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Ron Carpenter | To Be Determined Part 8 | August 1, 2021
- - I don't know, have you ever been like me?
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- Have you ever just looked around and said, "Is there more?"
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- Of course, there's always more.
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- With God, there's always more.
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- And God always has the ability to exceed Himself.
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- The great adventure of living as a Christian
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- is knowing that God can always outdo Himself tomorrow
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- anything that He did yesterday.
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- I want to invite you into this journey
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- about unlocking potential.
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- Stay tuned.
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- (upbeat music)
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- RCTV 343 Message:6-6-21 Airs: 7-25-21
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- We've talked about inheritance, 60 seconds.
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- The Bible says that we as believers, we have an inheritance.
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- That's why I'm such a pushy preacher.
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- You have so much more than getting saved.
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- I don't wanna hang out at getting saved.
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- I'm grateful that I'm saved, but what did He save me to?
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- I know what He saved me from, but what did He save me to?
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- I wanna know.
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- There's a kingdom out there that He brought
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- that I am supposed to be able to live in,
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- it's supposed to operate.
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- It's supposed to make heaven accessible to me.
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- Heaven is not supposed to be far away.
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- I'm supposed to be able to experience, even now,
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- heaven in my lifetime.
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- So we've talked a lot about harvest,
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- and the Bible says that there will always be harvest.
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- As long as the earth remains, there'll be seed,
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- there'll be time, and there'll be harvest.
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- This is right after the flood in Genesis 8,
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- God said, as long as the earth remains,
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- you will never get rid of it,
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- it is the way the earth will operate,
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- it's the way life will function,
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- everything will be cyclical,
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- there'll be seed, there'll be time,
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- and there'll be harvest.
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- Take some of the harvest and reseed
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- and there'll be time and there'll be harvest.
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- Take some of the harvest and reseed,
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- and there'll be time, and there'll be harvest.
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- You'll always have plenty if you're always seedfull.
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- Those who sow sparingly shall reap sparingly, Galatians 6,
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- those who sew generously shall reap generously.
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- I know that when I give gifts, contributions to God,
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- I know that it comes back around plentiful in my life.
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- I know that decisions that I make, they have a harvest,
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- they have consequences.
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- I know that words that I say, they are seeds
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- and they can come back and they can bear fruit
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- and open up my tomorrow.
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- So there are many things that I do
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- for seed, time, and harvest,
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- but we have gone to another level.
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- Harvest is a blessing that comes and goes,
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- inheritance is one that comes and stays.
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- 'Cause inheritance has nothing to do with actions,
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- has nothing to do with what you've said,
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- what you've done, or what you've given.
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- It has to do with bloodline and it has to do with family.
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- It has to do with who's your daddy.
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- I don't know anything about your earthly dad.
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- Just the very thought of him may turn your stomach,
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- or you may have the greatest one in the world,
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- but you have a Heavenly Father that has not
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- and will never fail you.
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- Come on, somebody.
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- (congregation clapping)
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- And you have an inheritance.
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- The Bible says we as believers have an inheritance.
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- So an inheritance is a prearranged blessing
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- to be released at a specific time of maturity.
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- A prearranged blessing to be released
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- at a specific time of maturity.
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- Man, I'm getting excited.
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- I know where I'm going. You don't know.
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- That's why I'm excited. Hallelujah.
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- So, I can be coming into a billion dollar empire at age 30,
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- but at age 29, I can be a beggar.
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- Although it's mine, I have not come of age
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- to where it can be released to me
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- and where I can possess it.
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- Galatians 4:1-2 says, "That an heir,
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- as long as he is a child, differs none from a slave
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- though he is master of all."
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- So if you are locked in a place of immaturity,
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- you cannot possess the inheritance
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- because it is to be released at a specific time of maturity.
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- Okay?
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- So God has given me a prearranged blessing
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- and it is to be released at a specific time
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- of my development.
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- Maturity with God is not chronological age.
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- It is a place where you begin to master you.
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- Can't nobody destroy your life like you.
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- Can't nobody mess things up like...
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- I know you're thinking about your husband or wife
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- while I'm saying this, but let me tell you
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- ain't nobody can mess things up better than you.
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- There ain't...
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- Somebody says the devil is attacking me.
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- You don't need a devil.
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- All you gotta do is turn yourself loose.
