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Tim Timberlake - Fake Fire

June 26, 2026 | 27:29

Tim Timberlake - Fake Fire
Pastor Tim dives into Acts 8 to uncover the difference between counterfeit spirituality and the true power of the Holy Spirit.
#Bible #Study #Demons #SpiritualWarfare #Spirit #SpiritualGrowth #SeekGod #TimTimberlake

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Tim Timberlake | Tim Timberlake - Fake Fire | June 26, 2026
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  • Hey family is pastor tim timberlake at celebration church
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  • And i am excited about the word of god today.
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  • I want you to grab your word.
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  • Go with me to acts chapter eight.
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  • Get your pen and get your notepad.
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  • Let's go into the message as it has already begun.
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  • Entitled fake fire.
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  • You ain't talking to your mama.
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  • You ain't talking to your daddy.
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  • You talking to a demon?
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  • No, no.
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  • But he came and visited me in a dream.
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  • You talk into a demon,
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  • A familiar spirit
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  • That is not from god.
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  • Don't entertain it.
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  • Don't communicate.
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  • Don't have conversation.
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  • Say in the name of jesus,
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  • I cast you out and send you back to where you came from.
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  • My mom.
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  • My dad is with the father, enjoying eternity
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  • On the streets paved with gold.
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  • And what i am doing now is living my life
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  • In such a way that one day i will see them again.
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  • When i meet jesus, i don't got time to entertain
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  • Nobody coming saying day.
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  • My daddy, my dad been gone for 24 years sitting here talking.
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  • Oh yeah. i had a conversation last night
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  • Talking to a demon.
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  • Sitting and calling these one
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  • 800 numbers, fake fire,
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  • Paying for prophecies.
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  • Paying for prophecy.
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  • $77. you get a word from that lord?
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  • Ahh a word from the lord.
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  • The word of god says you are going to be free.
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  • Well, if you just read what the book says, you understand
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  • What the mind of god is for your life.
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  • I wish that we had more discerning believers that don't
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  • Get to look to the left or to the right.
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  • They can go right to the word of god and know
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  • That for me, in my house, we will serve the lord.
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  • Fake fire.
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  • Sitting here looking to get your flesh tickled
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  • And your ears entertain fake fire.
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  • When they hear every message.
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  • Talking about blessing and breakthrough.
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  • Fake fire.
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  • Want to hear every single sunday?
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  • I'm blessed. going in and blessed going out.
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  • Fake fire.
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  • Want to hear a prosperity gospel that will teach you that
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  • Whatever you do, god is going to bless.
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  • And when you give, he's going to
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  • Open up the windows of heaven and and gold
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  • Is going to come out and you're going to receive
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  • Lucky charm type blessings.
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  • No fake fire.
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  • What we need is the word of god,
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  • The unadulterated truth of the gospel of jesus christ
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  • That sets the captives free and allows us to experience
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  • What real and authentic fire looks like.
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  • Got altars in your house?
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  • Saying you're a christian
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  • But practicing santa maria.
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  • Got little altars with candles and mary and and peter
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  • And all these figures and and there is no power in
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  • Those altars.
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  • There is only power in surrendering your life
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  • As a living sacrifice on the altar of god.
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  • And if it is not on the altar of god, you have made an altar
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  • For demons, and your house will be ridiculed because of it.
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  • Fake fire.
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  • That is what simon
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  • Is demonstrating, a fake fire.
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  • But the greatest form of manipulation
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  • Is not the spells he cast.
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  • It's not the routine of rituals he practiced.
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  • It is found in a statement
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  • That is powerful and profound.
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  • The greatest form of witchcraft
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  • Is found in this statement, claiming
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  • To be someone great.
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  • Claiming to be
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  • Someone great.
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  • The spirit behind witchcraft
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  • Has always craved control,
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  • Attention and a counterfeit glory.
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  • If you got the claim to be someone great,
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  • Then you're not great at all.
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  • If you got the claim to be someone great, that's
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  • Almost as pathetic as you singing your own birthday song.
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  • Satan
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  • Fell because he wanted worship.
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  • And witchcraft is often
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  • Humanity trying to gain spirituality
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  • Without surrendering to god.
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  • What culture calls manifestation spiritual energy,
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  • Harmless astrology, curiosity, speaking things into existence
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  • Apart from god.
