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Tim Timberlake | Tim Timberlake - The Danger of Deception | June 3, 2025
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- Hey, family and friends is pastor
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- Tim timberlake, and i am excited about the word of god today.
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- I believe this is a message that all of us need to hear.
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- All of us need to walk through scripture and learn more of.
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- I truly believe that this is a transformative word.
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- So this is what i want you to do.
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- I want you to grab your word that your pen, get your notepad.
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- Call your friends and your family.
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- Let them know that we're on right now
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- As we go into this life changing message.
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- The danger of deception.
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- Before he is tortured, crucified, killed,
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- Buried, and resurrected.
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- He's walking
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- With his disciples in deep waters of preparation.
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- He's allowing them to know that what is about to happen
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- To me is going to shake your belief.
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- Not only will you see things you thought you never would see.
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- There will be people that come after you,
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- To persecute you and to ridicule you and to torment
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- You simply because you follow
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- And are a disciple of me.
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- And so what jesus is doing in this text,
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- He's preparing the disciples for an hour of betrayal.
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- He's walking from the upper room towards gethsemane,
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- And he's teaching them, in his final words,
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- That this is not just a poetic farewell.
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- This is a prophetic declaration,
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- That pain is going to meet your life.
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- When you encountered this pain.
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- I need you to know that i have not abandon you,
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- Nor have i forgotten about you.
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- The reason you are going through the pain
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- Is because you are a follower of me.
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- If i do not go the helper will not come.
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- But if i do go, i will send the comforter
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- For you and this comforter when he comes.
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- He's not coming to pamper you.
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- He's coming to convict people of sin around you.
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- Amen.
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- And so jesus gives the disciples this for running,
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- And he speaks to them about the spirit,
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- Not just as a comforter, but as a divine prosecutor.
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- And this attorney that goes to the judgment seat
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- On our behalf, allowing the judged
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- Our father to know
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- That there is a savior that has saved us,
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- Even if it meant saving us from ourselves.
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- He's bled for us,
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- And he bled for our sins, our sickness and our sorrow.
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- And what was once belonging to us because of our sin
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- Now belongs to jesus, because he took it to the cross.
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- He hung there, bled and died and was resurrected for us.
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- And scripture teaches us
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- That when he was resurrected, we were resurrected with him.
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- And so
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- Jesus is telling all of these things to the disciples
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- As a prophetic knife, cutting away at expectation
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- And anticipation
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- And preparing their hearts
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- For the season that they are stepping into.
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- And so as we go through the text today,
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- I encourage you to take notes,
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- Because they're going to be things that are said
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- That you don't grab on the first go round, that
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- I want you to go back and study on the second,
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- And on the third go round. amen.
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- I truly believe that note takers
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- Are history makers, and if they're not taking notes,
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- You're not even saved.
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- Come on, somebody.
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- I'm kidding, i'm kidding, i'm kidding, i'm kidding.
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- So point number one is this point number one is this.
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- The spirit prepares you for pain,
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- So you won't confuse it with punishment.
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- Are you listening to me?
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- Jesus is preparing the disciples.
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- He's telling them, hey, there's going to come a day
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- That you encounter pain, that you encounter persecution,
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- That you encounter conflict simply because you follow me.
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- But i need you to know that the pain
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- That you encounter is not because of punishment.
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- So the spirit prepares us for pain
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- So that we don't confuse it with punishment.
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- John chapter 16, verse one in the text says,
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- I have said all these things to you
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- To keep you from falling away.
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- I want you to highlight that falling away.
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- I want you to underline
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- That the greek word
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- For falling away is a greek word called skandalizo.
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- So which is used throughout the new testament
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- To describe those who stumble not because of sin,
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- But because of unmet expectations.
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- Let's be honest,
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- All of us have encountered seasons of our lives.
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- When we fall away, when we stumble,
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- When we stop engaging in our relationship with jesus
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- Christ not because he did something,
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- But because we expected him not to do something.
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- We fall away.
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- Scripture uses this greek word
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- To give us indicators that often times
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- People fall away from their relationship
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- With jesus christ because of unmet expectations.
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- How many of you have ever found yourself
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- In a season of pain that you did not expect,
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- And the season of confusion that you did not have
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- On your calendar,
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- And a season of chaos that did not give you a notification.