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- Lose your boundaries and live life carelessly
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- and you can take it down the toilet before supper.
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- So with God, when you learn how to reign you in
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- and you learn how to do what God says anyway,
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- despite your feelings, your temperament,
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- or the situation you find yourself in,
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- that is when you become a developed son,
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- a developed daughter in the Lord.
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- Now let me go a little bit further right here.
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- The Bible says that my inheritance is in me, Ephesians 1:11.
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- In me.
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- When I was a kid, they taught me my inheritance was heaven
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- and it was for me.
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- The Bible does not say that.
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- The Bible says the inheritance in the saints.
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- So let's take it back to the top.
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- I have a prearranged blessing
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- to be released at a specific time of maturity
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- and it's already on the inside of me.
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- (congregation applauding)
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- It's already in there.
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- It's not for me, it's not being prepared,
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- it's already in me.
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- Now, last word, bit of review.
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- Define what is the inheritance?
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- That we could be a praise to His glory.
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- I've explained this in depth.
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- What does it mean?
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- The word glory means I have been given the ability
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- to glorify Him.
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- What does that mean?
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- To do what He does.
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- Why do we not see any power or miracles
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- in the church anymore?
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- Because preachers don't preach about powers and miracles
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- in the church anymore.
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- We don't preach about it.
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- We preach about fun and we market just like the world
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- and we advertise just like the world
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- and we've taken on all these world systems
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- and people don't even know what the presence of God
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- feels like.
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- But the fact is my blessing
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- is that when I have come to a place of maturity
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- where I can manage Ron and I can rule over Ron,
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- that God will begin to release stuff in me.
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- Not Ron stuff, God stuff.
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- (congregation applauding)
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- And that's where power is displayed
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- and my life becomes a living reality of Him in the earth.
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- God did not call you to debate people into the kingdom.
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- You are not gonna go to Stanford or Cal Berkeley
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- and debate people into the kingdom.
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- You're gonna have to glorify God.
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- They are gonna have to see a witness of His power
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- displayed and demonstrated in the earth through you.
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- They're gonna have to see.
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- God didn't call you to be a debater,
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- He called you to be a witness.
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- The Bible says that your life is a letter
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- that is read by all men, and...
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- Now this is some deep stuff,
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- but can I bring it down and make it real practical?
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- It's gonna be in how good of a tipper you are.
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- I haven't been here but three years
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- and I got certain restaurants I go to
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- and I can see the waitresses fighting over my table
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- 'cause I bless people.
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- I bless people.
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- I can see them back in the back, arguing,
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- "No, I got him." "No, that's my table."
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- It's in how you treat a waitress.
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- It's entering an argument, not to win, but to make peace.
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- It's learning how to prefer another over yourself.
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- You always say nothing.
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- My claps have fallen off a cliff here
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- in the last 60 seconds.
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- Those are those realities.
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- The simplicity of opening a door.
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- See, these things were riveted into me
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- by a Christian father.
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- Riveted into me.
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- If you're one of those women that you say,
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- I can open my own door,
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- well with me, you're just gonna have to deal with it,
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- I'm opening your door.
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- My wife don't even know how to open a door.
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- She looks at a doorknob and don't even know what that is.
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- That thing on the car that you pull,
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- how do you do, what is that for?
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- It's handling a situation gracefully.
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- It's learning how to not let your temper
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- speak on your behalf.
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- I wanna tell you something,
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- when you're really under pressure,
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- I promise you people are studying you.
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- Especially if you say you're a believer,
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- those are the times they're waiting to see
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- if you've got some stuff that they ain't got.
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- Don't come in there giving them all of your testimonies
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- and all of your debates
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- and throwing out all your scriptures,
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- if you live like the devil
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- in front of everybody in that building.
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- Come on, this is good preaching, Ron.
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- You are preaching good, Pastor Ron,
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- I needed to hear this today.
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- Something about my life has gotta witness
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- and be an evidence of what He's done on the inside of me.
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- There's gotta be an outer performance
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- that God has changed my heart and changed my life
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- and I actually operate in the things I say I believe.
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- That is what validates your testimony.
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- You were never meant to be under those circumstances.
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- Everything was meant to be under your feet.
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- Meaning you have control of it,
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- it doesn't have control of you.
