Looking For Love
September 23, 2020
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Leon Fontaine is showing people across the earth how to unleash the miraculous in their everyday lives and take Jesus to their families; friends; and communities.
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Looking For Love
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- -ANNOUNCER: What would youchange in your life?
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- - What if you could unleash themiraculous in your
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- everyday life?
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- - Experience freedom, live inpeace, change the world. Become
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- Spirit Contemporary. Join LeonFontaine, world renowned
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- conference speaker, seniorpastor of Canada's fastest
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- growing church, and CEOof Canada's only
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- Christian TV station.
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- -LEON FONTAINE: And when youbegin to recognize how in love
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- God is with you, and He knowsevery problem you've got,
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- everything you've done. He knowsthe anger, the impatience, He
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- knows it all, and He looks atyou. And He loves you so much.
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- -ANNOUNCER: In John 10:10, itsays that Jesus came to give us
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- life, and life more abundantly.So, why is there such a
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- disconnect between this biblicalpromise, and how most Christians
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- live today? Why have so manybelievers become spiritually
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- weak, and ineffective at sharingJesus' message of love? THE
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- SPIRIT CONTEMPORARY LIFE is theanswer. It's being led by Holy
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- Spirit, but in a contemporaryway. It's being Jesus and
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- demonstrating His love in wayspeople can understand and
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- appreciate. Spirit Contemporaryis unique for everyone. It never
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- compromises the truth, and itnever makes others feel
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- uncomfortable. It's freeingyourself from religious
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- constraints, and walking freelyin God's amazing grace, for His
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- purpose. THE SPIRIT CONTEMPORARYLIFE is absolutely crucial if
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- the global church and her peopleare going to change the world.
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- - Later in the show, we'll tellyou how you can reserve your
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- copy of today's resource. Enrichyour soul and renew your mind
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- with this timely series.
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- - And now, from Winnipeg,Canada, pastor Leon Fontaine.
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- -LEON: I want to dive down alittle deeper than maybe people
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- are used to. As we look at thispowerful force, and understand
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- it because so many believersstill do not. Did you know that
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- the highest pleasure in theworld, is to experience
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- unconditional love? And to beable to love back. To experience
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- that kind of love, is whataddictions and people who are
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- seeking after all thesedifferent pleasures. That's
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- really what it's all about, isthey're trying to find this
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- sense of self, of significance,of value, of being treasured, of
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- knowing that they're loved thisway. People internally though,
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- they give up on this kind oflove and they begin to look for
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- whatever pleasure they can getwhile they're still here on the
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- planet. No one can love asperfectly as Jesus, only He can
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- heal our broken hearts. Only Hecan cause God's love to flood
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- our lives like, like no one elsecan. In relationships between
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- married couples or betweenfriends, or even parents and
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- their children. So many peoplenot understanding that, what
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- love is. They'll try tomanipulate, they'll try to force
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- and people to show them love.People to love them, whichever
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- way they want to be loved. Butit never satisfies the deepest
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- level of the heart, because youknow deep down inside, you had
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- to manipulate that person to getthem to be loving towards you.
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- Most people deep down inside,they know they're not worthy of
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- this kind of love. They knowthey're flawed. They know that
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- they're not perfect. And so,they don't understand the love
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- of God or the things we're goingtno talk about today. When
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- people try to love them, maybeeven subconsciously, but deep
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- down in them they know theremust be something wrong with
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- that person's love, and theyreject the love. They don't know
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- how to accept love. If you don'tlearn to experience this love of
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- God, this unconditional love,you end up being judgmental. You
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- end up looking at others forthis love. You need it. And so
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- you want it, and you can look atyour spouse, you look at your
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- kids. People who have neverestablished what I want to talk
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- about today, even their kidsgrowing up, they need them so
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- bad to show them this love. InGalatians 5:6, it says there,
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- that in Christ Jesus, religion,circumcision, uncircumcision,
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- none of these rules and thingswork when it comes to the human
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- heart. Except faith, that worksthrough love. Did you know that
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- the faith that we are to use toovercome this world, to walk in
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- the favour and the blessing ofGod, that that faith only works
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- through love? What does thatmean? It means that this faith,
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- or this trusting God, that we'vegot to trust Him before faith
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- will work. We have to have thislove, that says oh God. Or it's
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- not going to work. As a youngman, I remember being a
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- teenager. And a guy coming byour church. He was preaching a
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- way about how that if you wantto do great things for God,
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- you're going to have to suffer.If you want to see God do great
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- things through you, it's goingto be suffering. God's going to
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- allow things into your life, itmight be months and years of
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- suffering, but He's got a higherplan for it. And I remember as a
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- young man, sitting there, and Ihad been taught that God is
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- good. That God is full of love.But this little nuance entered
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- my head, and it made me afraid,as I thought what? It even takes
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- stories out of the Bible out ofcontext. He would take verses
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- out of context to show us thatif you really want to develop in
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- God, you're going to have tosuffer. Now we know there is
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- suffering in this world. We knowthere's persecution in this
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- world. But when God, when Jesusdied for the curse of the law to
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- be dealt with, God's not goingto use the curse of the law to
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- teach you anything. He's notthat lousy of a teacher. And so
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- I remember beginning to grow upand pulling back and saying well
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- God, I give you my life, I giveyou my heart, I want to serve
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- You, I want to, but inside Iknew I could never really say to
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- God, okay God. I just trust You.Take me, I'm Yours. I'm all
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- Yours. I would never say that ordo that because he had said in
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- his message, that when you saythat, God's going to line up
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- some experiences for you thatare going to be painful. They're
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- going to be brutal. They'regoing to be, but it's all for
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- your best. I remember divinginto this, and studying this and
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- wondering where does the churchget some of this crazy doctrine?
