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Ron Carpenter - The Favor Effect (Part 1)

April 17, 2026 | 27:29

Ron Carpenter - The Favor Effect (Part 1)
Pastor Ron brings a powerful, biblical message of God’s redeeming love and liberating power that is effectively transforming people.
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Ron Carpenter | Ron Carpenter - The Favor Effect (Part 1) | April 17, 2026
  • - you're not the five by five.
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  • You're the 20 by 20, 30 by 30, 50 by 50, 100 by 100.
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  • How many of you know there's more to you
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  • Than we see right now?
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  • How many of you know
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  • That there's a tomorrow greater than your today?
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  • How many of you could look at your neighbors and say,
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  • "don't look at what you seeing
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  • "'cause this ain't all there is to it"?
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  • The story is not finished.
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  • God has framed my world with a word,
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  • And he's about to kick me out on the right
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  • And kick me out on the left.
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  • Somebody needs to get out in the aisle and just do that
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  • 'cause god may start today.
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  • He just going to begin to expand the parameters of your life.
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  • You've been living too small,
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  • And favor is about to take you to the next place.
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  • (upbeat music)
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  • Favor by its nature means it's undeserved,
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  • Unnecessary, and unexplained.
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  • If someone has favor with me,
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  • Okay, there's thousands of people running in
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  • And outta this building today.
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  • There was one little lady i just felt like i needed
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  • To get off stage and i needed to go put my arm around her
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  • And pray for her.
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  • Why her, pastor?
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  • I can't answer that.
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  • Just she found favor.
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  • And when i got through,
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  • I didn't feel like i was supposed to do that
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  • With anybody else.
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  • And i came back up.
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  • Favor.
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  • There's no rationale behind favor.
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  • There's no merit to favor.
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  • And it's like, well, pastor,
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  • That kind of contradicts what you teach us.
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  • It's not a contradiction
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  • Because remember, jesus is a king.
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  • He's bringing a kingdom.
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  • It is the kingdom of god.
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  • That tells you who it belongs to.
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  • It's the kingdom of heaven.
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  • It tells you where it comes from.
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  • And he says the kingdom has keys.
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  • The kingdom, in most layman term,
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  • Is basically life as heaven knows it
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  • Because heaven and earth were never supposed
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  • To operate apart from each other.
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  • In the beginning,
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  • God made the heavens and god made the earth.
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  • Then god made adam a physical expression of himself
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  • In his likeness and in his image
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  • And crowned him with glory.
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  • That means he took his authority and put it on adam.
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  • In other words, he said,
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  • "adam, you run the earth like i run the heavens
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  • "and do it with my authority."
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  • When adam sinned, that wedged heaven from earth.
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  • And earth began to operate according to that tree,
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  • The tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
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  • And it lost the knowledge of heaven,
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  • Jesus came and redeemed it and said,
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  • "by the way,
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  • "i'm going to bring back to the earth the way heaven functions.
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  • "and heaven has keys.
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  • "and whatever you bind on earth, i'll bind it in heaven.
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  • "whatever you loose on earth, i will loose it in heaven.
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  • "whatever key you loose you will have.
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  • "whatever key you ignore, i withhold.
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  • "so you can have as much of the kingdom of heaven
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  • "as you want if you use your keys.
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  • "there are keys to peace.
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  • "don't come and pray for peace.
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  • "use your keys."
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  • What are my keys?
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  • Be anxious for nothing,
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  • But in all things with thanksgiving,
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  • Make your prayers and petitions be made known to god,
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  • And the peace that passes all understanding
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  • Shall guard your heart in mind.
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  • In other words, he said, "make your petition known to god.
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  • "don't pray last. pray first."
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  • (congregation applauds)
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  • And god will give you peace that you don't understand.
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  • God will keep in perfect peace those whose mind
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  • Has stayed on him.
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  • If you focus on the right thing,
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  • Your internals will stay peaceful.
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  • Keys.
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  • There's keys to joy.
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  • There's keys to your money.
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  • There's keys to raising kids.
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  • There's keys to staying married.
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  • There's keys to choosing the right friends.
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  • There's keys to success.
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  • There's keys to going to the next level.
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  • There's keys to favor.