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- I always wondered why Jesus told the man
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- who was crippled for 30 years, "Take up your mat and walk."
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- Why, because he wanted everybody else to see
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- him carrying the thing that used to carry him.
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- - [Announcer] God is the architect of your life.
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- But whether or not God's plan comes to pass
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- is not up to Him, it's up to you.
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- In this series, Pastor Ron lays out what you have to do
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- to be ready to receive it.
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- - They are the real answers.
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- They are the ones that will receive
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- the reward of their inheritance.
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- I'm here to tell you God,
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- some of us we are just one or two levels
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- or seasons of development away, for some huge breakthrough
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- to take place in your life.
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- - [Announcer] This eight message series
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- is available for your gift of $40 or more.
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- Call now and we will include free shipping
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- or write to the address on your screen.
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- - [Voiceover] Miracles can come out of mistakes,
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- and that's what Hope Carpenter discovered.
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- Her marriage and ministry as she knew them were over,
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- but God had other plans.
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- And for the first time she's telling the complete story
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- in her new book, "The Most Beautiful Disaster."
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- You've never heard her story like this.
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- And it's a story that will change the way you think about
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- how God can turn things around.
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- "The Most Beautiful Disaster" is available online
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- or at all major bookstores.
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- Make sure to get your book first, pre-order your copy today.
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- - I just wanna take a minute
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- and tell you how grateful I am for you.
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- Thank you for tuning in.
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- Don't worry, we're getting right back to the word,
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- that's the most important thing,
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- that's the life-changing thing.
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- But I gotta stop for a moment
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- and tell you, thank you for your support of our programming
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- for many, many years, some of you for a few years,
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- some of you for months and maybe weeks, others,
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- but we welcome everybody.
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- Anything that you've done, whether it be great or small,
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- it doesn't matter, it's all significant.
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- And you are sowing kingdom seed
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- and may God give you a kingdom result, a kingdom harvest.
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- We're looking to go further than we've ever gone.
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- We're looking to place ourselves
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- in the best spots that we can,
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- to be seen by the most people that we can,
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- looking at getting back into our translations
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- that we kinda cut down during COVID,
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- and speaking more languages than we ever could.
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- And it takes an army of people,
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- it takes highly intelligent, highly skilled people
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- to take what I'm doing right now
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- and put it all over the world.
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- But it also takes great resources,
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- and that's where you come in.
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- Maybe you've never given and you'd like to,
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- whether it be one time
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- or maybe you say, I wanna be a continual giver,
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- that's called a covenant partner,
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- for your first gift, whatever it is, of any kind,
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- we're gonna send you this wonderful gift back
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- to let you know how grateful we are for you,
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- and that we value the fact that you have valued us.
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- I hope that you will consider and pray about
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- maybe supporting the thing that has invested in you.
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- We seek to make life better by the word of God
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- and bring you the kingdom.
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- Hopefully that's happening.
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- Would you join me in this effort to take it to others?
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- Thank you for all you do.
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- God bless.
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- So Jesus gets these guys right as they're beginning
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- to go from apostles to disciples,
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- and he calls them to a high place.
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- Calls them to a high place.
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- All right, let's talk.
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- You got these 12 and they're now very close.
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- They have camped for three years.
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- They have eaten every meal together for three years.
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- They have served for three years.
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- They've seen every miracle together.
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- They fed five loaves and two fishes,
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- and they took the five loaves and two fishes
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- and it kept multiplying while they served it.
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- That miracle happened in their hand.
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- These guys are tight.
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- These guys are close.
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- And then Jesus goes into the 12 and extracts three.
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- I guarantee you there's some parts of the conversation
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- that the writer didn't write.
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- Because it's very difficult
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- when you have tight relationships
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- but the people you're tight with
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- can't go where you're called to go.
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- It's easy to leave the bad hurtful people.
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- It's difficult to leave the good one.
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- He left nine at the bottom of the mountain.
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- "You can't go."
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- Ooh.
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- Ooh, I bet all.
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- I can't imagine what was whirling through their
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- holiness heads.
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- "Why do they get to go?
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- Why we gotta stay down here?
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- I've done just as much as they done."
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- And these three are about to have an experience
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- nobody else is gonna have.
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- So he takes them and he pulls them apart.
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- And being torn apart to chase an upward call
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- is difficult.
