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Tim Timberlake - The Echo of Jesus

June 5, 2026 | 27:29

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Tim Timberlake | Tim Timberlake - The Echo of Jesus | June 5, 2026

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A family is tim
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Timberlake and i am excited about today's word.
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Have you ever had an echo?
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Maybe it was in a hallway.
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Maybe it was in a building
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That didn't have the appropriate sound acoustics.
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And your voice traveled.
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And before you knew it, your voice traveled
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And carried itself into the ears of strangers.
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And sometimes in our lives, we hear different echoes.
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We hear the echoes of our friends.
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We hear the echoes of our family.
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For some of us, we hear the echoes of the enemy.
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Today, i want to encourage you.
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Listen for the echo of jesus.
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Let's go into the word of god, as has already begun,
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Entitled the echo of jesus.
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Today we bring to conclusion
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The life of stephan in acts chapter seven.
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In acts chapter seven taught us so much
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About what it means to be faithful, what it means
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To be a witness, what it means to be dedicated
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Unto death for the person you believe in.
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The life of stephan is not just any life.
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It is a life that was laid down for the gospel.
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He believed in making him the first martyr in christendom.
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And as we read through acts chapter seven, we see a man
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Dedicated to his convictions, full
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Of the holy spirit and full of wisdom.
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And he is not an apostle.
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He is not one of the original 12 disciples.
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He is not a celebrity pastor.
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He is not a tiktok influencer.
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He is just a man
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That is dedicated to serving.
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Filled with the holy spirit and what he accomplishes
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In his service is noteworthy.
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It teaches us that heaven often chooses
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Servants to model what leaders should become.
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It teaches us that if you lay your life down,
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That jesus will in fact pick it back up.
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It teaches us that when you are pursuing
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The king of kings and the lord of lords,
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He gives you not just a life, but he gives you a life
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Worth living, and he allows your life, even in servanthood,
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To be a model and a demonstration to those
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Who should be following jesus christ and his life.
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It gives us this mirror of the life of jesus.
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It teaches us that
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He was taken outside of the city and he was murdered.
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And as we read the gospels, we see that jesus was taken
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Outside of the city and jesus was crucified
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Outside of the city.
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It teaches us that he prayed for his killers,
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And scripture teaches us that jesus prayed for his killers.
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Jesus entrusted his spirit to the father and his.
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Stefan is entrusting his spirit to jesus.
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He says, lord jesus, receive of my spirit.
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And then it says,
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He cries out with a loud voice, father, have mercy on them,
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And forgive them, for they know not what they do.
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This teaches us a valuable lesson about discipleship.
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Discipleship is not merely learning what jesus taught.
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It is becoming what jesus has revealed.
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And when you will come, what jesus has revealed.
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You take
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On the very nature of revelation by applying it to your life
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And allowing your life
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To be an example of the life that jesus lived.
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And so this
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Crowd, they think that they're ending the life of stefan.
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And as a result, they think that they're ending a movement.
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But what they're actually doing is planting a seed
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For greater revival to take place in the earth.
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And as i read this, it dawned on me
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That persecution becomes propagation.
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You may ask, what is propagation?
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Propagation simply means the advancement of a cause
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To continue to move forward, to continue
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To carry something even beyond your comfort.
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So persecution, it comes before propagation
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And some of you are complaining and running from persecution,
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When in fact god wants you to stand still in the persecution
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And allow the persecution to become the very thing
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That propels the gospel of jesus christ in and through
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Your life.
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And sometimes god lets your
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Pain preach to people your voice could never reach.
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And sometimes god will let the pain you are in
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And the pain that you've been through
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And the hurdles you've had to overcome
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And the giants you've had to defeat
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And the mountains you've had to scale.
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Preach louder than your voice ever could.
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Because if
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You don't have something
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That people can identify with, then they won't listen to you.
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And one thing most of us can always identify,
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What we can always identify with pain.
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And so instead of complaining
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About it, ask god what is it he desires to reveal through it?
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And if god doesn't pull you out of it, ask god
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To deliver you through it.
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And if it continues to exist in your life,
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Then allow it to teach you something.
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If it continues to
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To dwell in your life, allow it to advance the
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Gospel of jesus in your life.
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If you, like paul, have a thorn in your flesh
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And you pray to god and you ask god to remove it,
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And god simply says, my grace is sufficient for you.
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What god is saying to you, that what you are going through
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Is not just for you, it's for those that will come behind you
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Because they need to see someone who models what i look like
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And what i sound like, even in the worst of times.
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So verse 58, it begins by saying,
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And when they had driven him
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Out of the city, this is important
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For us to understand and take notes of,
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Because they tried to expel
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What they could not control.