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  • All of everything has keys.
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  • But after you use your key,
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  • Favor tends to find the faithful.
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  • - [member] come on now.
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  • Say that again.
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  • - so okay, she said, "say it again."
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  • I gotta say it again.
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  • Favor tends to find the favor.
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  • So after you use your key,
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  • Then this thing where there's no rationale
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  • And it makes no sense and it's undeserved
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  • And it's unexplained,
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  • Gets involved in your life and moves the needle
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  • To a place you could never move it by yourself.
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  • So favor is not a contradiction to the kingdom.
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  • It works hand in hand with the kingdom.
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  • And i can't wait to spend these next few weeks
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  • Teaching this to you.
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  • Guys, if you would put ephesians 2 up on the screen.
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  • Thank you, terence.
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  • Ephesians 2 on the screen.
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  • The word grace in the bible means unmerited favor.
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  • Meritocracy means earned.
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  • In other words,
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  • Grace is god doing something for you that is unearned,
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  • For by grace or unmerited favor,
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  • You have been saved through faith.
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  • It's not of you.
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  • It is the gift of god.
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  • It's not the wage of god because you behaved a certain way.
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  • It's the gift of god because it can't be bought.
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  • The gift of god.
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  • So it is by grace.
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  • So your entire relationship with god is initiated
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  • And birthed out of favor.
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  • We did not deserve to be saved.
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  • Okay?
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  • Most of us did not even ask to be saved.
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  • A lot of people don't even know they need to be saved.
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  • But god, because he had favor on you,
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  • Unexplained, unnecessary, undeserved.
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  • The bible said, well, why did he do it?
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  • Well, for god so loved us.
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  • So why does he love us?
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  • I don't know.
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  • He didn't love you when you became lovable.
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  • He loved you when you was a mess.
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  • Why?
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  • I don't know.
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  • The bible don't tell me that.
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  • He just had grace.
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  • He had faith.
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  • He looked upon ron carpenter, and i had favor with him,
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  • And he gave me a gift that i could never attain by myself.
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  • Salvation.
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  • He cleansed my sin, washed my soul,
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  • And he took my life and redeemed it.
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  • And i never earned any of it.
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  • I just had favor.
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  • So everything starts with favor.
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  • That's how important this is.
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  • And now you've got to understand
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  • That favor is not just the way you meet god.
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  • Favor is your entire benefit package with god.
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  • Okay?
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  • There will be times and seasons in your life
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  • Where you have great favor with god
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  • And god will do things you did not deserve.
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  • There's no rationale behind it.
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  • And everybody wants to know why he did it,
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  • And you're not going to be able to explain it.
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  • And please don't take credit for it.
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  • (congregation applauds)
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  • Okay?
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  • Hallelujah.
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  • Favor by its nature makes you uncommon.
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  • Everybody, well, i want to be different.
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  • I wanna stand out.
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  • Do you have any idea of the haters
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  • That being uncommon brings?
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  • The lazy hate the diligent.
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  • The unsuccessful will hate the successful.
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  • The common hate the uncommon.
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  • And so when god pulls you out of the sea of vanilla
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  • And makes you uncommon from everyone and everything else,
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  • Everybody don't stand on the sideline and clap.
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  • And in particular, usually your family.
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  • (congregation applauds)
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  • If you can get your family to celebrate your favor,
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  • You have won 90% of the battle
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  • Because your family's the one
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  • That wants to tell you you're not special.
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  • You just one of us.
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  • But the fact is god has exalted you
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  • And he has given you favor
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  • And he has done stuff for them
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  • That they couldn't do for themselves
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  • Because one moment of favor
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  • Moves you further than a whole life of labor.
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  • Okay?
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  • So let's look at this a minute.
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  • Let me lay this foundation out of hebrews 4,
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  • Then hebrews 11,
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  • Then i'm going to come on the floor and spit on all of you.
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  • Amen.
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  • Hebrews 4.
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  • Let's go.
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  • Throw that up there, guys.
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  • Hebrews 4.
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  • "for we do not have a high priest speaking of jesus,
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  • "who cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities,
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  • "but was in old points, tempted like we are,
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  • "yet he never sinned."
