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Ron Carpenter - Encounter (Part 8)

April 15, 2026 | 27:29

Ron Carpenter - Encounter (Part 8)
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Ron Carpenter | Ron Carpenter - Encounter (Part 8) | April 15, 2026
  • (signal beep)
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  • (upbeat music)
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  • - i'm ron carpenter,
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  • And i wanna welcome you to "ron carpenter television."
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  • What a pleasure.
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  • I got a smile on my face because i'm excited
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  • I get to bring forth the word of god.
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  • I get to break bread with you.
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  • How are things going in your life?
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  • We wanna know.
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  • You're gonna be seeing these phone numbers come across
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  • Your television set, your computer set,
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  • However it is that you're watching.
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  • And i want you to feel free at any time to be able to call.
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  • Maybe you like what you hear, maybe you wanna order it,
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  • Maybe you wanna get the full message,
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  • Maybe you wanna get the full series.
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  • Maybe you just need prayer.
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  • I don't know.
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  • But we're here in the next few minutes to serve you.
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  • You see behind me a big word, exposure.
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  • I said in one of our last telecasts
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  • That you cannot live life above
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  • The information that you have.
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  • And sometimes we want all of the miracles from god
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  • Just to come like a suddenly from heaven,
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  • And god do all the work.
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  • But there's a reason he wants us to read the bible.
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  • There's a reason we need to renew our mind.
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  • Do you know that one of paul's prayers for the church
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  • In ephesus is that they have the spirit of wisdom
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  • And the spirit of revelation.
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  • To the church at colossus, paul said,
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  • You gotta get your mind set on things above.
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  • So many times we cannot outrun our mind,
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  • We cannot outrun our thinking.
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  • I wonder what it is god wants to shift in your mind
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  • So he can shift it in your life.
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  • These next few minutes can be life changing.
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  • Go with me on this journey through ruth's life,
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  • As we study exposure.
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  • God cannot put next level blessings
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  • In previous level containers.
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  • So jesus said, "i can't come here and minister grace
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  • When all you think is love.
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  • I can't help you understand i'm saving you,
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  • When you think you can be good enough to save yourself.
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  • So you're gonna have to change this,
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  • So that i can pour in some new this."
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  • I feel the spirit of god in here.
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  • Somebody needs to be about making some new containers,
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  • Because i'm telling you,
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  • I feel prophetically a next level move of god in this house.
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  • A next level move of god for those watching by internet.
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  • A next level move of god for you and your family.
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  • Everybody under the sound of my voice,
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  • But what are you building to hold god's next level?
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  • Somebody shout hallelujah.
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  • - [congregation] hallelujah.
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  • - take 10 seconds and bless the name of the lord your god
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  • In this place.
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  • Oh, i thank you god for next level promise.
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  • Hallelujah.
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  • Ah.
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  • Woo.
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  • Turn to your neighbor and say next level.
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  • For every new thing that god wants to make a deposit,
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  • He said, "my manmade responsibility
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  • Is to keep the temporary container always new
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  • And always up to date."
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  • Now, can i talk to you and you not get mad at me?
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  • I know you say that,
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  • But then you'll go home and post bad stuff.
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  • Because everybody gets so brave behind them little computer,
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  • Don't they?
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  • I mean, boy, it's amazing how brave folk get.
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  • If i asked right now how many of you want god's presence
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  • In a greater dimension, 99% of you would raise your hand.
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  • And the ones that didn't,
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  • You'd raise it 'cause the person next to you raised it.
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  • (congregation laughs)
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  • Okay.
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  • If you want a next dimension presence of god,
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  • That is god made, it is not subject to change,
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  • That's an eternal thing,
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  • What praise container?
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  • If god inhabits praise
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  • And you want a new dimension of his presence,
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  • Yet you didn't experience it.
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  • So you're looking around in the room wondering what's wrong.
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  • There's nothing wrong in the room.
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  • The fact is you expected a next season move,
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  • And your praise is 10 years old.
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  • You're going to be wondering
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  • What's wrong in the room next week.
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  • And you're gonna be wondering the week after that.
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  • And in 2019, after the new year,
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  • You're gonna be wondering what's wrong then.
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  • And then 2020, and 2021.
