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Ron Carpenter - The Favor Effect (Part 9)

May 12, 2026 | 27:28

Ron Carpenter - The Favor Effect (Part 9)
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 9) | May 12, 2026
  • - when you have surrendered to everything god wants,
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  • Good things start happening in your life.
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  • - amen! - i'm grateful for the joy
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  • That doesn't leave me
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  • When i'm in sorrow and when i'm in pain.
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  • But sometimes, you want to get up and it's a good day...
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  • Oh, come on, i want to get, it's a good day,
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  • And the tire was not flat,
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  • The tire still had air in it,
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  • And nobody flipped me off on the way to work,
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  • People were waving at me.
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  • And i didn't get there,
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  • And my supervisor had an attitude.
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  • They actually come in and said,
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  • "free lunch today, it's on me."
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  • Come on, sometimes you won't get things to happen,
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  • But it's only when you come into alignment...
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  • (upbeat music)
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  • - so now, we're at "anoint yourself."
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  • Anoint yourself is a spiritual metaphor
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  • For spiritual refinement.
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  • Anoint yourself is when you take all of your plans,
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  • Your desires, your passions,
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  • Your hopes, and your dreams,
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  • And you lay them down
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  • Because you believe god has something bigger.
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  • - amen. - whoo!
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  • (congregation applauding)
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  • - now, that that went over
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  • Like a cinder block with balloon tied to it.
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  • (congregation applauding)
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  • It's when you separate yourself
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  • From the idols in your life.
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  • - amen.
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  • - it's when he moves from savior to lord.
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  • - [congregant] amen.
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  • - jesus said, "why do you call me 'lord, lord,'
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  • But do not do the things i say?"
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  • Savior is easy.
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  • He saves you, the burden is on him.
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  • Lord, happy are those whose god is the lord.
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  • - [congregation] amen!
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  • - joy is a constant, but happiness isn't,
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  • 'cause happiness is determined by happenings.
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  • - say it again. - good!
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  • - she said, "say it again," i gotta be obedient.
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  • (congregation laughs)
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  • Happiness is determined by happenings,
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  • And there's a lot of people
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  • That have this resident joy of serving god
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  • But ain't never happy,
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  • 'cause nothing good is ever happening.
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  • I got your attention now.
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  • (congregation laughs)
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  • But happy are those who have made him lord.
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  • Good things happen,
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  • Not when he's laid down his life for you,
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  • But when you've laid down your life for him.
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  • - whoo! (congregation applauding)
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  • - the first yes is easy.
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  • The first yes is when you ask him to be your savior.
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  • And that's when you accept everything
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  • That jesus has done for you.
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  • I quoted it during the altar call,
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  • He was wounded for your transgression,
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  • He was bruised for your iniquity.
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  • He was strapped to a post
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  • And beat like an animal so you could be healed.
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  • The chastisement of our peace was upon him.
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  • All these things, that is when you come,
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  • And those of you about,
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  • I don't know, 30 of you today,
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  • Sit there and said, "i want jesus to come in my life,
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  • And i want him to be my savior."
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  • And you accepted everything jesus did for you.
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  • And let me tell you something,
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  • It is a glorious day
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  • And you made a great life changing decision.
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  • But that is the easier yes.
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  • - yes! - amen!
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  • - the second yes is when jesus says,
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  • "if any man would come after me,
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  • Let him take up his cross."
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  • Oh, wait a minute,
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  • I thought jesus did all the crosses.
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  • - [congregation] amen.
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  • - no, everybody has a cross.
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  • - yes! - amen!
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  • - "and if somebody is going to pursue me,
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  • He's gonna have to take up his cross and follow me."
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  • A cross has one function and one function only, to die on.
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  • - yeah! - amen!
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  • - that's it.
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  • So in other words,
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  • "if anybody really wants to come after me,
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  • If anybody really wants to move from savior to lord,
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  • Then he is gonna have to say yes a second time.
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  • And the second yes is not when i give everything to you,
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  • It's when you give everything to me."