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- They might call it thesovereignty of God, which
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- sovereign just means He'sall-powerful. But then as I
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- begin to dive into it, I beginto find out that the early
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- church as they begin to rise up,that a lot of the Greek
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- mythology had begun to creepinto attitudes of people. And
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- that you know, oh boy, the Greekgods, they were fickle. I mean,
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- you didn't know what they weregoing to do, or what it was
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- going to cost you. But thatwasn't Jehovah, but wasn't the
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- King of Kings and the Lord ofLords. You know what God is
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- going to do. He's going to behonourable, He's going to be,
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- He's going to keep His Word,once He gives His Word. He's not
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- going to do things to you, hurtyou, and steal your children or
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- destroy your job or destroy yourhealth. All because of some kind
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- of higher good, He has the HolySpirit to teach us. And
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- experience is not the bestteacher. Holy Spirit is better.
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- Listen to this incredible verse.John 3:16 for God so loved the
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- world, that He gave His onlybegotten Son, that whoever
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- believes in Him should notperish but have everlasting
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- life. For God did not send HisSon into the world to condemn
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- the world, to condemn the world,but that the world through Him
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- might be saved. This is aboutlove. And, if you were raised or
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- you experienced some of thethings I experienced, where you
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- don't know if you can trust Godand if something is happening,
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- well God must have allowed it orwhat. Then I want you to go back
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- into the Word. Because, untilyou begin to experience the love
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- of God, until you begin to trustHim and know this love, you'll
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- never be able to make otherrelationships work. In fact, if
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- you can't trust God, there's noway you can trust your spouse.
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- If you can't trust God, there'sno way you can trust your kids.
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- If you can't trust God, who canyou trust? So this foundation of
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- love that says I can trust God.I can look at Him, and say I'm
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- all Yours and believe that He isan absolutely God for your best.
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- And here's one of the ways thatset me free. And I want to share
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- it with you. Because until youcan look at God, and just say
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- Dad. Just, Daddy. You are goingto struggle through every
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- relationship you've got. You arenot going to be able to trust
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- people. You're going to pushpeople away. You won't be able
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- to build meaningfulrelationships. So in Ephesians
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- 3, I found a prayer. A prayerthat, the Apostle Paul would
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- pray for people. And it stunnedme, because I had begun to
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- believe that you could neverexperience God because you don't
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- go by feelings, we just go byfaith. And by that it meant
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- you'll never feel God, you'lljust feel the emotions of this
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- world. Then I got to Ephesians3. And it says here, Paul is
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- praying, I pray that God wouldgrant you out of the rich
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- treasury of His glory, to bestrengthened and reinforced with
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- mighty power in the inner-man bythe Holy Spirit Himself. In
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- dwelling, your innermost being,and your very personality. As we
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- go on, you're going to see thisentire prayer is about God's
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- love. Did you know that when youbegin to know God, you are
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- experiencing? And it affectsyour very personality. When
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- people know and experience thelove of God, it changes their
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- personality. And when theydon't, their personality doesn't
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- know where to go with thefeelings you've got and the
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- beliefs that you've got. Yousee, your beliefs determine your
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- actions. That's why it's crucialto continue in the Word, to
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- become a disciplined follower ofGod's Word, of Jesus Christ, and
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- know truth so that truth can setyou free from the misbeliefs
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- that are causing the emotionalwreckage that you're dealing
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- with on a regular basis. Andthis world is messed up. But so
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- many Christians are messed upbecause they have got to get to
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- the foundation of what God is,which is love. Now in verse 17
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- of Ephesians 3 it says, mayChrist through your faith,
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- actually dwell. Settle down.Make His permanent home, in your
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- hearts. May you be rooted deepin love. Founded securely on
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- love. If you can't believe thatGod can love you this way, then
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- you will never be able to seeany relationship. Even the
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- children you love so much thatrise up. They'll hurt you,
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- because you don't know how tointerpret anything going on in
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- their world. Because of thishuge gaping hole in your heart
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- which was designed that once yougive your life to Jesus Christ,
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- that you would dive into theWord, and that you would begin
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- to know this love. In verse 17it says, Christ through your
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- faith. It says, dwells andsettles down, makes His
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- permanent home in your heart. Ifyou want to know how to be
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- rooted, and founded securely onlove, you have to believe. This
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- belief, the Bible says faithcometh by hearing, and hearing
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- by the Word of God. So divinginto the Word is crucial. In
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- verse 18, it says you may havethe power to be strong, to
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- apprehend and grasp with all thesaints of God's devoted people.
