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Leon Fontaine | Free Indeed | September 16, 2021
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- -ANNOUNCER: World-renowned speaker, CEO of Miracle Channel,
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- and Senior Pastor of one of Canada's fastest growing
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- churches, Leon Fontaine is passionate about teaching you
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- how to tap into the incredible power of Holy Spirit.
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- - Now from drive-in church in Winnipeg, Canada,
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- here's Leon Fontaine.
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- -LEON FONTAINE: As we dive in to God's Word, I pray that
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- you'll understand the power of the resurrection. And what it
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- means to you and I. You know in John 8:12, it says Jesus spoke
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- to them saying, "I am the light of the world. He who follows Me,
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- shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life." The
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- illumination. There is something about the resurrection. So many
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- people, they see the cross and they stop there. You know, when
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- the Roman empire, they decided rather than to fight Christians,
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- and to kill them which didn't work, it was spreading like
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- wildfire. That they should just join them. And so we have the
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- Roman empire painting crosses on shields. Going into battle as
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- though the cross was some kind of lucky charm. But, when you
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- look at the cross, and you realize that Jesus died for your
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- and my sins. Do you realize that if Jesus would not have risen
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- from the dead, you still would not have life? The life of
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- heaven. The life of Jesus. The life of God. This Zoe,
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- incredible, life that touches you on the inside. And makes you
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- feel accepted, and loved, and a part of the family. Something
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- inside of you that only the Holy Spirit could do. We've got to
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- understand today, the power of His resurrection. The Bible
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- teaches us in John 5:38, it says, but you do not have His
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- Word abiding in you. This is Jesus talking to religious
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- people. Because whom, He sent, Him you do not believe. You
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- search the scriptures, Jesus said, for in them you think you
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- have eternal life. And these, the scriptures, are they which
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- testify of Me. But you're not willing to come to Me, Jesus
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- says to the Pharisees and the Sadducees, that you may have
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- life. So many Christians, they have this kind of belief that
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- well, He's forgiven my sins. They even don't know what to
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- believe there. They've got to track every sin, confess every
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- sin, you know, and this constant awareness of how much sin you
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- did today. And do I have to confess that one? Because, you
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- know, whatever is not of faith is sin and to him that knew it
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- knows to do good and doesn't do it, that is sin. And if you
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- think it in your heart, then you've already done it. Jesus is
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- showing people that there is just no way that you can be son
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- sin-conscious that you'd confess every individual little sin
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- properly enough. Jesus is saying here, that when you come to Him,
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- you have eternal life. And here is the struggle of religion. Is
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- to, for you to try to earn as best you can, this life of
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- Jesus. And almost every letter that Paul wrote is to explain to
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- people that the resurrection life we're talking about this
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- morning, that it is a completely new covenant. It's no longer
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- your work of the flesh. It's no longer you trying to be good
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- enough to get God flow more in your life. And Jesus goes on, in
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- fact in John 8:31-32 He says to the Jews to believed on Him, if
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- you abide in My Word. Okay, and this Word means the revelation,
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- the ah-ha, the illumination of His Word. Then you are My
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- disciplined my followers indeed. And you're going to know truth,
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- and this truth is going to set you free. This freedom is a
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- freedom from anger, a freedom from fear. A freedom from guilt,
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- a freedom from this condemnation that the enemy, that your own
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- heart would push at you. That when you know truth, now what
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- truth is He talking about? Because so many Christians go
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- well, I just can't learn the whole Bible. If you will get
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- this most foundational truth in your heart, that whom the Son,
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- in verse 36 of John 8, it says therefore, if the Son makes you
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- free, you are free indeed. Free, free, free! Free there, free
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- here, free up, you're just free. There's a freedom in your life
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- that only Jesus can bring. Why? Because He died on the cross,
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- and He fulfilled the law for you. Qualified you. But He went
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- to the grave in your place. That place of death, that deep place
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- that Job talks about as gloomy and dark. That other portions of
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- scripture talk about as this horrible place of darkness and
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- death. You and I have to realize that the power of Jesus is in
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- our lives because of Him rising again. So many people, you see,
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- if truth sets you free, than lies and ignorance and deception
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- is what holds us in bondage. What? A lie! Now, the enemy
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- wants you to think that its your sin as a Christian that holds
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- you in bondage. That stops all of your miracles. And that's
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- what religious people do. They try to make every born-again
