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Ron Carpenter - Encounter (Part 2)

March 25, 2026 | 27:29

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Ron Carpenter | Ron Carpenter - Encounter (Part 2) | March 25, 2026

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- welcome, "ron carpenter television"
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And i get to be the guy.
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I'm ron carpenter. what a blessing it is to be with you.
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Thank you for joining us.
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And you see behind me the word "exposure."
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What in the world does that mean?
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I believe that god can give you snapshots of your future.
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God can expose you to something
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And then you can have it in your spirit.
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Have it as a faith image inside of you.
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And then go back and begin building
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In the direction of what you saw.
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What have you seen? what have god showed you?
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What picture do you have on the inside of you?
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Sometimes it's hard to see a picture of your tomorrow
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If your yesterday has been especially traumatic.
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And we have a lady that we've been studying named ruth
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Who her yesterday has been bumpy
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And shocked with failures and disappointments.
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But god has a tomorrow the likes of which she's never seen.
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So now it's time to be exposed to the future.
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I believe that there are environments, there are people,
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There are voices.
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Maybe god would allow me the privilege
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Of being one of those voices that can come into your life
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And unlock futuristic things
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That you didn't even know you had in you.
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But you've gotta be in the right environment,
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Be in the right voices
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And be around the right people for these things to happen.
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It happened with ruth.
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Let's talk about it because what i'm wanting
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Is for it to happen to you.
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I'll see you in just a second.
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Luke chapter 19
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And i'm gonna skip around.
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I'm gonna go back to 18.
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I'm gonna read two or three verses and 19.
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Don't disengage because i'm not gonna be in my normal flow.
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We're at everything we've been preaching all year to get to
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Been preaching all year for these last two
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Or three messages.
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And i've gotta give it to you
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And make sure that i break it down.
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Luke chapter 19.
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I'm gonna read most of that chapter
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All the way through verse 27.
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But lemme go back to 18 first.
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Most churches are content if they can take a lost person
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And bring them to jesus.
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Where we are unique from most, not all,
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But most, is as i read the bible,
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Jesus is not a wall, he's a door.
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Jesus is a passageway to something for me.
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And in a lot of churches, if we can get you
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To repeat a prayer, confess jesus
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And dunk you in water, we feeling pretty good about ourself.
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But i read a bible
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And jesus had a forerunner, john the baptist, he said,
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"repent 'cause the kingdom's at hand."
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He didn't say, "repent 'cause jesus is coming."
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And then jesus comes along
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And starts talking about this kingdom.
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And there is something you're supposed to have
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Through jesus.
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Jesus said, "i'm a door."
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John chapter 10, "i am the door."
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A door is a passageway to something on the other side
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That i am supposed to possess.
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So what i'm trying to do through the book of ruth
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Is tell you her life didn't end when she met boaz.
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It was through her union with boaz
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That everything that was hers, she got to possess it.
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So meeting him was not enough.
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She met him out in the field,
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But it was not 'til she became one with him in union
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That she had rights to all these promises
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And rights to all of her inheritance.
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Jesus is your boaz.
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And through jesus christ, listen, you have covenant rights
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To a certain life, alright?
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The problem is when we get saved, we are born of the spirit,
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But our mind does not know what has happened to us.
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And the bible does not say
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That you arrive at the place of your spirit.
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It says you arrive at the destiny of your thinking.
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So you may have had a genuine, (vocalizing)
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I just got born again.
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I'm excited i got born again.
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You may have genuinely been born again and met jesus.
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But if your mind don't take you on through the door,
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Then you're just gonna stand outside the house
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And wonder what's in it and be frustrated.
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I see so many frustrated christians, you know why?
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Because they met jesus
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And they feel like something's supposed to be happening
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That ain't happening.
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Let me challenge you right out the gate.
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I told you i was gonna teach you today.
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Do you know why you hate lack and poverty so much?
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Because blessing is your natural habitat.
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(congregation exclaiming)
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There ain't nobody in here loves poverty.
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I don't want to hear it. shut your mouth yourself.
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Well, i like it and you ought to be...
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You do not like it.
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You can't stand it.
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Why? because you weren't made to like it.
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When god created adam, he put him in a place
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Where all his needs were met.
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He didn't put him in a place where he had to beg.
