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Ron Carpenter | Ron Carpenter - The Favor Effect (Part 5) | May 4, 2026
- - be careful for the people
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- That let you build it
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- And don't prepare,
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- And then once it comes,
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- They wanna jump inside what you built.
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- Come on, somebody.
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- You build for the saving of your household.
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- The bible says, "and noah built an art
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- For the saving of his household."
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- If you know god's about to pour out a blessing on you,
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- Or maybe your family,
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- Or maybe your marriage,
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- You need to go ahead.
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- What wineskin will hold the wine.
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- I don't want to miss this outpouring.
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- I don't want to waste this blessing.
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- I don't want to miss what is coming to me.
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- If favor's coming to me,
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- I want every bit of it.
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- So, lord, don't let me miss it.
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- Somebody needs to build something.
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- Oh.
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- (upbeat music)
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- We've been in the book of ruth,
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- And we've been introduced to favor.
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- I'm gonna stay in the book of ruth,
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- And i'm gonna go and talk about the life of joseph.
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- They are two of the primary candidates in the bible,
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- Characters rather in the bible,
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- Where you can really study their life,
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- And how it says, time after time after time,
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- The word favor is used.
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- And every time the word favor is used,
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- There was movement.
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- So whenever there's favor,
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- It's because god is trying to get you
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- From one place to another place.
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- And usually he does something
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- That you could not get done yourself.
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- It is a wonderful thing
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- To know you're living in the favor of god.
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- I've been in it, i've been outside of it.
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- It's a lot better in it.
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- Tell you neighbor, it's a lot better in it.
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- Amen. - it's a lot better in it.
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- - today i wanna talk about preparing for it.
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- The names of the character in the book of ruth
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- Are the patriarch elimelech,
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- The matriarch naomi.
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- And they had two sons, mahlon, chilion.
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- They left bethlehem, judah,
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- I preached this two weeks ago,
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- Which was a big mistake.
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- They went to moab.
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- The word moab means desirable place.
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- They left bethlehem, judah.
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- Bethlehem means bread or word,
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- Judah means praise.
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- You don't ever leave the word
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- And you don't ever leave praise.
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- I don't care how desirable the place looks.
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- And when they got to moab,
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- What seemed to be a desirable place,
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- A famine broke out.
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- (bright music)
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- So the grass is not always greener.
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- Like i said, sometime there's no grass at all.
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- So they begin to be in need and want.
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- Elimelech died in moab,
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- And then so did the two sons.
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- You're left with three ladies,
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- Who have no support system whatsoever
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- In a strange land.
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- Naomi said, "i'm old,
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- I can't have any more sons.
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- And if i could,
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- It ain't like you gonna wait around
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- And wait on 'em to grow up."
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- And she said, "you don't need to be hanging with me.
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- Go back, you still young,
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- You got a life to live,
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- And orpah did return.
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- But ruth looked at her,
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- And there's this thing that we put
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- In a lot of our wedding ceremonies,
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- "i'll never leave you,
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- I'll never forsake you.
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- Where you go, i'll go.
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- Where you lodge, i'll lodge.
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- Your god will be my god.
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- Your people will be my people."
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- That was really her making a commitment
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- To her mother-in-law,
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- "i'm not going to abandon you."
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- And so out of the famine
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- They turn back to bethlehem, judah,
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- When you get back to the bread, the word,
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- And back to the pray.
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- Whenever you get in a famine,
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- You can't miss if you go back to your praise life
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- And get back in the word of god, amen.
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- So they're headed back,
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- And we're gonna pick up right here at that story, ruth 1:22,
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- Then i'm gonna go through 2:2.
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- Let's read.
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- So naomi returned,
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- And ruth the moabitess, her daughter-in-law,"
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- (coughing) pardon me, "with her.
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- Returned from the country of moab."
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- Now they came back basically to bethlehem
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- At the beginning of barley harvest.
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- Next verse please.
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- "there was a relative of naomi's husband,
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- A man of great wealth,
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- Of the family of elimelech.
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- His name was boaz."
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- How many of you have ever heard
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- Of the biblical character boaz?
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- Let me see.
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- And all the women raise their hand.