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  • Because god inhabits the praise of his people.
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  • And if i want a next dimension god,
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  • I've gotta give god a next dimension praise.
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  • And if your praise is lazy, and sluggish,
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  • And has no energy, and has no fervency to it,
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  • Why do you expect god to come in a new way
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  • When you have not praised him in a new way?
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  • God said, "i'm gonna put new wine in new wine skins,
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  • But i'm not gonna put my new presence in your old praise
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  • Because you're going to lose my presence
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  • And you're gonna mess your praise up all at the same time."
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  • God said all of it gets ruined.
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  • Nobody in this church told you you had to stay in your seat
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  • When we start praise.
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  • That's not assigned seats.
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  • They don't have seat belts in 'em.
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  • If you've ever been free to express yourself before god,
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  • It's in this house right here.
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  • We're known for that.
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  • So those of you that really didn't give god
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  • Any new container,
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  • How about if i back out for about 30 seconds and say,
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  • You know what, i need to try this again.
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  • I need god.
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  • Hallelujah.
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  • A next dimension praise.
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  • I got him.
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  • Right here, god, right here.
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  • I don't care if they looking at me.
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  • I don't care if they're making fun of me.
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  • I could care less what they think.
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  • I didn't come here for them anyway, i came here for you.
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  • (congregation cheers and applauds)
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  • Five, four, three, two.
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  • Shout hallelujah.
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  • - [congregation] hallelujah.
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  • (congregation cheers and applauds)
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  • - do you feel what just happened in this room?
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  • Why?
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  • Because you initiated it and heaven responded.
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  • This room feels totally different
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  • Than it did 30 seconds ago.
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  • (congregation cheers and applauds)
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  • Gimme six or seven more minutes.
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  • I have to build.
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  • I have to build tomorrow's container today,
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  • Which makes me look stupid today,
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  • But makes me look smart tomorrow.
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  • And while everybody else is playing catch up,
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  • I was dressed and i was ready,
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  • 'cause i saw the blessing coming along way away.
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  • Who am i talking to?
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  • I'm about to run all over this building.
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  • (speaks in tongues)
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  • Somebody shout amen in this.
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  • Woo, jesus, i feel the holy ghost.
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  • Touch your neighbor.
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  • Oh lord, say he's talking straight to you,
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  • He's talking straight to you.
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  • Alright, y'all gotta quit jumping up.
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  • Let me finish.
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  • (congregation cheers and applauds)
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  • Let's talk about your economy.
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  • You know i've never been scared to talk about money.
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  • Two things everybody wants more of,
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  • And preacher's scared to death talk about it.
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  • Sex and money.
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  • (congregation laughs)
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  • I ain't scared to talk about either one of 'em.
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  • Yes, you too, ethel.
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  • You too.
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  • You too, ethel.
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  • Ethel looked at me.
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  • (congregation laughs)
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  • Let's talk about your economy.
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  • Where is the only thing holding everyone back
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  • From meeting their status?
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  • Is the way we've structured our finances.
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  • When this church had tens,
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  • And you can ask those who've watched my life,
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  • I was studying churches of hundreds.
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  • Whew, it's so powerful.
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  • Most of us do not seek to be challenged, we seek agreement.
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  • People who are getting ready to make a bad decision,
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  • What do they do?
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  • They go around and ask everybody till they find
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  • The person that'll agree with 'em.
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  • (congregation laughs)
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  • Yeah, you know i'm telling the truth.
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  • (congregation laughs)
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  • Okay.
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  • I watch preachers of tens go hang out
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  • With preachers of tens.
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  • Why?
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  • Because the one who pastors hundreds,
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  • That's a strange sound.
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  • When i pastored hundreds,
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  • I hung around those who pastored thousands.
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  • When i ministered to a city,
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  • I hung around those who ministered to regions.
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  • When i ministered to regions,
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  • I hung around those who ministered to a nation.
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  • When i ministered to a nation,
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  • I sought out those who spoke to the world.
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  • And i was always in my present state,
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  • Building for my next move of god.
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  • And it's hard to get a congregation to go with you,
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  • Because you're trying to make them see invisible things
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  • And then invest in it.