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  • Next verse.
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  • "let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace."
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  • So it doesn't mean arrogantly, it don't mean cocky,
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  • It doesn't mean pridefully.
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  • It doesn't mean any of that.
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  • It means you can come boldly in the presence of god.
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  • Why?
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  • Because of jesus.
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  • He has given you the right to be there.
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  • So you can come in jesus' name.
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  • You can't come in your name,
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  • But you can come in jesus' name.
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  • And in jesus' name you can stand boldly
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  • In the presence of god.
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  • And before jesus, nobody but one person, the high priest,
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  • And he could only do it one time a year.
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  • Yom kippur, the day of atonement.
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  • And they had to tie a rope around his ankle
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  • Because if he didn't go through all
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  • Of the ceremonial cleanings
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  • And have his life totally purified,
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  • The presence of god would've struck him dead
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  • And they would pull him out by rope.
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  • So jesus has come, the veil has been written,
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  • And now through jesus christ in his blood,
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  • Everybody can come into the presence of god.
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  • What a day we live in.
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  • (congregation applauds)
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  • Let us come boldly to the throne of grace.
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  • Throne of what?
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  • The throne of unmerited favor
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  • 'cause anything you ask god, you don't deserve.
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  • Whatever it is you're going to ask him,
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  • You don't deserve it.
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  • So let's come to the throne where favor is
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  • That we may obtain mercy
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  • And find grace or favor.
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  • I'm going to use grace as favor.
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  • That you may obtain mercy
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  • And find favor to help in your time of need.
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  • A lot of people use grace and mercy interchangeably,
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  • And they are not the same.
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  • Okay?
  • 00:11:01.243 --> 00:11:02.478
  • Notice he said you've been saved by grace.
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  • You hadn't been saved by mercy.
  • 00:11:04.046 --> 00:11:08.050
  • Mercy is instant.
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  • Obtain it.
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  • Mercy is when you have done something
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  • And you got it coming.
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  • And you say, "god have mercy on me."
  • 00:11:20.730 --> 00:11:23.733
  • And god will slide himself in between you
  • 00:11:23.733 --> 00:11:26.836
  • And what you got coming,
  • 00:11:26.836 --> 00:11:29.071
  • And he will let it hit him instead of letting it hit you.
  • 00:11:29.071 --> 00:11:32.475
  • How many times did you deserve it and god stopped it?
  • 00:11:32.475 --> 00:11:35.444
  • How many times did you deserve it and god got in the way?
  • 00:11:35.444 --> 00:11:38.781
  • How many times did you cry for mercy and god have mercy?
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  • I can't tell you how many.
  • 00:11:41.851 --> 00:11:43.119
  • And here's the good thing about mercy.
  • 00:11:43.119 --> 00:11:44.620
  • The bible said his mercies are new every morning.
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  • So i may have cried 27 times for mercy yesterday
  • 00:11:47.223 --> 00:11:50.760
  • And i can get up tomorrow and it's a brand new day.
  • 00:11:50.760 --> 00:11:53.362
  • And if i screw up tomorrow, tuesday's a brand new day.
  • 00:11:53.362 --> 00:11:55.931
  • And if i screw up tuesday,
  • 00:11:55.931 --> 00:11:57.600
  • I can say wednesday, "lord have mercy on me!"
  • 00:11:57.600 --> 00:12:00.603
  • (congregation applauds)
  • 00:12:00.603 --> 00:12:02.605
  • And mercy is immediate and mercy is obtained.
  • 00:12:02.605 --> 00:12:06.308
  • But you gotta find favor.
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  • (upbeat music)
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  • (dramatic music)
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  • Favor is not just the way you meet god.
  • 00:12:42.711 --> 00:12:45.681
  • Favor is your entire benefit package with god.
  • 00:12:45.681 --> 00:12:53.189
  • When god gives you a word,
  • 00:12:53.756 --> 00:12:55.090
  • Very rarely does he give you details.
  • 00:12:55.090 --> 00:12:57.126
  • He just starts giving you a framework
  • 00:12:57.126 --> 00:12:59.261
  • Of how it's going to take.