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  • Crystals, new age spirituality, burning sage
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  • For spiritual cleaning,
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  • Universe worship, or obsession with psychics and mediums.
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  • Scripture often places under the category of forbidden
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  • Spiritual practices because those things seek supernatural
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  • Guidance, protection, and identity separate
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  • From god.
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  • The danger in this
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  • Is that
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  • It doesn't always look evil.
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  • Oftentimes it looks normal.
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  • So normal that you would take your kids
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  • To go see it.
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  • You'll pay for it.
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  • Take them to a movie that's casting
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  • Spells.
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  • Sedan giggle. let it.
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  • One of the things i've learned about
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  • The enemy is if he can get you to laugh at it,
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  • He can get you to accept it.
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  • I don't want to hear that, because now i'm
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  • Messing up things you got planned.
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  • Well, you even buy him a little cloak,
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  • A little wine,
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  • Draw a little lightning bolt on their forehead.
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  • Eyes harmless.
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  • What looks harmless now
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  • Will position you and your season next
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  • To be hopeless.
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  • The danger is
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  • Not that it always looks evil.
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  • The danger is that it often looks normal.
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  • The enemy's favorite
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  • Strategy is not making darkness obvious.
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  • It's making darkness acceptable.
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  • Verse number ten says, all the people
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  • Were paying attention to him
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  • From small to great.
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  • Poor people believed him.
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  • Influential people believed him.
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  • The city had collectively agreed that counterfeit
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  • Power was divine power, and they called simon
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  • The great power of god.
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  • Because people can become
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  • So spiritually undeserning that they mistake
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  • Demonic influence for divine activity.
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  • That every spiritual experience is holy,
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  • And not every supernatural moment is from god.
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  • When people stop knowing scripture,
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  • They start calling counterfeit power holy.
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  • And that's why you can come into a service like this
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  • And you can hear the word of god and not apply
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  • The word of god and leave the same way that you came,
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  • Because
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  • You've been in a dark room so long,
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  • You don't know what light looks like until you discover it.
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  • Sometimes when we live in environments
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  • That are so toxic for so long,
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  • Peace feels unsafe.
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  • And so we would rather go back
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  • To what's familiar in toxicity.
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  • Than freedom that looks unfamiliar.
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  • The reason we do that is because we are still
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  • Tethered to the past.
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  • It's your identity.
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  • It's what you found yourself in.
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  • It's all you've ever known.
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  • It's who you have become.
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  • You have become what you hoped you would never become
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  • Because you are separate from the father.
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  • And now you have a fake fire.
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  • This word astonished.
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  • It carries
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  • The idea of being mentally captivated, being overwhelmed,
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  • Hypnotized, entertained, and anything that captures
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  • Your fascination will eventually capture your allegiance.
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  • Did you hear what i said?
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  • Anything that captures your fascination will eventually
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  • Capture your allegiance.
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  • They don't believe me.
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  • Look at society.
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  • Down to the movies we watch.
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  • We've been fascinated by twilight.
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  • And so we asked people the question,
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  • Which are you?
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  • Team?
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  • Or team
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  • Fascinated by harry potter?
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  • So we ask the questions, are you team
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  • Or team?
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  • I don't want to be called anything.
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  • That sounds like hogwarts.
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  • And just listen to what we say
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  • Because we're fascinated by it.
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  • And anything we get fascinated by, we give our allegiance to.
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  • And y'all will walk around a hot theme park with a black
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  • Robe on and a maroon scarf and a little one,
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  • But you can't come to church on time.
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  • Grown adults
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  • Looking like they are part of the choir of the church of satan
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  • In universal studios, but can't come to church on time.
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  • What world do we live in?
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  • Fake fire.
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  • What we must understand is fake fire.
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  • It may make you obsessed, but holy fire
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  • Makes you free.
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  • Harry potter can't heal
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  • You, can't set you free.
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  • Twilight can't deliver
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  • You, can't remove demons out of your life.
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  • These things cannot break chains.
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  • Remove yokes, destroy burdens.
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  • Only a holy fire given to us by the power of the holy
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  • Spirit, has the power to set the captives free.
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  • And the word of god says, with the spirit of the lord is
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  • There is freedom.