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  • And it's very difficult,
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  • Because you're trying to articulate it,
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  • But you really don't even know what it looks like yourself.
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  • You just know that it's there,
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  • And you just know that it's coming.
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  • But when you ask me to describe it, i struggle.
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  • Because i just know something big is about to be poured out,
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  • And i got to be building something
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  • 'cause i don't want it to get lost.
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  • I don't want it to spill.
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  • I don't wanna be caught with yesterday's container
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  • When god brings a new move.
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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're 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,
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  • Ron carpenter exposes you to blessings
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  • 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 led by the spirit of god.
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  • - [voice over] this five message series is available
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  • For your gift of $30 or more.
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  • Or write to the address on your screen.
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  • (bright music)
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  • - so the man who has millions does not think
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  • Like the man who has hundreds.
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  • And i'm just gonna tell you,
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  • 'cause i've been with all of 'em.
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  • Two totally different mindsets.
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  • One thinks spend,
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  • The other thinks invest.
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  • One will not let his money go
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  • Unless it's in something that increases in value.
  • 00:13:38.300 --> 00:13:41.670
  • The other will spend his money
  • 00:13:42.304 --> 00:13:43.572
  • On something that's worth nothing.
  • 00:13:43.572 --> 00:13:47.443
  • One is buying insurance policies, the other's buying rims.
  • 00:13:48.644 --> 00:13:52.348
  • (congregation laughs)
  • 00:13:52.848 --> 00:13:56.485
  • "all right, ethel, we leaving now.
  • 00:13:56.485 --> 00:13:58.087
  • I waited five years to get them rims for my truck.
  • 00:13:58.087 --> 00:14:00.856
  • I'm leaving right now.
  • 00:14:00.856 --> 00:14:01.991
  • Come on, you're going with me."
  • 00:14:01.991 --> 00:14:06.929
  • It's not about rims, it's about mindset.
  • 00:14:07.796 --> 00:14:11.600
  • I got rims.
  • 00:14:11.934 --> 00:14:12.868
  • I'm not talking about rims.
  • 00:14:12.868 --> 00:14:13.669
  • It's not a rim message.
  • 00:14:13.669 --> 00:14:15.371
  • It's about challenging a mindset.
  • 00:14:16.105 --> 00:14:18.674
  • That you want to, if i said raise your hand,
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  • If you believe god wanted to bless you
  • 00:14:21.877 --> 00:14:23.112
  • And move you into wealth.
  • 00:14:23.112 --> 00:14:24.546
  • And you wanna be at the place you could stroke checks
  • 00:14:24.546 --> 00:14:25.981
  • And pay your ministries debts off,
  • 00:14:25.981 --> 00:14:27.516
  • Everybody would raise their hand.
  • 00:14:27.516 --> 00:14:28.684
  • Okay, that is a different container.
  • 00:14:28.684 --> 00:14:32.221
  • It's not the same container with just more money.
  • 00:14:33.255 --> 00:14:37.927
  • Different container.
  • 00:14:38.394 --> 00:14:39.762
  • There's a lot of people that come and see this church,
  • 00:14:40.829 --> 00:14:43.232
  • And they are the only staff person,
  • 00:14:43.232 --> 00:14:45.467
  • And they want their church to get big.
  • 00:14:45.467 --> 00:14:47.469
  • And they don't understand that a big church
  • 00:14:47.469 --> 00:14:49.638
  • Is not a small church with more people.
  • 00:14:49.638 --> 00:14:52.508
  • It is a whole different container.
  • 00:14:53.275 --> 00:14:55.878
  • And you have to build something you've never built
  • 00:14:56.912 --> 00:14:59.748
  • For it to move in that direction.
  • 00:15:00.482 --> 00:15:03.052
  • Are you following what i'm saying?
  • 00:15:03.819 --> 00:15:08.857
  • What are you gonna build
  • 00:15:09.358 --> 00:15:10.659
  • To bring honor back to your marriage?
  • 00:15:10.659 --> 00:15:15.597
  • It's so familiar and it's lost so much affection.
  • 00:15:16.598 --> 00:15:19.835
  • And you're just existing, and you're just a good team now.
  • 00:15:21.003 --> 00:15:25.941
  • What are you gonna build?