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Blessing is your natural habitat.
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That's why people who aren't in blessing
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Their life rebels against it
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'cause something innately inside of them is telling them,
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This ain't right.
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I don't belong here.
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I don't belong here.
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Healing is your natural environment.
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I have a violent reaction to sickness.
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When i get sick, i get mad.
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I have a violent reaction to it.
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Why? that's not my natural habitat.
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Do you see what i'm talking about?
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And that's why your body kicks against things
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When you're taken outside of it.
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So if a man as he thinks he is,
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Then we've got to come together,
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Hear me now, and let our thought life be offended
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Because i can't move you until i offend you.
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I can't move you to c if i don't make you hate b.
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So, in other words, i can't get you to move
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Unless i get you unsettled about where you are.
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And because that preaching is a strange sound now
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In our world,
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We have preaching that coddles people.
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And you know the biggest warning of the apostle paul
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To timothy, the young preacher, he said, "in the last days,
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People will not endure sound preaching."
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He said they want their ears tickled.
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So when you finally find a voice
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That don't mind telling you what's correct,
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You need to give ear to it
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Because god's not trying to accommodate our mind.
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He's trying to renew it.
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(congregation exclaiming)
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Does that make sense?
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I love teaching this stuff.
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Now i'm gonna tell you, i'm in my element right now.
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I could stay here three hours, never open a note
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And just talk about these things like this.
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I believe it's my mandate in life.
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Let me read.
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In chapter 18...
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And i'm doing this 'cause i wanna give you context.
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All right?
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There's a blind man that receives his sight, okay?
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So it happened.
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He was coming near jericho
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And a certain blind man was by the road begging.
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Here's a man with a deficiency
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That has affected his economy.
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So he has a handicap, he has a disability
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And it has had a direct effect on his economy.
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Because he is blind, he's been reduced to a beggar.
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Okay, i want you to watch something.
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This is very important.
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So jesus heals this man and look at verse 43.
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"and immediately he received his sight
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And followed him and glorifying god.
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And all the people when they saw it, gave praise to god."
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So a blind beggar has an interaction with jesus,
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Gets touched, receives his miracle,
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And now everybody's having church.
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Okay? nothing wrong with that.
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Look at the next verse.
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I believe jesus did this on purpose.
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"then jesus entered and passed through jericho.
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Now behold, there was a man named zachaeuss,
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A tax collector, and he was rich."
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Why did the bible have to tell me his economy?
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What does that have to do with anything?
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Because he wanted to contrast it with the last guy.
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The last guy sitting on the corner
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And don't have nothing but a cup.
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This guy has got everything money can buy.
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Look what happens.
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This guy zachaeus is short in stature.
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He climbs a tree. jesus comes to him.
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Verse five, "make haste for i want to go to your house."
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So he made haste, verse six, and came down
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And received him joyfully.
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Verse seven. "but when they..."
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Who is "they"?
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All the people that rejoiced over the poor man,
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All the people that rejoiced over the poor man.
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Now they complain.
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He's going to the guest of a man who is a sinner.
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Look at how jesus ended this.
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"today, salvation," verse nine, "has come to this house
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Because he also is a son of abraham.
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The son of man came to seek and save that which was lost."
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He said, "lost is lost no matter if you've got everything
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Or you got nothing."
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And a poor man is in no greater need
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Of jesus than a wealthy man.
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They both are in a condition
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Where they need me just the same because an economy
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And possessions and things
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Do not change the condition of a soul.
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And he said, "i went to the poorest of the poor
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And i went to the richest of the rich
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And they both were lost and they both needed salvation."
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But the people rejoiced when the guy got the miracle
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Who was a beggar.
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But they complained because they thought the guy
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With the deep pocket deserve it.
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That was done on purpose.
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That contrast was done on purpose.
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Now let's look what he says.
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If you're gonna come into everything god has for you,
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If you're gonna come into your wealth,
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If you're gonna come into your property,
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If you're gonna come into your success,
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And if it's going to go well with you,
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You're gonna have to get to the point
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You don't come to me and ask me what's next?
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You are gonna have to ask the holy ghost
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On the inside of you what's next.
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- [voice over] in this series, ron carpenter exposes you
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To blessings you thought were potentially beyond your reach.
