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Praise | O.S. Hawkins: Put Your Trust In Jesus | Praise | October 28, 2025

Coming up tonight on praise
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See, o.s. has been on
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Tbn for so long, he doesn't really want to host.
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He just wants to host us
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And kind of start where he wants to start.
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When people come to christ, we
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We we get them into the word of god.
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God is pro-family.
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But then when you really crop it down,
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You see one single figure and it's just jesus.
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So i picked 52
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Verses in the bible that i think every believer ought to know.
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Oh, the holy spirit is called alongside the paraclete us,
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And he's active and real, and this is
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A ministry of the holy spirit.
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And that's what's lasted for 50 years.
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You've been a steward of it, and i want to honor both of you
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For that.
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And god says, i will be like to dew to my people
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Where does dew come from?
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Think about it.
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But we say, oh god, fall on us.
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No, we so god rise up to meet us.
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No, he just shows up.
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I love that when certain conditions are right.
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Tonight on praise
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From dallas
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Best selling author and christian leader
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O.s. hawkins
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And now your host
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Matt and laurie crouch
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We have decided to do something today.
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Really, really, really important.
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We're going to talk for an hour
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About just jesus.
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Okay, how about that?
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How about jesus for one hour?
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Are you prepared to do that? can you do him?
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And that's sort of the history of tbn.
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Come on now.
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Just jesus.
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53 years ago, my mom and daddy
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Heard the voice of the lord
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And 7 million miracles later, we sit here
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Still talking about the most important the the name
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Above all names, the name of jesus and osa
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Have put together 365 day devotional.
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And you, you kind of.
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Where do you want to start with this?
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See o.s. has been on tbn for so
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He doesn't really want to host, he just wants to host us
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And kind of start where he wants to start.
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Where do you want to start with this?
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I, i'm so grateful for my long history. yes.
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With tbn
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Going back to your mom and dad, of course, 35 years ago.
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No more than that. yeah. years ago. yeah.
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Long time 15 years ago, he was running cameras on you.
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Yeah.
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This young man right here, matthew crouch, was my
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Camera man when he was 19 years old.
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Down in fort lauderdale when we had some great experiences.
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So, yeah, go back a long way.
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And one of the
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Things i love about it, it's still lifting up the name.
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Yeah. come on.
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And we know you from the joshua code in the bible code.
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And we've gotten all the codes here,
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These, all these beautiful books.
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But this is a one year i live. right.
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Thank you.
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Well, the the, you actually had a part in the title of it.
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Just.
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Jesus.
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Tell, wait wait wait wait wait.
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I mean, not officially.
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I wasn't in, like, a meeting or anything.
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No no no no no
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No, i don't think i've ever had a meeting with you.
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Well, we had a lot of fun.
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No, we were together up in,
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Jackson hole, wyoming.
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Yes, we were just a few years ago filming a christmas special.
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Susie and myself, you and lori and,
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Victoria and joe were with us there.
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We were filming that, and,
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You were interviewing me about the nativity.
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And if you remember, i told a story.
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Yeah.
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In the nativity about what we had done.
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In fact,
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We've got that wonderful feature on our cameras.
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We talked about where you can take a picture and crop it out.
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We've got a beautiful picture susie and i do of all of us.
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The four of us,
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You and laurie and me and susie up in jackson hole
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With the beautiful mountains behind us and everything.
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The girls were in the middle
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And what i did, man, i just cropped you out
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So that we've got susie and i have a great picture of us
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And laurie there.
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Well, you know, when you think about the christmas season
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In the nativity, when you crop out the
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Nativity scene, and the first of all,
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You see the nativity scene, the big picture.
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It's a worship service.
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I mean, the whole place is exploding.
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And worship. the angels are there.
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They're hovering like drones over the manger.
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The what?
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The shepherds have come to worship
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The wise man who didn't come later.
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But we put him in the i think they're they're worshiping.
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The whole place is exploding in worship.
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But when you crop it down a little bit in the middle,
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You see a family.
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Yeah. mary and joseph and jesus.
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Because christmas
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And the christian life is really about family.
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God is pro-family.
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But then when you really crop it down,
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You see one single figure and it's just jesus.
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So i was thinking about that experience, and that's how
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I actually came up with the title just jesus,
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Because i want people after they leave these devotionals to
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To just know that
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All the issues of life and it all boils down to one thing.
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It's ultimately just jesus,
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Beautiful, just putting him first.
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And, you know, on the, when jesus was transfigured
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On the on the mount, the mount of transfiguration,
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Probably mount tabor or somebody,
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Some think it's mount hermon there in israel.
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And he was transfigured into his glorified body.
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And peter, james and john were there,
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And they witnessed it.
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And if you remember, moses and elijah came back from heaven,
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Appeared with him.
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And then when the cloud lifted,
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There's a
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Beautiful verse there in matthew 17 it says,
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They saw no one except jesus only.
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Wow, it's just jesus.
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You know, some people today see moses only.
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They're all legalistic. it's all about the law.
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You know, you gotta do this,
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You gotta do this, you gotta follow this.
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You can't do this. you can't do that.
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Some people see elijah, only he was the prophet.
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And and prophecies of future woe consume them.
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Some people get so excited about the second coming,
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They forget to appropriate all the first coming has to offer.
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So it's better to see moses and elijah
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In christ than to see him with christ.
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So when the cloud lifted, it was just jesus.
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So that's really where the title came from.
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That's actually beautiful. thank you matt.
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Well done. goodness.
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Do you long for more
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Closeness in your daily walk with christ?
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In a world full of distractions, endless tasks
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And responsibilities, it's easy to lose heart and lose focus.
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And so this whole seeming dilemma is fulfilled in
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Jesus christ, the infinite god man
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Who came to calvary's cross and took your sin.
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Everything you've ever done.
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And he suffered the shame and the hurt, the humiliation,
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The pain, the agony, the death of it for you
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So that you could be free of that sin
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And have access to god through jesus christ.
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Just jesus, our hope.
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Yesterday, today forever.
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A 365 day devotional by trusted
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Pastor and teacher o.s. hawkins, this year long journey gently
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Reminds us that everything points to jesus alone.
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I hope that people have realized that
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It's just jesus that brings us together.
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And we can. we can unite in him.
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It's never too late for a new beginning.
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With daily devotions,
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You'll begin each day with a fresh perspective.