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- Because you always have the upward call that you're chasing,
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- but you have the downward craving pulling you back.
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- The upward call to have a great marriage,
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- the downward craving to live single.
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- Breathe, breathe in, breathe out, breathe in, breathe in.
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- It's gonna be all right, it's gonna be all right.
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- The upward call to be disciplined,
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- the downward craving to live reckless.
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- The upward call to chase your dream,
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- the downward craving to sabotage it just to keep a friend.
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- There's always a pulling apart
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- between the upward call and the downward craving.
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- And he went and there was a downward craving
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- of relationships that they loved,
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- calling them back down the mountain.
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- But there's a calling calling them up the mountain.
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- Why, because if you can break away from the crowd,
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- you can experience things
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- that nobody else is going to experience.
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- And because of the uniqueness of your journey,
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- your relationships cannot be common.
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- (congregation cheering)
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- I'm gonna go buy my own CD when I leave today.
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- He's calling them apart,
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- he's calling them to a high place.
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- That word high place and called,
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- that word means the consummation of a process.
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- Jesus has been showing them glimpses of God.
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- "Lazarus, come forth."
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- God comes out of the man.
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- Blind eyes pop open,
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- all of a sudden they see a glimpse of God.
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- He's not just flesh and blood, he's not just Mary's boy,
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- he's not just a carpenter son,
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- something's on the other side of that flesh.
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- He speaks a word and the wind stops blowing
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- and the waves quit.
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- Who is this man?
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- What does he have on the inside of him?
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- How does he do these things?
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- And they're catching glimpses.
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- But now he's through showing them a glimpse
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- and he said, I'm gonna let you see what's behind the skin.
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- God is in the man.
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- Jesus, the God-man, the fullness of God living in a man.
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- And they've seen snapshots of God,
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- 'cause Jesus said, "If you've seen me,
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- you've seen the Father."
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- But he's about to finish a process and complete it
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- and only three are ready to see this picture.
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- Can I go deeper? Can you give me a few more minutes?
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- Let me roll this thing up.
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- So he calls them up.
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- I'm going through my notes a little more than normal
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- because I don't wanna miss anything.
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- 'Cause every week when I go home, I'm like,
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- "Oh, I can't believe I didn't say that."
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- So I'm staying with them a little bit more.
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- The Bible says that he calls them to a high place.
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- Put verse 2, Matthew 17, I think verse 2.
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- See if that's the right one.
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- Leave those up, I'm gonna work with that just a minute.
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- "And was transfigured.
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- His face shone like the sun
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- and his clothes were as white as light."
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- Transfigured.
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- The Greek word there is metamorpho,
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- from which we get our English word metamorphosis.
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- Jesus brought them to a place
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- where he said I'm gonna let you see what's behind the skin.
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- Metamorphosis.
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- 1 John 1:5, throw that up there, 1 John 1:5.
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- "This is the message..."
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- Notice who wrote this book.
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- So, you've got St. John who was with Jesus,
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- he wrote the book of John.
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- He witnessed this and then he goes and writes,
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- right before Revelation, first, second and third John.
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- He writes three letters, this is the first one.
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- "This is the message we heard from him
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- and declare to you, that God is light
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- and in Him is no darkness at all."
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- None.
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- This is the same John that went on the mountain.
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- And what did he see?
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- He saw Jesus's face shine like the noonday sun
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- and the clothes shone white and bright.
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- And then he writes years later,
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- he said I was there and I saw behind the skin.
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- And when Jesus let us see behind the skin
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- to his true God nature, said he was all light
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- and there was no darkness to be found
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- anywhere in him whatsoever.
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- Oh, goodness gracious.
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- But the word metamorpho, metamorphosis,
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- means that he had to go through a change.
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- The most common metamorphosis that you studied
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- probably in your early educational years
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- was the caterpillar and the butterfly.
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- Listen, the butterfly was in the caterpillar the whole time,
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- but it had to go through a process
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- before its outer form could match its inner reality.
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- Because it doesn't look like a butterfly
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- when it's crawling on the ground.
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- So what does God have to do with the caterpillar?
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- Pull it in a cocoon alone.
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- I wanna talk to somebody.
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- Who in here has ever spent any season of your life alone?
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- How many people have ever been lonely
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- at anytime in your life?