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- It just showed up.
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- And let's be honest.
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- How many of you ask god
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- The question, god, if you're there,
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- How come i'm going through what i'm going through?
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- It's not what you expected.
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- And jesus warns us to john chapter 16.
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- I need you to be prepared.
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- The spirit is warning you that you're going to encounter pain.
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- You're going to encounter persecution.
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- You're going to encounter
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- Problems simply because you are a follower of me.
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- This is not punishment.
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- This is prophecy.
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- And we like to hear the messages
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- That tell us we're stepping into a new season.
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- Come on.
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- This is your hour.
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- You pull down the slot machine of prayer and god
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- Is going to rain down from heaven.
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- We run around the church for that.
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- I ain't seen nobody standing shout
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- Because punishment was on the way.
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- Because the bible promises pain,
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- Persecution.
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- But this is what scripture says.
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- Scripture says that when you pursued the king,
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- There's going to be persecution that follows.
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- That is an indicator
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- That you are actually in the right pursuit after
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- The right person.
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- At this moment in scripture,
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- Jesus is informing them he he's inoculating them.
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- He's allowing them to know that what you are about to endure,
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- If you're not prepared for it, you will mislabel
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- This persecution as abandoned and fall away.
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- And because some of us don't know the word of god,
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- We mislabel persecution as abandonment by god
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- Because some of us don't know what scripture says.
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- We mislabel persecution and pain by god,
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- Turning his back on us.
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- When scripture says
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- He'll never leave us nor forsake us, he's with us
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- Until the very end of our time.
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- But when we don't know the word of god,
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- We think that pain
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- And persecution by other people is pain
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- And persecution given to us by god.
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- That's just not the case.
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- So jesus, he warns us through the word of god.
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- Listen, there's going to come a season
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- Where you encounter pain
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- And you encounter persecution, and you encounter hardship
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- Because you are a disciple of me.
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- And what he's telling us is, if your gospel can't handle
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- Pain, it's not built on the cross.
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- It's built on comfort.
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- And we've got a lot of comfortable christians in 2025.
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- Because we have not done
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- What it takes to apply the whole gospel to our lives.
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- We only apply the portions that apply to us,
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- And we like to read the text
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- That make us feel good about our sin.
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- And we've been told since we're we're little kids,
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- You're the best thing that's ever happened.
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- There's no kid greater than you.
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- You to go.
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- You're the most handsome kid.
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- You're the most beautiful kid.
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- And there also has to be some discipline that goes with that.
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- So you don't create little minions.
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- Little hellions.
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- Out here, beneath average in everything they do.
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- Because they carry themselves with entitlement.
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- Y'all just keep looking forward.
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- I ain't talking to you. i'm talking to the person.
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- Sitting beside you.
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- But god does not raise us in his word like that.
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- So why do we raise our kids?
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- God teaches us.
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- I've caught you.
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- I've set you apart.
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- You are peculiar.
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- But you need to fix that.
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- You had a conversation last week.
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- You need to go back and apologize for it.
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- Yeah. you said this.
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- You shouldn't have said it that way. yes.
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- You said that you were going to do this.
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- You still have not follow through on it.
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- Why does god do that?
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- Because he's a loving father.
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- So not only does he complement, he also convicts.
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- You're not talking to him.
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- It's okay.
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- And he allows us to know by the spirit's leading.
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- That's coming a day in time where you will not be able
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- To escape pain, because it is in pain
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- That you realize how present i actually am.
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- So hear me, family.
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- If your gospel can't handle pain, it's not built on
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- The cross is built on your comfort,
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- And your comfort will always lead you
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- To a false religion that separate from god.
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- And it will always leave you
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- With the idea and the notion that god is not with you.
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- When you find yourself in seasons of pain and persecution.
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- And it's not because it's true.
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- It's because you've applied it to your life as your truth.
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- The spirit prepares you for suffering.
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- Not so you can escape it, but
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- So you won't misdiagnosing it.
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- And the reality is, as some of us
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- Have misdiagnosed pain
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- As god has abandoned us and turn our backs on us, and
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- And god has forsaken us, when in fact the bible tells us
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- That these days are coming.
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- For the sake
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- Of the gospel of jesus christ.
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- Falling away doesn't always start with rebellion.