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Delve into scripture, gain insight, and discover
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Practical steps to live your faith
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With purpose and intention.
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Just jesus inspires, uplifts,
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And gently challenges you to focus on what matters most.
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God giving you a promise.
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And god said, listen, i█ll be like the dew to my people
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When we open to the moving of the holy spirit in our life
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And we're right
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Within that relationship, he'll show up and he'll show up
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In great power.
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Begin your year
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Long journey to draw closer to the one who matters most.
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Let just jesus, our hope yesterday, today forever.
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A 365 day devotional guide
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Your heart and your life, wherever books are so.
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You know, a lot of times
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When somebody is offering a book,
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You know,
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There's a there, you know, it's their book, the there's there's
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A unique twist to the proceeds of this book
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Right.
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Let let everyone know what the what the unique twist is here.
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Well, this book is issues out of a whole series of books.
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We've done called the code series.
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The first one was the joshua code, 52 scripture verses
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Every believer should know, and it's still the bestseller.
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But and you know what happened, matt and lori, when
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When people come to christ, we we
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We get them into the word of god.
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And the whole secret of this book
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And the code books is not i'm
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Not trying to get people into the word of god.
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I'm trying to get the word of god into the people.
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And that's a big difference when that happens.
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So but we would give people somebody would come to christ
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And we'd say, well, start reading the bible.
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They start in genesis if they ever get to leviticus.
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Yeah.
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They're so bogged down they'd never get past
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If they start in matthew in the first chapter,
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They're introduced over 20 names they can't pronounce.
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So i picked 52 verses in the bible, and i think
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Every believer ought to know, and we call it the jesus code.
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You're 52 because you've memorized one verse.
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Wait for a year
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And you memorize the whole theme of the whole bible,
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And it has devotional thoughts.
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So it's a devotional book called the joshua code.
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And then we followed that up.
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It was such a success.
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We followed it up with the jesus code 52 scripture question.
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You know the amazing thing about jesus?
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He was always asking questions. wow.
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And when you think about it, he was omniscient.
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He had all knowledge. he knew all the answers.
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He he knew every
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He never one time came upon something in the new testament
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And came upon a situation and something happened.
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He said, whoa, i didn't see that one coming.
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Yeah. you know, he said, whoa, that was a surprise.
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No, because he he has all knowledge.
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And yet there are 150 questions in matthew, mark, luke,
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John that escaped his lips.
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Guess so.
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That was his way of getting us to see where we are.
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Yeah. and you know, that's what leadership is.
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Some people think leadership.
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So the, punctuation mark, like the period
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Some people lead like that.
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Go here, go there, do this, do that.
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Just bark commands. some people think it's exclamation point.
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Just be enthusiastic.
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And i'm know more often than not, real
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Leaders are characterized by that symbol bent in humility.
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We call the question mark.
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So jesus was always asking questions.
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So we pick
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52 scripture questions i think everybody
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Ought to answer before we get to heaven.
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If a man died job asked will he live again?
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And so that was the the jesus code.
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And then came so many others of them.
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The promised code
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40 bible promises every believer should know
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The prayer code 40 bible prayers.
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Every believer should read the bible code.
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Finding jesus
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In every book of the bible, the spirit code, 40
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Bible truths about the holy spirit, everybody
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You know, 15 of them in the series.
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And so when we started
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To answer your question with the joshua code,
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I just said, we have a we have a ministry
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Susie and i are involved in called mission dignity.
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And we're on a mission to bring dignity
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To some forgotten people.
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And that's for retired pastors and their widows
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Living at the poverty level.
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And i know y'all have got such a heart for this,
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But most pastors are never going to be sitting here
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Where i am on, on prays with, with a book,
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Most,
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Most pastors, pastor out in the highways and hedges and,
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And they're never had their name in the paper.
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They never they,
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They never make enough to live on, much less to retire.
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Yeah.
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And they most of them live in a church owned home.
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Then they have to get out of it when they retire.
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So they're living at the poverty level.
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So many years ago
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We were able to help them in mission
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Dignity with $50 a month that helped them.
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But when we started this code church with the joshua code
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Back there over ten years ago, i promised god that
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All the royalties from these books
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Would go to these people in mission dignity.
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And we we, we we've already endowed the program.
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So every dime somebody gives to
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It goes straight to one of these people in need.
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And so now the neediest among them get almost $1,000 a month,
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Which one little lady, a pastor's widow 87 years ago,
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Wrote me some time ago
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And she said,
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I get to eat at night now, and it's not just a piece of toast.
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So every time somebody buys the this just jesus 365 day
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Devotional, or anytime
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Anybody buys any of the code books,
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They know that
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All those royalties and they've sold over
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3 million copies the last few years
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Go to mission, dignity.
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And matt, let me confess, i hope that if i'd have known,
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They would have sold millions of copies back there.
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When i promised god that those people would get
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All those royalties, i would still do the same thing.
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And i think i would, and i think that's why, god bless them.
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That's awesome. okay.
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Just jesus 365 devotional.
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You, pastored the the famous old,
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You know, first baptist dallas, right?
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Criswell.
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Right. was a unique person. yeah.
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He wanted to bridge the divide
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That sometimes we see in christianity.
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He did bridge it.
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He he was a person that wanted to make sure
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Non charismatics and charismatics got together,
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That we would never let anything divide us.
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If you were, you know, kind of, partial, prejudiced.
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And somebody over here was a dispensation list.
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You would never let any of that kind of stuff divide.
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And he was always a uniter,
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And he ended up being beloved by my parents.
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Yeah.
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You then started pastoring that same church.
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You you kind of came into the tbn world
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When you were living in south florida, right?
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I was your cameraman.
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You did a tv program called lifeline.
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So we're talking about,
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You know, decades that we've known each other.
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So there's really nothing i can't ask you right.
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Yeah.
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The the the idea that
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That if you wound the clock back
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30 years, there was a divide
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And there was kind of
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A a would would, would the correct term
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Be dr. o.s. hawkins secessionist and non cessation.
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I mean is that was that really the debate.
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It it it it was a big part of the debate.
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But my circle
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Like w.a. criswell baptist preachers like w.a.
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Criswell, charles stanley, adrian rogers,
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None of us were cecessionists
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In other words,
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For those who may not know, believing that all the miracles
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Ceased, back then, you know, bringing people together.
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You mentioned w.a. criswell, and he certainly did.