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  • And the last time i checked, the spirit of the lord was here
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  • Right now, which means freedom is available to you
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  • If you have faith, fire today.
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  • If you
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  • Feel tormented in your mind, if you feel stressed in your life,
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  • If you feel anxiety
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  • And your test freedom is available to you right now.
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  • Point number one is this.
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  • Just because it's common doesn't mean it's clean.
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  • I don't care what they say on tv.
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  • I don't care what your favorite guru
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  • Trying to teach you on social media.
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  • Just because it's common does not mean that it is clean.
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  • Just because people are doing it does not mean
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  • You and your household should participate.
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  • Just because it has become commercial
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  • Does not mean that
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  • It is sanctified
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  • And righteous and holy and acceptable unto god,
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  • Just because of the people that you know
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  • Are putting these things in their routine
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  • And on their calendars
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  • And in their rhythms as that mean, that is
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  • What god desires for you to do.
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  • Just because it is common does not mean that it is clean.
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  • And what
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  • Culture and society has done, it is normalized.
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  • What scripture warns us against.
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  • And the word of god says that in the last days
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  • People will call truth, lies and lies truth.
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  • And the danger
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  • Is that hell really enters a culture
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  • Looking dangerous.
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  • It often enters a culture
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  • Or person looking desirable.
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  • You want to know how hell came into your life?
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  • Hell came into your life in that six foot three frame.
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  • You want to know how hell came into your life?
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  • Hell came into your life with heels and red lipstick.
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  • Do you want to know how hell came into your life?
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  • Accepting a job without praying to god first for it?
  • 00:15:11.593 --> 00:15:15.264
  • You want to know how hell came into your life?
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  • Rushing and manipulating and manufacturing
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  • Your own breakthroughs and your miracles and your seasons?
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  • And you wonder why you have no peace.
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  • You wonder why your mind is being tormented.
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  • You wonder why your chest is tight.
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  • Like you're having a heart attack.
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  • It is because you have allowed unclean things
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  • Into your spiritual environment, and it is not until you repent
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  • And ask the holy spirit to cut every tie from your past
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  • And deliver you from every burden
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  • That is rested on you, that you experience of freedom
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  • That you thought was impossible to experience.
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  • Oh, what starts as
  • 00:15:49.531 --> 00:15:50.666
  • Curiosity always ends in captivity.
  • 00:15:50.666 --> 00:15:53.702
  • And some of you been real curious.
  • 00:15:53.702 --> 00:15:55.137
  • I'm just searching past.
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  • I'm searching for truth and spiritual things.
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  • And i'm just searching for the right answer.
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  • I'm just searching for the things
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  • That i'm supposed to be doing.
  • 00:16:02.911 --> 00:16:04.046
  • Well have you searched jesus? no.
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  • I want to search over here.
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  • I want to search a harry christian,
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  • Or i want to search all these different religions.
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  • I want to search the church of mormons.
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  • I want to search what it means to to to serve.
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  • I want to search what it means to be a hindu and and pray
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  • To all these different gods.
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  • I'm going to i'm going to search.
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  • You can search all your life.
  • 00:16:24.867 --> 00:16:27.636
  • You can look high and low.
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  • You can take your little
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  • Bon voyage over to india.
  • 00:16:31.774 --> 00:16:35.244
  • And miss
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  • The savior has been standing beside you this whole time.
  • 00:16:37.246 --> 00:16:41.183
  • Waiting on you to just turn.
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  • Salvation is as close
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  • As your ability to surrender.
  • 00:16:50.793 --> 00:16:53.595
  • And some of y'all
  • 00:16:53.595 --> 00:16:54.663
  • Paying all of this money to go on these retreats,
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  • And all you gotta do is go to your bed,
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  • Drop down on your knees,
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  • Ask the lord to save you, heal you, set you free, deliver you.
  • 00:17:03.472 --> 00:17:06.809
  • You don't gotta pay
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  • Thousands of dollars to go over to bali for some yoga retreat.
  • 00:17:08.043 --> 00:17:11.613
  • You can go right to your closet and drop down all your knees.
  • 00:17:11.613 --> 00:17:15.117
  • And the word of god
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  • Says that when i call on the name of the lord,
  • 00:17:16.151 --> 00:17:20.055
  • I will be saved.