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- The rest of you just keep on living,
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- if it ain't happened yet,
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- it'll hit you at some time or another.
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- Loneliness is not a curse
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- and being alone is not a curse from God.
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- Some of you think that you've been cocooned
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- because you're losing people.
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- You're not losing people, God's revealing.
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- (congregation cheering)
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- "Well people's leaving my life
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- and everybody's forsaken me."
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- No, He's calling you away from the nine
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- because He's got something on the mountain
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- He wants you to have,
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- and all those other people can't go where you're going.
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- I feel the spirit of God.
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- God, you're not losing people, God is revealing
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- that there's something you are about to possess
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- they can't possess.
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- So he calls you into a cocoon.
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- Alone.
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- You can't go into a cocoon with friends.
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- (congregation cheering)
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- Anybody God has ever used in a great way,
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- they always at least spent one season alone.
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- You better learn how to manage alone
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- if you want God to use you in a mighty way.
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- Alone is not fun, but there's something that happens
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- in that cocoon that cannot happen anywhere else.
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- And if you break open that cocoon
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- and try to help somebody while they're in it,
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- you will begin to sabotage the whole process
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- of metamorphosis.
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- Those of you need to embrace this moment
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- that God's got you in and let God wrap you up.
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- Why, because all He's trying to do
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- is let the inner reality that you've had,
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- take on an outer form.
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- You've been a butterfly the whole time,
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- quit accepting crawling on the ground
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- when God made you to fly!
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- Somebody shout, amen.
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- (congregation clamoring)
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- This is so much better
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- than preaching in this building by myself.
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- (congregation applauding)
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- That cocoon is rough, man.
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- That cocoon is rough.
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- But all He's trying to do is let what was inside
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- the caterpillar the whole time, come out.
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- But it can't happen in a crowd.
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- He gets David alone,
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- David, the most known king over all of Israel to this day,
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- but He takes him out
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- and makes him shepherd those sheep alone.
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- And where does he write most of the book of Psalms,
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- which are praises to God?
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- He writes them by himself.
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- Where does he write all those prayers, 150 of them?
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- He writes them when he's by himself.
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- Because sometimes God's gotta get you out of
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- all the other voices in your head so you can hear His.
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- Moses, running for his life,
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- a fugitive from justice, 40 years.
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- The Bible says on the backside of the desert,
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- God got him alone and talked to him out of a bush.
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- The apostle Paul who wrote over half the New Testament
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- was a persecutor of Christians.
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- He hated them, he killed them, he despised them.
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- Then God appeared to him and knocked him off his horse
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- and he looked up and said, sir.
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- When you get knocked off your horse, you say, sir.
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- And the Bible says that after his turnaround experience,
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- the Bible says he went somewhere down into Asia
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- and there he spent three years alone.
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- Whenever God wants to use you in a great way,
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- you have to learn to manage a time of loneliness
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- because it's not a curse, it's a cocoon.
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- (congregation applauding)
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- You never know what may hold your attention,
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- you may never know what grabs you,
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- and I realize when I get on this TV I'm speaking to people
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- who may be experiencing all kinds of things.
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- Jesus is the answer.
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- I say it unabashedly, I say it without blinking,
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- I say it without inhibition, he's the answer.
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- I've seen him walk into people's lives who were in shambles
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- and once they accepted him,
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- I begin to see God bring the greatest turnaround.
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- Would you accept him today?
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- He'll walk right in to the most desperate areas of your life
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- and love you right where you are.
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- But he will not leave you like you are,
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- he always changes you.
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- The prayer goes like this:
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- Lord, I ask you to come into my heart.
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- I ask you to be my Lord and savior.
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- I ask you to forgive me of my sins.
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- I believe you died and you rose again
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- so that I could be saved.
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- I accept your salvation as a gift right now.
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- In Jesus name, come live in my heart forever.
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- Amen and amen.
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- That's it.
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- Say it's gotta be harder than that,
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- I thought I had to do this and do that, nope.
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- All you gotta do is call on him
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- and the Bible says he will save you.
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- If you just accepted Jesus as your savior,
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- you gotta text in, you gotta write in, you gotta call in,
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- you got to let us know,
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- because you're the reason we do what we do.
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- May God bless each and every one of you
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- and I can't wait to see you again real soon.
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- Until then be blessed.
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- (bright upbeat music)
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