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In fact, i've just last year released his definitive
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Biography of w.a. criswell
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He was the greatest man i've ever known.
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He's like a father to me.
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And just he was the most brilliant,
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Brilliant mind yet could communicate the gospel
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So that a child could understand it.
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But tbn
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Went a long way
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In bridging that gap, because back in those early days, 40
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And 50 years ago,
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When when, as you mentioned, i had that program lifeline
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And some others of us baptist started coming on tbn.
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But, you know, we, we, we got we bore the brunt of that
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From some of our constituent, for being a part of,
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Of that charismatic group over there.
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But that never bothered us.
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And it never bothered me,
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Because i know your daddy's heart.
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Mother's heart.
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And i knew your heart from a boy.
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And susie, i've watched, caylan and cody,
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Your boys grow up, and we we were together in london.
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When.
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When, caylan was in a little bassinet together.
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It's better now,
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But it really was an issue that had to be kind of dealt with.
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Absolutely. okay.
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And so there was a time when somebody said,
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If you believe in the gifts of healing in tongues,
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And these types of things,
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Then you're just a different camp over here,
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And we're not really going to have fellowship.
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What what blurred those lines?
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It seems like, well, that's not as big of an issue anymore.
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It's not in some circles.
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In some circles, it still is on both extremes of
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Of the circumstances. right.
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You know, matt, the older i get, the more
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I see how important it is to have balance. yeah, yeah.
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In the christian life and in the christian faith.
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And as far as what what blurred those lines, i think
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I think, i hope that people have realized that
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It's just. jesus. yes.
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That that brings us together.
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And we can we can unite in him.
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I've just written this book.
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The last code book i wrote before,
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Just jesus was the spirit code, which has 40
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Chapters, biblical truths about the holy spirit
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That every believer should know.
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And a part of that i wrote to my own world, my own tribe.
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Yeah.
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To help them understand that
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That, you can trust the holy spirit.
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So my dad
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Believed in the holy spirit from the time he was a boy.
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So he grew up in the assemblies of god church.
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Okay. yeah.
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He was a, young boy,
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Missionary boy speaking fluent arabic as a child.
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But my, my dad was at his office one day
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And he was talking to a prospective engineer
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Who was kind of doing
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A little bit of a pre-interview over the phone.
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And he said to my dad, paul, do you have to be a christian
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To work at your channel?
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And he went, ya...
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And he tried to say the word yes.
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And, he cleared his throat, went, ya...
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And said, hold, please.
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And, you know, hit the hit the hold button and said, lord,
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What's going on here? holy spirit?
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What is this?
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And he paused a moment,
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Collected his thought, hit the button, and said,
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I don't think you would have to be,
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You know, a christian to work here, but you might want to be,
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Much like maybe if you were applying for a job
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At a spanish language
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Channel, you might want to know how to speak spanish,
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Right?
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So the wisdom of the holy spirit poured through my dad
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And the guy.
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Then for a little bit of a confirmation thing for my dad,
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He said, you know what?
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That's that's actually a really good answer,
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By the way, if you just said yes,
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I was going to file a competitive application and
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And a complaint at the fcc against your license.
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And, and so that was oh, so
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The holy spirit is called alongside the paraclete.
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And he's active and real and apparently
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Can choke off your windpipe.
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Yeah.
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Well, i think many of us have had experiences like that.
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And, you know, let's talk just for a second about tbn,
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Because i'm, i've known tbn for a half a century.
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You and laurie
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See yourselves, and i know this because i know you as stewards.
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This is not your ministry.
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This is the this is the ministry of god.
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This is the ministry of the holy spirit.
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It's his me.
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Paul and jan saw themselves as stewards.
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And, you know, all you look back over the history of tbn
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And you know, well, when moses
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Couldn't go into the promised land
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With the children of israel,
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He he preached that series of sermons to them.
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We call it the book of deuteronomy
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In the new testament.
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And he says in deuteronomy, i think it's chapter 11.
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He says, the land you're about to enter
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Is a land of hills and valleys,
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But it drinks water from heaven.
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And so that's what tbn has been.
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Listen, along this 50 year journey,
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Think of all the hills,
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Think of all the great mountaintops
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You've been all think of the valleys and the challenges
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And the ways
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You just wonder if you're going to be able to exist tomorrow
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And see how god has brought you through.
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And because it did, we we drink water from heaven.
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We have a supernatural source of our supply.
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And this is a ministry of the holy spirit.
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And that's why it's lasted for 50 years,
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Because you haven't held it like that.
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You've been a steward of it.
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And i want to honor both of you for that.
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Do you long for more
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Closeness in your daily walk with christ?
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In a world full of distractions, endless task,
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And responsibilities?
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It's easy to lose heart and lose focus.
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And so this whole seeming dilemma is fulfilled in
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Jesus christ, the infinite god man
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Who came to calvary's cross and took your sin.
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Everything you've ever done.
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And he suffered the shame and the hurt, humiliation,
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The pain, the agony, the death of it.
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For you so that you could be free
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Of that sin and have access to god through jesus christ.
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Just jesus, our hope yesterday, today forever.
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A 365 day devotional by trusted
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Pastor and teacher o.s. hawkins, this year long journey gently
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Reminds us that everything points to jesus alone.
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I hope that people have realized that
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It's just jesus that brings us together.
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And we can we can unite in him.
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To my people when we open to the moving
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Of the holy spirit in our life and we're right within that
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Your heart and your life, wherever books are so.
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We were sitting
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With, charles stanley before he passed,
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And i just threw out a question that i wasn't
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Expecting to get any kind of unique answer from.
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And i said, i said,
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You know, early in your career and early in your ministry,
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You've been talking
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About kind of the northeast that you were up in the northeast.
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But everything that i know about you is here in atlanta.
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Everything you built is here in atlanta.
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What brought you to atlanta?
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And he said, well, one day,
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I had been praying about, you know, some,
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Some people that had called and had offered a church for me
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To come and pastor in atlanta, and he said,
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I don't want to get this wrong.
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I mean, we could go to the clip, but i paraphrasing it,
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He said something to the effect of right
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In the middle of the room,
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I saw
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A giant word floating in the middle of the word ever room.
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Atlanta.
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I saw it physically with my eyes, and he said
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That, and i went, okay, wait, wait whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa.
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That sounds a little charismatic to me.
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And what was that?
