What kind of gate are you?
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- Closed, except to a few exclusive people, or a few,
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- one race, or one color, one background?
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- Closed to people that are suffering, people that
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- are struggling?
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- We're all that person.
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- We're all that struggling person.
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- We're all that.
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- We all would be homeless if it wasn't for the grace and
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- mercy of God.
- 00:19:57.019 --> 00:19:58.353
- We all would be caught up in the worst part of our sin.
- 00:19:58.353 --> 00:20:03.025
- But I believe that this season, this new day, is to be marked by
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- us understanding who we are, a beautiful pearl, and who we are
- 00:20:08.897 --> 00:20:12.768
- together, beautiful gates of pearls, and how we're supposed
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- to behave, remain open all the time.
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- Not in the sense that the doors of the physical church building,
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- but the doors of our gates constantly open, not closing off
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- because that person's not holy enough, not closing off because
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- that person is struggling with something we might be struggling
- 00:20:33.221 --> 00:20:36.058
- with, and we think, "Well, nobody should struggle
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- with that.
- 00:20:38.493 --> 00:20:39.828
- They're doing that because they want to."
- 00:20:39.828 --> 00:20:41.196
- You're doing some stuff 'cause you want to, we're all guilty.
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- It says, "By no means anybody's gonna enter in," in verse 27.
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- "No one's gonna enter in whose defiled."
- 00:20:47.836 --> 00:20:50.472
- It says, "By no means anybody's gonna enter in unclean," it
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- says, "But only those who are written in the
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- Lamb's Book of Life."
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- You see, the only way in is not through holiness, the only way
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- in is being cleansed by the blood of the Lamb.
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- That's the only way in.
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- And that's the gate, that's the door we need to be opening to
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- every person.
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- That's the gates we need to be.
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- Like, this is what we're created to be together,
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- connected as a church family.
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- That wherever we are that has our gates always open.
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- What are our gates?
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- Our gates are our people.
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- We are the gates.
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- Nobody's coming to the church because the building looks so
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- beautiful, people are gonna come to the church because the gates
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- are beautiful, and what are the gates?
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- They're us, as we are reflecting the love of God,
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- and the goodness of God, and the kindness of God.
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- That's what opens the doors.
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- That's what people are drawn by.
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- That's what people are wanting.
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- That's what people are seeking.
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- That's what people need in this life.
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- That's what people need in this world.
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- The church has been judging each other.
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- The church has been condemning each other.
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- The church has been trying to decide if somebody made it to
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- heaven because they sinned.
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- Everybody sinned, we've all fallen short of the
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- glory of God.
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- Gregory: Wow, two incredible truths I want to remind you
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- of and make sure you didn't miss.
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- Number one, you are the pearl of great price.
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- You have great value with God.
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- You are the pearl.
- 00:22:18.560 --> 00:22:20.328
- And number two, God wants you to use--he wants to use you and me
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- as the gateway for others to recognize God's love and
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- value of them.
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- We together are beautiful gates, opening our way for Jesus
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- to come into the lives of others.
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- Say that out loud.
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- "I am the pearl of great price."
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- We're the beautiful gates, right?
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- Now listen, I'm gonna pray with you in a moment, but before
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- Lord, reveal to them, I bind the devil accusing them and lying to
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- of their value and their worth, and that they are a pearl.
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- Each is a pearl of great price, in Jesus's name, amen.
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