  • 00:12:59.261 --> 00:13:00.529
  • So he'll take a ron and hope carpenter
  • 00:13:00.529 --> 00:13:02.364
  • Who got a little warehouse,
  • 00:13:02.364 --> 00:13:03.899
  • And he let a prophetic word come through someone to us
  • 00:13:03.899 --> 00:13:06.769
  • And said, "i'm going to take y'all one day
  • 00:13:06.769 --> 00:13:08.938
  • "and i'm going to give you a voice
  • 00:13:08.938 --> 00:13:10.272
  • "and let redemption speak to the nations."
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  • I don't know what that looks like.
  • 00:13:12.541 --> 00:13:14.176
  • I don't know about san jose.
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  • I don't know what "you're going to speak to the nations"
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  • Even means.
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  • Can i be swayed?
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  • In the world.
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  • And we've gotta be a light in a dark place.
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  • That is our endeavor to do.
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  • He is not mocked.
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  • Now let's get back to the word.
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  • So mercy is instant.
  • 00:15:29.178 --> 00:15:31.747
  • Favor is when god wants to give something
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  • To you you didn't deserve.
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  • Mercy is you had something coming you deserved
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  • And he didn't let you get it.
  • 00:15:40.055 --> 00:15:41.857
  • Grace and favor is when he gives you something
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  • And you never deserved it in the first place.
  • 00:15:45.427 --> 00:15:47.997
  • And the bible says mercy is instantaneous,
  • 00:15:48.864 --> 00:15:51.333
  • But finding your grace and favor is a journey.
  • 00:15:51.333 --> 00:15:57.339
  • That's what i said.
  • 00:15:57.806 --> 00:15:58.707
  • You met god through favor.
  • 00:15:58.707 --> 00:16:01.677
  • And now your whole benefit package will be through favor.
  • 00:16:01.677 --> 00:16:05.147
  • So what does your favor look like?
  • 00:16:05.914 --> 00:16:08.717
  • (member cheers)
  • 00:16:08.717 --> 00:16:09.685
  • She got it.
  • 00:16:09.685 --> 00:16:10.886
  • (congregation laughs and applauds)
  • 00:16:10.886 --> 00:16:13.489
  • Your favor looks different than my favor
  • 00:16:13.489 --> 00:16:16.492
  • Because i'm going somewhere different
  • 00:16:17.292 --> 00:16:19.094
  • Than where you're going.
  • 00:16:19.094 --> 00:16:20.729
  • I need favor to manifest in a different way.
  • 00:16:21.630 --> 00:16:24.566
  • I need favor with different people than you do.
  • 00:16:24.566 --> 00:16:28.971
  • Okay?
  • 00:16:28.971 --> 00:16:29.938
  • So now let's go to...
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  • Let's go to hebrews 11.
  • 00:16:33.342 --> 00:16:36.278
  • Hebrews 11.
  • 00:16:36.612 --> 00:16:39.415
  • Now we understand through faith
  • 00:16:40.049 --> 00:16:43.152
  • That the worlds were framed by the word of god.
  • 00:16:43.152 --> 00:16:46.422
  • That does not mean planets.
  • 00:16:47.022 --> 00:16:48.757
  • That's not talking about when god was in creation
  • 00:16:48.757 --> 00:16:50.726
  • And he spoke and planets were made.
  • 00:16:50.726 --> 00:16:52.928
  • That word worlds means seasons of life.
  • 00:16:52.928 --> 00:16:56.632
  • So the seasons of your life, okay?
  • 00:16:57.399 --> 00:17:01.103
  • They are framed by a word from god.
  • 00:17:01.837 --> 00:17:07.109
  • They're framed by a word.
  • 00:17:07.676 --> 00:17:10.079
  • So god will come to you.
  • 00:17:10.579 --> 00:17:16.018
  • And maybe your life is a certain size.
  • 00:17:16.852 --> 00:17:20.055
  • Let's say you're just kind of a five by five person.
  • 00:17:20.055 --> 00:17:23.358
  • You don't have a lot of capacity for greatness at this time.
  • 00:17:23.358 --> 00:17:26.695
  • Maybe you've been through a lot.
  • 00:17:26.695 --> 00:17:28.197
  • You don't see yourself as doing anything significant.