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- believer get so conscious of their sin, so aware of their
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- inability to live good enough, big enough. But until you
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- understand that you're qualified for His life to be on the inside
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- of you. You're qualified for every promise. That because
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- Jesus arose from the dead, you and I can really live. And this
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- life gives us the ability to live for Him. And I mean, all
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- the pleasures that are at the right-hand of the Father, all of
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- the things that Jesus brings to you and I. It just makes you
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- light up and go there's nothing this world has, or can deliver
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- to us in any way that is exciting. God's grace, His
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- peace, it saturates your heart. My world entirely changed when I
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- understood Holy Spirit's role in my life. When I understood that,
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- if I could just tell Holy Spirit I want You to be my friend. I've
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- given my life to Jesus. You're alive on the inside of me. I
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- want to be alive with You. When you study the Bible, Holy
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- Spirit, He is the powerful force on this planet. All through the
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- Old Testament you hear about the spirit of God. All through the
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- New Testament you hear about Holy Spirit. And when you
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- recognize that without Holy Spirit, without you spending
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- time with Him, His Word, it won't ignite itself on the
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- inside of you. Christianity today, it's just, it's
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- irritating. Because everybody thinks it's got to do with your
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- head. That the smarter you are, at the Bible, if you could read
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- four languages, five languages. And you can do it in Greek and
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- Aramaic, and Latin, and that you're going to be closer to
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- God. You're going to be more aware. But the more people I
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- meet, I still find few people with all this education that are
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- alive with the life of Jesus. Where, He manifests Himself
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- inside of them, changes them. Gives them this courage, this
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- life. And it manifests itself with peace and joy and healing.
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- And the favour and the blessing of God that's all over someone
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- when this life, this Zoe life rises up on the inside of them.
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- In John 14:12, Jesus says whoever believes in Me, will do
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- the same things I do. Let me ask you a question. What is your
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- faith based on? Well Leon, I just believe. That's not good
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- enough. Let's take it a step deeper. What do you believe?
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- Well, um, I believe God's all-powerful. Well the devil
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- believes that. Well, I believe Jesus healed. The devil believes
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- that. Well I believe that He's coming again. The devil knows
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- that, too. What's so different? What makes this faith come alive
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- in a believer, when so many, especially today, are so
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- materialistic, self-centered, me, me, me, that this dying to
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- self and this desire for Jesus so few people seem to have it.
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- It is an understanding of who Jesus is yes, but what He did
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- for you and I. Do you want to know what Paul repeatedly warns
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- about when it comes to demonic doctrines? When it comes to the
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- enemy trying to cheat you out of this new life. He says, they
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- will never admit that Jesus came in the flesh. And that He arose
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- again. Did you know that even when it comes to your salvation,
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- that there's got to be a security in you that we confess
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- with our heart, our mouth, believe in our heart, that Jesus
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- rose from the dead. Why? Without Him rising from the dead, we
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- don't have a life to really live, and to spend eternity with
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- Him. Without the proper download of God's living Word, in your
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- mind, and then deeper into your heart, your spirit and your body
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- won't work properly. Until you have a relationship with Holy
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- Spirit, where the Word of God is being revealed and illuminated,
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- your heart will never believe something. And Christianity
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- out of the head doesn't work. It's just another religion.
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- [Theme Music]
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- -ANNOUNCER: We'll be right back with more from Leon Fontaine.
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- [Theme Music]
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- -ANNOUNCER: Do you know how faith works?
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- Many Christians are living their lives, trapped in shame.
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- They think that if they only believed or tried harder,
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- they'd see more miracles. If that sounds familiar,
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- this series by Leon Fontaine is for you.
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- Learn the secret to fighting your giants,
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- how you can speak over your future,
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- and how you can suit up in the armour of God.
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- -LEON: I hope you're enjoying the Word today. I want to send
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- you this series on the weapons of faith. You know, it fits so
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- powerfully into what I'm teaching about right now. And as
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- you dovetail this teaching and listen to it over and over
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- again, with this understanding of the heart, man. Can you walk
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- as a man or a woman of great faith. For a gift of $30 or
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- more, I want to send it to you. Join us right now, as a family,
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- a team, that's making a difference on this planet.
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- -ANNOUNCER: It's time to take up your weapon
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- and fight the good fight of faith.
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- Get your copy of "Weapons of Faith" today.