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- (audience laughing)
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- "so ruth the moabitess said to naomi,
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- 'please let me go to the field
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- And glean heads of grain after him
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- In whose sight i might find favor.'"
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- You need to be seen to have favor.
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- Whenever i know i am believing for something
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- That it would be a miracle if it happened,
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- I want to get in front of people,
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- Because the contract may not make sense,
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- The deal i've negotiated may not make sense,
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- But if i can get in the room
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- And god can incline their heart toward me,
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- All the rest of the stuff don't matter,
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- All i need is favor.
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- (audience cheering and clapping)
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- And this has happened so many times to me,
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- That's why i can preach it with such passion.
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- Almost half the deals i've done in my life
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- That got me to the next level
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- Never should've happened.
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- I've had people look at me and say,
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- "i don't know why i'm doing this."
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- (audience laughing)
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- And i don't say anything to sound smart like,
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- But in my mind, "i know why you're doing it,
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- 'cause i know the favor of god has followed me
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- Into this room,
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- And you're inclined to do something
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- That you would not normally do."
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- "let me get in the field
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- And glean grain after him
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- In whose sight i might find favor."
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- And she said to her, "go, my daughter,"
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- Then she left, went and gleaned in the field
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- After the reapers.
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- And she happened to come to the part of the field
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- Belonging to boaz,
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- Who was of the family of elimelech.
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- Lord, bless you, lord, in jesus' name.
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- And everybody said, "amen."
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- - [audience] amen.
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- - tell you neighbor, "here we go, neighbor."
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- - [audience] here we go, neighbor.
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- - gimme about 20 minutes or so.
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- Let me see how much i can work this thing.
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- I've not made a living off telling stories.
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- There's a lot of preachers in this day and time,
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- There's not a right or wrong,
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- I've just never done it,
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- Who like read one scripture
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- And then tell you stories.
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- And i've always been the kind of guy,
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- I just try to inundate you with scripture,
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- Because, you know,
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- The bible doesn't say that my stories will not pass away,
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- It says the word will never pass away.
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- (audience clapping)
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- And so i'm a word guy.
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- But if sometime if i have a story
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- I think that helps illustrate the point,
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- I will throw it in there.
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- And since i don't know all the stories you have of favor,
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- I do know mine.
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- And i will, every once in a while,
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- Weave them in there,
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- And i will do so today.
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- Preparation for favor.
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- (sighing) help me, lord.
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- You can't put new results
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- And get them out of old actions.
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- If you want new results,
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- New actions produce new results.
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- You have no idea, some of you,
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- How much you are in charge of your change.
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- God is not mocked.
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- Whatever a man sows that shall he also reap.
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- I put on a leather coat today,
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- I'm reaping the sweat.
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- (audience laughing)
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- I was in charge of that, and i chose poorly.
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- (audience laughing)
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- So now i'm dealing with it.
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- Amen.
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- You can be in charge of the change you desire.
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- I wanna prove this to you out of the word of god.
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- Mark 2:22.
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- Mark chapter two, i think it's verse 22,
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- Maybe through 24, i'm not sure.
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- Throw that up on the screen, guys.
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- "and no one puts new wine into old wineskins
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- Or else the new wine burst the wineskins.
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- The wine is spilled
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- And the wineskins are ruined.
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- The new wine must be put into new wineskins."
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- Jesus is coming on the scene.
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- This is only chapter two.
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- So jesus is coming on the scene,
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- But all the people,
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- All the hebrew people they know
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- Is the law of moses and judaism.
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- So jesus is coming on the scene,
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- In grace and mercy as the son of god,
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- Bringing in a new season,
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- Bringing in what some people believe
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- Was a whole new dispensation.
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- And he's coming, and people are trying to take jesus
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- And stuff him through the law of moses.
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- And what they didn't understand is jesus,
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- Not only was he not about the law of moses,
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- He fulfilled the law of moses.
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- The whole law and prophets,
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- The bible said, were in jesus.
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- And jesus when he went to the cross,
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- Every single righteous standard
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- That was in the law
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- Jesus met in his body.
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- So in other words, he's not coming in addition to,
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- He's not coming inside of an old thing,
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- Jesus is a new thing
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- That is being poured out.
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- So he looks at them with their old mindset
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- And basically he addresses it.