  • 00:15:26.508 --> 00:15:27.910
  • Is it just going to show up like pixie dust one day?
  • 00:15:27.910 --> 00:15:32.748
  • He ain't getting no younger.
  • 00:15:33.349 --> 00:15:36.251
  • He's not gonna walk in one day looking 25 again.
  • 00:15:37.219 --> 00:15:41.657
  • Okay.
  • 00:15:41.890 --> 00:15:43.058
  • Men, it ain't just all going to lift back up by itself.
  • 00:15:44.159 --> 00:15:47.062
  • (congregation laughs)
  • 00:15:47.062 --> 00:15:52.167
  • So what are you gonna build?
  • 00:15:52.768 --> 00:15:57.072
  • What are you gonna build?
  • 00:15:57.639 --> 00:16:00.075
  • What does it look like?
  • 00:16:00.576 --> 00:16:02.478
  • Well, this is a great new year's message.
  • 00:16:02.478 --> 00:16:04.813
  • (congregation laughs)
  • 00:16:04.813 --> 00:16:08.283
  • Counsel, counseling.
  • 00:16:08.283 --> 00:16:10.519
  • You know i hate counseling?
  • 00:16:10.519 --> 00:16:12.221
  • That was the first thing when the church started growing
  • 00:16:13.355 --> 00:16:14.823
  • I wanted to hire myself out of.
  • 00:16:14.823 --> 00:16:17.226
  • I hate counseling.
  • 00:16:17.659 --> 00:16:18.861
  • Can i tell you why i hate counseling?
  • 00:16:18.861 --> 00:16:19.895
  • I'm being so ugly today,
  • 00:16:19.895 --> 00:16:21.030
  • But it makes me feel so much better.
  • 00:16:21.030 --> 00:16:22.998
  • (congregation laughs)
  • 00:16:22.998 --> 00:16:24.199
  • Can i tell you why i hate counseling?
  • 00:16:24.199 --> 00:16:26.368
  • Because i don't have any new information.
  • 00:16:26.368 --> 00:16:29.438
  • People wanna meet with me privately.
  • 00:16:30.205 --> 00:16:32.207
  • I don't have anything privately that i don't tell publicly.
  • 00:16:32.207 --> 00:16:35.677
  • And people that want counseling
  • 00:16:36.311 --> 00:16:38.380
  • Or people that want you to tell them privately
  • 00:16:38.380 --> 00:16:41.683
  • What you've already said publicly,
  • 00:16:41.683 --> 00:16:43.352
  • But they've already decided they're not going to do.
  • 00:16:43.352 --> 00:16:48.357
  • I don't have a private stash.
  • 00:16:48.991 --> 00:16:53.729
  • Everything i know i tell you with a microphone.
  • 00:16:54.663 --> 00:16:58.200
  • So do you want counsel or do you want attention?
  • 00:16:59.168 --> 00:17:06.642
  • Y'all better listen.
  • 00:17:07.109 --> 00:17:08.343
  • Ain't no other preachers talking like that.
  • 00:17:08.343 --> 00:17:09.278
  • I'm just telling you, ain't no.
  • 00:17:09.278 --> 00:17:11.547
  • All preachers today are nice.
  • 00:17:11.547 --> 00:17:20.255
  • What counsel?
  • 00:17:20.622 --> 00:17:22.124
  • Ruth never would've gotten there
  • 00:17:22.124 --> 00:17:24.359
  • Without responding to counsel,
  • 00:17:24.359 --> 00:17:26.695
  • That by the way, was offensive.
  • 00:17:26.695 --> 00:17:29.064
  • Naomi looked at her and said, "take a bath."
  • 00:17:29.064 --> 00:17:31.633
  • I mean, what are you insinuating?
  • 00:17:32.301 --> 00:17:34.403
  • (congregation laughs)
  • 00:17:34.903 --> 00:17:38.407
  • "i'm insinuating that boaz don't hug up
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  • With no smelly woman.
  • 00:17:41.610 --> 00:17:43.512
  • Take a bath,
  • 00:17:43.846 --> 00:17:45.380
  • And then go anoint yourself with some perfume and some oil.
  • 00:17:45.380 --> 00:17:48.250
  • You, my lady, stinketh."
