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The Caller and The Called Part 3

Living Proof with Beth Moore

January 19, 2021

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Let's talk about things that can trip us up in our calling.

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The Caller and The Called Part 3

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he had already calledyour name
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out of his own purposeand grace.
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From Genesis to Revelation,if you're looking for
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what would be acommon denominator
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of a calling,well, it is when God
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appoints a mortal--theimmortal invisible appoints
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a mortal to makesomething about him visible.
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Number two, calling--I'm makingup a word,
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and I'm happy about it.
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Calling consists of followshipfed by fellowship.
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This is based on 1 Corinthians1:9, that says,
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"God is faithful."
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You were called by himinto fellowship with his son.
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This is success.
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Followship fed by fellowship.
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This is how your lifeis a success,
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it's how my life is a success.
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It's not based on numbers;it's not based on results
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that we can see.
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It is based on did we,to the degree that we knew how,
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did we follow the leadershipof Christ?
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Did we follow him,and did we fellowship with him?
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Those are all biggest guaranteesthat we will not miss
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the specific areas of directionin our personal lives,
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if we just havefellowship with him.
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So we have the sensewhen he is leading us
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to the right or to the left,that when we're led
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by his Spirit--rememberRomans chapter 8.
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"His spirit is the Spiritof Christ,"
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so same one who was leading us.
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Christ said in his physical bodyof flesh and blood,
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"Come follow me."
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He still says the same thing,but he leads us
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through his Spirit.
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Calling consists of followshipfed by fellowship.
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Number three is this,
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we cannot goif we will not leave.
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That okay, one reasonwhy I'm not going
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is 'cause I ain't leaving.
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And again, it may or may not bea physical departure,
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but it has to be of allegiance,
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or we are going to follow theminstead of Christ Jesus
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in his directionfor our personal lives.
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And so here's what I want to sayto you
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as we're talking about calling.
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We're learning that ourallegiances will be tested,
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our mentors, our mothers,our Aunt Marge,
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we are learningthat he's going to test
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our allegiancesto our people group,
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to our denomination perhaps,mothers and fathers,
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that he's looking for,"You follow me.
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"I'm the best thingthat ever happened to you
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"and I will the bestthing that ever happened to them
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"in relationship to you,ultimately.
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"They may notrecognize it for a while.
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Ultimately, is the best thingthat ever happened to you."
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Now, I'm going to talk to you,of course,
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about call, call, over again.
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Call.
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We're talking about all of uscoming to a place
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that we either have an arrivalor revival of a sense of awe
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over our calling,
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that we'd have either anawakening or a reawakening.
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And I want to say a coupleof things to you,
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thinking in termsof the metaphor of the phone.
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You may have Godon call waiting,
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you may be on a call with him
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but most of the timeyou have him muted.
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Anybody?
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You ever just like justmute him.
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Just mute him.
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You may have an unanswered call.
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You may have even gotten so madat him
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that you have hung up on him,
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but he has not yethung up on you.
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He's still on the line.
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What you do not have, I needsomebody to hear me clearly.
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What you do not have if youare in Christ is a dropped call.
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I need somebody to hear mesay that today.
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What you do not--you mayhave a muted call,
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you may be puttingoff answering your call,
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you can have all sortsof things going on there,
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but you do not havea dropped call.
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And I can tell you that basedon Romans 11:29,
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"that the gifts and callingof God are irrevocable."
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You think, some of you,like I thought in my life
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that you have sinnedso grievously
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that your power to sinis more powerful
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than his power to saveand sustain.
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You still think you hadsomething to do
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with him saving youbecause you think
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you can make him get ridof you, and you can't.
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And I don't know if anybodyin the room is glad
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you cannot have a droppedcall but I am.
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I am.
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It may look differenton the other side,
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but it often does.
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You do not have a droppedcall and you need to know it.
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Now let me tell youwhat we're going to be doing
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during the restof this teaching time.
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What we're goingto be thinking about,
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we have that on your mindthat our calling consists
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of followship fedby fellowship,
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that we're going to leaveour allegiances,
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spiritually speakingand we're going to follow Jesus.
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But there are thingsthat can trip us up,
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and it's important for usto establish these
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so that you know themwhen they're happening,
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and so that you can acknowledge,you know,
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these are the things that canreally trip you up
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in your followship,and in your calling with Christ.