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  • - whoo! (audience applauding)
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  • - therein lies the separation
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  • Between the committed christian
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  • And the casual christian.
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  • - yeah. - uh-huh!
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  • - the casual christian stays on the peripheral
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  • And they know jesus as savior.
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  • And you are saved, and you are going to heaven,
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  • And you have had a legitimate experience with jesus,
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  • I'm not de-legitimizing that.
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  • But i want more, i want to be happy in this life,
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  • I want to be joyful in this life,
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  • And i want to know when i get up every morning
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  • That whatever it is god had for me,
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  • I am living with some sense of purpose.
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  • - amen! (congregation cheering)
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  • - so now i've gotta move from making him my savior
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  • To making him my lord.
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  • And jesus said, "you can't call me lord,
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  • But you don't ever do what i say."
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  • - wow! - amen!
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  • - whoo! - preach!
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  • - preach! - ugh!
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  • - preach! - yeah!
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  • - come on! - whoo!
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  • - preach! - come on!
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  • - lemme go back again to my personal testimony.
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  • I know i'm in the tech capital of the globe,
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  • But i was i was a sports guy.
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  • We didn't have any money,
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  • And i knew my way out of,
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  • If you want to call it a town,
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  • I don't even know if "possum kingdom" is a town.
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  • (congregation laughs)
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  • But i knew my way out was gonna be some sort of ball.
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  • I was athletic,
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  • And i made it out, made it out.
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  • A scholarship, played basketball in school,
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  • I'm in college, and i made it.
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  • And lo and behold, i get saved.
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  • (congregation applauding)
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  • Okay? (congregation applauding)
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  • Now, for those of you who don't know,
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  • I know we're in the pro capital of the world,
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  • But you understand in the southeast
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  • Where i lived my whole life till i came here,
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  • College is king,
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  • And i can't even tell you the form of religion it is.
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  • - yeah! (congregation laughs)
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  • - you just don't know,
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  • People sell their kids for tickets.
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  • (congregation laughs)
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  • We put 68,000 in a stadium and think it's great.
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  • Back in southeast they put 110,000 in the stadium,
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  • And got 20,000 waiting outside trying to get in.
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  • It's rabid, and the money involved is insanity.
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  • And i had set out, already had connections lined up
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  • To be a graduate assistant,
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  • And i wanted to be a division i head coach,
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  • Base salary right now, the southeastern conference,
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  • About 10 to 11 million a year.
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  • That's what i wanted to do,
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  • I wanted to leave poverty,
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  • I wanted to leave past,
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  • I wanted to leave my dad's life.
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  • My dad was the most honorable man i've ever met.
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  • But boy, i didn't like the way he had to live,
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  • And i wanted to leave it,
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  • That was my ticket out.
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  • But also had the gunk of my sins
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  • And my turmoil that i was tired of.
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  • And at a young revival, i met jesus as my savior.
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  • But then he started pulling on me.
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  • - it's good! - amen!
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  • - come on! (congregation applauding)
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  • - and the struggle was real
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  • 'cause i had my life mapped.
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  • I had made it out
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  • And i'm gonna carry this thing through.
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  • And then i start reading my bible,
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  • "why do you call me lord?
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  • You don't do what i ask you to do."
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  • "and lay down, take up your cross, and follow me.
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  • And any man that would save his life will lose it."
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  • "and any man that would," listen,
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  • "lose his life for my sake will find it."
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  • (congregation applauding)
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  • And i was starting a new christian,
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  • I'd lay in the floor of my dorm room
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  • And i'd open my bible and i would just read it,
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  • And those things were coming off the page.
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  • And all of a sudden, this wrestling match
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  • Began to happen on the inside of me
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  • As i realized that i had to love this jesus
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  • On a much greater level than just savior.
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  • - amen! - whoo!
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  • - he started pulling, he started changing.
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  • And so finally, how many of you know
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  • When god's asking you for something precious to you,
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  • You give it to him in stages?
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  • (congregation laughs)
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  • "okay, you have this,
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  • I'm gonna keep this right, god i got this.
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  • You leave this alone, i got this.