  • 00:17:48.250 --> 00:17:51.353
  • (congregation laughs)
  • 00:17:51.353 --> 00:17:55.023
  • Thank you.
  • 00:17:55.023 --> 00:18:01.296
  • There was a man named zaccheus, and i close.
  • 00:18:02.231 --> 00:18:06.001
  • Have you gotten the simple truth?
  • 00:18:06.735 --> 00:18:11.340
  • There was a man named zaccheus.
  • 00:18:11.974 --> 00:18:15.944
  • And they hated him.
  • 00:18:16.411 --> 00:18:18.881
  • Just google and pull him up.
  • 00:18:19.481 --> 00:18:20.849
  • They hated him.
  • 00:18:20.849 --> 00:18:22.351
  • He was a jew.
  • 00:18:22.351 --> 00:18:24.286
  • He lived amongst the jews.
  • 00:18:24.286 --> 00:18:25.687
  • But you gotta understand the romans were in control.
  • 00:18:25.687 --> 00:18:29.825
  • So during the time of jesus,
  • 00:18:30.425 --> 00:18:32.895
  • The jews were under roman authority.
  • 00:18:33.662 --> 00:18:36.198
  • The tax collectors were empowered by the roman government,
  • 00:18:37.432 --> 00:18:41.036
  • Even though they were jews,
  • 00:18:41.036 --> 00:18:42.404
  • To go around to the jewish people and demand taxes,
  • 00:18:42.404 --> 00:18:45.807
  • And the roman government would back 'em up.
  • 00:18:45.807 --> 00:18:48.343
  • So these guys were known as cheaters.
  • 00:18:49.144 --> 00:18:51.680
  • These guys had the power to walk in
  • 00:18:51.680 --> 00:18:53.448
  • And demand you pay any amount, whether it was fair or not.
  • 00:18:53.448 --> 00:18:56.285
  • And they got wealthy
  • 00:18:56.285 --> 00:18:57.553
  • Because they got to keep a certain cut of it.
  • 00:18:57.553 --> 00:18:59.588
  • So these guys were extremely wealthy
  • 00:18:59.588 --> 00:19:01.290
  • And everybody hated their guts.
  • 00:19:01.290 --> 00:19:03.892
  • One of 'em name was zaccheus,
  • 00:19:03.892 --> 00:19:05.894
  • And the bible made it clear, said he was very rich.
  • 00:19:05.894 --> 00:19:11.500
  • And the bible said, "but he heard jesus was coming."
  • 00:19:12.568 --> 00:19:18.340
  • And he was short of stature.
  • 00:19:18.941 --> 00:19:21.343
  • So the bible said he climbed a tree.
  • 00:19:21.343 --> 00:19:24.880
  • Now, can you imagine a well-respected,
  • 00:19:24.880 --> 00:19:28.150
  • Although maybe hated businessman, notable in our city,
  • 00:19:28.150 --> 00:19:33.655
  • What the news would say if he went tree climbing downtown?
  • 00:19:34.823 --> 00:19:39.061
  • Here is a notable businessman,
  • 00:19:39.695 --> 00:19:42.130
  • Who everybody recognizes whether they like him or not,
  • 00:19:42.130 --> 00:19:45.400
  • And he's climbing a tree.
  • 00:19:45.400 --> 00:19:50.305
  • Jesus arrives,
  • 00:19:50.672 --> 00:19:53.508
  • And jesus is head level with everybody else in the city.
  • 00:19:54.643 --> 00:19:58.413
  • But one person has separated themself.
  • 00:19:59.248 --> 00:20:06.188
  • He said, "you, make haste.
  • 00:20:06.755 --> 00:20:10.459
  • Come down.
  • 00:20:10.459 --> 00:20:12.694
  • I'm going home with you."
  • 00:20:13.262 --> 00:20:18.367
  • Jesus didn't go home with the holiest.
  • 00:20:19.167 --> 00:20:21.770
  • He didn't go home with the most gifted, the most talented,
  • 00:20:22.904 --> 00:20:25.073
  • Or the most anointed, or the best christian.
  • 00:20:25.073 --> 00:20:29.077
  • He went home with the one who saw the blessing
  • 00:20:30.012 --> 00:20:32.347
  • A long way off and got in position for when it arrived.
