Ron Carpenter - The Favor Effect (Part 5)

May 4, 2026 | 27:29

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 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.
  • 00:10:00.116 --> 00:10:01.384
  • 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."
  • 00:10:06.255 --> 00:10:09.025
  • 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."
  • 00:10:18.701 --> 00:10:20.102
  • (audience cheering and clapping)
  • 00:10:20.102 --> 00:10:22.838
  • 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.
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  • (upbeat music)
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  • So whenever god is about to pour something out in your life,
  • 00:10:33.783 --> 00:10:38.587
  • 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
  • 00:10:46.595 --> 00:10:47.763
  • And make sure i don't miss 'em all.
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  • I'm in a prophetic moment here.
  • 00:10:48.731 --> 00:10:49.632
  • 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.
  • 00:10:54.437 --> 00:10:56.405
  • (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
  • 00:11:48.824 --> 00:11:50.926
  • Who got a little warehouse
  • 00:11:50.926 --> 00:11:52.528
  • And he let a prophetic word come through someone to us,
  • 00:11:52.528 --> 00:11:55.397
  • 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 what,
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  • "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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  • 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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  • He is not mocked,
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  • Whatever a man sows, that shall he reap.
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  • Now, let's get back to the word.
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  • (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.
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  • That is very difficult to do.
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  • 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.
  • 00:14:38.127 --> 00:14:41.230
  • 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."
  • 00:14:45.067 --> 00:14:46.001
  • (audience laughing and clapping)
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  • That's the only thing he knew.
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  • "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)
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  • "it's gonna rain."
  • 00:14:55.878 --> 00:14:57.279
  • So he had one message he preached, "it's gonna rain."
  • 00:14:57.279 --> 00:14:59.148
  • 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.
  • 00:15:03.118 --> 00:15:05.587
  • And he looked crazy and he looked stupid.
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  • Help me now.
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  • And the people mocked him,
  • 00:15:08.691 --> 00:15:10.359
  • 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?
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  • 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,
  • 00:15:24.239 --> 00:15:26.475
  • 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,
  • 00:15:37.786 --> 00:15:40.823
  • 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.
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  • I've got a few points i'm gonna make on this,
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  • And i'll begin landing this plane.
  • 00:16:53.962 --> 00:16:56.965
  • The first one is the most difficult,
  • 00:16:56.965 --> 00:16:59.301
  • 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
  • 00:17:09.711 --> 00:17:12.381
  • 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,
  • 00:17:27.162 --> 00:17:30.499
  • 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,
  • 00:17:33.001 --> 00:17:34.670
  • "we're close to something
  • 00:17:34.670 --> 00:17:35.904
  • That i can't articulate."
  • 00:17:35.904 --> 00:17:37.673
  • And i'm telling people, "build for something,"
  • 00:17:38.574 --> 00:17:40.109
  • That i can't articulate.
  • 00:17:40.109 --> 00:17:41.810
  • And they wanna, "give me a design,
  • 00:17:41.810 --> 00:17:43.412
  • 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
  • 00:17:48.784 --> 00:17:49.685
  • And i wanna have answers,
  • 00:17:49.685 --> 00:17:50.819
  • And i wanna say, "here's the vision,
  • 00:17:50.819 --> 00:17:52.387
  • Let's write it down and make a plan,"
  • 00:17:52.387 --> 00:17:53.889
  • 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.
  • 00:18:01.029 --> 00:18:03.632
  • Just, we're right up against something,
  • 00:18:03.632 --> 00:18:06.435
  • 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,
  • 00:18:14.376 --> 00:18:15.744
  • Because we're close to something."
  • 00:18:15.744 --> 00:18:18.013
  • She said, "i've got to get in the place."
  • 00:18:18.914 --> 00:18:23.519
  • Generally speaking,
  • 00:18:23.986 --> 00:18:26.355
  • If god has put something great in you,
  • 00:18:27.122 --> 00:18:29.758
  • Or anything in you for that matter,
  • 00:18:29.758 --> 00:18:33.395
  • Generally speaking,
  • 00:18:33.862 --> 00:18:35.197
  • There is a certain atmosphere
  • 00:18:35.197 --> 00:18:37.199
  • That activates it.
  • 00:18:37.199 --> 00:18:44.239
  • I've given an illustration,
  • 00:18:44.840 --> 00:18:46.041
  • Let me go back to it.
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  • You can have seed sitting on a porch
  • 00:18:50.646 --> 00:18:57.486
  • For years,
  • 00:18:57.786 --> 00:18:59.855
  • But your porch never activates the seed
  • 00:19:00.689 --> 00:19:04.793
  • 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
  • 00:19:11.166 --> 00:19:12.501
  • Sitting on the seal of a window,
  • 00:19:12.501 --> 00:19:15.037
  • Once you get it in the ground,
  • 00:19:15.037 --> 00:19:17.139
  • You have gotten it into an atmosphere
  • 00:19:17.940 --> 00:19:20.642
  • That activates what's inside of it.