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  • You can have this."
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  • And so it's a little bit of a time
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  • You start giving him just a little bit at a time.
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  • The new girls that he started bringing around me to date,
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  • I'd never dated girls like that.
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  • I wasn't attracted to girls like that.
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  • I was around people
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  • And i'd go to bible studies
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  • And i had never worshiped in my life.
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  • You said, "but your daddy was a pastor,
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  • You were raised in church."
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  • Yeah, i sat on the back row and looked at my watch
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  • And couldn't wait to get out of there and leave.
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  • (congregation laughs)
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  • I'd never worshiped, ever.
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  • I remember being at a bible study
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  • And a guy on an acoustic guitar,
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  • There's about 20 guys,
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  • There's a dorm room bible study.
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  • And i mean they were seriously loving jesus
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  • And worshiping god.
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  • And i remember the first time
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  • Just trying to raise my hand.
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  • I felt so weird, i felt so disingenuous,
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  • It didn't feel normal to me.
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  • But it was all this stuff working on the inside of me
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  • Because i am the kind of person,
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  • If i make a decision, buddy,
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  • I make a decision, and my lines don't move,
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  • And my commitment will stay with you
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  • If i make that decision.
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  • And i knew that god
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  • Was doing something on the inside of me,
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  • And you finally have to come to a place of trust.
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  • Hear me, please, you come to a place of trust
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  • Where no matter how much you got it mapped out
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  • And how much you wanna do it,
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  • You come to a place of surrender,
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  • Because you believe that what god has is bigger
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  • And you believe that what he has is better.
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  • And then there's the life that you have mapped out,
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  • And then there's the reason
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  • That god brought you into the world.
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  • And you can be successful
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  • But not be living the reason
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  • God brought you into the world.
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  • Because something successful does not fulfill you.
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  • It's when you become significant that you are filled,
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  • And you're significant when you wake up every morning
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  • Knowing i'm doing exactly what god wants me to do.
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  • I'm around exactly who god wants me to be around.
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  • I'm living exactly where god wants me to live.
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  • I am with exactly who god wants me to be.
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  • And that is where your peace comes from.
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  • Somebody shout, amen.
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  • - [congregation] amen.
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  • - now, i know it's hard to shout
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  • On that past the second row.
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  • (congregation laughs)
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  • (upbeat music)
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  • (upbeat music continues)
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  • (dramatic 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.
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  • (dramatic music)
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  • When god gets 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.
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  • So he'll take a ron and hope 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.
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  • I don't know what,
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  • "you're gonna speak to the nations" even means.
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  • Cannot be explained. (dramatic music)
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  • - i hope you've been enjoying this word so far.
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  • I know we've been in the favor effect for some time now.
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  • And you know something why i wanted to get in your spirit.
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  • Because if you begin to understand
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  • That god can turn favor towards your life
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  • And move your life, not in steps, but in catapults,
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  • Just for the fact that with no rationale
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  • And no understanding as to why he did it,
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  • It's just his favor on mine and your life.
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  • There's nothing in my life that has moved me quicker,
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  • Moved me faster than god just showing his face
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  • And shining his face on my life.
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  • And i'm praying that for you.
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  • I want it to be a part of your waking up
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  • And a part of your expectation.
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  • So i hope that you've been enjoying "the favor effect,"
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  • We're gonna get back to it in just a moment.
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  • Let me just take a moment and say thank you.
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  • I want you to know,
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  • I've been speaking to you probably for over a year now
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  • About the fact we wanted to expand onto other networks.
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  • Well, we've now just expanded
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  • Onto four brand new networks
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  • And we have like quadrupled our airtime.
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  • And your giving made that possible.
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  • When the opportunity presented itself,
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  • The resources were there,
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  • Because of your kindness and your generosity.
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  • And i wanna say thank you for that.
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  • And we also just struck a deal this week,
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  • I've been talking about this for years,
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  • It's been a dream of mine,
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  • Where everything we do is about,
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  • Before this year is over,
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  • To be offered in 35 languages,
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  • 35 languages.