  • 00:20:32.347 --> 00:20:38.587
  • (congregation applauds)
  • 00:20:39.087 --> 00:20:44.326
  • Stand on your feet with me if you would
  • 00:20:45.160 --> 00:20:46.662
  • All over this building.
  • 00:20:46.662 --> 00:20:51.933
  • Who gets the blessing?
  • 00:20:52.434 --> 00:20:55.304
  • The prepared.
  • 00:20:55.671 --> 00:21:02.344
  • God, i want my company to grow this year.
  • 00:21:03.211 --> 00:21:05.847
  • I need your blessing on it.
  • 00:21:05.847 --> 00:21:07.516
  • What you going to build?
  • 00:21:07.516 --> 00:21:11.286
  • God, i want you to bring my family together.
  • 00:21:12.187 --> 00:21:14.022
  • We are a dysfunctional mess.
  • 00:21:14.022 --> 00:21:16.591
  • Christmas tree ain't gonna fix that.
  • 00:21:17.392 --> 00:21:22.130
  • What you going to build?
  • 00:21:22.631 --> 00:21:25.801
  • Your devotional life.
  • 00:21:26.301 --> 00:21:29.638
  • I don't ever pray in the same place two days in a row,
  • 00:21:30.739 --> 00:21:33.875
  • 'cause i refuse to let this get old.
  • 00:21:34.643 --> 00:21:38.714
  • So knowing god as long as i have,
  • 00:21:39.448 --> 00:21:41.817
  • I can open up my mouth and tears still run down my face
  • 00:21:41.817 --> 00:21:45.554
  • Like i got saved last night.
  • 00:21:45.554 --> 00:21:49.024
  • How do you do that?
  • 00:21:49.491 --> 00:21:51.526
  • Keep that wine skin fresh.
  • 00:21:52.094 --> 00:21:58.200
  • Some of you,
  • 00:21:58.533 --> 00:21:59.935
  • It seems like what's in your heart is so far away
  • 00:21:59.935 --> 00:22:02.070
  • And you have no idea how a little tweak
  • 00:22:02.070 --> 00:22:06.441
  • And a little turn could change everything.
  • 00:22:06.441 --> 00:22:13.682
  • I love you and i care about you.
  • 00:22:14.316 --> 00:22:16.752
  • But this is a secret that took a never woulda, shoulda
  • 00:22:16.752 --> 00:22:22.057
  • Outta nowhere, that nobody's ever heard of.
  • 00:22:22.958 --> 00:22:29.398
  • And cause what i believe is the greatest church
  • 00:22:30.332 --> 00:22:32.067
  • In america to come out of it.
  • 00:22:32.067 --> 00:22:35.804
  • I was always building for what was to come.
  • 00:22:36.738 --> 00:22:44.146
  • Think about it.
  • 00:22:44.513 --> 00:22:46.114
  • Can i bless you before you go?
  • 00:22:46.114 --> 00:22:47.949
  • If you would just lift your hands, get in receiving mode.
  • 00:22:49.117 --> 00:22:52.087
  • May the lord bless you and may the lord keep you.
  • 00:22:53.088 --> 00:22:56.158
  • May the lord make his face to shine upon you.
  • 00:22:57.092 --> 00:22:59.761
  • May the lord god almighty establish you and give you peace.
  • 00:22:59.761 --> 00:23:03.298
  • And may he make you a master tree climber.
  • 00:23:04.199 --> 00:23:07.269
  • In jesus' name.
  • 00:23:07.636 --> 00:23:11.573
  • I'd like for you to take
  • 00:23:12.073 --> 00:23:13.375
  • A little three or four minute journey with me.
  • 00:23:13.375 --> 00:23:14.609
  • Don't cut off the tv.
  • 00:23:14.609 --> 00:23:15.944
  • Would you just hear me out for just a moment?
  • 00:23:15.944 --> 00:23:18.313
  • Journey with me to the one who has just been divorced
  • 00:23:19.381 --> 00:23:22.284
  • And sitting in a seat watching a tv late at night,
  • 00:23:22.284 --> 00:23:25.520
  • Tears running out his face,
  • 00:23:25.520 --> 00:23:27.322
  • Wondering if god can still use him.