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- He says, "what god is doing through me
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- Cannot be put through the law of moses back in exodus.
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- What god is doing through me,
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- It's gonna take something new to hold it."
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- Let me tell you something, guys.
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- Whatever it is god is wanting to pour out in your life,
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- You are gonna have to restructure something to hold it,
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- Because god cannot give you new actions
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- And you put it in an old lifestyle.
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- (audience cheering and clapping)
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- We talk about the woman all the time
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- Where the bible says
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- They caught her in the act of adultery
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- And brought her before jesus,
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- And they were getting ready to stone.
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- And it was a great story,
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- "he who hath no sin cast the first stone."
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- And they all started dropping their stones
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- And they just walked away.
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- 'cause jesus stumped them
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- Because everybody knew they were not qualified
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- To throw anything at her.
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- But then jesus looked at her,
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- And he said, "your sins are forgiven thee."
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- That's great, keep reading.
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- He said, "now, go and sin no more."
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- In other words, he said,
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- "don't take this burden that i've lifted,
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- The freedom of this forgiveness,
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- The shame that i have wiped off you,
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- Don't take that and go put it
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- Right back in your old lifestyle."
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- (audience cheering and clapping)
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- Don't leave here and take this moment,
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- This experience, this miracle of forgiveness,
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- And put it back in old habits.
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- Go and do something different
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- Than you've been doing.
- 00:10:31.213 --> 00:10:32.248
- (upbeat music)
- 00:10:32.248 --> 00:10:33.783
- So whenever god is about to pour something out in your life,
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- There is this time where you're given by god to prepare.
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- I'm not even in my notes now.
- 00:10:45.661 --> 00:10:46.595
- I need to look at my notes
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- And make sure i don't miss 'em all.
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- I'm in a prophetic moment here.
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- Preparation for favor.
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- Once god does a thing,
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- It is too late to get ready for it.
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- (audience cheering)
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- (upbeat music)
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- (dynamic music)
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- Favor is not just the way you meet god,
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- Favor is your entire benefit package with god.
- 00:11:34.143 --> 00:11:41.550
- When god gives you a word,
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- Very rarely does he give you details.
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- He just starts giving you a framework
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- Of how it's gonna take.
- 00:11:47.556 --> 00:11:48.824
- So he'll take a ron carpenter
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- Who got a little warehouse
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- And he let a prophetic word come through someone to us,
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- And said, "i'm gonna take y'all one day
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- And i'm gonna give you a voice
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- And let redemption speak to the nations."
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- I don't know what that looks like,
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- I don't know about san jose,
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- I don't know about tv network,
- 00:12:04.240 --> 00:12:05.875
- I don't know what,
- 00:12:05.875 --> 00:12:07.176
- "you're gonna speak to the nations," even mean.
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- Can i be his wing?
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- The message of jesus and his kingdom
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- Is the greatest message in the world.
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- And we've gotta be a light in a dark place,
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- We've gotta be a city set on a hill,
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- And we've gotta be that voice.
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- Salt of the earth that changes everywhere we're sprinkled.
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- As we do everything we can,
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- Not only just to reach hundreds of nations of the world,
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- But to try to get as many as we can
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- Into their own language.
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- That is our endeavor to do.
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- So help us today,
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- Whatever it is god lays on your heart to do,
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- We know that this is the rule that god said.
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- He is not mocked,
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- Whatever a man sows, that shall he reap.
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- Thank you for helping us out.
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- Now, let's get back to the word.
- 00:14:15.137 --> 00:14:17.806
- (audience faintly speaking)
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- And here's the problem,
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- Not the problem, wrong word, challenge.
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- The challenge is,
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- You're usually preparing
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- While you don't see anything happening.
- 00:14:27.116 --> 00:14:30.286
- That is very difficult to do.
- 00:14:30.920 --> 00:14:33.188
- Noah built an ark, why?
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- It's gonna rain.
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- I'll be honest with you,
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- I don't know if i could've kept building a boat 112 years.
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- And he would have church every sunday,
- 00:14:42.031 --> 00:14:43.532
- He only had one sermon, you know what he preached?
- 00:14:43.532 --> 00:14:45.067
- "it's gonna rain."