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- The experience of that love. Theexperience of that love? What is
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- the breath, the length, theheight, the depth of it? Did you
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- know that faith is required foryou to feel loved? If you look
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- over at your spouse, if you lookat somebody that you really
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- love, and you don't believe theylove you, then their love is
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- wasted. Because they could bepouring love on you. But you
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- don't believe it. Even anearthly love as a human being,
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- you must believe the love thatis coming at you from anyone.
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- Here it's interesting, it saysthat you may come to know
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- practically, through experiencefor yourselves, the love of
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- Christ which far surpasses mereknowledge without experience.
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- That you could be filled withall your being into the fullness
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- of God. That you may have therichest measure of the divine
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- presence. And become a personwholly filled and flooded with
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- God Himself. What is God? God islove. We are to be believing and
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- experiencing His love. But somany of us are focused on, well
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- I'm going to find promises onhealing, promises on prosperity,
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- promises on family and marriage,and we've missed one of the most
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- crucial building blocks of lifethat is filled and strong and
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- powerful. And so the apostlePaul is teaching the Ephesians
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- church, this is what I'm prayingfor you. Why? Because until he
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- experiences love, until youbegin to believe this love, then
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- you're not going to know thekind of strength and power that
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- you have. Did you know that ifyou dive into the Word of God, I
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- haven't got time on this messagetoday. But you're going to find
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- out that love is what makes yourmind and emotions so healthy.
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- Did you know that this love ofGod is what makes your physical
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- body work so beautifully? Andstrong. When this love, this
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- peace, this joy, this incredibleability that only God can give
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- on the inside of us. It restoresbodies. It restores nerve cells,
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- it restores organs. It pushesout sickness, it pushes out
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- disease. It restores emotions,it heals up hearts, it makes
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- relationships. When a person isknows and experiences the love
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- of God, they can love in a waythat nobody else can love. You
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- will be loving in gallons whilethe rest of the people will be
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- loving in thimble-full's,because you are established in
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- His grace. In His love. As youlook at this verse, it goes on
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- to say that He will do superabundantly far over and above
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- all that we dare ask or think.Infinitely, beyond our highest
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- prayers, our, it says ourthoughts, our desires, our
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- hopes, our dreams. He's sayinghere, listen to this. He's
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- saying, you can be praying,desiring, hoping, dreaming,
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- doing all these things. Butuntil you're established in
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- God's love, experiencing God'slove, none of these things will
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- work out. Because all that youdesire in life will always be
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- attached to relationships. Andrelationships can't be healthy
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- until God is involved. Oh, theycan make them work, the world
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- does. And they've got a love,and yes, yes, yes. But not the
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- way God has designed us to be.In fact, if you were to ask me
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- Leon, what's the fastest way todeveloping this love? The Bible
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- shows us and tells us, that weare to act on our faith. That
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- faith without works is dead. So,as you go into the Word of God,
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- and you find out why Jesus diedon the cross for you. Why He
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- took the curse, your sin. Tookit for you. You begin to love
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- Him and you realize how completethis gospel is. That it's all
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- Good News. And everything is afree gift. You being right with
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- God is a free gift. You beingqualified for every promise, is
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- a free gift. This relationshipwith God is a free gift. He's
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- not analyzing every behaviourand axing you and pushing you
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- away like a person would do.He's in love with you, and
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- because of Jesus, you areestablished as righteous as a
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- gift. There's an incredibleportion of scripture that goes
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- with this. In Galatians 5:22. Ilove it in the Living Bible. It
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- says, when the Holy Spiritcontrols our lives, He will
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- produce this kind of fruit. Now,as you look at the fruit of the
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- Spirit, we've all read itmultiple times. As a young man,
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- I remember reading that listgoing who cares about the fruit
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- of the Spirit, I want the giftsof the Spirit. Working of
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- miracles and I want gifts ofhealings, and the gift of faith.