  • 00:19:20.642 --> 00:19:23.312
  • I've told you this illustration before,
  • 00:19:24.146 --> 00:19:25.414
  • 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
  • 00:19:38.260 --> 00:19:40.462
  • That it needs in the heavens.
  • 00:19:40.462 --> 00:19:43.131
  • And so there is an atmosphere
  • 00:19:43.765 --> 00:19:45.500
  • That activates and sustains it.
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  • It is the fish that you pull out of the water.
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  • It's nothing when it's laying on the bank
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  • Or laying on the ground,
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  • But when you put it in the water,
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  • It has the ability to thrive.
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  • And for your life, it is no different.
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  • And i don't know what the place is.
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  • For some of you, the place is a relationship.
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  • For some of you, the place is a partnership.
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  • For some of you, the place may be literally geography.
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  • For some of you, the place may be someone
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  • You haven't met yet.
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  • For some of you, the place may be the right church,
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  • For some of you, the place may be sitting
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  • Under the right voices.
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  • You just hadn't been under the right voices.
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  • And some of you when you came into this church,
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  • Maybe something began to leap on the inside of you.
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  • You know what that means?
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  • That means the thing that's on the inside of you
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  • Is now in the place.
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  • (audience cheering and clapping)
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  • Even god, we learn his actions are only activated in praise.
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  • God is not activated in complaints.
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  • God is not activated in grumbling.
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  • God is not activated in negativity.
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  • He said he inhabits praise.
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  • He said, "if you will praise me,
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  • I will come down
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  • And i will start going to work
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  • 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
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  • With an old sour look on your face
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  • 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.
  • 00:21:36.611 --> 00:21:38.180
  • (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,
  • 00:22:46.314 --> 00:22:49.050
  • 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?
  • 00:23:18.713 --> 00:23:23.852
  • 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.
  • 00:23:41.770 --> 00:23:44.105
  • (audience laughing)
  • 00:23:44.105 --> 00:23:47.108
  • 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."
  • 00:24:01.723 --> 00:24:02.891
  • (upbeat music) (audience clapping)
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  • Remember something.
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  • Play something if you would, thank you.
  • 00:24:12.968 --> 00:24:16.271
  • Look at the two perspectives.
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  • (light music)
  • 00:24:18.907 --> 00:24:21.810
  • To ruth, it looks like coincidence.
  • 00:24:21.810 --> 00:24:26.515
  • It looks like luck.
  • 00:24:26.982 --> 00:24:29.317
  • It looks like it just happened.
  • 00:24:29.951 --> 00:24:33.588
  • It looked like, "it's just my day."
  • 00:24:34.389 --> 00:24:40.495
  • 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)
  • 00:24:47.802 --> 00:24:52.440
  • 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,
  • 00:25:08.823 --> 00:25:12.761
  • Picking up leftovers,
  • 00:25:12.761 --> 00:25:14.162
  • Trying to survive.
  • 00:25:14.162 --> 00:25:15.330
  • 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.
  • 00:25:35.684 --> 00:25:37.819
  • Come on, let's clap and give god a praise.
  • 00:25:37.819 --> 00:25:39.421
  • Come on, put your hands together.
  • 00:25:39.421 --> 00:25:40.922
  • 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."
  • 00:25:43.725 --> 00:25:47.429
  • 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,
  • 00:25:52.434 --> 00:25:53.969
  • Do you know jesus as your personal lord and savior?
  • 00:25:53.969 --> 00:25:56.738
  • I'm not talking about,
  • 00:25:56.738 --> 00:25:58.340
  • Do you remember grandmamma praying?
  • 00:25:58.340 --> 00:26:00.008
  • I'm not talking about,
  • 00:26:00.008 --> 00:26:01.443
  • Do you remember an old bible your dad used to read?
  • 00:26:01.443 --> 00:26:03.111
  • That's not what i'm talking about.
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  • Do you know it?
  • 00:26:05.046 --> 00:26:06.514
  • Who do you say that he is?
  • 00:26:07.082 --> 00:26:08.550
  • Jesus asked that question to his disciples at large.
  • 00:26:08.550 --> 00:26:11.453
  • "who do men say that i am?"
  • 00:26:11.453 --> 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 --> 00:26:16.224
  • 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,
  • 00:26:26.768 --> 00:26:28.336
  • 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,
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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.
  • 00:26:41.449 --> 00:26:43.351
  • 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.
  • 00:26:47.222 --> 00:26:49.391
  • 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,
  • 00:26:58.500 --> 00:27:00.468
  • 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,
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  • "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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