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  • I am so tired of churches with fake fire, people
  • 00:17:23.192 --> 00:17:27.029
  • Who profess christ with fake fire, people
  • 00:17:27.029 --> 00:17:29.498
  • Who say they are followers of jesus christ with fake fire.
  • 00:17:29.498 --> 00:17:32.267
  • No, we need a holy fire that will burn out of us to hell.
  • 00:17:32.267 --> 00:17:36.205
  • We've been stewarding in our lives
  • 00:17:36.205 --> 00:17:38.207
  • And allow us to
  • 00:17:38.207 --> 00:17:39.441
  • Become reflections of the glory and the grace of jesus christ.
  • 00:17:39.441 --> 00:17:46.548
  • And the doors are standing in front of.
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  • Don't look demonic
  • 00:17:49.184 --> 00:17:50.352
  • Until you realize peace left as soon as you opened it.
  • 00:17:50.352 --> 00:17:56.125
  • And i never starts off with worship to the enemy.
  • 00:17:57.092 --> 00:18:00.696
  • It always starts off with attention,
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  • And if the enemy can
  • 00:18:05.534 --> 00:18:06.668
  • Just grab your attention,
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  • Eventually he will have your worship
  • 00:18:09.705 --> 00:18:13.575
  • And just start making excuses for your sin.
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  • It's just a little bit here and there.
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  • It's not a problem,
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  • Just a little point here and there.
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  • It's not a problem.
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  • My wife knows about it.
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  • She's okay with it.
  • 00:18:30.626 --> 00:18:33.662
  • But my husband knows about it.
  • 00:18:34.263 --> 00:18:37.366
  • He's okay with it.
  • 00:18:37.366 --> 00:18:40.035
  • And you start inviting these things into your bedroom.
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  • I'm wondering why
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  • You never satisfied and fulfilled.
  • 00:18:46.375 --> 00:18:55.150
  • It's because you have these
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  • Things hidden.
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  • Tucked away.
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  • You've agreed with these
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  • Things because in your mind, you've defined them.
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  • It's not that bad.
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  • The reason you define them is not that bad
  • 00:19:15.037 --> 00:19:16.939
  • Is because you like doing them.
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  • So your praise on sunday.
  • 00:19:25.247 --> 00:19:28.817
  • And talk crazy
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  • When you leave church.
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  • Absolutely crazy.
  • 00:19:34.056 --> 00:19:36.325
  • Like the type of language you would never say
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  • In front of jesus.
  • 00:19:38.994 --> 00:19:43.632
  • Witchcraft ain't always hocus pocus.
  • 00:19:44.433 --> 00:19:46.068
  • Sometimes witchcraft is you not being able
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  • To control the words that come out of your mouth.
  • 00:19:48.036 --> 00:19:52.040
  • You don't gotta like it.
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  • You know, i'm telling you the truth.
  • 00:19:54.810 --> 00:19:57.913
  • Because, you know, as soon as it comes
  • 00:19:57.913 --> 00:19:59.114
  • Out of your mouth, the holy spirit places
  • 00:19:59.114 --> 00:20:00.382
  • This finger right down your spirit.
  • 00:20:00.382 --> 00:20:01.717
  • Hey, you shouldn't have said that.
  • 00:20:01.717 --> 00:20:04.253
  • You shouldn't have said it like that.
  • 00:20:04.253 --> 00:20:05.587
  • You shouldn't have did that
  • 00:20:05.587 --> 00:20:07.889
  • Because you're too prideful.
  • 00:20:08.490 --> 00:20:09.625
  • You can't say, you know what?
  • 00:20:09.625 --> 00:20:10.425
  • You're right, i'm wrong.
  • 00:20:10.425 --> 00:20:14.296
  • You can't lift your hands and worship one second
  • 00:20:14.296 --> 00:20:16.832
  • And then be cursing out your spouse when you leave.
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  • That's a fake fire.
  • 00:20:26.541 --> 00:20:30.712
  • Number two.
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  • Counterfeit power
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  • Always demands attention.
  • 00:20:35.450 --> 00:20:38.820
  • According to scripture, simon built influence by making people
  • 00:20:38.820 --> 00:20:42.090
  • Amazed with him instead of surrendered
  • 00:20:42.090 --> 00:20:44.860
  • And submitted to god.