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- But now as I've grown older andI've looked at these. I've
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- recognized that fruit onlygrows. It doesn't just magically
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- appear on a tree. It grows. Anddid you know that it says this
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- is the fruit of the spirit,love. The first one it says is
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- love. Love can be grown. TheGod-kind of love, can be growing
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- in your life. Joy, this joy fromGod is to be growing in your
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- life. Such incredible strength.There's a peace, this peace
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- should be growing in your life.This patience with others around
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- you. You know, do you ever watchchildren when they have an
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- impatient parent, that theydon't even have a second to tie
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- their shoes right, or to beready right. They're just,
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- there's impatience. You just seenervous ticks and they're always
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- on edge. This patience, is thisphenomenal strength that we
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- should be growing in our lives.Goodness, kindness,
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- faithfulness, gentleness. Selfcontrol. These qualities, these
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- strengths that come from ourrecreated spirit. It is what the
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- Word of God does on the insideof us. Many people believe, and
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- I do too, that when you read thefruit of the spirit, the first
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- one is love. That all of theseother things are a look at love
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- from a different angle. If youlove someone, then you are
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- practicing joy when you're withthem. If you love somebody, then
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- you are going to work at beingat peace. If you love someone,
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- you're going to be patient. Ifyou love someone, you're going
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- to be kind, you're going to begood, you're going to be
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- faithful. You're going to begentle, you're going to have
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- self control. And it's the HolySpirit at work on the inside of
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- us that does that. And so, inour lives, we've got to make a
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- decision. I can sit and wait fora miracle to make me patient.
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- Like, someone download somepatience in my life. Or, you can
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- begin to dive into God's Wordand when you begin to recognize
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- how in love God is with you. AndHe knows every problem you've
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- got, everything you've done. Heknows the anger, the impatience,
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- He knows it all. And He looks atyou. And He loves you so much.
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- My parents would tell me as ayoung man, that if I was the
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- only one on the planet, Jesuswould have come and died for
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- just me. And then they'd say,but you'd have to nail him to
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- the cross yourself. You'd haveto put that, drop that cross
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- into the hole and watch Him die.Jesus loves you so much. And if
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- I could just really make youaware of this one fact. Much of
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- what I find through theChristian world where
- 00:21:01.585 --> 00:21:05.122
- relationships don't make it andthey're struggling with their
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- faith. They're struggling withso many areas even health and
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- emotions and relationships. WhenI talk with people, I such, I
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- mean. Just, I don't even knowhow to put a percentage on it.
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- That when I say, do you knowGod's love? Well I know God's
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- love. Well sure I know that. No,do you feel it? Do you
- 00:21:26.911 --> 00:21:30.448
- experience it each day? They'doften say well I don't go by
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- what I feel. No, I understandthat emotions up and down, that
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- we don't let them control ourdecision-making. But to
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- experience God's love is whatthis prayer is about. And my
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- challenge to you, is to takeEphesians 3 and pray it over
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- yourself every day. Pray thatyou'd be rooted, grounded in the
- 00:21:52.603 --> 00:21:57.408
- love of God. That you'dexperience it when you get up in
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- the morning. That you wouldsense and know His love with the
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- guys who are listening and youthink, oh I'm too tough, I'm not
- 00:22:03.381 --> 00:22:06.050
- worried about this. This word'love' doesn't mean just little
- 00:22:06.083 --> 00:22:08.919
- goose bumps. It means your senseof significance. It means the
- 00:22:08.953 --> 00:22:13.457
- value that you feel aboutyourself. It means, that when
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- you look at God, He looks at youand He values you. You're
- 00:22:17.194 --> 00:22:20.664
- significant. He is in love withyou. Religion has taught us that
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- God doesn't, you're just dirtyrags, and you're, and I know
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- where they got some of thoseout-of-context verses. But
- 00:22:28.873 --> 00:22:32.443
- you're made in the likeness andthe image of God. That God is
- 00:22:32.476 --> 00:22:35.179
- absolutely in love with you. AndHe wants you to experience this
- 00:22:35.212 --> 00:22:39.116
- love. Now what you need to do isrecognize that this prayer says,
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- it's going to require you tobelieve this love. How do you
- 00:22:44.054 --> 00:22:47.892
- believe this love? Romans 10:17says faith cometh by hearing,
- 00:22:47.925 --> 00:22:52.897
- and hearing by the Word of God.I'm giving you a new challenge.