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I already know them in advanceso that when they happen,
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I'm aware of them.
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So what we're going to do,is we're going to have
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an a, b, c and d,in these next minutes,
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of things that can reallytrip us up in our calling.
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So I want you to go with mefirst of all
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to Judges chapter 15.
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Now, I just want you to hold itopen for a minute,
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but I would draw your attention,this is the saga of Sampson.
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The saga of Sampson.
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And you see,three different times
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when it says specificallythat the Spirit of the Lord
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rushed upon Samson.
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14:6, "The Spirit of the Lordrushed upon him,
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"and although he had nothingin his hand,
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he tore a lion in piecesas one would tear a young goat."
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14:19, "And the Spirit ofthe Lord rushed upon him,
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"and he went down,
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"and he struck down 30 menin the town
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and took their spoils."
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Judges 15:14,"Then when he came to Lehi,
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"the Philistines cameshouting to meet him.
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"Then the Spirit of the Lordrushed upon him,
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"and the ropesthat were on his arms
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"became as flaxthat has caught fire,
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and his bonds meltedoff his hands."
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You see, what I want to presentto you
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based on what happenedis that Samson was in it
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for the rush.
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Oh, God had called him,all right,
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and God had empowered him.
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Now, listen carefully,the Holy Spirit worked
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in a different way, verypurposely in the Old Testament
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under the old covenant.
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There are probably somewherearound,
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roughly around 100 peoplein the Old Testament,
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70 at one time,so it doesn't leave many
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of the rest of 'em that wouldbe--that would have had
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this kind of experience.
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The Holy Spirit would come uponsomeone to empower them
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for a particular taskor to empower them
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for a particular anointing,so he could come and go.
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That changed completelyunder the new covenant.
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Why?
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Because what Christ did,there's this wonderful part
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in the farewell discoursein John's Gospel,
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where he talks and then he said,
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"Listen, it is needful for you,"John 16, verse 7,
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"it is needful for you that I goaway because if I go away,"
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and he's talking about givinghis life on the cross
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and then he's talking aboutascending to his father.
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"Because if I go away,I will send my Spirit to you
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but if I don't, I can't."
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And the essence of it was,"Listen, right now,
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"I'm walking with you,and to tell you the truth,
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you're a train wreck."
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If you want to seethe big difference
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between impetuous Peterin the gospels before and after,
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the differencewas the Holy Spirit
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taking up residence in himbecause he's going like,
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"I've walked beside youbut in this way,
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my Spirit will be insideof you."
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So everything changesunder the new covenant
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because when he pours outhis Spirit in Acts chapter 2,
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then is why it's so imperativeto understand
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that we all have a calling,
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because where the Holy Spirit
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came upon themfor certain tasks,
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and actions and anointingsin the Old Testament,
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it's all of us now.
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All of us receivehis Holy Spirit the moment
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we are born again in Christ.
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So it's just huge.
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But the Word of God saysin Acts 1, verse 8,
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"that when theHoly Spirit comes,
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he comes with power."
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With power.
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You have real-liveHoly Ghost power in you.
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Does anyone understand whatI'm saying to them today?
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Whether you have ever accessedit or not, whether--'cause
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if we just do everythingin our own strength,
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we never look to it,
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we never walk with him enoughto even know that it's possible.
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We may not ever see itenacted in our own lives
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but if we're walking with him,
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the Holy Spirit--youhave real-life power in you
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to be what you cannot beand to do what you cannot do.
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You have the power in youto overcome addiction.
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You have the power in you,day by day to live in freedom
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over that, that has kept youin its clutches for so long.
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You have real-liveHoly Spirit power in you.
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But here is the thing,you've got this gifting,
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enormous gifting,every single one of you do,
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this enormous gifting in you.
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And remember when Paul saidto Timothy in 2 Timothy 1,
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he said to him,"You fan the flame
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"of your gifting into a fire.
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You fan it."
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Well, we can either fan itinto a flame of the Holy Spirit
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or we can fan itinto a flame of flesh.
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Do not think we could not takethe gifting of God
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and use it to give gloryto ourselves.
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♪♪♪
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(Beth Moore)I gotta tell you,
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we have all been through a lotin the last years,
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and I have never in my life,I say to you,
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I have never had more confidence
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in the pure gospelof our Lord Jesus Christ.