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- (audience laughing and clapping)
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- That's the only thing he knew.
- 00:14:47.403 --> 00:14:49.471
- "what you preaching about this sunday, preacher?"
- 00:14:49.471 --> 00:14:50.973
- "i think i'm gonna preach it's gonna rain."
- 00:14:50.973 --> 00:14:52.574
- (audience laughing) "i done heard that one."
- 00:14:52.574 --> 00:14:53.943
- "well, we're gonna hear it again."
- 00:14:53.943 --> 00:14:55.044
- (audience laughing)
- 00:14:55.044 --> 00:14:55.878
- "it's gonna rain."
- 00:14:55.878 --> 00:14:57.279
- So he had one message he preached, "it's gonna rain."
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- And he went and he built a boat,
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- While he's sweating and while he's got dust in his eyes,
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- 'cause there's never been rain upon the earth before.
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- And he looked crazy and he looked stupid.
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- Help me now.
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- And the people mocked him,
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- Until it started raining. (audience clapping)
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- And when it started raining,
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- He didn't look stupid anymore, why?
- 00:15:13.896 --> 00:15:15.698
- Because for 100 years,
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- He had been preparing for the rain.
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- And then everybody else
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- Wants to get inside of what he built.
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- Be careful for the people
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- That let you build it and don't prepare,
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- And then once it comes,
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- They wanna jump inside what you built.
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- Come on, somebody.
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- You build for the saving of your household.
- 00:15:31.113 --> 00:15:33.482
- The bible says, "and noah built an ark
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- For the saving of his household."
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- If you know god's about to pour out a blessing on you,
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- Or maybe your family,
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- Or maybe your marriage,
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- You need to go ahead,
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- What wineskin will hold the wine?
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- I don't want to miss this outpouring.
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- I don't want to waste this blessing.
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- I don't want to miss what is coming to me.
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- If favor's coming to me,
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- I want every bit of it.
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- So, lord, don't let me miss it.
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- Somebody needs to build something.
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- Look at your neighbor,
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- Say, "i don't know what it is,
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- But build something."
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- Oh, hallelujah.
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- Somebody shout, "amen."
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- - [audience] amen.
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- - jesus.
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- Ah.
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- (upbeat music)
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- Ah.
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- (upbeat music)
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- Now, go back to ruth 2:2, please.
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- "please let me go to the field
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- And glean heads of grain after him
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- In whose sight i may find favor."
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- "go, my daughter."
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- Next verse, please.
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- "then she left and went and gleaned after the reapers,
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- And she happened to come
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- To the part of the field belonging to boaz."
- 00:16:37.713 --> 00:16:43.886
- Getting into the place.
- 00:16:44.386 --> 00:16:50.859
- I've got a few points i'm gonna make on this,
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- And i'll begin landing this plane.
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- The first one is the most difficult,
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- Because the first one is internal.
- 00:17:00.069 --> 00:17:03.038
- I taught about half the year last year
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- On hearing the holy spirit.
- 00:17:05.808 --> 00:17:08.844
- Sometimes it's just that internal voice
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- That comes from god
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- That just lets you know you're getting close.
- 00:17:13.682 --> 00:17:18.253
- And you don't see anything,
- 00:17:18.854 --> 00:17:21.390
- But inside you know, "i'm close to something."
- 00:17:22.357 --> 00:17:27.162
- You have no idea how frustrating it is for me,
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- The leader of a church,
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- To walk into meetings
- 00:17:31.600 --> 00:17:33.001
- And i'm trying to tell people,
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- "we're close to something
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- That i can't articulate."
- 00:17:35.904 --> 00:17:37.673
- And i'm telling people, "build for something,"
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- That i can't articulate.
- 00:17:40.109 --> 00:17:41.810
- And they wanna, "give me a design,
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- What do you want me to do?"
- 00:17:43.412 --> 00:17:44.480
- "i don't know, just get ready.
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- Just get ready." (audience clapping)
- 00:17:47.516 --> 00:17:48.784
- And they're looking at me for leadership
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- And i wanna have answers,
- 00:17:49.685 --> 00:17:50.819
- And i wanna say, "here's the vision,
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- Let's write it down and make a plan,"
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- But i can't, all i can do is sometime just say.