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- but there are a people of god
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That are being raised back up to glory
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And god wants to stand behind what they say.
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You need to get ready for unprecedented blessing.
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I'm ready for what my father's got
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Because i am a fully mature son
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Led by the spirit of god.
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- [voice over] this five-message series is available
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(upbeat music)
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- chapter 19.
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"now as he heard these things," verse 11,
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"he spoke another parable because he was near jerusalem
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And because they thought the kingdom
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Would appear immediately."
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If you think this thing called the kingdom's coming fast,
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You're in the wrong place.
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Jesus taught this parable to everybody that wants blessings
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To be like a slot machine.
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It does not come that way.
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Here's how it comes.
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"therefore a certain nobleman went into a foreign country
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To receive for himself a kingdom and to return.
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So he called 10 of his servants and delivered to them
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10 minas, and said, 'do business 'til i come.'"
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Throw that into king james up there.
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13, if you would.
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Change it from new king james to king james.
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Luke 19:13.
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"and he called 10 servants and delivered them."
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This is the more correct translation, "occupy 'til i come."
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(gentle music)
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He says, "i'm leaving, while i'm gone occupy
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'til i get back."
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Jesus says, "i go away and prepare a place for you.
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Occupy 'til i get back.
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Don't sit here inside a church and ask for me to rescue you.
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Don't sit here and whine and cry
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And say for me to deliver you from your misery.
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Be a militant army and occupy 'til i get back."
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I couldn't buy an amen if i was giving out leftover turkey
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Sandwiches with mayonnaise.
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What are y'all afraid of? i'm just teaching it today.
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I'm just reading it.
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Shame is nobody teaches these things no more.
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Go to verse 15.
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"and it was when he returned, having received the kingdom,
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Then he commanded these servants,
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To whom he'd given the money, to be called to him
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That he might know how much every man had gained."
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I want everybody in the building to say the word "gain"
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- gain. - it is not a bad word!
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(gentle music continues)
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He says, "i wanna call them back
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To see if they did anything with what i gave them.
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I wanna see if they used what i invested in them
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During my absence.
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So when i come back, i'm gonna hold them accountable
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For what i gave them."
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These are the parables of the kingdom.
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You said you wanted to hear the kingdom.
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This is the kingdom.
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"then the first came saying,
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'master your mina has earned 10."
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'well done, good servant,
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Because you are faithful in very little,
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Have authority..."
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Oh, oh.
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Because you were faithful when nobody was looking
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Over a task that was beneath you,
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While you were unappreciated, not paid well.
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And nobody patted you on the back
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And you didn't get a "thank you" card, i was watching.
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And because you did well while nobody looked,
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Now take charge of what was yours the whole time
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While i was testing you.
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I'm going to give you something beneath you
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That's going to test you.
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And if you pass the test then i'll give you
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Something greater than you.
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So i'm gonna test you with something beneath you
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And then i will bless you with something greater.
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"second one, 'sir, has earned five.'
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He said, 'you be over five cities.'
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Another came saying, 'here's your mina.
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I kept it in a handkerchief.'" mm.
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Verse 22, "'out of your own mouth, i'll judge you,
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You wicked servant.'"
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Now we equate wickedness with conduct.
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We equate wickedness with behavior.
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You know what jesus equated wickedness with?
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You did absolutely nothing with what i gave you.
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(gentle music continues)
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I gave you stuff to bless my kingdom
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And you use none of it.
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You didn't use your time, you didn't use your skills,
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You didn't use your talent.
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You didn't use your energy.
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You sat and let opportunity after opportunity
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After opportunity.
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Don't shout me down, pass me by.
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And while you let 'em pass by
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And you did not exercise what i gave you,
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Now you want to come back to me and say,
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"i just hit it away."
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So in other words, i didn't give you what you wanted,
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So you didn't do nothing with it.
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You looked at what i gave you as beneath you and small
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And said, "i ain't doing that."
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And what you didn't know was i had given you that
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Because it was attached to something much bigger.
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But because you threw that away,
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I'm gonna throw your future away.
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(congregation cheering) (congregation applauding)
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Oh, i don't know if anybody can handle this.
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Yeah, i don't know if anybody can handle this.
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Ask your neighbor say, "can you handle this today?"
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"'why did you not at least put it in the bank
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That when i come back i would've collected it?'