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- It starts with resenting
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- Truth.
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- Scripture teaches us.
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- That when truth is received,
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- The truth
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- Will set us free.
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- I got to move.
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- Point number two is this.
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- Deception thrives
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- Where devotion is disconnected from the spirit.
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- According to john chapter 16, verse two.
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- It says, they will put you out of the synagogues.
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- Who is they?
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- The hour is coming when whoever kills
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- You will think he is offering service
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- To god.
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- Notice he didn't say
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- Service to the enemy.
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- Service to the devil.
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- Service to the imps.
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- It says they will think
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- That they are offering service
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- To god.
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- What jesus is warning
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- Them is not of a pagan attack on the church.
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- Jesus is warning them
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- That from the inside out, the church will begin
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- To turn on itself, because there will be many
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- That come in my name that i don't even know.
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- We see that happening today.
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- These people were devoted
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- And deceived.
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- Hear me family.
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- One of the greatest forms of witchcraft
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- Is deception in the church.
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- People who come in the name of god
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- That have not heard his voice.
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- Y'all not talking to me?
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- Witchcraft doesn't show up.
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- Always with a pointy hat and a wand.
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- Abracadabra. boop!
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- Witchcraft often shows up quoting scripture.
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- Jesus is for warning the disciples.
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- There's going to be a day and a time where people come
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- And they persecute you, and they ridicule you.
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- And they're going to
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- Come in my name, but i don't know who they are,
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- And you have to be aware of them.
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- You don't have to be deceived by these people
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- Because you have something called discernment.
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- And if there's anything that i pray for you,
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- If there's anything that i weep to god for, you hear me?
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- Celebration church. it's not so.
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- You can get the car you want.
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- It's not so you can get in the house you want.
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- It's not so you can get more money.
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- It's not so you can get married to the person of your dreams.
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- It's that you get discernment to discern what is the will
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- Of god for your life.
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- And stop listening
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- To these people who come in the name of the lord.
- 00:14:06.962 --> 00:14:10.065
- But i'm manipulating you for selfish gain.
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- Every night i weep for you
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- That you would get discernment.
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- To decipher what is from god and what is from the enemy.
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- And i don't care how well they dress.
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- I don't care how eloquently they speak.
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- If they are not speaking the will of god, hear me
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- With the spirit of god.
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- They still come in the name of witchcraft.
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- What jesus is doing,
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- He's fulfilling what isaiah chapter 29, verse 13 said.
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- It says this people will draw near with their mouth and honor
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- Me with their lips, while their hearts are far
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- From me.
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- He's explaining to the disciples, witchcraft
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- Isn't just practiced in darkness, it's preach.
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- When pastors
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- Manipulate people instead of leading them by the spirit.
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- Hear me.
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- I need you to hear my heart.
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- I will never i will never, ever talk about a pastor
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- That is being led by the spirit of god.
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- However, i will call out a heretic.
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- I will call out a charlatan.
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- I will call out someone that's trying to deceive you.
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- And i have before i've told you.
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- Turn that person. no, don't listen to that person.
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- You need to be led and utilize discernment
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- When you're listening to people talk about god.
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- Because oftentimes people come in his name
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- And they don't even have a relationship with him.
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- Hear me.
- 00:15:53.168 --> 00:15:54.169
- The pulpit becomes a platform for witchcraft.
- 00:15:54.169 --> 00:15:57.106
- When the goal shifts from transformation to control.
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- I don't control you.
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- I don't control this church.
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- This is not my house.
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- This is god's house.
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- And he will do whatever he wants to do
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- Whenever he wants to do it.
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- This does not belong to us.
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- It belongs to him.
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- I'm real
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- Leery of a pastor that said, my my, my, my, my all the time.
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- My people, my church.
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- This is god's house.
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- Whenever
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- A leader replaces submission to the spirit
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- With domination over people, they are no longer shepherding.
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- They are conjuring.
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- We've been deceived.
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- Deception often doesn't come
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- With the pitchfork and horns.
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- Deception comes dressed up.
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- What the enemy knows will lead
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- You astray.
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- Without discernment,
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- We will believe that hype is holy.
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- Point number three is this.
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- Conviction.
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- It's not about behavior.
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- It's about belief.