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- [Theme Music]
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- -LEON: It wasn't until I said, Holy Spirit, be my friend. Teach
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- me. And as I begin to go into the Word, he'd begin to reveal.
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- He'd begin to illuminate. And I would see Jesus and what He had
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- done in every scripture. I would see myself with Jesus. And all
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- of a sudden, the things I was trying to do, I found that as I
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- just yielded to the Holy Spirit as He took me into the Word,
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- that He'd begin to rebuild Leon at the heart-level. This deep
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- level of beliefs. You see, deep beliefs determine your
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- behaviour. If you struggle with any behaviour you don't like,
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- then you have heart beliefs that are misbeliefs. You have been
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- hurt, in an area. Somewhere in life you've had an event take
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- place. An extreme emotion has caused you to judge yourself, to
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- judge God, to judge people around you, and it's left you
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- trapped in a world that you don't enjoy, even as a
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- born-again believer. You see, the doorway to the Kingdom that
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- Jesus is talking about is not a mind that is informed. One of
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- the greatest enemies today is this fad, this substitute for
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- faith that I hear Christians saying it all the time. Be
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- positive. Positive is good, but it's only one part of the
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- process of growing in great faith. In the Old Testament,
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- they limited God. In Psalms 78:37 says, for their heart was
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- not right with Him, neither were they steadfast in His covenant.
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- The great majority of the 21st century church has rejected the
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- finished work of Jesus as the absolute basis for knowing and
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- experiencing God. Instead, they believe it's their good works
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- that the "gooder" they can become, the better they can
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- become. You know, the less issues in their life, that that
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- is when that God begins to work in their life. And they've gone
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- back to Old Testament living. When you begin to understand
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- that that's not where it's at. In 1 Corinthians 2:2-5, the
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- apostle Paul tells everybody there that, that I decided while
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- I was with you, I'd forget about everything except Jesus Christ
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- and His death on the cross. So when I come to you, I was weak
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- and fearful and trembling. My teaching though, they're not
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- with words of human wisdom that persuade people, but with proof
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- of the power that the spirit gives. This was so that your
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- faith would be in God's power and not in human wisdom. As I
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- would speak at conferences around the world, different
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- denominations, and meet men and women who would get up. I would
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- sometimes speak at conferences with 40 speakers, and they would
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- just go through an entire day, day after day. And I would watch
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- people get up behind that, that sacred desk. Meaning, that this
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- opportunity to speak the truths of God's Word. And I would
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- admire the eloquent speaker who had all of his facial
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- expressions and body posture figured out. And man, could he
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- deliver. I was stunned at the oratory that came out of some
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- men, the voice inflexions. They were wordsmiths. They'd put
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- together adjectives and adverbs and make what they said just
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- come alive. And I was just jealous going man. But then,
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- there would always be somebody who would walk behind the desk,
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- and they would begin to teach God's Word. And you would
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- instantly sense Holy Spirit fill the room. He would begin to
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- touch hearts. Some would begin to weep. Some I would see just
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- hold their hands and rock back and forth, as their heart began
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- to be touched by the power of Holy Spirit. You see, the best
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- trained minds, public speaker. I like by the way, developing
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- skills in public speaking, and I appreciate people who do. But
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- when it lacks the very presence of God, and God is not breathing
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- on people through that person's speaking. You can just sense it.
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- And it was such a difference. And I want to say something to
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- you. Although it is, makes that much difference with the
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- teachers and the pastors in the five-fold ministry, it makes
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- that much difference in your life as well. That when you go
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- to live, the presence of God, this sweet-smelling, savour,
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- this wind that blows. The Bible's trying to put it into
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- words that you just enter a room and people don't know why,
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- there's something they sense. Some people by the way, who are
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- demonically oppressed will hate you on sight. But the vast
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- majority as you just continue to learn to love people, get your
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- eyes off of yourself, your inadequacies, your shortcomings,
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- your inability to get results in anywhere in your life. But you
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- can walk into a room, a business room, your family room, your
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- bedroom, your child's room. Wherever you go, and the
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- presence of God. This love, will just begin to flow. Now, I want
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- to say this to some of you today. The Bible teaches us that
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- what strengthens us is God's love in our heart. Read the
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- prayers in Ephesians 1:14, Ephesians 3:15 and on, and it
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- talks about being strengthened with His might in your
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- inner-man. And it talks about God's love. Now listen close to
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- this. God's love means that God doesn't, you know, have a few
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- tingles down His spine. But He values you. When He says He
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- loves you, He values you. He cares about you. He is in love
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- with you. But religion wants you to say you're nothing but filthy
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- rags, take that out of context. And you know, stop thinking
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- you're even valuable to God. You want to be glad He even thinks
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- about you, sucker. And this type, teaching that's trying to
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- bring humility into Christian's lives is destroying their
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- ability to feel the love of God, to sense and know He treasures
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- you. He values you. He's looking at you. And desiring a life that
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- is so fulfilling. His miracles He wants to do inside of you.