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  • The most i've ever gotten up to is three,
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  • But this is gonna be 35 languages.
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  • And when the opportunity was there,
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  • We could seize it, why?
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  • Because of your generosity.
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  • Would you help us?
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  • Would you continue?
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  • We are sitting right now
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  • With more airtime than we've ever had,
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  • And it being translated to more peoples
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  • Than it's ever been translated to,
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  • And we have so much opportunity.
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  • But i don't ever wanna just be happy with getting here,
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  • I wanna continue to go there.
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  • And there, where is it?
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  • It's all over the world,
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  • Reaching more and more and more people.
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  • You're our covenant partners,
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  • Thank you for all that you do.
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  • And i wanna take a moment just to open our circle up
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  • To people who say, "you know what,
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  • This is a blessing to me.
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  • I enjoy it, it's a part of my watch,
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  • It's a part of my programming."
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  • Even if you dvr it or you record it,
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  • It doesn't matter to me how it gets to you.
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  • If it gets to you and it's been a blessing,
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  • Would you consider reciprocating that blessing back
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  • And help us do what we do?
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  • We don't sell ads, we don't sell advertisements,
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  • We don't have any sponsors.
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  • It's just god's people who's saying,
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  • "this has been a blessing to my life,"
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  • Turning around and giving back.
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  • Thank you for all that you do.
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  • And for any of you that want to give,
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  • And you may be first-time givers,
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  • We have this gift just to say thank you
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  • For partnering with ron carpenter television.
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  • We want to speak to as many people as we can,
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  • That's why we do what we do.
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  • Thank you for helping us.
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  • Now, let's get back to the word.
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  • Psalm 19, lemme show you something about idols.
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  • Psalm 19.
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  • "who can understand his errors.
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  • Cleanse me from secret faults," and this is david.
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  • "keep back your servant from presumptuous sins,"
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  • Never even heard of that.
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  • "let them not have dominion over me.
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  • Don't let presumptuous sins rule my life.
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  • Then i'll be blameless
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  • And be innocent of great transgression."
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  • Let's just be honest,
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  • When we think of david
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  • And we think about great transgression,
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  • What's the first thing that comes up in our mind?
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  • The fact that he committed adultery
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  • And then he took the woman's husband
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  • And had him taken to the front of the line in war
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  • Assuring that he would be killed
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  • So he could have the man's wife.
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  • - yes. - so when we think of david,
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  • We think of what was david's great transgression?
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  • Everybody in the building,
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  • That's where their mind goes to.
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  • But that is not how david defined it.
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  • David said, "forget the adultery
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  • And the murder and all this stuff,"
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  • He said, "this is what i don't want to ever be guilty of."
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  • He said, "keep me from presumptuous sins.
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  • And if you do,
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  • I will be innocent of great transgression."
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  • - yes! - what does that mean?
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  • When i talk about the anointing yourself
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  • As time where you begin to lay aside
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  • All the idols in your life, what does that mean?
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  • In biblical times,
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  • Idols were carved images that they would worship.
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  • But that's not true anymore.
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  • This is one of our greatest struggle as idols.
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  • What kind of idol?
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  • It's idols that we erect in our mind,
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  • And then we assume or presume-
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  • - that's good. - amen!
  • 00:17:36.506 --> 00:17:37.774
  • - out of what we've erected in our mind.
  • 00:17:37.774 --> 00:17:39.809
  • So in other words, you say,
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  • "i really like what ron preached two weeks ago.
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  • I really don't like what he preached today."
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  • (congregation laughs)
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  • So it's not about you changing,
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  • It's about you carving a jesus
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  • That fits your lifestyle. - yeah!
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  • (congregation cheering and applauding)
  • 00:17:54.390 --> 00:17:56.159
  • - so you have an idol in your mind
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  • That you serve that's not the real jesus.
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  • - [congregation] amen!
  • 00:18:01.431 --> 00:18:02.832
  • - and he said: you wanna know
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  • What a great transgression is?
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  • When i assume things about god that are not true.
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  • When i assume things about me that are not true.