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♪ O my soul ♪
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♪ Lift up the nameof the one who saves ♪
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♪ He reigns forever ♪
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♪ O my soul ♪
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♪ Lift up your praise ♪
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♪ I will riseand bless the Lord ♪
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♪ O my soul ♪
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♪ O my soul ♪
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♪ O my soul ♪
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♪ O my soul ♪♪
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Let me tell you something.
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He's come to speak in powerto us this weekend,
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because his Wordis fresh and alive.
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That's the miracleof the Scriptures.
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Do not think we could not takethe gifting of God
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and use it to give gloryto ourselves.
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Remember that I told youwe'd be a, b, c and d here.
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A is this, we can tripover our own feet:
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I put a colon beside it,
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this is what you'd callself-glory.
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And here's the thing,for a while,
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we will get away with it.
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But there is a timer set on it.
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You can know every single time.
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You may not see it.
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You may look at a situationthat you think, "Oh, my word.
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I mean that is so--that isappallingly self-glorying."
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I mean there's some timesthat you see things
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that make the back of--the hairon the back of your neck
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stand straight up.
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And you think, "How arethey getting away with that?"
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Well, it's on a timer.
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I mean we'll think,is it okay with God?
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Are you crazy?
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We never self-glorythat it's okay with God.
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Oh never.
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Oh never.
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The thing about it is he reallydid entrust gifting to us
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and he's watching ussteward that gift.
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And so the biggest thingwe see in Samson is,
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man he is tripping overhis own gifted feet
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with his own self-glory.
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"When he finished speaking,he threw away the jawbone
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"and he named the placeRamath-lehi.
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"And he became very thirstyand called out to the Lord,
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"'You have accomplishedthis great victory
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"'through your servant.
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"'Must I now die of thirstand fall into the hands
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"of the uncircumcised?'
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So God,"merciful and gracious is he,
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"split a hollow placein the ground at Lehi,
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"and water came out of it.
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"And after Samson drank,his strength returned,
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"and he revived.
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"And that is why he named itEn-hakkore,
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"which is in Lehi today.
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And he judged Israel 20 yearsin the days of the Philistines."
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En-hakkore means the springof the caller.
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The spring of the caller.
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I want you to hearthis little excerpt
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out of a Bible commentaryby Dr. D. I. Block.
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And he writes this,in talking about this portion.
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"Not one to miss an opportunityto leave his signature
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"on the map,
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"Samson named this springnear Lehi, En-hakkore,
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a name it still bore at the timethis account was written."
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I'm jumping down a little bitin his excerpt
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where he talks about the name.
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"It focuses on himand memorializes
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"the power of this manto manipulate
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"and move the hand of Godrather than the gracious action
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of God on his behalf."
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He named the springafter himself.
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The spring of the caller.
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Well, you know what dude?
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Actually, he is the caller.
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You and I are sittingnext to this spring.
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Because it says,"His spirit was revived."
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He's revived, and he didwhat he'd been called to do
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for the next 20 years.
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Disastrously, at times.
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Will we be revived by a springwe name for ourselves
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or by a springof the living water
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where we know who our helpcomes from?
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We know where our spring is.
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Remember that the goal webelieve that God set for us is
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that each one of us would eitherbe awakened
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with a fresh aweover our divine calling
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or reawakened,
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that it will be an arrivalor a revival.
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B is this, we can trip oversomeone else's feet, a rivalry.
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I want you to think about this.
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I was thinking aboutwhen I was growing up
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in Arkadelphia, Arkansas.
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And back in those days when wehad this kind of real-life phone
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here that plugged in actually tothe wall, and we had two of 'em.
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I had two of 'em.
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But they were the same line, youknow, so you could answer it
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in either end of the house.
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And so my grandmother,
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I was raised in afour-generation home
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or a three-generation home,and my grandmother would listen
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on the other line any timeus kids were on the phone.
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And you'd--'causewe're a bunch of us.
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I have lots of brothersand sisters.
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And you know, we'd just walkedthrough the house to the kitchen
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and there she'd be sitting.
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I mean she's all like,she'd pull up a chair,
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and she's all like.
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And then she looks at you, you'dgo, "Nanny, get off the phone."
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And she'd go, "Get on that.Scat."