  • 00:23:27.322 --> 00:23:29.958
  • I want you to go with me to the one person
  • 00:23:29.958 --> 00:23:32.427
  • Who's just lost a loved one, lost a lifetime friend,
  • 00:23:32.427 --> 00:23:35.430
  • Maybe lost a parent.
  • 00:23:35.430 --> 00:23:37.032
  • Go with me into people in countries
  • 00:23:37.032 --> 00:23:40.502
  • Where they're not churches right down the street
  • 00:23:40.502 --> 00:23:42.671
  • For them to attend,
  • 00:23:42.671 --> 00:23:44.206
  • And there are not preachers preaching on every street corner
  • 00:23:44.206 --> 00:23:47.142
  • At any time they would let to go hear church service.
  • 00:23:47.142 --> 00:23:49.845
  • Go with me to the place where a bible
  • 00:23:49.845 --> 00:23:51.947
  • Is not readily available.
  • 00:23:51.947 --> 00:23:53.448
  • And if they get one, they would cherish it with their life
  • 00:23:53.448 --> 00:23:55.717
  • And kiss it with their lips.
  • 00:23:55.717 --> 00:23:57.652
  • These are the kind of people we get to reach
  • 00:23:57.652 --> 00:24:00.288
  • Through tv doing what we do.
  • 00:24:00.288 --> 00:24:02.157
  • These are the places we get to go into.
  • 00:24:02.991 --> 00:24:04.759
  • Not just homes like yours,
  • 00:24:04.759 --> 00:24:06.761
  • Where you probably could get up and go to church
  • 00:24:06.761 --> 00:24:08.463
  • Sunday morning if you wanted to.
  • 00:24:08.463 --> 00:24:10.432
  • But we're going into countries where people,
  • 00:24:10.432 --> 00:24:12.100
  • There is no church to attend.
  • 00:24:12.100 --> 00:24:14.402
  • I think that god has given us one
  • 00:24:14.402 --> 00:24:15.837
  • Of the greatest privileges in the world.
  • 00:24:15.837 --> 00:24:17.172
  • Notice i didn't say me, us.
  • 00:24:17.172 --> 00:24:19.808
  • Because i do this with you,
  • 00:24:19.808 --> 00:24:21.109
  • And i need your help to do what we're doing.
  • 00:24:21.109 --> 00:24:23.678
  • You have allowed us to go from just local programming
  • 00:24:23.678 --> 00:24:26.781
  • Into worldwide programming.
  • 00:24:26.781 --> 00:24:28.884
  • But what we're doing now is we're sending programming
  • 00:24:28.884 --> 00:24:31.052
  • Into all the world.
  • 00:24:31.052 --> 00:24:32.287
  • But for people who don't speak english
  • 00:24:32.287 --> 00:24:33.955
  • And people who don't speak spanish,
  • 00:24:33.955 --> 00:24:35.423
  • Now we're translating into spanish,
  • 00:24:35.423 --> 00:24:37.459
  • It doesn't do them much good.
  • 00:24:37.459 --> 00:24:39.127
  • So now we're looking at how can we
  • 00:24:39.127 --> 00:24:41.162
  • Not just get into other countries,
  • 00:24:41.162 --> 00:24:43.064
  • But get it in their known language, in their known tongue.
  • 00:24:43.064 --> 00:24:46.167
  • This is a great undertaking,
  • 00:24:46.167 --> 00:24:47.536
  • But me and my team, we've said we can do this.
  • 00:24:47.536 --> 00:24:49.771
  • And we want to step by step piece together
  • 00:24:49.771 --> 00:24:52.541
  • And put things together in a way
  • 00:24:52.541 --> 00:24:54.009
  • Where when people hear this message of jesus
  • 00:24:54.009 --> 00:24:56.578
  • And his kingdom, they hear it in a language they understand.
  • 00:24:56.578 --> 00:25:00.115
  • It's gonna take a lot of people.
  • 00:25:00.115 --> 00:25:01.783
  • It's gonna take people with high skill sets.
  • 00:25:01.783 --> 00:25:03.818
  • And we have them.