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  • Real revival.
  • 00:20:47.796 --> 00:20:49.731
  • A real move of the holy spirit.
  • 00:20:49.731 --> 00:20:52.534
  • A real fire points people to jesus.
  • 00:20:52.534 --> 00:20:56.104
  • A counterfeit spirituality draws people
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  • To themselves.
  • 00:20:58.674 --> 00:21:01.710
  • Any spirit
  • 00:21:02.010 --> 00:21:03.045
  • That makes a man or a woman bigger than jesus
  • 00:21:03.045 --> 00:21:07.449
  • Is a spirit of witchcraft.
  • 00:21:07.449 --> 00:21:11.119
  • Because god's power
  • 00:21:11.586 --> 00:21:13.088
  • Always produces surrender, not selfish.
  • 00:21:13.088 --> 00:21:17.225
  • Did you hear what i said?
  • 00:21:17.793 --> 00:21:19.428
  • God's power always produces surrender
  • 00:21:19.428 --> 00:21:23.065
  • And not selfishness.
  • 00:21:23.065 --> 00:21:26.268
  • Some people don't want transformation, though.
  • 00:21:27.169 --> 00:21:29.271
  • They want fascination.
  • 00:21:29.271 --> 00:21:31.606
  • They want to be entertained.
  • 00:21:31.606 --> 00:21:36.745
  • They want to marvel
  • 00:21:37.212 --> 00:21:39.448
  • And be entertained,
  • 00:21:39.448 --> 00:21:42.017
  • But leave the same way.
  • 00:21:42.017 --> 00:21:46.555
  • But if you're going to experience freedom,
  • 00:21:47.422 --> 00:21:51.093
  • You have to have your mind made up.
  • 00:21:51.093 --> 00:21:53.862
  • I'm not mixing and maxing any fake fire with what
  • 00:21:53.862 --> 00:21:57.332
  • The holy spirit desires to do in and through me.
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  • Point number three is this.
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  • The crowd was impressed by simon,
  • 00:22:06.475 --> 00:22:09.945
  • But they were healed by jesus.
  • 00:22:09.945 --> 00:22:15.283
  • Scripture says
  • 00:22:15.650 --> 00:22:16.885
  • They were astonished
  • 00:22:16.885 --> 00:22:20.222
  • With his abilities to do magic,
  • 00:22:20.222 --> 00:22:23.692
  • But they were healed by jesus.
  • 00:22:24.326 --> 00:22:28.163
  • Jesus didn't come to impress you.
  • 00:22:28.930 --> 00:22:32.067
  • He came to free you.
  • 00:22:32.067 --> 00:22:34.870
  • Did you hear what i said?
  • 00:22:34.870 --> 00:22:36.571
  • Jesus did not come to impress you.
  • 00:22:36.571 --> 00:22:39.174
  • He came to free you.
  • 00:22:39.174 --> 00:22:41.943
  • Simon amazed people, but philip liberated them
  • 00:22:41.943 --> 00:22:45.647
  • With the gospel of jesus christ.
  • 00:22:45.647 --> 00:22:47.516
  • One produced astonishment, the other produced joy.
  • 00:22:47.516 --> 00:22:50.685
  • How do you know when you're still bound,
  • 00:22:50.685 --> 00:22:52.554
  • When you're astonished, but you're still in shackled?
  • 00:22:52.554 --> 00:22:55.824
  • How do you know when you're free?
  • 00:22:56.525 --> 00:22:57.926
  • When you have joy,
  • 00:22:57.926 --> 00:22:59.094
  • Even if it's in the midst of trials and tribulations?
  • 00:22:59.094 --> 00:23:02.063
  • What is the greatest sign of freedom in your life? joy.
  • 00:23:02.063 --> 00:23:05.667
  • What is the greatest sign of peace in your life? joy.
  • 00:23:05.667 --> 00:23:08.670
  • What is the greatest sign that you are
  • 00:23:08.670 --> 00:23:10.605
  • In the presence of god? joy.
  • 00:23:10.605 --> 00:23:12.774
  • If there is a lack of joy, there was a lack
  • 00:23:12.774 --> 00:23:14.776
  • Of the presence of god in your life. why?