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I mean she wasshameless about it.
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Shameless about it.
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In essence, we're just listeningin on somebody else's calling.
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We're just obsessedwith their calling.
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Anybody know whatI'm talking about?
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We see this in Peter.
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In John chapter 21
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when Christ gives hima little clue
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about what he has ahead.
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And he said--and he looks backat John and goes,
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"What about him?"
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And he's all on his phonetrying to listen to his call.
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Pick up your own phonebecause you got your own call.
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And when we got all obsessedwith somebody else's calling,
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what happens is we trip up
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all over their enormouslygifted feet.
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Their enormously,beautiful feet.
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Okay, may I call uponyour patience
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to read you an excerptout of the book,
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of Os Guinness's book,"The Call."
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And I knew this basic story, andsome of you may know it as well,
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but it will be a powerfulreminder.
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"Wolfgang Amadeus Mozartwould unquestionably
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"be among a tiny handfulof people elected
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"without contest to the highestcircle of human genius,
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"'a wonderchild,''a prodigy of nature,'
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"'a veritable miracle,''sublime,' 'celestial,'
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'precocious beyond belief,''surpassing all imagination.'"
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All of these are in quotations.
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"Odd tributes have pouredforth in response to his gifts
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"as a composer and a musician,
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"ever since he burstonto the world's musical stage
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"in 1763 at the age of sevenunder the tutelage
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"of his father Leopold.
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"Not surprisingly,such utterly extraordinary,
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"seemingly transcendentgiftedness,
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"has been seen as the focusof a matching envy.
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"Most famously in connectionwith his contemporary
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"Antonio Salieri.
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"Five years older than Mozart,Salieri had been established
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"seven years as court composerand conductor
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"of the Italian Opera in Viennabefore Mozart moved there.
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"For 33 years after Mozart died,he occupied
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"the even loftier position
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"of the emperor's courtin Vienna.
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"So from the perspectiveof the court and the public,
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"Salieri had every reasonto pity Mozart,
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"not to envy him.
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"And there's no evidencefor the rumor
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"that Salieri confessedthe year before he died in 1825
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"that he had poisonedhis younger rival,
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"yet the traumatic potentialof this rumored rivalry
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"has attracted playwrightssuch as Alexander Pushkin,
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"whose Mozart and Salieriwas set to music,
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"and Peter Shaffer whoseaward-winning Amadeus
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"was made into an award-winningfilm by Milos Forman.
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"At one point in Shaffer's play,Salieri finds himself alone
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"in a room with a portfolioof Mozart's compositions
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"on the desk in front of him.
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"He reaches out to take itbut as if fearful
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"of what he might find,he pauses.
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"Then he snatches it, tears ofthe ribbon and opens the case.
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"His eye falls on the openingbars of Mozart's 29th Symphony
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in A major."
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He's going to say she.
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I'm about to quote what he saysand this is straight
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from the play.
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He's going to refer to sheand he means Mozart's wife.
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"She had said that these wereoriginal scores,
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"first and only draftsof the music,
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"yet they looked like faircopies.
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"They showed no correctionsof any kind.
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"It was puzzling.
00:21:29.437 --> 00:21:32.039
"Then suddenly alarming,what was evident was that Mozart
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"was simply transcribing musiccompletely finished
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"in his head
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"and finished as most musicis never finished.
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"Displace one note andthere would be diminishment.
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"Displace one phraseand the structure would fall.
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"I was staring through the cageof those meticulous ink strokes,
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at an absolute beauty."
00:22:04.438 --> 00:22:09.143
So the author Guinness picksup again and says,
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"Stunned, Salieri collapsessenseless to the floor
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"where he lies quite still,
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"his head next to the scoreof the heavenly music.
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"As the clock strikes 9:00,he raises his head
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and addresses God."
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And I want to share with youfrom the play
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what he says to God.
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"Capisco.I know my fate.
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"Now for the first timeI feel my emptiness
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"as Adam felt his nakedness.
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"Tonight, at some inn,somewhere in this city,
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"stands a giggling childwho can put on paper,
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"without actually setting downhis billiard cue,
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"casual notes which turnmy most considered ones
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"into lifeless scratches.
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"Grazie, Signore.
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"You gave me the desire to serveyou, which most men do not have,
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"then saw to it the servicewas shameful to the ears
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"of the server.