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He said, i don't know what that was,
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But it worked out, didn't it?
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I literally took that as a message from the lord
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And and made the choice to take the church in atlanta.
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And i've been here ever since,
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And everything god did through me was right here in atlanta.
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So i was led there. okay.
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That's wasn't key.
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At one point, you know, the
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The pope of the baptist world at one point.
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Totally.
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And and that sounds a lot charismatic to me.
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And i wonder if we have been arguing over
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Just the way we've articulated or the vernacular
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That we used around some of these things
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That god wanted to do
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To move people into a position that he wanted them in.
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Some of that, with charles stanley, for example,
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Charles was a bit of a mystic, like david wilkerson was.
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You know, i'm
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Preaching every other month at times square church in manhattan
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Now, david wilkerson's church, where he found a pastor now.
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And he it's that church is on fire.
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But charles, one of the secrets
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And i preached for him many times in atlanta,
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And he had a prayer closet beside his office.
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And i'm telling you, there was no chairs in there.
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He would be down on his face.
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We would be praying in there with charles.
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Charles, his grandmother, was a pentecostal preacher.
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Grand mother.
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Come on in.
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Danville, virginia. come on now.
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And she had a really great influence on his life.
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Now, charles was a bona fide baptist, like i am,
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But what he never cut people out of his life
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Or did anything like that.
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So he was, he was a he was a he.
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Charles did a lot to bring people
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Into the openness of the holy spirit.
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So did adrian rogers.
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Adrian rogers preached on the holy spirit often.
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Doctor criswell wrote a book on the holy spirit
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When nobody was in baptist life, was talking about jack taylor.
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Another baptist opened up the whole world and spirit
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Filled life to susie and i, back in the 1970s
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And so there was a fresh wind of god's spirit that blew winds
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Blowing in the 70s and the late 70s that
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That till we saw some mercy drops.
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But we prayed for it.
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It felt like there was just a blending of christianity and
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And isn't that jesus greatest prayer?
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Father, make them one is we are one.
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And so just to make them one.
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So we sit here today,
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Kind of,
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Nestled around just jesus.
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And so jesus is the reason that we do what we do.
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The all the sermons you preach, all the books you write.
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Okay.
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How to deal with conflict.
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Yeah. okay.
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That is nehemiah five one through six.
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And there was a great outcry
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Of the people and their wives against their jewish brethren.
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And i became very angry when i heard their outcry.
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And these words, nehemiah.
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So unresolved conflicts can do irreparable damage.
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What do you deal with,
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With how do you deal with conflict?
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Well, you read that.
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You read that page of that devotion.
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And if you'll tell me, what are you selling?
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I don't have
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365 of them in my head that i wrote right now.
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But i'll be happy to help you with that.
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And i might add, one of the code books is called
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The nehemiah code.
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It is a it is a devotional through nehemiah.
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And the subtitle of that one is it's
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Never too late for a new beginning.
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You know, matt,
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A lot of people are listening to us right now
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Need a new beginning, and they think it might be too late.
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But the beautiful thing about nehemiah's message is it's
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Never too late for a new beginning.
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And, so that that these, these,
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These are taken from nuggets that came from
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Many of the code books and you talking about,
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I'll tell you, i'll tell you the there's a devotional in here
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That is the answer
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To what you're talking about, about coming together.
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And it's from hosea.
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You know, there's an obscure verse in hosea, the prophet
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Isaiah, chapter 14, verse five,
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Where there's actually a promise from god.
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And god says, i will be like to dew to my people.
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Dew, dew you know, you walk out in the yard in the mornings and,
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And there's dew all over the grass
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Gets all of your shoes and everything. well
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Where does dew come from?
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Think about it. does dew fall.
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How does it get there on that graph or does dew
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Rise and and before any of our listeners
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Try to answer that, let me give you the answer.
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Neither.
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It just shows up
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When certain conditions are right.
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And god said, listen, i█ll be like the dew to my people
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We say, oh god, fall on us.
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No, we so god rise up to meet us.
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Now he just shows up.
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I love that when certain conditions are right,
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When we resolve these conflicts, when we forgive, when
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We get right with each other,
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And when when we open to the moving
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Of the holy spirit in our life.
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And we're right within our relationships.
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And this is how revival comes. yeah.
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He he's like to
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Dew he said, what a promise i█ll be like the dew to my people
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You get your life right.
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Some of us are wondering
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Right now watching this program,
00:30:21.709 --> 00:30:23.478
Why aren't things coming together for me?
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Why can't i get things in, act well,
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When everything
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Don't pray.
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Lord, follow me. don't pray.
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Rather you get yourself right.
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God given you a promise
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When certain conditions are right in your own life,
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He'll show up and he'll show up in great power.
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So good.
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And so there's a lot of
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Little nuggets like that that go along the way.
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There's one in there, that we call the family secret.
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You know, if one of the most known verses
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In all the bible is romans 8:28,
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And you know that that promise
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That all these things are working together for good.
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The those who love the lord called are good,
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Bad, indifferent, all of it.
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All of it works.
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You know, it'd be more powerful if you'd said some things.
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Yeah.
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Are many things or even most things.
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Yeah, but he said all things.
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Yeah, but the secret to understanding that verse.
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Most people miss you completely.
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You mentioned first baptist dallas when i was pastor
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There and doctor criswell was there 50 years.
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Robert jeffers is there now.
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It is.
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And i preached in churches all over america,
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All over the world.
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It's the most biblically literate church i've ever seen.
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You know, i preach to charles, right?
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Every every sunday he wrote the irish study bible.
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He was a member of the church.
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And and jean merrill, the foremost authority
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On somatic languages in the world.
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Well, when i was preaching through romans, i
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When i got to verse
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28, i had the staff go out in
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The parking lots and parking garages on sunday morning
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And ask people coming in, romans 8:28
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And then i had them all come back.
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Report to me monday morning what they found.
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Over 90% of the people at that great bob
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Biblically literate church said, i know that verse.
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All things work together for the good.
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And they left off the first phrase
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Which says, for we know, for
00:32:18.393 --> 00:32:20.395
We know that all things work together for good.
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It's a family secret.
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In the family of god, the lost world doesn't know that
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You don't.
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You go out to the city hospital
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Hospital emergency room friday night
00:32:31.572 --> 00:32:33.341
When people are coming in there with stab
00:32:33.341 --> 00:32:34.742
Wounds and shootings and stuff
00:32:34.742 --> 00:32:36.511
Their families out in the lobby, in the lobby.