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- Until that connection between you and Him, you just go Dad.
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- Dad. Because you sense this love, how much He values you and
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- cares about you. But there are so many demonic doctrines that
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- just attack believers and drive a wedge between you and God.
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- When Jesus hung on a cross and died for you and I, and He rose
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- again so that you could know His love. His acceptance. Because
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- Jesus gave you a gift of righteousness. We've got to
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- understand, no truth. No doctrine has the power to change
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- your life just because you know the information. It's the
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- revelation, no wonder like I said in Ephesians 1, he prayed
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- that God would give you the spirit of wisdom, and of
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- revelation and the knowledge of Jesus. What knowledge of Jesus?
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- Everybody knows He's the Son of God. The fact that on the cross,
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- it was finished. And when He rose again, this was a finished
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- work. The Bible gives you a second thing. You are to occupy
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- until He comes. That word 'occupy' means to do business.
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- To get plugged in, to get involved in our cities, our
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- society. This new life that when Jesus rose from the grave, I've
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- got news for you. The demonic hordes were stunned and shocked,
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- and instead of one Jesus, that they tried to kill, and they
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- rejoiced because they got Him to a cross, they had Him nailed and
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- His body died. And I'm telling you, they probably threw the
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- biggest party in hell that you could ever imagine. Then all of
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- a sudden, something's going on. What's happening? What's
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- happening around that tomb? Then angels came and the rock was
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- rolled away. And the disciples and the women begin to come and
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- recognize His body was gone. He had risen from the grave. And
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- because He rose again with new life, in the next 40 days and
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- more, thousands upon thousands of people became born again. And
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- instead of one Jesus walking the planet, thousands of them with
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- that same anointing, that same nature. Jesus said that hey,
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- because I go to the Father, He said, you're going to do what I
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- do. We've got to understand. That, get a hold of God's Word.
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- Commit to it. Envision your life the way Jesus tells us to.
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- Express your desire to God. Recognize that not only did He
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- die on a cross, not only did He go into the grave, but there was
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- a resurrection. It says in John 14:19-20, now listen to these
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- words. He's telling them a little longer and the world will
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- see Me no more. But you will see Me, and because I live, you will
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- live also. Let's stop right there for a minute. It doesn't
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- say because I died on the cross, you will live. Now, there's a
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- ton of scripture about the beauty and the power of the
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- cross. He said it's because I live, you will live also. It's
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- time to recognize the empty tomb, as one of the most, the
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- cross is a vital symbol. But the empty tomb is an incredible
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- symbol of eternal life. If Jesus can come back to life and has
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- paid the price, He not only took your sin, He went to the grave
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- in your place. He went to hell in your place. And He arose
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- again. Then this new life is ours. He goes on to say these
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- things I've written to you, who believe in the name of the Son
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- of God, that you may know that you have eternal life. Eternal
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- is the length, life is the quality. And then, Jesus a few
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- weeks, He rose in front of His disciples, to the right-hand of
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- the Father. And there He is seated. In Ephesians 2:6 says
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- you are seated with Him. You see, this revelation that Holy
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- Spirit is trying to get to His church, is so specifically first
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- who Jesus is, and what He did, because then and only then, will
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- you know who you are. If you're watching today, and you don't
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- know this Jesus I'm talking about. The Bible says as you're
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- listening to me preach, the Word of God is causing something new
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- to rise up in you, a hope, a faith. And that's why you're
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- actually going, I think I need this. Right now, with your mouth
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- wherever you are, just pray. And say Jesus, come into my heart. I
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- choose You. I want to follow You for the rest of my days. Amen.
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- Because you have chosen Him, you've invited Him, you are
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- giving Him the room, the right to come into your life.
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- Now continue to follow Him every day.
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