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"Grazie.
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"You gave me the desireto praise you
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"which most men do not feel,then made me mute.
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"Grazie tante.
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"You put into me perceptionof the incomparable
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"which most men never know.
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"Then ensured that I wouldknow myself forever mediocre.
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"What?What is my fault?
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"Until this day,
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"I have pursuedvirtue with rigor.
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"I have labored long hoursto relieve my fellow men.
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"I have worked and workedthe talent you allowed me.
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"You know how hard I've worked,solely, that in the end,
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"in the practice of the art
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"which alone makesthe world comprehensible to me,
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"I might hear your voice.
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"And now I do hear it and itsays only one name, 'Mozart.'
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"And my only reward,my sublime privilege,
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"is to be the sole manalive in this time
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"who shall clearly recognizeyour incarnation.
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"Grazie e grazie ancora.
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"So be it.
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"From this time on,we are enemies, you and I.
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"I'll not accept it from you.
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"Do you hear?
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"They say God is not mocked.
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"I tell you, man is not mocked.
00:24:50.838 --> 00:24:53.440
"I am not mocked.
00:24:53.474 --> 00:24:55.976
"They say the Spiritbloweth where it listeth.
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"I tell you, 'No.
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It must list to virtueor not blow at all.'"
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I seek you, I don't even thinkthey seek you.
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I don't even thinkthey take you seriously.
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I mean those people are crazy.
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Watch them, watch how they act.
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Lord, are you watching thisTV show?
00:25:18.098 --> 00:25:21.535
They're all buffoons.
00:25:21.569 --> 00:25:27.341
You would do this.
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I'm virtuous.
00:25:29.209 --> 00:25:31.612
I've done what you told me to doand you stick somebody out there
00:25:31.645 --> 00:25:37.084
more gifted than me.
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Die to it.
00:25:39.653 --> 00:25:41.322
It is poison to us.
00:25:41.355 --> 00:25:43.290
Die to it.
00:25:43.324 --> 00:25:45.159
This was a man,that as far as we know,
00:25:45.192 --> 00:25:46.894
never ever found satisfaction
00:25:46.927 --> 00:25:50.297
in what Godhad called him to do
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because he was too obsessed
00:25:52.733 --> 00:25:54.535
with what God had calledsomeone else to do.
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Is anybody steppingin that with me today?
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We have never had the rivalrylike we have now
00:26:00.741 --> 00:26:03.444
because we see everyone now.
00:26:03.477 --> 00:26:09.049
In our grandparents' day,that was not true.
00:26:09.083 --> 00:26:11.919
Now everything's a competition.
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Everything's a competition.
00:26:13.320 --> 00:26:14.688
This will not come naturallyto your flesh, it will not.
00:26:14.722 --> 00:26:20.828
You make the decision,"I'm just not competing."
00:26:20.861 --> 00:26:23.497
And you're going like,"Well, they're still competing."
00:26:23.530 --> 00:26:25.065
Let them.Knock yourself out.
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Knock yourself out.
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If they're trying to get infront of you, just like go.
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"Go right ahead.
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I will gladly esteemyou better than myself."
00:26:36.210 --> 00:26:37.878
And you know what?
00:26:37.911 --> 00:26:39.213
You will be free, andthey will be in bondage.
00:26:39.246 --> 00:26:45.219
Amen.
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[applauding]
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You see, he's seeingall of time at once.
00:26:56.130 --> 00:26:57.931
He sees what's happening,four generations from now,
00:26:57.965 --> 00:27:01.101
that your now life is impacting.
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You have no idea that it is,but it's going
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to impact the lineafter you're gone.
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"Ah Beth, I don'teven have children."
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Listen, in the Word of God,its spiritual lineage that gets
00:27:10.177 --> 00:27:13.914
the most press in the NewTestament framework of family.
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It's spiritual lineage.
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(Selena)If you don't already have plans
00:27:20.287 --> 00:27:21.722
for getting into the Scripturesthis new year,
00:27:21.755 --> 00:27:24.358
join us as we diveinto the study of Galatians.
00:27:24.391 --> 00:27:27.861
(Natalie)And we look forward
00:27:27.895 --> 00:27:29.229
to seeing you next week.
00:27:29.263 --> 00:27:30.597

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