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And, matt, i want to
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I want
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I want to challenge you to go over there friday
00:32:40.415 --> 00:32:41.382
Night and saddle up to him and say, listen,
00:32:41.382 --> 00:32:43.051
I just came by to tell you all things are working,
00:32:43.051 --> 00:32:45.153
And you'll be in the emergency
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Room yourself in five minutes, right?
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Because it's the lost world. doesn't know that.
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Yeah, it's a family secret.
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In the family of god.
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We know that all these.
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It's confidential, but we know it's constructive.
00:32:57.265 --> 00:33:00.334
Things are working together for good.
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It's comprehensive. all things.
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The good, the bad.
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David said in psalm 119.
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It was good for me to be afflicted.
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Wow. but i'm not learning your statutes. wow.
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But it's also conditional.
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90% of them left off the last phrase
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And just said, all things work is good to those who love god,
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Love the lord, and are called his purpose.
00:33:23.424 --> 00:33:27.128
Those of us who love the lord and and the purpose
00:33:27.128 --> 00:33:30.131
And will of god is being done in our lives.
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Yes, all things are working together for good.
00:33:32.166 --> 00:33:35.369
That's another one of the devotions,
00:33:35.369 --> 00:33:37.238
Another little nugget that we put in along the way.
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So the bad news is, you know what?
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For those folks know,
00:33:42.777 --> 00:33:45.079
Oh lord, that's what you just said is so true.
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And what
00:33:48.249 --> 00:33:49.450
Some people need to hear, they're watching this right now.
00:33:49.450 --> 00:33:51.886
There's another side of that coin. yeah,
00:33:51.886 --> 00:33:54.689
Good things
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Can work together for bad.
00:33:57.358 --> 00:34:00.128
For those who don't know the lord,
00:34:00.128 --> 00:34:01.629
Good things like this television program right now.
00:34:01.629 --> 00:34:04.765
And that's talking about just jesus
00:34:04.765 --> 00:34:07.235
And somebody that's hearing this, and god is calling them
00:34:07.235 --> 00:34:10.004
Unto himself, and they say, no.
00:34:10.004 --> 00:34:11.806
Paul said in ephesians,
00:34:11.806 --> 00:34:13.141
Every time we resist the holy spirit,
00:34:13.141 --> 00:34:15.643
Every time we say no, he said, it's like,
00:34:15.643 --> 00:34:18.980
A hardening of the heart, the greek word.
00:34:19.847 --> 00:34:21.549
We get our word callous from that word. wow.
00:34:21.549 --> 00:34:24.152
I've got a callus in my hand right here.
00:34:24.152 --> 00:34:26.020
Not not from working in the yard, from playing golf, but.
00:34:26.020 --> 00:34:29.257
But i could take a pen, laurie.
00:34:29.257 --> 00:34:31.292
Yeah, and stick it in there, and i wouldn't feel it.
00:34:31.292 --> 00:34:33.361
Yeah. and that's what happens to our heart
00:34:33.361 --> 00:34:34.896
When we say no to god.
00:34:34.896 --> 00:34:36.430
And he keeps calling us, and he keeps drawing.
00:34:36.430 --> 00:34:38.866
Is somebody tuning in right now?
00:34:38.866 --> 00:34:40.468
Maybe not even familiar with tbn.
00:34:40.468 --> 00:34:42.570
And he's calling us and he's, he's, he's he's
00:34:42.570 --> 00:34:46.140
Drawing us into himself right now.
00:34:46.140 --> 00:34:48.242
And every time we say no, it's, it's
00:34:48.242 --> 00:34:51.979
That's what happens to our heart just like that call.
00:34:51.979 --> 00:34:54.315
So my and it's not that he stops calling, it's that you
00:34:54.315 --> 00:35:00.621
Are in
00:35:00.821 --> 00:35:01.656
Danger of not hearing his call anymore.
00:35:01.656 --> 00:35:04.325
And so that's why it's important.
00:35:04.325 --> 00:35:06.360
That's why the bible says today is the day of salvation.
00:35:06.360 --> 00:35:09.397
Now is accepted time.
00:35:09.397 --> 00:35:13.434
Do you long for more closeness in your daily walk with christ?
00:35:13.434 --> 00:35:17.471
In a world full of distractions, endless task
00:35:17.471 --> 00:35:20.074
And responsibilities, it's easy to lose heart and lose focus.
00:35:20.074 --> 00:35:24.545
And so this whole seeming dilemma is fulfilled in
00:35:24.545 --> 00:35:28.115
Jesus christ, the infinite god man
00:35:28.115 --> 00:35:31.285
Who came to calvary's cross and took your sin.
00:35:31.285 --> 00:35:35.223
Everything you've ever done.
00:35:35.223 --> 00:35:36.757
And he suffered the shame and the hurt, humiliation,
00:35:36.757 --> 00:35:39.427
The pain, the agony, the death of it for you
00:35:39.427 --> 00:35:43.231
So that you could be free of that sin
00:35:43.231 --> 00:35:45.499
And have access to god through jesus christ.
00:35:45.499 --> 00:35:48.135
Just jesus, our hope yesterday, today forever.
00:35:48.135 --> 00:35:53.107
365 day devotional by trusted
00:35:53.107 --> 00:35:55.676
Pastor and teacher o.s. hawkins.
00:35:55.676 --> 00:35:58.813
This year long journey gently reminds us that everything
00:35:58.813 --> 00:36:01.983
Points to jesus alone.
00:36:01.983 --> 00:36:04.051
I hope that people have realized that
00:36:04.051 --> 00:36:07.622
It's just jesus that brings us together.
00:36:08.456 --> 00:36:11.692
And we can we can unite in him.
00:36:11.692 --> 00:36:14.562
It's never too late for a new beginning.
00:36:14.562 --> 00:36:17.798
With daily devotions,
00:36:17.798 --> 00:36:19.300
You begin each day with a fresh perspective, delve
00:36:19.300 --> 00:36:22.737
Into scripture, gain insight, and discover practical steps
00:36:22.737 --> 00:36:26.741
To live your faith with purpose and intention.
00:36:26.741 --> 00:36:29.877
Just jesus inspires, uplifts,
00:36:30.511 --> 00:36:33.881
And gently challenges you to focus on what matters most.