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Religion has this crazy way
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Of trying to remove what it cannot refute,
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And so often people will try to silence you
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Because they can't control you,
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And they will label you and they'll put their own
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Stamps on you because they can't control you.
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The reason they can't control you
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Is because you're no longer the same person that they met
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Years ago.
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And have you?
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Have you really noticed the people
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You no longer hang around?
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They they didn't really like you. for you.
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They liked the way you made them feel
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When they didn't want to change.
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And then when you change,
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They start complaining and saying, you change you, right?
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I've changed.
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I'm not working all this hard to stay the same.
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God didn't send his son to be crucified on the cross,
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To be buried and resurrected for me to stay the same.
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Yes, i'm changing. i'm maturing.
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I'm transforming
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Into the very person that god has asked for me to be.
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So stop debating
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Whether you've changed or not and just acknowledge
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You have changed and you are changing
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And you are becoming more like jesus christ.
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They drag him out of the city
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And they begin stoning him.
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And stoning in this time
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Period was a communal execution.
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The reason it was communal, the whole community
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Would get involved with it, and the whole community
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Would pick up a stone and stone.
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The person that they were trying to execute
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Is because no one person wanted full blame or responsibility.
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So everyone through something.
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This reminds me of 2026.
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We don't have the courage or the tenacity
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To talk to people one on one when we got a problem
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With them.
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Instead, we look for company on social media
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That will agree with us not even knowing
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The context of the situation,
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Because we're not looking for answers.
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We're looking for volume because we believe
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That the more volume we have in communicating what we feel,
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The writer we are.
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And the reality is you can scream
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All you want to and still be wrong.
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And so instead of one person taking responsibility
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For what happened,
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The whole community would get involved
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So that one person could not be the blame.
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And it says witnesses.
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They laid aside the cloaks at the feet
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Of a young man named saul.
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They laid their cloaks at the feet of saul
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So that they would have no restrictions on their arms
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To throw harder.
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And they act it together
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In this mob style execution,
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Because shared cruelty creates
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False innocence.
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And you can run into packing,
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You can run along with your little crew
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And your little circle
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And your little clique and still be wrong.
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But we think
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Agreement equals truth and it does not.
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You can all be wrong
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At the same time.
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And share it.
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Cruelty.
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It creates false innocence.
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Here's the
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Reality and a revelation that we find in this passage.
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While they were laying garments at the feet of saul,
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Grace was already preparing itself
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To lay itself at the feet of saul
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As well for the call that was on his life.
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So as saul is watching this murder take place,
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This murder would mark him in a greater manner
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Than he would currently realize.
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And so it's important not just how we live,
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But listen to me also and how we die.
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Because in how we die can serve
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As a testimony to the one true living god.
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How could he have such faith and such boldness?
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And how could he have such clarity?
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And how could he pray
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That god would forgive those who are in the act of stoning him
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If he did not have a revelation of who jesus was?
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Point number one is this
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Saul watched the man die well,
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And that vision made it harder to keep living wrong.
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When you see someone live their life
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As a reflection, as a mirror, as a model of jesus christ,
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It should make you feel bad for living wrong.
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Do you ever notice how when you are pursuing jesus
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And you're doing things
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In a manner of righteousness and people that are around
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You don't want to pursue jesus
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And don't want to do things the right way,
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They stop putting themselves around you.
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I've noticed this trend in my own life
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That that when i'm headed towards jesus
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And and i'm doing things according to the plan
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And the purpose he desires for me, certain people
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That don't want to go in the same direction with me,
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I don't have to cut them off.
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They just fall off themselves.
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When we get so,
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So bogged down with asking god, remove this person, remove
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That person, remove this person out of my life.
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No, you just keep growing.
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You just keep pursuing jesus.
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You just keep advancing the kingdom of god.
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And they will eventually fall off.
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Because anyone
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That is not pursuing jesus while you are pursuing
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Jesus will not roll with you long.
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He saw he.
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He came to approve this death of stefan, unknowingly
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Attending his funeral to his old identity
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And sitting there approving, watching,
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Applauding the death and the murder of stefan,
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Not knowing that this would be a seed
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That would change his life and his
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Eternity and his advancement, and his theological
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Theology and his perspective of jesus christ for the rest
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Of his life.
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And i love this because it teaches me.
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And all those stones hit stefan's body.
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They could not touch stefan's soul.
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And people may be able to talk about you.
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People may be able to backstab you, and people may even
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Physically be able to hurt you,
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But they cannot touch your soul.
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They they they they can't determine
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Where you go and how you spend eternity.
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But you can determine
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Based upon your reaction or response to them.
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Notice stefan never pays
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Attention to the people that are stoning him
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Because his eyes are fixed on jesus.