- 00:22:52.930 --> 00:22:57.334
- Dive into, listen to this overand over. Find more verses that
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- show you what Jesus has done foryou. And how much He loves you.
- 00:23:01.439 --> 00:23:06.210
- The Bible says, we can love Him,because He first loved us. If
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- you want to know how toexperience God and how to love
- 00:23:13.050 --> 00:23:16.187
- Him back, it's not thisambiguous, ethereal, wispy
- 00:23:16.220 --> 00:23:21.525
- thing. Look in the Word as tohow much He loves you. And then
- 00:23:21.559 --> 00:23:25.963
- begin to declare every day, I amloved. God is in love with me.
- 00:23:25.996 --> 00:23:31.001
- God values me. God wants thebest for me. John 10:10, Jesus
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- said I am come that you mighthave life, and more abundantly.
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- It's the thief who kills,steals, and destroys. And begin
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- to trust God. Begin to be ableto look at Him, and say I love
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- You, God. And I trust You.Confess with your mouth, these
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- things. I love You, I trust You.
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- ♪ [Segment Music] ♪
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- -ANNOUNCER: Uncertainty,job loss, and health scares
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- all cause fear. And all areexperienced in the physical.
- 00:24:07.338 --> 00:24:11.308
- But did you know you can livebeyond your five senses?
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- In this brand-new series by LeonFontaine, "Living Beyond Your
- 00:24:14.345 --> 00:24:17.681
- Five Senses", learn how evenwhen your circumstances are out
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- of control, with Holy Spirit youhave the power to walk by faith,
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- not by sight.
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- -LEON: Sense knowledge, or thisworld's knowledge, there's a lot
- 00:24:27.057 --> 00:24:30.794
- of things they can't figure out.The purpose for creation.
- 00:24:30.828 --> 00:24:34.298
- The purpose for live. To onlybelieve what your
- 00:24:34.331 --> 00:24:38.702
- five senses say, Jesus callsthat unbelieving.
- 00:24:38.736 --> 00:24:43.040
- -ANNOUNCER: In this series,Leon shares the six deadly fears
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- and how to combat them, how tolive beyond your five senses,
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- and how to rebuke fear andexperience the peace of God.
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- Call now to request this series,and let today be the day you
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- begin to live in thesupernatural.
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- ♪ [Segment Music] ♪
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- -LEON: Freedom is a beautifulword. The Bible says whom the
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- Son sets free, is free indeed.It's interesting to note that
- 00:25:15.906 --> 00:25:22.079
- when you know truth, that truthsets you free. Now, this word
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- 'truth' is a whole lot deeperand bigger than just telling the
- 00:25:27.318 --> 00:25:30.521
- truth. Of course it's importantto tell the truth. But when you
- 00:25:30.554 --> 00:25:34.091
- know the truth, as to what Jesusdid on the cross, what He did
- 00:25:34.124 --> 00:25:38.796
- for you and I, and how free weare from sin, from the enemy,
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- from anything that would take usoff course. From any power that
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- would try to enslave us, toaddiction, to depression, to
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- mindsets. You begin to recognizeyou can live in absolute
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- freedom. And I want to encourageyou, to not allow a heart belief
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- on the inside of you that justputs up with it. Or manages an
- 00:26:03.654 --> 00:26:09.059
- addiction, or manages a beliefsystem that is not accurate
- 00:26:09.093 --> 00:26:12.997
- according to God's Word. Decideto live free. Father, I pray in
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- Jesus' name, that every personthat's listening to me right now
- 00:26:17.768 --> 00:26:21.805
- would make a decision to not bea slave to anything. But they
- 00:26:21.839 --> 00:26:26.744
- will know Jesus, and Jesus willset them free. They will know
- 00:26:26.777 --> 00:26:31.615
- His truth, and truth will setthem free. I stand in agreement
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- with them now, inJesus' name. Amen.
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