00:36:33.881 --> 00:36:37.351
God given you a promise
00:36:37.351 --> 00:36:39.053
And god said, listen, i█ll be like the dew to my people.
00:36:39.053 --> 00:36:42.256
When we open to the moving of the holy spirit in our life
00:36:42.256 --> 00:36:45.826
And we're right within that relationship,
00:36:45.826 --> 00:36:48.429
He'll show up and he'll show up in great power, begin your year
00:36:48.429 --> 00:36:52.366
Long journey to draw closer to the one who matters most.
00:36:52.366 --> 00:36:55.970
Let just jesus, our hope yesterday, today forever.
00:36:55.970 --> 00:37:00.608
A 365 day devotional guide
00:37:00.608 --> 00:37:03.444
Your heart and your life wherever books are so.
00:37:03.444 --> 00:37:13.654
Back when we
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Had letterhead back on typewriters existed
00:37:14.922 --> 00:37:18.092
And all that kind of stuff down
00:37:18.092 --> 00:37:19.460
At the bottom of our letterhead at tbn was the scripture,
00:37:19.460 --> 00:37:23.664
And i, if i be lifted up, will draw all men unto myself.
00:37:23.664 --> 00:37:28.703
And we've been doing that
00:37:29.270 --> 00:37:31.706
For 53 years.
00:37:31.706 --> 00:37:34.208
You can't have a baptist preacher
00:37:34.208 --> 00:37:36.510
Like o.s. hawkins as a guest and not give him an opportunity
00:37:36.510 --> 00:37:40.414
To look into the camera and to lead people
00:37:40.414 --> 00:37:43.751
To the name that is above every name we're talking about.
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Just jesus. we're trying to lift him up.
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We're talking about his
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Attributes and this and that, everything.
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But somebody needs to accept him.
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Just lead people to jesus.
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And then we'll keep our bible study going.
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Thank you, matt. i'd love to do that.
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And, that's, you know, we look for we look for fulfillment.
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All of us.
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We're here and we're living in this life,
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Some of us without purpose, without direction.
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And yet there's a purpose for each of our lives.
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You know, the bible says that god
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Has numbered the
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Hairs of our head, not counted them,
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Numbered them, given every one of them a name.
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He said he sees a sparrow when he falls.
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How much more does he care for you?
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And so the bible says, whoever calls on the name of the lord
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Can be saved.
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You know, there are two calls in the bible.
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In fact,
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One of the devotionals in just jesus is about this very thing.
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Revelation 22:17 says, the spirit
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And the bride say, come and let him who's thirsty.
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Some of your thirsty right now.
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Let him come.
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And whosoever will, let him come
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And drink of the fountain of the water of life
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Freely the spirit and the bride say, come,
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The bride is the church of jesus christ.
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We say, come, that's what, that's what we're doing
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Right now. in the outward call to your heart,
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We're saying, come to jesus.
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He'll fulfill the purpose in your life.
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But match.
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Been talking about the holy spirit and revelation 22:17.
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One of these devotions books says also the spirit
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And the bride say, come.
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That's the inward call
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That the holy spirit gives to your heart.
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How can, how can multiplied hundreds of thousands,
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Millions of people be watching
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This television program right now?
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And some of them hear the outward call?
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Every one of you hearing
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The outward call right now that i'm giving.
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But some of you will hear the spirit's
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Calling inside right now you're hearing and you call.
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And the bible says,
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Whoever calls on the name of the lord will be saved.
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You say, well, i don't i don't know how to do that.
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Well, i'd like the privilege of just
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Sharing that with you in one minute.
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First of all, heaven is a free gift.
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Can't be earned or deserved.
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The bible says, for by grace are we saved through faith,
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Not of ourselves.
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It's a gift of god, not of works, lest anyone should boast.
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Heaven is a free gift that god wants to give you
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Undeserved.
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You know,
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If you if somebody gives you a gift,
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What do you have to do to have it?
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If they if you work somewhere and somebody comes in and gives
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You your paycheck, says, here's a gift
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That would insult you, you earned that.
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But a gift is something
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You can't buy, doesn't cost you anything.
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Somebody wants to give it to you.
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Well, heaven's a free gift and god
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Wants to give you eternal life.
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But you see, we're sinners.
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The bible says all have sinned and come short of the glory
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Of god.
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And we've all separated
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Ourselves from god because we've all gone our own way.
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Everyone.
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And the bible says, the soul that sinneth it shall die.
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We all are sinners.
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We've all sinned and come short of the glory of god.
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And that god, where does god come in?
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He's a god of love, and he doesn't want to punish us
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For our sin, but he's also god of justice.
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And the bible says he must punish us for our sin.
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And so this whole seeming dilemma is fulfilled in
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Jesus christ, the infinite god man
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Who came to calvary's cross and took your sin.
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Everything you've ever done in his own body.
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And he suffered the shame and the hurt and humiliation,
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The pain, the agony, the death of it for you
00:41:30.177 --> 00:41:34.014
So that you could be free of that sin
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And have access to god through jesus christ.
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But it's not enough just to know all that you know.
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The bible says, the devil believes and trembles.
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Faith is the key that opens the door.
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Placing your faith and trust not in yourself anymore, but
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Placing it over in jesus christ alone for your salvation.
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Coming to realize that you are a sinner,
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Asking god to forgive you for your sin,
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Wanting to change your way of thinking about you
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Know, repentance is not just
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Picking up a new set of moral standards.
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The literally the word means
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To change your mind about salvation.
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It's it's it's not by works of righteousness
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Which we've done, but by his mercy he saves.
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Change your mind about yourself.
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You're not going to get there
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On your own by your own good works.
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Change your mind about the savior.
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He's not somebody that taught a few trite little lessons.
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He's god that came in human flesh to die for your sin.
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And and when you change your mind about that,
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You can open your heart to christ.
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You know, the bible says, behold,
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I stand at the door, not jesus said,
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And if any man will hear my voice and open the door,
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I'll come in.
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He's knocking on your heart's door right now.
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If i'd come to your home, knocked on your door,
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I would not just open the door and barged in.
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If you'd open the door and said, come on in, who is?
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I'd come in.
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And that's the way it is with christ.
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So i'd like to privilege.
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Right now i'm just leading you in a prayer,
00:43:02.403 --> 00:43:05.406
Calling on the night.