  • 00:25:03.818 --> 00:25:05.020
  • It's gonna take a lot of equipment,
  • 00:25:05.020 --> 00:25:05.954
  • It's gonna take buying tv time.
  • 00:25:05.954 --> 00:25:07.956
  • But most of all, it's gonna take resources.
  • 00:25:07.956 --> 00:25:10.158
  • Now, i ask you to consider prayerfully joining us
  • 00:25:10.158 --> 00:25:13.061
  • In this great vision we have,
  • 00:25:13.061 --> 00:25:14.796
  • Not to just speak it all over the world,
  • 00:25:14.796 --> 00:25:16.932
  • But to speak it so people can understand it.
  • 00:25:16.932 --> 00:25:19.534
  • If you'd like to be a first time giver,
  • 00:25:19.534 --> 00:25:21.202
  • Whether one time or whether become a part of the family,
  • 00:25:21.202 --> 00:25:23.538
  • A monthly giver, we want to give you back this gift
  • 00:25:23.538 --> 00:25:26.775
  • To say thank you for joining with us.
  • 00:25:26.775 --> 00:25:28.410
  • For those of you who have contributed
  • 00:25:28.410 --> 00:25:30.612
  • Or who do it on a consistent basis,
  • 00:25:30.612 --> 00:25:32.147
  • I can't thank you enough.
  • 00:25:32.147 --> 00:25:33.615
  • You have walked us through this journey
  • 00:25:33.615 --> 00:25:35.116
  • And taking us to where we are,
  • 00:25:35.116 --> 00:25:36.851
  • And to that i'm truly grateful.
  • 00:25:36.851 --> 00:25:38.553
  • But we need for this circle of givers,
  • 00:25:38.553 --> 00:25:40.388
  • This circle of supporters to get much, much larger
  • 00:25:40.388 --> 00:25:43.825
  • If we're gonna fulfill the things
  • 00:25:43.825 --> 00:25:45.093
  • That god has put in our heart to do.
  • 00:25:45.093 --> 00:25:47.128
  • And i do believe together that it can be done.
  • 00:25:47.128 --> 00:25:50.298
  • You got a number there on your screen,
  • 00:25:50.298 --> 00:25:51.633
  • And we want you to call us.
  • 00:25:51.633 --> 00:25:52.934
  • We want you to tell us, do you need jesus?
  • 00:25:52.934 --> 00:25:54.803
  • Do you need prayer?
  • 00:25:54.803 --> 00:25:56.104
  • Do you need somebody to lead you in salvation?
  • 00:25:56.104 --> 00:25:57.472
  • We'll be glad to do it.
  • 00:25:57.472 --> 00:25:59.040
  • Maybe you'd like to hear this whole series on "exposure."
  • 00:25:59.040 --> 00:26:01.810
  • Of course that's available in the online bookstore.
  • 00:26:01.810 --> 00:26:04.179
  • Or maybe you'd like to say,
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  • I'd like to have the whole ron carpenter library.
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  • We actually, yes, have that available too.
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  • You download the ron carpenter app.
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  • And when you download the vault,
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  • Then you have access to everything that's been preached.
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  • It's just a small subscription price,
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  • But we're trying to get it digitally remastered
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  • To be excellent teaching over almost a 30 year period
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  • Of teaching just for you.
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  • And go out and connect with me on twitter,
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  • And instagram, and facebook.
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  • 'cause on there,
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  • I'm not just talking once or two or three times a week,
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  • I'm talking all the time.
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  • And i would love to develop a relationship with you.
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  • You're very precious to us.
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  • And we believe we're doing the things
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  • That god would have us to do.
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  • And we thank you for your help.
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  • We wanna make an investment in your life.
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  • And until next time,
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  • May the word have changed you in a mighty way.
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  • And i'll see you again soon.
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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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  • And until then, visit us online at roncarpenter.com,
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  • And discover encouraging resources
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  • To help you reach your greatest potential
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  • In your christian walk.
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  • And when you visit,
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  • Consider partnering with our ministry team
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  • To help us take this life-changing message to the world.
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  • Our goal is to take the message and ministry
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  • 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
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  • Through social media.
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  • Thank you so much for being a part of this ministry,
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  • And we'll see you again next time
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  • For another challenging message with ron carpenter.
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