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Y'all pay too much attention to who talking about you,
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And not enough attention to the person that's delivered
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You and has lifted you above what they're saying about you.
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When you know that what they're saying has no validity
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Or truth,
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You don't even have to entertain
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The conversation because you know
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You know what is true and what is not true.
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The the way you get in trouble is you get into a debate
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With a person that's lying about you.
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And then people start to ask the question, is it true?
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You cannot stop my declaration.
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You cannot stop my revelation.
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You cannot stop my prayers.
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You may be able to stop my body,
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But you will never be able to stop my testimony.
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Which teaches us a very valuable truth.
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Point number two crisis does not create faith.
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It reveals it.
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And when your world is falling apart,
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You find out where your spirit has been anchored
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And you'll find out who and what you actually worship.
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When your life begins to crumble and it is not
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What you anticipated and expected it to be,
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You will find out what god you really serve.
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If it's the god of the bible, or if it's the god of culture
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And society,
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If it is the god of scripture, or if it's the god of your mind
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And your mentality.
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If it's the god of what the word of god teaches you,
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He should be in your life.
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Or is it a
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God you've
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Created as an idol for your life so that you could control
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The outcome of what it was you wanted to see?
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And the
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Reality is, is
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If pressure steals your peace, if pressure steals your joy,
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If pressure steals the way you handle crisis and pain,
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Then peace was never rooted deep enough in your life.
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If the enemy knows what can change you,
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What can turn you, what can position you in a place
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Where you no longer reflect jesus christ?
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He will push.
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Push that button over and over again
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To get you into a place where you're no longer
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Following jesus the way you desire to,
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But now you're following your flesh.
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And this is where
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A lot of people that say they believe find themselves
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In 2026, we confess jesus, but we follow our flesh.
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What happens when this flesh
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Is no longer able to do the things you desire to do?
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Who will have your attention?
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Who will receive your prayers?
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Who will receive the words that you say?
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The last and final words of your life.
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Stefan.
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He's being stoned to death and his mentality
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Is, god, i see your glory.
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I see the son of man standing beside the father.
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Receive of my spirit
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And forgive those
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That do these things to me.
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He remained in perfect peace because he had a perfect picture
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Of who his savior was.
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In verse number 60
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It says, then falling on his knees.
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He cried out with a loud voice,
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Lord, do not hold this sin
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Against them.
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This gives us
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The picture that he does not fall in defeat.
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He falls in surrender.
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The crowd sees weakness,
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But heaven sees worship.
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Be very careful
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With whom you look down upon,
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And in a moment you think and dean as weakness,
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When heaven sees it as the strongest moment of their life,
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Because they're worshiping their savior.
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What the crowd and the witnesses see,
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They think they're seeing weakness, when in fact stefan
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Is experiencing worship.
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And the words
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That he cries out, they echo the same words
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Jesus pronounced on the cross
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Father, forgive them.
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His final words.
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His final statement was not revenge,
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But mercy.
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That means
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They may have broken his body,
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But they could not infect his heart.
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Look at me.
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This is one of the greatest revelations in all of scripture
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Of a person being full of the holy spirit.
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Because it's easy for us to
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Shout and have ra ra moments and seasons of blessing.
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But with your testimony of
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The faithfulness of jesus remain intact and the same.
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When coach and society are stoning you.
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Whenever we think about the power of the holy spirit, we
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We have a tendency to go back to acts chapter one,
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And we have a tendency to go to acts chapter two.
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But but this is
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A great depiction of the power of the holy spirit at work,
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And a person that is full of the holy spirit,
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Because he does not curse
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Those that are cursing and killing him.
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He says, god, would you bless and forgive them?
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So how do you know
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When you are full of the holy spirit,
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When you no longer want revenge?
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But you desperately and consistently seek
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To reference the king of kings and the lord of lords?
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How do you know that you are growing
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Spiritually when you no longer have the mindset
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And the mentality to debate those who come against you and
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You pray for them instead?
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Point number three is this
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The greatest proof that graced reached you
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Is that pain did not make you cruel?
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That killing this man
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And murdering this man.
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They're stoning this man.
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But yet.
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And still, what they are doing to him
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Does not make him cruel and does not make him bitter.
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It does not make him angry.
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It does not make him frustrated.
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Scripture says his focus
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Is completely and solely on heaven above.
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Seeing the glory of god
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And seeing the son of man
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Standing at the right hand of the father.
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And he asked jesus christ, receive of my spirit.
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And then he cries out with a loud voice, have mercy on them.
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Forgive them, for they know not what they do.
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And after he said that, then it says
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He gave up his final breath and he went to sleep.
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One might ask,
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Why is it that certain passages say that he went to sleep?