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Whoever calls on the name of the lord can be saved.
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Where you can just do
00:43:08.876 --> 00:43:10.210
What people on tbn have been doing for 50 years and more.
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Opening your heart to jesus.
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It's just jesus.
00:43:16.083 --> 00:43:17.885
And and you can begin right now.
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The great adventure for which you've been created.
00:43:22.089 --> 00:43:25.659
Have your sins forgiven.
00:43:26.193 --> 00:43:28.328
Have a land of beginning.
00:43:28.328 --> 00:43:29.463
It's never too late for a new beginning,
00:43:29.463 --> 00:43:31.965
And that new beginning can happen right now in your heart.
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Call on me.
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Just pray this prayer right now
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In your heart or just out loud where you are.
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Just say, dear lord jesus,
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Thank you for dying on the cross for me.
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Lord, forgive me of all my sin.
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I'm open my life to you.
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Come in.
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Come in today. come in to stay.
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Come into my life, lord jesus.
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And as an expression of the fact you believe he's not a liar
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And will do what he said he would do,
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Say this i thank you, jesus, for coming in my heart right now.
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You know the bible says
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With the heart man believes,
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And with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
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So tell somebody about that.
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Share that good news.
00:44:19.980 --> 00:44:21.181
Share it with tbn family.
00:44:21.181 --> 00:44:23.117
Share it.
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What you've done, there's something about it
00:44:24.118 --> 00:44:25.486
That'll help seal it in your life.
00:44:25.486 --> 00:44:27.588
Jesus said, if you'll confess me before me
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And i'll confess you before my father in heaven,
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When you do that, jesus, who's at the right hand of the father,
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Will turn to the father.
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And with his lips think about this form
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The syllables of your name, and speak your name to the father.
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He said, whoever confesses me before me in,
00:44:45.739 --> 00:44:48.709
I'll confess you before the father.
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So welcome to the family of god.
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Those of you who've prayed that prayer,
00:44:53.480 --> 00:44:55.682
You've now entered into our family secret,
00:44:55.682 --> 00:44:58.418
And you can know that all
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These things are working together for good.
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The those of you who love him and are called to his purpose.
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Beautiful.
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So beautiful, beautiful, so beautiful.
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Been doing that for 53 plus years,
00:45:09.897 --> 00:45:13.500
Leading people to jesus all around the world. and
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On in just jesus.
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May 24th,
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You say thanks for the warning.
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You say god receives us
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With open arms.
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And isaiah 64:8
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But now, oh lord, you are our father.
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Amen.
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We are the clay, and you are the potter and all.
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We are the work of your hand.
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Yeah.
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So every day you're dealing with something like that.
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Just jesus.
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And, you know, matt, talking about the father,
00:45:52.105 --> 00:45:55.042
We hear often that we're all god's children.
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That's not true.
00:45:57.811 --> 00:45:59.046
We're all god's creation.
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But the bible says we're children of god
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Through faith in jesus christ our lord.
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So when those folks just now
00:46:08.021 --> 00:46:09.723
Have prayed to receive christ, for those of us who know,
00:46:09.723 --> 00:46:13.160
What did jesus say in john 3?
00:46:13.160 --> 00:46:15.395
He said, it's like being born again,
00:46:15.395 --> 00:46:18.532
And you've got a heavenly father.
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Now, maybe you didn't have a good earthly father.
00:46:19.967 --> 00:46:23.070
Some people didn't.
00:46:23.537 --> 00:46:24.705
But you've got a loving heavenly father now who loves you
00:46:24.705 --> 00:46:28.775
And who came to gave himself for you.
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Every day
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Is filled with the goodness of god.
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And this shows is.
00:46:36.016 --> 00:46:37.084
This is such a beautiful i love this o.s.
00:46:37.084 --> 00:46:39.953
I've got code books sittin all over my home.
00:46:39.953 --> 00:46:42.422
You know, that's all.
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Well, i wanted to mention the futility of worry.
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Yeah, i guess my worry is that, you know,
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Worries.
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Kind of like sitting in a rocking chair,
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Give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere.
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And, that we deal with how to overcome worry in there.
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You know, there's a lot of practical devotions in there.
00:46:58.572 --> 00:47:01.108
One of them, one of the devotions in
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There is in july, somewhere in july.
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John, micah chapter six, verse eight, you remember that verse.
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It says, what does the lord require of you?
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Yeah.
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I think about that.
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What what does the lord require that?
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Is there something god requires of us?
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Do justice. oh, yeah.
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Love. mercy.
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Yeah.
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Walk humbly with your god.
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And here's the way i put it.
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What does the lord require?
00:47:27.100 --> 00:47:28.735
Keep your hands busy.
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The verb do justice.
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He didn't say love justice do justice and mad.
00:47:35.575 --> 00:47:38.245
If i had my whole ministry to live over again,
00:47:38.245 --> 00:47:41.048
I would have been more involved in that.
00:47:41.048 --> 00:47:42.716
Wow. helping people
00:47:42.716 --> 00:47:44.551
That that needed justice and needed, needed.
00:47:44.551 --> 00:47:47.554
Rights that were made wrong.
00:47:47.554 --> 00:47:49.323
You know, god justifies.
00:47:49.323 --> 00:47:50.958
No human court can justify. god can.
00:47:50.958 --> 00:47:53.927
But but we're to do justice.
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Keep your hands busy.
00:47:56.530 --> 00:47:57.764
Second, keep your heart broken.
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Love. mercy.
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He didn't just he didn't talk about mercy.
00:48:03.136 --> 00:48:04.871
He said he wanted us as his followers.
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He requires this,
00:48:07.240 --> 00:48:08.675
That we love mercy and if we're going to make a mistake,
00:48:08.675 --> 00:48:12.446
We better make sure that as followers of christ,
00:48:12.446 --> 00:48:15.115
We make it on the side of mercy, not on the side of judgment.
00:48:15.115 --> 00:48:18.752
Keep your keep your hands busy.
00:48:18.752 --> 00:48:20.887
Do justice. keep your heart broken.
00:48:20.887 --> 00:48:23.423
Love, mercy, and keep your head bowed.
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Walking daily. walk with your god.
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You're talking about micah six eight, right?
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He has shown you, oh man, what is good
00:48:32.799 --> 00:48:35.902
And what does the lord require of you?