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- - [audience member] hallelujah.
- 00:17:59.128 --> 00:18:01.029
- - i'll say, "just hear me, we're close.
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- Just, we're right up against something,
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- It's about to break for us.
- 00:18:07.035 --> 00:18:08.971
- Just keep doing what we're doing and be diligent.
- 00:18:09.972 --> 00:18:12.574
- I know you're tired, i know you might be,
- 00:18:12.574 --> 00:18:14.376
- But just stay with it,
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- Because we're close to something."
- 00:18:15.744 --> 00:18:18.013
- She said, "i've got to get in the place."
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- Generally speaking,
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- If god has put something great in you,
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- Or anything in you for that matter,
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- Generally speaking,
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- There is a certain atmosphere
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- That activates it.
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- I've given an illustration,
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- Let me go back to it.
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- You can have seed sitting on a porch
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- For years,
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- But your porch never activates the seed
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- Because there is an environment
- 00:19:05.427 --> 00:19:07.095
- That activates the potential that is within it.
- 00:19:07.095 --> 00:19:10.666
- And what it would not do
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- Sitting on the seal of a window,
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- Once you get it in the ground,
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- You have gotten it into an atmosphere
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- That activates what's inside of it.
- 00:19:20.642 --> 00:19:23.312
- I've told you this illustration before,
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- You see a star, we call it a falling star.
- 00:19:25.414 --> 00:19:27.583
- It's not a falling star, it's a dying star,
- 00:19:27.583 --> 00:19:29.851
- Because it is leaving the only atmosphere
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- In which it can survive.
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- It cannot survive on the earth.
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- It only has the atmospheric things
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- That it needs in the heavens.
- 00:19:40.462 --> 00:19:43.131
- And so there is an atmosphere
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- That activates and sustains it.
- 00:19:45.500 --> 00:19:48.270
- It is the fish that you pull out of the water.
- 00:19:48.270 --> 00:19:52.174
- It's nothing when it's laying on the bank
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- Or laying on the ground,
- 00:19:54.243 --> 00:19:55.277
- But when you put it in the water,
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- It has the ability to thrive.
- 00:19:56.678 --> 00:19:58.680
- And for your life, it is no different.
- 00:19:58.680 --> 00:20:00.816
- And i don't know what the place is.
- 00:20:00.816 --> 00:20:02.951
- For some of you, the place is a relationship.
- 00:20:02.951 --> 00:20:05.954
- For some of you, the place is a partnership.
- 00:20:05.954 --> 00:20:08.223
- For some of you, the place may be literally geography.
- 00:20:08.223 --> 00:20:11.126
- For some of you, the place may be someone
- 00:20:11.126 --> 00:20:13.695
- You haven't met yet.
- 00:20:13.695 --> 00:20:15.063
- For some of you, the place may be the right church,
- 00:20:15.063 --> 00:20:17.499
- For some of you, the place may be sitting
- 00:20:17.499 --> 00:20:19.635
- Under the right voices.
- 00:20:19.635 --> 00:20:20.902
- You just hadn't been under the right voices.
- 00:20:20.902 --> 00:20:22.771
- And some of you when you came into this church,
- 00:20:22.771 --> 00:20:24.940
- Maybe something began to leap on the inside of you.
- 00:20:24.940 --> 00:20:26.908
- You know what that means?
- 00:20:26.908 --> 00:20:28.310
- That means the thing that's on the inside of you
- 00:20:28.310 --> 00:20:30.312
- Is now in the place.
- 00:20:30.312 --> 00:20:32.014
- (audience cheering and clapping)
- 00:20:32.014 --> 00:20:38.020
- Even god, we learn his actions are only activated in praise.
- 00:20:39.221 --> 00:20:45.994
- God is not activated in complaints.
- 00:20:46.762 --> 00:20:49.731
- God is not activated in grumbling.
- 00:20:49.731 --> 00:20:52.534
- God is not activated in negativity.
- 00:20:52.534 --> 00:20:55.337
- He said he inhabits praise.
- 00:20:55.337 --> 00:20:57.339
- He said, "if you will praise me,
- 00:20:57.339 --> 00:20:58.774
- I will come down
- 00:20:58.774 --> 00:20:59.775
- And i will start going to work
- 00:20:59.775 --> 00:21:01.276
- And i'll start doing stuff all over the place."