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Because there was an expectation written by luke in acts,
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That he is not taking his final breath.
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He is about to live a life greater and more vivid
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Than he's ever lived before.
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And the reality for the believer is that there is no death
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For those that follow and are disciples of jesus christ.
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That's why we can say things like,
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Oh, death, where is your sting?
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And o grave, where is your victory?
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Death does not have any power over you
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Once you become a follower of jesus christ.
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And the reality is, is once
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You take your last breath in this earth and vessel,
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You will experience a life that you never thought was possible.
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And the streets that you walk on will be paved with gold.
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And so the greatest proof that grace has reached you
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Is not that you can shout,
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Not that you can speak in tongues, not that you can cry.
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Not that you can dance until your wig is cricket.
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Not that you come out your shoes.
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Not that you take your suit jacket off.
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Not that you can dress,
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Not that you can do all these different things
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And have all these different church cliches,
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Is that you are a reflection of the grace of jesus christ,
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Even until your death.
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And this level of grace
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That is given to those who receive.
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Anybody can shout
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When they're blessed.
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But maturity,
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Maturity.
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It whispers mercy when you are bleeding.
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When is the last time you prayed for those that cursed you?
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When is the last time you prayed for
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Those that get on social media and they the so tough
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On social media and they talk about you
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And they got
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Their little cloud of witnesses talking about you, but you,
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You don't talk back, you just pray for them.
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God bless them beyond their wildest expectations.
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I pray that you grab ahold of their heart.
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God, i pray that you would bless
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Them beyond their wildest dreams.
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I pray that they would pursue you all the days of their life.
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I pray that you would change them and transform them
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Until god tells you to no longer pray those things.
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But when is the last time you prayed for
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Those that curse you?
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See, we we too busy going back and forth
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To realize that you have the greatest gift
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Given to humanity at work on the inside of you.
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And when you are full of wisdom and full of the holy spirit,
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You no longer speak for yourself.
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You no longer make moves for just yourself. you.
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You now speak on behalf of the king of glory and his kingdom,
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And you're no longer living
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For your own selfish desires and your own ambition,
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And your own ego and your own pride.
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You're living for a greater cause.
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And that cause is to advance the gospel of jesus christ.
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And so reading this, reading this passage,
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One could automatically assume that stephan is
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Echoing what someone told him jesus said on the cross.
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He's just regurgitating a story
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That was passed down from generation to generation.
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I don't believe that's the case.
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You say, well, how can you say that?
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That is not the case
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Because theologians and historians teach us that
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The crucifixion of jesus was anywhere between 8030 and 8333.
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The murder and execution of stephan was
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Between the time period of ad 38 and ad 40,
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Which means that there is a gap of 6 to 8 years
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Between the crucifixion of jesus and the murder of stephan.
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Now look at me for a second.
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Six years ago,
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If someone would have came up to you and said, hey,
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This person said these nice things about you.
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They think the world of you.
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They like everything about you.
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And these are the things that they said a,
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B, c six years ago, 6 to 8 years ago.
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Could you recall verbatim those nice
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Things that were said about you?
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You can't recall something
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Nice your coworker told you last week,
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But some of you can because they your work wife and your work.
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Husband.
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I pray this word blessed you today.
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My greatest desire
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Is that you would draw closer to jesus, and that you would
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Move further and further away from the echoes of the enemy.
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I love the scripture that teaches us that
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The sheep, they know his voice and the stranger's voice.
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They will not entertain
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My prayers that you would put
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On your spiritual earmuffs when needed.
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You would open up your heart,
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That you would open your eyes
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To see what jesus is doing in and through your life,
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And that you would not minimize his voice, or minimize his plan
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Or minimize his purpose for you.
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And i truly believe that if we apply this word
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That our lives get better because we draw closer to
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The heart of the king of kings and the lord of lords,
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Let me pray with you.
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Then we, father, i thank you for my brothers and sisters.
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I ask god that you
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Would make yourself known to them in an undeniable way.
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I ask god that not only would they know that you are good,
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But you're good with them and you're good for them.
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And so right now, in jesus name, i thank you
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That over the next season of life, they would know you
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Because they've heard
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Your voice echo deep within their spirit and soul.
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In jesus name i pray. amen.
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The family for ever in the jacksonville area
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Stopped by celebration church, 9 a.m., 11 a.m.
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Or 1:30 p.m..
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We'd love to see you.
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I'd love to encourage you with the word of god,
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And love to put biblical community
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Around you as you continue your journey in faith.
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Until the next time i want you to know
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God loves you and i love you to be blessed.
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♪♪
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♪♪
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Tim Timberlake - The Echo of Jesus

June 5, 2026 | 27:29

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