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  • When i assume things that are all right with god
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  • That are not all right with god.
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  • Y'all ain't saying nothing, nobody's helping me.
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  • When i assume god wants me to do things
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  • That he does not want me to do.
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  • He said, "lord, keep me from that kind of thinking
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  • And that kind of sin.
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  • I don't want to live my life
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  • Making assumptions and presumptions about god."
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  • - amen! (congregation applauding)
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  • - ruth, you've got to wash your face.
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  • But you've also gotta understand
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  • That before you meet boaz,
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  • Who is the type of christ,
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  • You've gotta separate the good from the bad.
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  • You've got to lay down the idols,
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  • And you've gotta make sure
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  • That you're about to turn over
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  • All your plans and desires.
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  • - yeah! - amen!
  • 00:18:48.077 --> 00:18:49.412
  • - to somebody who has a better plan for you.
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  • - amen! - yes!
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  • - presumptuous sins, idols...
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  • And it's when people come to jesus
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  • And have already figured out how they want to live.
  • 00:19:01.191 --> 00:19:05.662
  • So they go look for a church
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  • That preaches that jesus.
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  • - yeah! - come on!
  • 00:19:08.898 --> 00:19:10.667
  • - come on! - yeah!
  • 00:19:11.167 --> 00:19:13.169
  • (ron laughs) (congregation laughs)
  • 00:19:13.937 --> 00:19:15.438
  • - oh, god! (congregation applauding)
  • 00:19:15.438 --> 00:19:19.175
  • - [congregant] that's good! (congregation applauding)
  • 00:19:19.175 --> 00:19:21.144
  • - the word of god inspires.
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  • - [congregant] yeah!
  • 00:19:23.313 --> 00:19:24.214
  • - the word of god
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  • Should bless you. - yes!
  • 00:19:25.215 --> 00:19:26.549
  • - we've had times preaching on favor,
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  • We've shouted the paint off the walls.
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  • But i would be a fool to think
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  • That everything that god desires,
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  • I'm already living it.
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  • - yes! - amen!
  • 00:19:38.294 --> 00:19:39.829
  • - that everything he wants to transform me into,
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  • I'm already transformed into it.
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  • How arrogant of me? - yeah!
  • 00:19:43.900 --> 00:19:46.402
  • - so i crave messages that challenge me.
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  • - amen! - yes!
  • 00:19:50.440 --> 00:19:51.674
  • - do you know why?
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  • Happy are those whose god is the lord.
  • 00:19:52.875 --> 00:19:57.180
  • When you have surrendered to everything god wants,
  • 00:19:58.214 --> 00:20:01.484
  • Good things start happening in your life.
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  • I'm grateful for the joy
  • 00:20:04.520 --> 00:20:06.055
  • That doesn't leave me when i'm in sorrow
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  • And when i'm in pain.
  • 00:20:08.191 --> 00:20:09.726
  • But sometimes you want to get up and it's a good day...
  • 00:20:09.726 --> 00:20:11.661
  • Oh, come on, i want to get, it's a good day.
  • 00:20:11.661 --> 00:20:13.663
  • And the tire was not flat,
  • 00:20:13.663 --> 00:20:15.231
  • The tire still had air in it,
  • 00:20:15.231 --> 00:20:16.766
  • And nobody flipped me off on the way to work,
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  • People were waving at me.
  • 00:20:18.701 --> 00:20:20.169
  • And i didn't get there,
  • 00:20:20.169 --> 00:20:21.271
  • And my supervisor had an attitude.
  • 00:20:21.271 --> 00:20:22.905
  • They actually come in and said,
  • 00:20:22.905 --> 00:20:24.140
  • "free lunch today, it's on me."
  • 00:20:24.140 --> 00:20:26.109
  • Come on, sometimes you won't get things to happen,
  • 00:20:26.109 --> 00:20:28.778
  • But it's only when you come into alignment.
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  • - [congregation] amen. (congregation applauding)
  • 00:20:31.314 --> 00:20:33.683
  • - why do we have chiropractors?