  • 00:17:28.197 --> 00:17:31.500
  • You don't see yourself as any significant impact.
  • 00:17:31.500 --> 00:17:34.169
  • And you just kind of feel like your life is small
  • 00:17:34.169 --> 00:17:37.005
  • And maybe you're held within small parameters.
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  • Okay?
  • 00:17:39.608 --> 00:17:40.843
  • Go to ephesians 4:7 if you would, sir.
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  • It might be, it's four something.
  • 00:17:44.446 --> 00:17:45.981
  • Yeah, 4:7.
  • 00:17:45.981 --> 00:17:47.516
  • But to every one of us is given grace
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  • According to the measure of your gift.
  • 00:17:51.954 --> 00:17:56.425
  • (ron groans)
  • 00:17:56.758 --> 00:17:58.160
  • Can i work this?
  • 00:17:58.160 --> 00:17:58.994
  • Are y'all bored?
  • 00:17:58.994 --> 00:17:59.828
  • Are we all right?
  • 00:17:59.828 --> 00:18:00.662
  • Can i work it?
  • 00:18:00.662 --> 00:18:01.730
  • (congregation applauds)
  • 00:18:01.730 --> 00:18:05.534
  • Oh, this is so good.
  • 00:18:05.534 --> 00:18:07.703
  • So i gotta find grace, favor.
  • 00:18:08.337 --> 00:18:12.007
  • And god has given us a measure of grace.
  • 00:18:12.875 --> 00:18:17.946
  • Okay?
  • 00:18:18.180 --> 00:18:19.481
  • So he's given me a measure.
  • 00:18:19.481 --> 00:18:20.782
  • It's what i got plastered right here.
  • 00:18:20.782 --> 00:18:23.018
  • It's about all there is to me right now.
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  • This is my measure.
  • 00:18:24.286 --> 00:18:25.554
  • The word measure in the greek is the word metron
  • 00:18:25.554 --> 00:18:29.024
  • From where we get the word metronome.
  • 00:18:29.024 --> 00:18:32.161
  • For any of you who didn't take old school piano lessons,
  • 00:18:33.262 --> 00:18:36.498
  • A metronome is a musical timing device.
  • 00:18:36.498 --> 00:18:39.835
  • (ron imitates ticking)
  • 00:18:39.835 --> 00:18:43.438
  • It helps 'em keep time.
  • 00:18:43.438 --> 00:18:45.140
  • A metronome measures the distance between two notes.
  • 00:18:45.140 --> 00:18:50.646
  • So god has given you a metronome of grace.
  • 00:18:51.547 --> 00:18:56.752
  • Because only god knows how much the distance is
  • 00:18:57.686 --> 00:19:02.191
  • Between who you are and what he's called you to be.
  • 00:19:02.191 --> 00:19:05.594
  • So god measures the distance.
  • 00:19:06.228 --> 00:19:08.864
  • So he comes to you and you may be locked in small parameters
  • 00:19:08.864 --> 00:19:12.668
  • And you may say,
  • 00:19:12.668 --> 00:19:14.169
  • "my life is small and i'm making very little impact."
  • 00:19:14.169 --> 00:19:16.171
  • And you are five by five.
  • 00:19:16.171 --> 00:19:17.773
  • But god will come to you and give you a word.
  • 00:19:17.773 --> 00:19:20.442
  • And the bible says,
  • 00:19:20.442 --> 00:19:21.710
  • "he frames our world by a word from god."
  • 00:19:21.710 --> 00:19:25.414
  • What is framing?
  • 00:19:25.414 --> 00:19:26.715
  • Any of you been around a construction site,
  • 00:19:26.715 --> 00:19:28.283
  • Residential or commercial?
  • 00:19:28.283 --> 00:19:29.952
  • When you see something being framed,
  • 00:19:29.952 --> 00:19:32.054
  • You don't know the color of the paint,
  • 00:19:32.054 --> 00:19:33.655
  • You don't know the color of the flooring,
  • 00:19:33.655 --> 00:19:35.357
  • You don't know what type of flooring,
  • 00:19:35.357 --> 00:19:36.758
  • You don't know the aesthetics,
  • 00:19:36.758 --> 00:19:38.026
  • You don't know the interior,
  • 00:19:38.026 --> 00:19:39.194
  • You don't know any of that.
