Tim Timberlake

Tim Timberlake - The Danger of Deception

October 17, 2025 | 28:30

Tim Timberlake deep biblical wisdom empowers audiences to create transformative change in their lives.

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Tim Timberlake | Tim Timberlake - The Danger of Deception | October 17, 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.
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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.
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The pulpit becomes a platform for witchcraft.
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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.
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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.
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To view jesus the way he desires for us to view him.
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He is not who we think he is.
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He is who he is. where it says he is.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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
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Unchallenged, it will become comfort.
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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.
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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.
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Because you know what you deserve.
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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.
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I know what i have done.
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I know the life i used to live.
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I deserve it. you deserve it.
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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
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Your reality changes from where you know you were destined
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To now where you're headed.
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If you're listening to me, you know
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That you've been living in a lie.
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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.
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You know that you've been practicing the selfish ambition
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And it's been leading you away from god.
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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
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Is beating out of your chest and you can explain why.
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Let me tell you why.
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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.
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He's extracting every every situation
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That's been pulling you away from him.
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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.
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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.
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So right now, in jesus name, i set myself in agreement
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With my brothers and my sisters god,
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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,
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Your hand of grace, your hand of mercy
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At work so evidently in their life
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That it would be undeniable
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That you're with them and that you're for them.
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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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Tim Timberlake - The Danger of Deception

October 17, 2025 | 28:30

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