  • 00:20:33.683 --> 00:20:35.318
  • Because they can improve your life
  • 00:20:35.318 --> 00:20:36.953
  • And improve your health with proper alignment.
  • 00:20:36.953 --> 00:20:40.156
  • - yes! - amen!
  • 00:20:40.156 --> 00:20:44.894
  • - and so i take this part right here,
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  • And i like that,
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  • And i take this part over here,
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  • This part over here, i don't like that,
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  • And i'm not doing that.
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  • And when you do that,
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  • You start moving away from the jesus of the bible,
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  • And now you're creating an image of jesus
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  • That suits your lifestyle.
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  • And those are the idols of 2026.
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  • - [congregant] yep!
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  • - [congregant] jesus. (congregation applauding)
  • 00:21:13.323 --> 00:21:16.025
  • - you started it. (congregation applauding)
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  • - he said, "i started it." (laughs)
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  • He said, "all right, you started it."
  • 00:21:19.929 --> 00:21:27.837
  • "pastor, this is heavy what you're telling me to do.
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  • Now, you telling me to come to god
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  • With this level of surrender, that is no joke."
  • 00:21:34.877 --> 00:21:36.446
  • No it's not.
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  • But when i'm asking you to surrender
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  • To the fact that god has something bigger
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  • Than you know.
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  • - yes! - whoo!
  • 00:21:48.791 --> 00:21:51.361
  • - and you're surrendering
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  • For your proper placement in it.
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  • I think i told you this two weeks ago,
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  • Ruth does not know she's a book.
  • 00:21:59.235 --> 00:22:02.238
  • - [congregant] wow!
  • 00:22:02.705 --> 00:22:04.540
  • - we read the whole bible in a finished context
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  • And get the blessing of seeing the process.
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  • You don't see the process when you're living in it.
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  • - yeah! - amen.
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  • - amen. (congregation applauding)
  • 00:22:14.617 --> 00:22:15.952
  • - you see the problem right in front of you.
  • 00:22:15.952 --> 00:22:18.221
  • What does ruth know?
  • 00:22:18.221 --> 00:22:19.455
  • "i am a beggar,
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  • And i need some help up in here, up in here."
  • 00:22:20.757 --> 00:22:23.793
  • (congregation laughs) (congregation applauding)
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  • That's all she know,
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  • The problem right in front of me.
  • 00:22:31.534 --> 00:22:33.035
  • - [congregant] yeah!
  • 00:22:33.035 --> 00:22:35.171
  • - but lemme tell you what's happening in the bible.
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  • Boaz and ruth will be the father of obed.
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  • Obed will have a son named jesse.
  • 00:22:47.784 --> 00:22:49.886
  • - [congregant] yeah!
  • 00:22:49.886 --> 00:22:51.354
  • - jesse will have seven sons,
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  • And the seventh one is named david.
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  • - come on, yeah! - yes!
  • 00:22:56.125 --> 00:22:57.660
  • - david will raise up what's called the house of david.
  • 00:22:57.660 --> 00:23:00.430
  • - [congregant] yes! - whoo!
  • 00:23:00.430 --> 00:23:01.731
  • - and the messiah will be from the house of david.
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  • - [congregant] whoo!
  • 00:23:04.233 --> 00:23:05.501
  • - ruth says, "i'm dirty, i need a bath,
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  • And i need a boaz."
  • 00:23:09.005 --> 00:23:10.640
  • But god is saying, "i need to create a lineage
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  • Where i can bring the messiah
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  • From heaven and to the earth.
  • 00:23:15.278 --> 00:23:17.013
  • And the son of god can take on flesh and be a man."
  • 00:23:17.013 --> 00:23:20.650
  • And god is orchestrating something much bigger.
  • 00:23:20.650 --> 00:23:23.352
  • Oh, it's bigger than your problem.
  • 00:23:23.352 --> 00:23:25.588
  • It's bigger than your bills.
  • 00:23:25.588 --> 00:23:27.323
  • It's bigger than your enemy.
  • 00:23:27.323 --> 00:23:28.925
  • It's bigger than your job.