  • 00:19:39.194 --> 00:19:40.495
  • You just see, when you see the framework,
  • 00:19:40.495 --> 00:19:42.464
  • You see the shape of kind of how it's going to take.
  • 00:19:42.464 --> 00:19:45.234
  • When god gives you a word,
  • 00:19:45.234 --> 00:19:46.702
  • Very rarely does he give you details.
  • 00:19:46.702 --> 00:19:48.737
  • He just starts giving you a framework
  • 00:19:48.737 --> 00:19:50.872
  • Of how it's going to take.
  • 00:19:50.872 --> 00:19:52.140
  • So he'll take a ron and hope carpenter
  • 00:19:52.140 --> 00:19:54.142
  • Who got a little warehouse in a little building
  • 00:19:54.142 --> 00:19:57.145
  • With about 50 people attending, sitting on metal chairs.
  • 00:19:57.145 --> 00:19:59.915
  • And he let a prophetic word come through someone to us
  • 00:19:59.915 --> 00:20:02.317
  • And said, "i'm going to take y'all one day
  • 00:20:02.317 --> 00:20:04.920
  • "and i'm going to give you a voi
  • 00:20:04.920 --> 00:20:06.321
  • "and let the redemption speak to the nations."
  • 00:20:06.321 --> 00:20:08.757
  • So he comes to us when we're a five by five in a warehouse
  • 00:20:08.757 --> 00:20:12.861
  • And gives us a big word that's a 20 by 20.
  • 00:20:12.861 --> 00:20:15.530
  • Come on, somebody.
  • 00:20:15.530 --> 00:20:16.732
  • So god framed my world in.
  • 00:20:16.732 --> 00:20:18.767
  • By the way, i don't know what that looks like.
  • 00:20:18.767 --> 00:20:20.836
  • I don't know about san jose.
  • 00:20:20.836 --> 00:20:22.471
  • I don't know about california.
  • 00:20:22.471 --> 00:20:24.273
  • I don't know about tv networks.
  • 00:20:24.273 --> 00:20:26.008
  • I don't know.
  • 00:20:26.008 --> 00:20:26.842
  • There is no internet.
  • 00:20:26.842 --> 00:20:27.809
  • There is no social media.
  • 00:20:27.809 --> 00:20:29.478
  • I don't know what "you're going to speak to the nations"
  • 00:20:29.478 --> 00:20:32.014
  • Even means.
  • 00:20:32.014 --> 00:20:33.415
  • (congregation applauds)
  • 00:20:33.415 --> 00:20:37.352
  • But he comes to me in a little warehouse
  • 00:20:37.352 --> 00:20:39.121
  • Where we can't even hardly keep the lights on
  • 00:20:39.121 --> 00:20:42.157
  • And then tells us redemption
  • 00:20:42.758 --> 00:20:43.992
  • Is going to have a voice to the nations.
  • 00:20:43.992 --> 00:20:46.828
  • So he frames your...
  • 00:20:47.296 --> 00:20:48.830
  • He comes to simon.
  • 00:20:48.830 --> 00:20:52.968
  • You know simon, jesus changed his name to peter.
  • 00:20:53.969 --> 00:20:56.905
  • Simon means reed.
  • 00:20:57.339 --> 00:21:00.809
  • It actually means shaky.
  • 00:21:01.310 --> 00:21:02.911
  • So the wind blows a reed everywhere.
  • 00:21:03.679 --> 00:21:05.881
  • Shaky, unstable.
  • 00:21:05.881 --> 00:21:07.516
  • He said, "simon, i tell you thou art, peter, petra.
  • 00:21:07.516 --> 00:21:12.220
  • "rock.
  • 00:21:12.220 --> 00:21:14.623
  • "you become whatever crowd you're in.
  • 00:21:15.390 --> 00:21:17.492
  • "you change like a chameleon.