  • 00:23:14.776 --> 00:23:17.379
  • Because in his presence there is fullness of joy
  • 00:23:17.379 --> 00:23:22.284
  • And pleasures at his right hand forevermore.
  • 00:23:22.284 --> 00:23:25.454
  • So i encourage you right now to check and audit your joy tank.
  • 00:23:25.454 --> 00:23:29.891
  • Are you full of joy or is your joy tank half empty?
  • 00:23:29.891 --> 00:23:33.395
  • If it's half empty,
  • 00:23:33.395 --> 00:23:34.563
  • I encourage you to tap back into the presence of god.
  • 00:23:34.563 --> 00:23:37.899
  • How do you tap into the presence of god? it's simple.
  • 00:23:37.899 --> 00:23:40.836
  • You lift your hands and say, god, i thank you for life.
  • 00:23:40.836 --> 00:23:43.405
  • I thank you for health.
  • 00:23:43.405 --> 00:23:44.473
  • I thank you for breath in my lungs.
  • 00:23:44.473 --> 00:23:46.208
  • I thank you for the blessings. i thank you for the breaking.
  • 00:23:46.208 --> 00:23:48.777
  • I thank you for this day, for
  • 00:23:48.777 --> 00:23:50.312
  • This is the day that you have made.
  • 00:23:50.312 --> 00:23:52.647
  • I have my mind made up.
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  • I'm going to choose to rejoice being made glad in it.
  • 00:23:53.982 --> 00:23:57.018
  • How do you get into the presence of god?
  • 00:23:57.018 --> 00:23:59.187
  • You get into the presence of god
  • 00:23:59.187 --> 00:24:00.655
  • By praising and worshiping and thanking him.
  • 00:24:00.655 --> 00:24:03.391
  • How do i know this?
  • 00:24:03.391 --> 00:24:04.593
  • Because the word of god says that when there are 2 or 3
  • 00:24:04.593 --> 00:24:08.396
  • Gathered in my name, there i am in the midst of them.
  • 00:24:08.396 --> 00:24:12.868
  • The word of god says, he inhabits the praises
  • 00:24:12.868 --> 00:24:16.605
  • Of his people.
  • 00:24:16.605 --> 00:24:17.839
  • So if you feel distant from god right now, begin to rejoice.
  • 00:24:17.839 --> 00:24:21.910
  • Begin to praise him.
  • 00:24:22.377 --> 00:24:23.812
  • Begin to lift up your hands.
  • 00:24:23.812 --> 00:24:25.514
  • Begin to open up your mouth and watch god
  • 00:24:25.514 --> 00:24:28.850
  • And have it your praise.
  • 00:24:28.850 --> 00:24:37.659
  • A fake fire could
  • 00:24:38.093 --> 00:24:39.127
  • Never produce real fruit.
  • 00:24:39.127 --> 00:24:42.130
  • A fake fire could never break chains.
  • 00:24:42.130 --> 00:24:44.132
  • A fake fire could never destroy yokes.
  • 00:24:44.132 --> 00:24:46.067
  • A fake fire can never remove burdens.
  • 00:24:46.067 --> 00:24:47.903
  • Only a real authentic holy fire can do that.
  • 00:24:47.903 --> 00:24:50.805
  • And what we need now more than ever before
  • 00:24:50.805 --> 00:24:53.174
  • Is a holy fire
  • 00:24:53.174 --> 00:24:54.309
  • To consecrate our lives and burn the hell out of us
  • 00:24:54.309 --> 00:24:57.579
  • And get every impurity out of us, and allow us to stay
  • 00:24:57.579 --> 00:25:01.116
  • Put in the fire long enough
  • 00:25:01.116 --> 00:25:02.784
  • To reflect the person that made us in the first place.
  • 00:25:02.784 --> 00:25:05.787
  • And if you are in the fire today,
  • 00:25:05.787 --> 00:25:07.956
  • And if you are in the fire today,
  • 00:25:07.956 --> 00:25:09.824
  • And if you are in the fire today, i'm telling you,
  • 00:25:09.824 --> 00:25:12.627
  • Stay put long enough for god
  • 00:25:12.627 --> 00:25:14.496
  • To see his image on the inside of you,
  • 00:25:14.496 --> 00:25:16.431
  • For greater is he that is in you.