  • 00:23:28.925 --> 00:23:30.660
  • God is orchestrating something so much bigger.
  • 00:23:30.660 --> 00:23:33.863
  • But he's waiting
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  • For the second yes. - yes!
  • 00:23:34.897 --> 00:23:37.433
  • - [congregation] yeah!
  • 00:23:37.433 --> 00:23:39.101
  • (congregation cheering and applauding)
  • 00:23:39.101 --> 00:23:44.407
  • - [congregant] great job, ron!
  • 00:23:45.041 --> 00:23:46.242
  • - whoo! (congregation cheering)
  • 00:23:46.242 --> 00:23:48.244
  • - he wanna give us comfort. - yeah!
  • 00:23:48.244 --> 00:23:55.218
  • - moses just thought he was an orphan
  • 00:23:55.985 --> 00:23:57.854
  • Being raised by an egyptian.
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  • God's trying to raise up a deliverer
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  • Who knows both hebrew by nature and egyptian by culture.
  • 00:24:03.826 --> 00:24:11.734
  • So moses is perfect to be a deliverer
  • 00:24:12.535 --> 00:24:14.837
  • 'cause he is too that to be this
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  • And too this to be that.
  • 00:24:16.205 --> 00:24:17.573
  • - [congregant] amen!
  • 00:24:17.573 --> 00:24:21.477
  • - many times with god,
  • 00:24:21.477 --> 00:24:22.812
  • When you're a misfit, you're a perfect fit.
  • 00:24:22.812 --> 00:24:24.347
  • - [congregant] yeah! (congregation applauding)
  • 00:24:24.347 --> 00:24:27.049
  • - how many misfits i got that'll praise god,
  • 00:24:27.049 --> 00:24:28.985
  • "no, i'm a perfect fit."
  • 00:24:28.985 --> 00:24:30.853
  • (air whooshes)
  • 00:24:30.853 --> 00:24:32.088
  • That was a good word,
  • 00:24:32.088 --> 00:24:33.322
  • That's a sermon, i need to preach that,
  • 00:24:33.322 --> 00:24:34.857
  • Misfits or perfect fits. (congregation applauding)
  • 00:24:34.857 --> 00:24:41.430
  • Esther thought she's met a man and going on a date.
  • 00:24:42.431 --> 00:24:45.935
  • She's not going on a date,
  • 00:24:45.935 --> 00:24:46.736
  • She's sparing a nation.
  • 00:24:46.736 --> 00:24:48.304
  • - yeah. - hallelujah.
  • 00:24:48.304 --> 00:24:49.672
  • - [congregant] yes!
  • 00:24:49.672 --> 00:24:50.940
  • - but while she's living in it, don't see it.
  • 00:24:50.940 --> 00:24:56.379
  • Don't say, "david, i'm just out here
  • 00:24:57.146 --> 00:24:59.148
  • Killing lions and bears,
  • 00:24:59.148 --> 00:25:00.249
  • I'm protecting these sheep."
  • 00:25:00.249 --> 00:25:02.351
  • No, you're not.
  • 00:25:02.351 --> 00:25:03.753
  • You're preparing for war
  • 00:25:03.753 --> 00:25:04.787
  • Against a philistine giant
  • 00:25:04.787 --> 00:25:07.089
  • By which god will have israel overthrow
  • 00:25:07.089 --> 00:25:09.425
  • An entire philistine nation.
  • 00:25:09.425 --> 00:25:11.527
  • But he don't know it
  • 00:25:11.994 --> 00:25:13.229
  • When he is sitting out there by himself
  • 00:25:13.229 --> 00:25:14.697
  • Listening to (imitates sheep bleating) all day.
  • 00:25:14.697 --> 00:25:16.699
  • (congregation laughs)
  • 00:25:16.699 --> 00:25:22.438
  • That god, if you just say yes,
  • 00:25:23.072 --> 00:25:26.742
  • Has got you a part of something so much more massive.
  • 00:25:27.810 --> 00:25:31.380
  • You, when you say second yes to god,
  • 00:25:31.380 --> 00:25:35.484
  • You're blessing your children's, children's children.