  • 00:21:17.492 --> 00:21:19.194
  • "but when i get through with you
  • 00:21:19.194 --> 00:21:20.495
  • "in the next three and a half years,
  • 00:21:20.495 --> 00:21:21.997
  • "you're going to be so stable
  • 00:21:21.997 --> 00:21:23.799
  • "that when it's the end of your life,
  • 00:21:23.799 --> 00:21:25.334
  • "you're going to be a martyr
  • 00:21:25.334 --> 00:21:26.735
  • "and you are going to get crucified upside down."
  • 00:21:26.735 --> 00:21:29.971
  • (congregation applauds)
  • 00:21:29.971 --> 00:21:33.575
  • "so i'm going to come to you when you are simon,
  • 00:21:34.543 --> 00:21:37.045
  • "and i'm going to give you a wor
  • 00:21:37.045 --> 00:21:38.280
  • "that tells you you are a rock.
  • 00:21:38.280 --> 00:21:40.449
  • "i'm going to come to jacob whose name means trick
  • 00:21:41.450 --> 00:21:44.553
  • "after he tricked his brother out of his birthright."
  • 00:21:44.553 --> 00:21:48.256
  • And he told jacob, "your name is israel,"
  • 00:21:48.256 --> 00:21:50.992
  • Which means prince.
  • 00:21:50.992 --> 00:21:52.527
  • "so i'm going to come to you whi you have character issues.
  • 00:21:52.527 --> 00:21:55.564
  • "i'm going to come to you while you are a trickster
  • 00:21:55.564 --> 00:21:57.833
  • "and a manipulator, and i'm going to make you a prince,
  • 00:21:57.833 --> 00:22:00.635
  • "which is a leader of nations."
  • 00:22:00.635 --> 00:22:02.137
  • So god frames your world by a word.
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  • I am preaching.
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  • I'm about to jump off the stage,
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  • But i don't want to twist my ankle.
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  • (congregation applauds)
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  • Go read about gideon and gideon's mighty men of 300.
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  • Go read when god found him.
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  • He was hiding.
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  • He's...
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  • I think it's comical.
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  • I laugh when i read it.
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  • Gideon is hiding scared behind a wine press.
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  • And god comes to him and says,
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  • "gideon, thou mighty man of valor."
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  • (congregation laughs)
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  • Somebody that hides
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  • Versus somebody that's going to take 300 men
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  • Into great victory.
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  • (congregation applauds)
  • 00:22:51.386 --> 00:22:55.190
  • So he comes to your life when you get saved.
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  • And he says, "thou art, but i call you."
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  • And he frames your world by a word.
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  • He's given you a measure of grace.
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  • And he knows the metron between here and here.
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  • So god...
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  • I'm trying to get the favor.
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  • It is god who is in you to will and do his good pleasure.
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  • So you accept christ and he comes in you,
  • 00:23:33.795 --> 00:23:36.231
  • And then he starts kicking your life out.
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  • (congregation applauds)
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  • He starts stretching the parameters of your life
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  • Because he introduces you to the you you really are.
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  • You're not the five by five.
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  • You're the 20 by 20, 30 by 30, 50 by 50, 100 by 100.
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  • How many of you know there's more to you
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  • Than we see right now?
  • 00:23:56.718 --> 00:23:58.186
  • How many of you know that there's a tomorrow greater
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  • Than your today?
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  • How many of you could look at your neighbors say,
  • 00:24:01.523 --> 00:24:03.058
  • "don't look at what you're seeing
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  • "'cause this ain't all there is to it"?
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  • The story is not finished!
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  • God has framed my world with a word
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  • And he is about to kick me out on the right
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  • And kick me out on the left.
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  • Somebody needs to get out in the aisle and just do that
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  • 'cause god may start today.
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  • He's just going to begin to expa the parameters of your life.
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  • You've been living too small,
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  • And favor is about to take you to the next place.
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  • Anybody who can receive that,
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  • Give god 10 seconds of praise in this building.
  • 00:24:28.817 --> 00:24:31.653
  • Hallelujah!
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  • My god, i feel the holy ghost!
  • 00:24:33.488 --> 00:24:36.191
  • (congregation applauds)
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  • This ain't got nothing to do with favor,
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  • But can i just throw this in there?
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  • You're not fighting over this guy.
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  • Who in here is locked in some kind of a struggle?
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  • Come on, be honest.