  • 00:25:16.431 --> 00:25:18.700
  • Then he that is in the world.
  • 00:25:18.700 --> 00:25:20.435
  • No more do we have time for faith fires.
  • 00:25:20.435 --> 00:25:22.871
  • We need a holy fire from god.
  • 00:25:22.871 --> 00:25:26.274
  • There's some things that you can fake in this life,
  • 00:25:26.274 --> 00:25:28.910
  • But one of the things that you cannot
  • 00:25:28.910 --> 00:25:30.812
  • Is true transformation by the fire of the holy spirit.
  • 00:25:30.812 --> 00:25:34.816
  • There's so many different
  • 00:25:34.816 --> 00:25:36.151
  • Offerings, so many different things.
  • 00:25:36.151 --> 00:25:37.786
  • Coaches and society tries to give you a place in front of you
  • 00:25:37.786 --> 00:25:41.156
  • That would have you to believe that it is authentic,
  • 00:25:41.156 --> 00:25:44.259
  • That it can burn away the sin, that it can remove all things
  • 00:25:44.259 --> 00:25:48.229
  • Out of your life that are not in line
  • 00:25:48.229 --> 00:25:50.265
  • With the purpose and the plan that god has given you.
  • 00:25:50.265 --> 00:25:53.101
  • And the reality is, is that nothing can do those things.
  • 00:25:53.101 --> 00:25:56.071
  • As a matter of fact, i would go as far as to say those things
  • 00:25:56.071 --> 00:25:59.608
  • Or what i would define as fake fire.
  • 00:25:59.608 --> 00:26:03.078
  • Tell them when they can give you
  • 00:26:03.712 --> 00:26:04.913
  • The fire of the holy spirit is the holy spirit himself.
  • 00:26:04.913 --> 00:26:07.349
  • And so i encourage you, if you are blessed by this word,
  • 00:26:07.349 --> 00:26:10.652
  • If you were moved by this word, if you are changed
  • 00:26:10.652 --> 00:26:12.954
  • And transformed by this word, let us know.
  • 00:26:12.954 --> 00:26:15.557
  • Let us know this word impacted you.
  • 00:26:15.557 --> 00:26:18.126
  • Our team is going to throw some information
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  • At the bottom of the screen.
  • 00:26:19.661 --> 00:26:20.895
  • My prayer is that you would allow us to
  • 00:26:20.895 --> 00:26:23.531
  • Walk on this journey with you.
  • 00:26:23.531 --> 00:26:24.966
  • Let us know that this message touched you and moved you.
  • 00:26:24.966 --> 00:26:27.936
  • It brought you into a greater intimacy with the holy spirit,
  • 00:26:27.936 --> 00:26:31.773
  • And if it did so, please prayerfully consider
  • 00:26:31.773 --> 00:26:34.876
  • Partnering with us.
  • 00:26:34.876 --> 00:26:36.077
  • There's no contribution to large, no contribution to small.
  • 00:26:36.077 --> 00:26:39.014
  • Every single cent
  • 00:26:39.014 --> 00:26:40.315
  • Helps us to continue the spread of the gospel of jesus christ.
  • 00:26:40.315 --> 00:26:44.285
  • If you're ever in the jacksonville area,
  • 00:26:44.285 --> 00:26:46.087
  • I want you to come by.
  • 00:26:46.087 --> 00:26:47.355
  • Visit us here at celebration church, 9 a.m., 11
  • 00:26:47.355 --> 00:26:51.226
  • A.m., 1:30 p.m.
  • 00:26:51.226 --> 00:26:52.827
  • And i can't wait to see you in person.
  • 00:26:52.827 --> 00:26:55.463
  • If you're not within driving distance, it's okay.
  • 00:26:55.463 --> 00:26:57.499
  • Continue to come to this incredible network
  • 00:26:57.499 --> 00:26:59.734
  • As we continue to spread the gospel of jesus christ for it.
  • 00:26:59.734 --> 00:27:02.671
  • And what because of incredible partners like yourself,
  • 00:27:02.671 --> 00:27:06.007
  • I want you to know god loves you,
  • 00:27:06.007 --> 00:27:07.509
  • I love you, and i see you right back here next week.
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  • Same time, same place.
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  • Until then, be blessed.
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  • ♪♪
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  • ♪♪
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