  • 00:25:35.484 --> 00:25:38.354
  • (congregation cheering and applauding)
  • 00:25:38.354 --> 00:25:43.459
  • I feel the holy ghost in here right now.
  • 00:25:44.327 --> 00:25:46.829
  • I wish you'd just stand up
  • 00:25:46.829 --> 00:25:48.097
  • And give god about 30 seconds of praise.
  • 00:25:48.097 --> 00:25:50.132
  • I feel a second, i feel a wave coming across this building.
  • 00:25:50.132 --> 00:25:54.937
  • God, do what it is you want to do.
  • 00:25:54.937 --> 00:25:56.806
  • Anoint us, anoint us, anoint us, anoint us,
  • 00:25:56.806 --> 00:26:00.543
  • Anoint us in this place, we pray.
  • 00:26:00.543 --> 00:26:04.513
  • Before you leave,
  • 00:26:04.947 --> 00:26:06.082
  • It would be my honor and my privilege
  • 00:26:06.082 --> 00:26:07.383
  • To lead you to jesus.
  • 00:26:07.383 --> 00:26:08.784
  • Maybe you've just been flipping through channels,
  • 00:26:08.784 --> 00:26:11.420
  • And there's a lot of them to flip through nowadays.
  • 00:26:11.420 --> 00:26:14.256
  • Maybe you're not sure how you ended up watching this show.
  • 00:26:15.424 --> 00:26:19.128
  • I don't know,
  • 00:26:19.495 --> 00:26:20.763
  • Maybe you're searching it out on purpose
  • 00:26:20.763 --> 00:26:22.031
  • 'cause you're sitting there saying,
  • 00:26:22.031 --> 00:26:23.165
  • "i gotta have a change in my life,"
  • 00:26:23.165 --> 00:26:24.867
  • And maybe this is it.
  • 00:26:24.867 --> 00:26:26.702
  • I'm gonna tell you something,
  • 00:26:26.702 --> 00:26:28.170
  • The greatest change agent i've ever met in my life,
  • 00:26:28.170 --> 00:26:30.406
  • The greatest turnaround i've ever experienced
  • 00:26:30.406 --> 00:26:32.975
  • Is when i ask jesus into my heart
  • 00:26:32.975 --> 00:26:34.944
  • To be my lord savior.
  • 00:26:34.944 --> 00:26:36.746
  • And he'll come right into your life,
  • 00:26:36.746 --> 00:26:39.315
  • Accept you just like you are,
  • 00:26:39.315 --> 00:26:41.417
  • But he'll never leave you like you are.
  • 00:26:41.417 --> 00:26:43.085
  • Would you pray this prayer with me?
  • 00:26:43.085 --> 00:26:44.720
  • Thank you, jesus, that you purchased my salvation.
  • 00:26:44.720 --> 00:26:48.791
  • Thank you that you died and rose again
  • 00:26:48.791 --> 00:26:50.593
  • That i might be saved.
  • 00:26:50.593 --> 00:26:52.595
  • I ask you to come into my heart
  • 00:26:52.595 --> 00:26:53.929
  • To be my lord and savior.
  • 00:26:53.929 --> 00:26:55.297
  • I put my faith in you as god's son, the son of god.
  • 00:26:55.297 --> 00:26:59.969
  • Wash me and make me clean.
  • 00:26:59.969 --> 00:27:01.937
  • Make my heart your home from this moment forward.
  • 00:27:01.937 --> 00:27:04.040
  • Thank you for saving me, in jesus' name, amen.
  • 00:27:04.040 --> 00:27:07.843
  • Write in, call in.
  • 00:27:07.843 --> 00:27:09.111
  • Somehow or another let us know, email us.
  • 00:27:09.111 --> 00:27:11.347
  • We want to know if you made that decision,
  • 00:27:11.347 --> 00:27:13.783
  • 'cause it is why we exist and why we do what we do.
  • 00:27:13.783 --> 00:27:17.086
  • And until next time, god bless you.
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  • (dramatic music)
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