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- John, chapter 16, verse eight through nine says,
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- And when he comes, he will convict the world
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- Concerning sin and righteousness and judgment concerning sin,
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- Because they do not believe in the
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- Greek word for convict.
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- A word pronounced elegchos.
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- It is a legal term.
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- It is what prosecutors
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- Are known as in the courtroom.
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- They present evidence that demands a verdict.
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- Jesus doesn't say the spirit
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- Convicts of sin because of behavior.
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- He says the spirit convicts of sin
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- Because they do not believe in me.
- 00:18:07.136 --> 00:18:10.339
- So jesus reframes how the disciples are viewing sin.
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- He reframes it. he teaches them.
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- You are not sinning because of bad actions.
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- You're sinning because of misplaced allegiance.
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- The greatest sin isn't what you do.
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- It's refusing to believe who he is.
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- So jesus is not convicting us
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- Simply because our morality is wrong.
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- He's convicting us because we're misaligned with his word.
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- The holy spirit, he is not chasing your sin.
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- He's confronting your source of trust.
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- See, when we find ourselves in sin and lifestyles of sin,
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- It's simply
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- Because we have not had
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- A supernatural encounter where our trust has been changed.
- 00:18:53.715 --> 00:18:57.586
- To view jesus the way he desires for us to view him.
- 00:18:57.586 --> 00:19:00.322
- He is not who we think he is.
- 00:19:00.322 --> 00:19:01.990
- He is who he is. where it says he is.
- 00:19:01.990 --> 00:19:05.227
- So sin isn't just rebellion,
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- It's misplaced belief in something other than jesus.
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- When we are convicted,
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- It's not god pointing to our mess.
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- It's about god inviting us back
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- Into a real relationship where we know who he is.
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- Are you listening to me?
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- God doesn't convict you to expose you.
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- He convicts you to extract the lie that you've been living
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- Because all sin is a lie.
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- That life is better when it is at work in your life,
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- When in fact all sin leads us to death.
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- And what did jesus died for?
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- He died to no sin, to the cross,
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- So that we would never encounter or experience what death was.
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- So simply put,
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- The holy spirit
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- Was not sent here to babysit your brokenness.
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- The holy spirit
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- Was sent here to build your boldness
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- By breaking the lie you've been living in.
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- You don't need a safe space.
- 00:20:29.711 --> 00:20:31.947
- You need a sacred space.
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- Where you step into the sacred space.
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- He provides safety.
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- He provides covering.
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- Aren't you glad that he does not expose your sin?
- 00:20:43.425 --> 00:20:48.263
- But he draws out of you the light.
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- And he covered you so that others won't see
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- What he does.
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- Jesus
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- Didn't sin.
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- His spirit to make you feel better.
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- Jesus set the spirit
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- So that you would understand what true
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- Freedom is.
- 00:21:12.187 --> 00:21:16.758
- And the reality
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- Is, hill
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- Is hoping that you confuse conviction
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- With condemnation.
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- Hell is hoping
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- That you live the rest of your life
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- Thinking that god is in the sky
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- With a lightning bolt in one hand
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- And a baseball bat in the other hand,
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- And he's
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- Waiting on you to mess up so he can bop you over the head.
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- No, he loves you.
- 00:21:46.288 --> 00:21:49.825
- So he challenges you to change.
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- Because if you don't challenge it, it won't change.
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- If it leave, if it's left in your life
- 00:21:58.266 --> 00:22:00.502
- Unchallenged, it will become comfort.
- 00:22:00.502 --> 00:22:03.872
- And so the father loves you
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- So much that he challenges you
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- So that he can change you.
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- Because real love
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- Never leaves you the same way that it finds you.
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- It always leaves you better.
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- Not just better.
- 00:22:27.028 --> 00:22:27.763
- It always leaves you built.
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- Stronger.
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- More mature.
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- Having a knowledge of who he is.
- 00:22:37.739 --> 00:22:39.608
- Because you know what you deserve.
- 00:22:39.608 --> 00:22:41.076
- But you didn't get it.
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- See the holy spirit as the comforter.
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- He comes
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- To plead our case
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- To the father.
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- Because by all accounts, you deserve hell.
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- I deserve hell.
- 00:22:57.859 --> 00:22:59.227
- I know what i have done.