00:48:35.902 --> 00:48:38.472
But to do justly,
00:48:38.472 --> 00:48:40.640
To love mercy, and to walk humbly with your god?
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Amen.
00:48:44.644 --> 00:48:45.345
For what a beautiful reminder.
00:48:45.345 --> 00:48:47.581
Do you long for more
00:48:48.048 --> 00:48:49.082
Closeness in your daily walk with christ?
00:48:49.082 --> 00:48:52.085
In a world full of distractions, endless task,
00:48:52.085 --> 00:48:54.721
And responsibilities, it's easy to lose heart and lose focus.
00:48:54.721 --> 00:48:59.192
And so this whole seeming dilemma is fulfilled in
00:48:59.192 --> 00:49:02.763
Jesus christ, the infinite god man
00:49:02.763 --> 00:49:05.899
Who came to calvary's cross and took your sin.
00:49:05.899 --> 00:49:09.836
Everything you've ever done.
00:49:09.836 --> 00:49:11.371
And he suffered the shame and the hurt,
00:49:11.371 --> 00:49:13.206
Humiliation, the pain, the agony, the death of it.
00:49:13.206 --> 00:49:16.410
For you so that you could be free
00:49:16.410 --> 00:49:19.079
Of that sin and have access to god through jesus christ.
00:49:19.079 --> 00:49:22.749
Just jesus, our hope yesterday, today forever.
00:49:22.749 --> 00:49:27.587
A 365 day devotional by trusted
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Pastor and teacher o.s. hawkins, this year long journey gently
00:49:30.290 --> 00:49:34.961
Reminds us that everything points to jesus alone.
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I hope that people have realized that
00:49:38.698 --> 00:49:42.235
It's just jesus that brings us together.
00:49:43.070 --> 00:49:46.306
And we can we can unite in him.
00:49:46.306 --> 00:49:49.176
It's never too late for a new beginning.
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With daily devotions,
00:49:52.412 --> 00:49:53.914
You begin each day with a fresh perspective, delve
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Into scripture, gain insight, and discover practical steps
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To live your faith with purpose and intention.
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Just jesus inspires, uplifts,
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And gently challenges you to focus on what matters most.
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God giving you a promise.
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And god said, listen, i█ll be like the dew to my people.
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When we open to the moving of the holy spirit in our life
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And we're right within that relationship,
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He'll show up
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And he'll show up in great power and begin your year
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Long journey to draw closer to the one who matters most.
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Let just jesus, our hope yesterday, today forever.
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A 365 day devotional guides
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Your heart and your life, wherever books are so.
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365 day devotional
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Our hope yesterday, today
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And forever.
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You write these
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And they're available.
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You know, you can get it anywhere.
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Amazon is the quickest, i suppose.
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But they're available anywhere, and and
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These proceeds actually go to,
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Pastors and widows are declining years
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That are living there to poverty never left.
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There are thousands in our program now
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And we've we've
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Also we're endowing right now an expense grant for them also.
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It's named after susie and myself
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Because what happens is these folks are
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All in their 80s and 90s, and so they serve
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God with all their heart, all their life and serve.
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And we're forgotten.
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Yeah, they were forgotten
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But not forgotten by the lord, not forgotten by us.
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And, and so the the that's that's
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The blessing of what these books do.
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It goes to we also have an expense grant.
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Now, not only do we give the neediest among them
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Almost $800 a month, but they are.
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We also have an expense grant. we take care of it.
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They break their dentures
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Or their hearing aids are gone, or their their stove goes out,
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Or they need tires on their car,
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Or they can't make their monthly
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Payment on the rent this month or something.
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We have an expense grant
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That comes alongside of them also and helps them.
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So, you know, this is close to the heart of god.
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James said.
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Pure and undefiled religion
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Is this that you take care of widows and orphans.
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We hear a lot about orphan ministry.
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We don't hear a lot about widow ministry.
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65% of the people in this program are widows
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Of pastors, godly women who sacrifice
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Something all their lives.
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So it's a blessing if you you can you can get them.
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As laurie mentioned, there they are in hobby lobby.
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They're in bookstores everywhere, amazon, everywhere.
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If you want to know more about all the code series,
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All of them, then you can go to oshawkins.com, oshawkins.com.
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It's got information about all of them there okay.
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Give us a nugget as we close out.
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Which one do you want to
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Which one do you want to leave us with?
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In regard to just kind
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Of a closing little bible study and then we're done.
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How about,
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We mentioned questions about one of these devotions in here.
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Is, in fact, that it's the first 1st
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January first of of the year.
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And it's the question jesus ask in matthew 16.
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You remember he said he got the disciples
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Together and he said, who do men say that i am?
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And they said, you're. some say you're john
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The baptist, some say you're elijah.
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Some shared that the he said, that's not what i want to know.
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He said, who do you say that i am?
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That's the question of eternity.
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Yeah. who do you say?
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That's the question
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Every one of us are going to have to answer one day.
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Who do you say that i am not?
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Who do you think?
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Who do you want me to be?
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Who do you wish me to be?
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Who do you profess?
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Who do you say?
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Who do you say that i am?
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You are the christ, the son of the living god.
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That's what he answered.
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You are whole, christus, the one and only christ.
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And in the language of the new testament,
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Canaanite, greek, that's emphatic.
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So when he asks the question, he put it in back.
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That means you took the you put it
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In the front of the senate structure.
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So he said, what about you?
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You and you? only if you'd been listening.
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Jesus said, what about you?
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Or you and you, only you and nobody else, you and you alone.
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Who do you say that i am?
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And peter, oh god, blessed peter, we ride on him.
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We call him boisterous man.
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He was inspired by the holy spirit
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Because jesus said, flesh and blood
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And reveal to you the holy spirit did.
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Peter made the great confession
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And he did it in the same way jesus, as the question
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Emphatically put the you in the front.
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And here's the way if we didn't
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Listen to peter, he just said this you, lord, you, you only
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You and nobody else.
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You knew no possibility of anybody else.
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Just you, lord, just jesus.
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You are the christ, the one and only christ, the son
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Of the living god.
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Hallelujah. yeah.
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And i, if i be lifted up, i will draw all to myself.
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Just jesus. 365.
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Thank you us, for what you do. like we love you.
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We'll we'll see you next time. bye bye.
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O.S. Hawkins: Put Your Trust In Jesus | Praise

October 28, 2025 | 57:10

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