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He said to those who stood by, 'take from him
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And give it to the one who's got 10.'"
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He said, "put my stuff in the hands of people
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That know how to use it."
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(gentle music)
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Father, bless your word today
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'cause it is a challenging one in jesus' name.
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And everybody said, amen.
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Okay, it took me 15 minutes to get through that scripture.
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Give me at least that much time
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To try to work it and break it down, okay?
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Now, some of you, i can tell by faces
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You've already been challenged more in 15 minutes
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Than maybe the church you went to the last 10 years.
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Because what i'm preaching right now does not fit
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2017 church culture.
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But it is the message of jesus
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And it's a message that takes you into your privileges
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Instead of living outside of them.
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And i have told you many times, salvation is very simple.
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You've heard jesus loves you and he does.
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And you've heard, all you've gotta do
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Is believe in your heart and confess with your mouth
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And call on his name and you shall be saved.
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And every bit of that is exactly true.
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But jesus has a kingdom that is your inheritance
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By being joined with him.
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And it is not simple and it is not easy.
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And its teachings are very difficult
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And its truth is hidden.
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And many times jesus calls this kingdom a mystery.
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It has to be.
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You have to go in there and find the clues and break it down
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And unearth it because it is a secret kingdom
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Because it's only given to the seeker.
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Seek first the kingdom and it's righteousness
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And all these things shall be added unto you.
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Do you know why the enemy does not want you
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To hear the kingdom message?
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Because he wants to keep you praying about things.
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If you listen to a christian,
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95% of their prayer time is about stuff.
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All the stuff they don't have and all the stuff they need
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And all the things they need god to do.
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But the bible says if you get the kingdom,
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You don't pray for things no more
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'cause all these things are in the kingdom.
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Can i tell you something?
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The more i understand the kingdom,
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The less i pray about stuff
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Because all the stuff is in the kingdom.
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If i get the kingdom,
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I get everything i need in the kingdom.
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So you can keep praying about all the things
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Or you can become a seeker of his kingdom.
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And when you become a seeker of his kingdom,
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Then the stuff just starts following you
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Instead of you chasing it.
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Some of you are chasing blessings.
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If you would seek the kingdom, blessings would chase you.
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(congregation exclaiming)
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Okay? yeah, he hit a little bit of an organ there.
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That was a good spot, right?
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So the book of ruth, i've preached you up
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Because it shows how somebody goes from a beggar,
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From the background all the way through these stages
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To where she meets boaz
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And through her union with boaz comes into an inheritance
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That brings her security and pleasure
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And a life beyond her wildest dreams.
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And there were many different seasons that took her to that
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Because the kingdom does not come immediately.
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And the bible said that jesus taught this parable
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Just for the people who want things to happen like that.
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It does not come immediately.
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Now, can i show you something?
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These next few minutes right here on my board,
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Can i show you my tremendous artistic creativity
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And my spelling bee award-winning grammar
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That i have that i want to show off to each of you
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Because i want to give some illustrations?
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In 2015 on wednesday night,
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I preached 63 wednesdays on this topic,
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But i did not preach it on a sunday
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Because i just had longer on wednesdays to deal with it.
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And sundays i have more constraints.
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But i talked about going back to genesis 1.
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The bible says, "in the beginning, god made the heavens
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And the earth."
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God made the invisible and he made the visible,
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He made the heavens. you can't see 'em.
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And he made the earth. you can see it.
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Made the heavens and he made the earth.
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Why did he make the heavens first?
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Because the bible says everything
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That is seen comes outta what's not seen.
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So the spirit realm, the realm that i cannot visibly see
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With my eyes is the parent realm.
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It is the authoritative realm.
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Everything i can see flows out of it.
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The bible says everything that we can see is temporary.
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Everything we can't see is eternal.
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That's why you don't ever look at such a situation
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In front of you and think it's a death sentence
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Because it's subject to change.
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Everything in front of you can change.
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Somebody say, "well, i can't get no car.
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I'm in debt."
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Well, how much debt?
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It's not a terminal disease.
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"well, my credit's bad."
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Well, how bad? (laughing) it's not a terminal disease.
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Are y'all here? - yeah!
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- it's subject to change.
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If it's in this earth realm, it can be changed.
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"well, i got a bad report."