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- I know the life i used to live.
- 00:23:00.896 --> 00:23:03.131
- I deserve it. you deserve it.
- 00:23:03.131 --> 00:23:05.233
- But the holy spirit goes to the father
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- On our behalf and says, i know they deserve it, but your son.
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- He he he went.
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- He went to the cross for the sin
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- That they committed.
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- And he didn't bleed.
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- For one sin,
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- He didn't bleed for 100 sins.
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- He bled for all sin.
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- The holy spirit comes.
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- John chapter 16, verse 13 says,
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- When the spirit of truth comes,
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- He will guide you into all truth.
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- So point number four is this
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- The spirit doesn't just reveal truth.
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- It reconstructs reality.
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- The spirit doesn't just give you facts,
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- It gives you framework.
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- It gives you an understanding.
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- It gives you revelation.
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- It gives you knowledge.
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- That truth is not what you understand.
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- Truth is who you become.
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- When you live your life according to the scripture,
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- When you live your life
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- According to the plan, when you live your life
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- According to the purpose of jesus,
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- The framework of your life, the reconstruction of
- 00:24:23.411 --> 00:24:27.315
- Your reality changes from where you know you were destined
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- To now where you're headed.
- 00:24:32.487 --> 00:24:36.191
- If you're listening to me, you know
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- That you've been living in a lie.
- 00:24:39.661 --> 00:24:40.896
- You know you've been
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- Catering to comfort, catering to sin, entertaining the demons.
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- You know you should be casting out.
- 00:24:47.402 --> 00:24:49.538
- You know that you've been practicing the selfish ambition
- 00:24:49.538 --> 00:24:53.475
- And it's been leading you away from god.
- 00:24:53.475 --> 00:24:56.678
- And you feel this tug on your heart today to run back
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- Into the arms of the father.
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- You know,
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- You know,
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- You know that your heart
- 00:25:02.817 --> 00:25:04.185
- Is beating out of your chest and you can explain why.
- 00:25:04.185 --> 00:25:06.788
- Let me tell you why.
- 00:25:06.788 --> 00:25:07.923
- Because the father is after you, and he wants you to know
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- That he's extracting every lie you've been living.
- 00:25:11.092 --> 00:25:14.029
- He's extracting every every situation
- 00:25:14.029 --> 00:25:16.598
- That's been pulling you away from him.
- 00:25:16.598 --> 00:25:17.999
- He's pulling it out of you.
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- We're family.
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- I pray that you're blessed by this message.
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- And i pray that god has awakened you.
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- He's. open your eyes.
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- He's illuminated his word to us today in john chapter 16.
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- And i pray that as we continue
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- To go through this incredible book,
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- That our hearts would continue to burn for the things
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- Of jesus christ.
- 00:25:40.589 --> 00:25:42.090
- I want to set myself in agreement with you,
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- Whatever it is you may be believing god for it.
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- My prayers that he would answered
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- Those things according to his plan
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- And his purpose for your life.
- 00:25:50.732 --> 00:25:52.367
- So right now, in jesus name, i set myself in agreement
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- With my brothers and my sisters god,
- 00:25:55.337 --> 00:25:57.405
- And i just ask god
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- That you would allow them to step into a season
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- Of seeing your hand of favor,
- 00:26:00.909 --> 00:26:02.677
- Your hand of grace, your hand of mercy
- 00:26:02.677 --> 00:26:05.347
- At work so evidently in their life
- 00:26:05.347 --> 00:26:07.449
- That it would be undeniable
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- That you're with them and that you're for them.
- 00:26:08.750 --> 00:26:11.152
- And so right now, in the name of jesus,
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- I thank you that those that have needs
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- That have been praying, that have been petitioning
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- Those needs have been heard and got you to respond.
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- In jesus name we pray. amen.
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- Us to continue to spread this gospel we believe in.
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- I want you to know
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- If you're ever
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- In the jacksonville area, we would love to see you here
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- Live and in person
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- At celebration church sundays at 9 a.m.
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- And 11 a.m..
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- And if you're not in the north florida area,
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- Continue to watch us right here on this incredible network.
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- Until the next time
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- I want you to know god loves you and i love you.
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- Be blessed in jesus name.
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- ♪♪
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- ♪♪
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