- 00:21:01.276 --> 00:21:03.612
- In other words, but if you come in there
- 00:21:03.612 --> 00:21:05.280
- With an old sour look on your face
- 00:21:05.280 --> 00:21:07.049
- And nothing's going good and woe is me,
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- God doesn't show up
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- Because he's not activated in that atmosphere.
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- That's why we come in here
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- And before we do anything, we praise, why?
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- I want god in the building,
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- Because when god's in the building, he can heal,
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- He can deliver, he can save,
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- He can sanctify, he can change,
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- He can separate, he can put back together,
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- He can restore.
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- Come on, he can do anything.
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- And i wanna start out the gate,
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- Let's get god in here,
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- Because if god's not in the place,
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- We might as well go home.
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- (audience cheering and clapping)
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- Coming into the place.
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- Oh my goodness.
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- All right, let me leave you with this.
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- Oh god.
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- I wanna break something open on you.
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- It'll be hard for me to say this without getting emotional.
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- And she just happened.
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- I love that.
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- And it just so happened
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- That the place where she was gleaning
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- Happened to belong to boaz. (laughing)
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- I love the way it's worded there, just happened.
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- Just happened.
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- You have a woman, like i said,
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- Who smelled of sweat,
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- Dirt between her toes,
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- Her hair is matted,
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- And there are young ladies
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- Trying to get his attention everywhere.
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- If i keep reading later on in the next few weeks,
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- You'll see what i'm talking about.
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- The bible says there are fair maidens everywhere.
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- And here comes this woman
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- Who is a foreigner from moab,
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- She's a second-class citizen,
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- Not even appreciated in the place she's at, okay?
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- She's already been married
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- And lost a husband
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- At an age before most women even start.
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- And she is a beggar.
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- She is all the way at the bottom
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- Of the socioeconomic totem pole.
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- But she just happened.
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- (audience laughing)
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- And what would cause boaz to look at that
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- And overlook all the beauty?
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- "who is that?"
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- - [audience member] thank you, lord.
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- - "oh, she got it."
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- (upbeat music) (audience clapping)
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- Remember something.
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- Play something if you would, thank you.
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- Look at the two perspectives.
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- (light music)
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- To ruth, it looks like coincidence.
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- It looks like luck.
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- It looks like it just happened.
- 00:24:29.951 --> 00:24:33.588
- It looked like, "it's just my day."
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- But when you look at god's perspective,
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- The steps of a good man
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- Are ordained of god. (audience clapping)
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- And all of your days were ordained
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- Before one of them came to be.
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- You are his workmanship
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- Created in christ jesus for good works
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- That we should glorify him.
- 00:25:04.586 --> 00:25:07.956
- And to ruth, she's just stumbling along,
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- Picking up leftovers,
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- Trying to survive.
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- She wants to eat.
- 00:25:15.330 --> 00:25:18.033
- But there is a master of puppets
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- Who is pulling the strings,
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- Getting her right to the place
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- Where favor is about to change her life.
- 00:25:28.944 --> 00:25:32.047
- Tell your neighbor, "favor's about to change everything."
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- Stand on your feet with me all over the building.
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- Come on, let's clap and give god a praise.
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- Come on, put your hands together.
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- Give him a big praise.
- 00:25:40.922 --> 00:25:42.290
- (audience cheering)
- 00:25:42.290 --> 00:25:43.725
- Say it again, "favor's about to change everything."
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- It's about to change everything.
- 00:25:47.429 --> 00:25:51.499
- 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?
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- I'm not talking about,
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- Do you remember grandmamma praying?
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- 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?
- 00:26:07.082 --> 00:26:08.550
- Jesus asked that question to his disciples at large.
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- "who do men say that i am?"
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- And they had all kind of responses,
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- But then he made it personal.
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- He 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 than a 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?
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- The prayer goes like this.
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- I thank you, lord jesus,
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- 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 from this moment forward.
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- Thank you, lord.
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- In 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
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- 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 --> 00:27:13.715
- "hey, i just accepted christ as my lord and savior."
- 00:27:13.715 --> 00:27:16.918
- And until next time, god bless you.
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