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Well, how bad?
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It's subject to change
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Because whatever is in this earth is temporary.
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Whatever is unseen is eternal.
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So god made the heavens and he made the earth
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And god said, "the heavens are for me."
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And he said, "the earth is for the sons of men or for adam.
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So i'm putting a visible man in a visible earth
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And i, the invisible god,
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Will stay in the invisible heavens.
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However, i want this to run just like this."
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(bright music)
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You know, i've preached a lot of messages in my time,
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Almost 30 years now i've been preaching.
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Every sunday, a lot of conferences,
00:24:51.206 --> 00:24:53.241
A lot of midweek stuff,
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And for many years, even on wednesday night
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And out of all of it really trailing and tracking
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The life of ruth, which i've done twice now.
00:24:59.414 --> 00:25:01.750
Once in 2005 and once this past year
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Has been some of the most enjoyable teaching and preaching
00:25:04.786 --> 00:25:06.955
I've ever done.
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I would love for you to have all of these messages
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And you can do so by ordering the cd set.
00:25:10.692 --> 00:25:13.395
You can do so by going on the vault
00:25:13.395 --> 00:25:15.130
Where all of it will soon be uploaded.
00:25:15.130 --> 00:25:16.932
And you can have not only this series,
00:25:16.932 --> 00:25:19.000
But everything in our library.
00:25:19.000 --> 00:25:20.735
I think it's a great deal.
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Download the ron carpenter app and check it out.
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Not only that, i just want to take a minute
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And say thank you to everybody who watches,
00:25:26.341 --> 00:25:29.044
Thank you to everybody who joins us.
00:25:29.044 --> 00:25:30.745
And we have many different people
00:25:30.745 --> 00:25:32.447
Who support on many different levels.
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We have the one-time givers, we have the monthly givers,
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We have the quarterly givers.
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We have so many people.
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But no matter what level god lays on your heart
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To participate and turn around and be a blessing back,
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All of it is appreciated.
00:25:46.928 --> 00:25:48.630
All of it is needed,
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And all of it is used for kingdom purposes.
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I'm so grateful for those of you.
00:25:52.701 --> 00:25:54.803
If you've been here a week
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Or if you've been here for 10 years,
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I thank you so much for helping us do what we do.
00:25:57.772 --> 00:26:00.408
Opportunities are here every day.
00:26:00.408 --> 00:26:02.544
We just need the resources to seize them.
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Would you consider giving?
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And for your first gift, whether it be a monthly partner
00:26:06.848 --> 00:26:09.584
Or just a one-time gift, for your first gift of any amount,
00:26:09.584 --> 00:26:12.754
We have this very special gift that we're gonna send back.
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We just wanna say thank you
00:26:15.790 --> 00:26:17.225
For being a part of helping us do what we do.
00:26:17.225 --> 00:26:19.594
I need you to go out and check me on facebook,
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Twitter, and instagram, why?
00:26:22.597 --> 00:26:24.032
'cause i'm talking every day, not just on a broadcast,
00:26:24.032 --> 00:26:27.435
But every day, sometimes three or four times a day.
00:26:27.435 --> 00:26:30.338
And you get to see a little bit of the ministry life
00:26:30.338 --> 00:26:32.440
And the behind-the-scenes life as i want you to know
00:26:32.440 --> 00:26:35.443
Who i really am when i'm not preaching.
00:26:35.443 --> 00:26:38.046
And i wanna share that part of my life with you too.
00:26:38.046 --> 00:26:40.548
I wish the very best for you.
00:26:40.548 --> 00:26:41.950
And i believe god's blessings are about to come
00:26:41.950 --> 00:26:43.718
And overshadow your life.
00:26:43.718 --> 00:26:45.153
Don't miss us next time as we continue in exposure.
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(bright music)
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- [voice over] join us every week
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For another exciting message from ron carpenter.
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Our goal is to take the message
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And ministry of ron carpenter to a worldwide audience,
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But we can only do it with your help.
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And don't forget to connect with ron every day
00:27:17.152 --> 00:27:19.654
Through social media.
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Thank you so much for being a part of this ministry,
00:27:22.123 --> 00:27:24.359
And we'll see you again next time
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Ron Carpenter - Encounter (Part 2)

March 25, 2026 | 27:29

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