  • 00:24:56.077 --> 00:24:56.912
  • How many of you lie?
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  • I don't want you to be lying in front of the holy ghost.
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  • I mean...
  • 00:24:59.080 --> 00:25:00.982
  • You're not fighting over her, ma'am.
  • 00:25:01.750 --> 00:25:04.052
  • You're not fighting over him, sir.
  • 00:25:04.819 --> 00:25:06.354
  • You're fighting over him.
  • 00:25:06.354 --> 00:25:07.889
  • Because the enemy is not concerned with this guy.
  • 00:25:08.823 --> 00:25:11.793
  • He is petrified.
  • 00:25:11.793 --> 00:25:13.895
  • Wow.
  • 00:25:13.895 --> 00:25:14.863
  • (congregation applauds)
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  • Because when you start taking territory,
  • 00:25:16.131 --> 00:25:18.433
  • That is enemy held territory.
  • 00:25:18.433 --> 00:25:20.969
  • So when you start kicking somebody out,
  • 00:25:20.969 --> 00:25:23.104
  • It's the enemy that you're kicking out.
  • 00:25:23.104 --> 00:25:25.040
  • Get out of my money, get outta my head, get out of my home,
  • 00:25:25.040 --> 00:25:29.244
  • Get out my kids, get out of my marriage, get outta my peace.
  • 00:25:29.244 --> 00:25:33.748
  • Get out.
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  • I'm breaking out to the right,
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  • And i'm breaking out to the left.
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  • Does anybody in this building know what i'm talking about?
  • 00:25:37.285 --> 00:25:39.854
  • Give your god praise!
  • 00:25:39.854 --> 00:25:41.289
  • (congregation applauds)
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  • Jesus!
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  • High five your neighbors.
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  • Say, "favor, favor, favor, favor, favor."
  • 00:25:48.096 --> 00:25:51.466
  • I'd like to just take a minute and ask you,
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  • Do you know jesus as your personal lord and savior?
  • 00:25:53.969 --> 00:25:56.738
  • I'm not talking about, do you remember grandmama praying?
  • 00:25:56.738 --> 00:25:59.908
  • And i'm not talking about,
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  • Do you remember an old bible your dad used to read?
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  • That's not what i'm talking about.
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  • Do you know it?
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  • Who do you say that he is?
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  • Jesus asked that question to his disciples at large.
  • 00:26:08.583 --> 00:26:11.486
  • Who do men say that i am?
  • 00:26:11.486 --> 00:26:12.787
  • And they had all kind of responses.
  • 00:26:12.787 --> 00:26:14.956
  • But then he made it personal.
  • 00:26:14.956 --> 00:26:16.191
  • Said, "but who do you say that i am?"
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  • I'm asking you today, who's jesus to you?
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  • He would like to come and live in your heart by faith
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  • To be your lord and savior
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  • And be a friend that sticks closer to the brother.
  • 00:26:24.966 --> 00:26:26.768
  • And every time you call on his name,
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  • He hears and he answers.
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  • Would you accept him today?
  • 00:26:30.305 --> 00:26:31.673
  • The prayer goes like this.
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  • I thank you, lord jesus, for your grace and your mercy.
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  • I ask you today to come into my heart.
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  • I ask you to wash me and cleanse me.
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  • Forgive me of my sins.
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  • I believe you died and rose on the third day
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  • For my salvation.
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  • I accept that gift of salvation today.
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  • And i ask you to live in me,
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  • To be my lord and savior in this moment forward.
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  • Thank you, lord.
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  • Jesus name. amen.
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  • If you prayed that prayer, let us know
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  • Because everything just changed.
  • 00:27:00.468 --> 00:27:02.270
  • And we wanna be a part here at ron carpenter television
  • 00:27:02.270 --> 00:27:05.240
  • Of being in the spiritual growth of your life.
  • 00:27:05.240 --> 00:27:08.576
  • We wanna invest in that all that we can going forward.
  • 00:27:08.576 --> 00:27:11.546
  • So email us, call us, let us know.
  • 00:27:11.546 --> 00:27:13.782
  • Hey, i just accepted christ as my lord and savior.
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  • And until next time, god bless you.
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