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Tim Timberlake | Tim Timberlake - Before The Fire Falls | July 24, 2025
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- Hey. family is pastor tim timberlake of celebration
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- Church, and i am so excited about today's broadcast.
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- We have begun a brand new series going through the book of acts
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- Entitled chasing the wind.
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- And to kick us off, i want us to begin with what i believe
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- Is a transformative message entitled before the fire falls.
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- There's some things
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- That we have to establish, some things that we must do
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- To make room for the holy spirit to come
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- And indwell us and fill us the way he desires to.
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- Let's go into the message that is already begin.
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- I want you to grab your pin, grab your pad, grab the bible,
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- Text, call, email your friends.
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- So i'm going live right now as we go into the message before
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- The fire falls.
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- So the disciples,
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- They gathered in the upper room
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- And they're having this conversation
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- And they're looking, casting lots,
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- Deciding who will be the next disciple
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- Because of the deception and the betrayal of judas.
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- And they're cleaning out
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- What was purifying what needs to be
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- And praying that god would move.
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- Scripture doesn't say that they set and they wasted time.
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- Scripture says that they gathered in this upper room
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- And they were on one accord, and they prayed.
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- They had an expectation.
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- They had an anticipation.
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- Y'all, i'm so tired of prayerles
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- Churches.
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- I'm so tired of churches that have an tation
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- To experience the power of the holy spirit.
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- I'm so tired of just gathering without the presence of
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- The lord.
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- We desperately need the power of the holy spirit.
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- Anything else?
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- Is this a party for ourselves?
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- And we are not here to look at each other.
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- We're here to lift up the mighty name of jesus
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- And remind the enemy that he's still defeated.
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- And we are still victorious
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- Because of what christ has already done for us.
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- So they gathered and they prayed,
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- And they had an expectation and anticipation that god
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- Was going to do something significant in that time.
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- They're waiting wasn█t passive.
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- It was prayerful.
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- It was united. it was expected.
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- The spirit's arrival marked the birth of the church
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- And the shift
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- From god who walks with us to god who lives in us.
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- And i came to tell you, god is not just for you.
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- God is not just with you.
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- God desires to dwell on the inside of you
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- And make you his temple.
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- Where he moves, he dwells, and he has his being.
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- Leads me to point number one.
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- Point number one is this
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- God doesn't waste your wait.
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- Some of you are in a waiting season right now.
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- Some of you you've been waiting.
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- You've been waiting, you've been waiting.
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- You've been waiting again.
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- You feel like, man, i am wasting time.
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- And i want you to know god does not waste your wait.
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- God does not waste your wait.
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- This waiting season, it's maturing you.
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- It's growing you up. it's preparing you.
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- It's developing you.
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- It's it's grooming you for the thing
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- That he is pushing you into.
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- And some of you find yourself in this great and grand tension
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- Of knowing what god desires to do
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- While navigating where you are right now.
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- If you like me, you have great hope,
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- But you still struggle with hopelessness.
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- You're in this tension of waiting
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- And in the
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- In between you have great joy, but there's still great sorrow.
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- You know that god has already healed you,
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- But your body is still in pain.
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- You know that god is preparing a spouse for you,
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- But you've been single for 43 years.
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- You holding on to a promise from god
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- That god is going to give you a child,
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- But you've had miscarriage after miscarriage
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- And you find yourself in this season of waiting.
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- And i need you to hear me when i tell you
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- God does not waste your waiting.
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- Doesn't waste your waiting, he doesn't waste your waiting.
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- And i know
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- In this waiting it's confusing
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- Because you know where you're going,
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- But you don't know exactly how you got to where you are.
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- You know god is taking you somewhere,
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- But you don't even know where you are going. you.
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- You know that god is moving,
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- But sometimes you can't feel god moving.
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- You know that he desires to fill you with hope.
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- But there's moments in your life
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- Where you don't know how the hope is going to come,
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- And you find yourself
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- In this room where you are waiting on god to do something.
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- I wish i had a group of people that would be honest and say,
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- Pastor, that's exactly where i am.
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- I know what it feels like to be in the waiting room
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- And to be waiting on news to come
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- And for a day to go by.
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- No news comes in for another day to go by.
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- No news comes.
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- And you know what his report says.
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- But you also know what the doctors are saying.
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- You know what his word says.
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- But you know what?
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- Your body screams at you every single day.
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- You get up.
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- You know the promises you made.
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- You, you you told them till death do you part.
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- But you really wish that they would die.
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- You're holding on
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- To the promises of god.
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- But your reality is screaming that those promises
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- Will never come to pass.
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- You're holding on.
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- To the hope
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- That life will get better.
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- While holding on to the tension
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- Of when my life actually change.
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- Great seasons like that
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- God opened up a window of heaven.
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- He's blessed me financially.
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- And then uncle sam comes and takes it all
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- Away.
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- In this waiting room.
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- And you're waiting.
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- Waiting and you're waiting.
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- And i need you to hear me.
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- When i tell you god
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- Doesn't waste
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- Your wait.
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- So what should you do
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- While you wait on the lord?
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- Pray like your life depends on it.
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- That's why we're gathering tonight at 6 p.m.
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- To pray like our lives depend on it.
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- That's why we're coming and assembling as a family
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- Together to pray like our lives depend on it would not.
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- Waiting for a moment.
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- We are anticipating a movement of what the holy spirit
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- To desires to do in and through our lives,
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- And remind ourselves that god never waste the wait.
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- And although i'm staying still,
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- Everything in me wants to run.
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- You find yourself in this waiting room and
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- You're still here, but you're not sure why.
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- You bring yourself to the conclusion.
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- I've seen god
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- Do miracles before, but i'm still managing my anxiety
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- Can he do it for me.
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- I have this great
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- Anticipation,
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- But this great fear.
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- This is what the disciples were.
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- 50 days
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- After the resurrection, they gather in this room
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- And they're hopeful, but they're doubtful.
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- They are excited, but they're nervous.
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- Their savior has now gone, but they have this promise
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- That he's going to send them a comforter.
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- They have not seen this comforter.
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- They have not experienced this comforter.
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- They've been hearing
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- Jesus talk and teach about this comforter,
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- But they don't know what he looks like.
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- And then all of a sudden.
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- They hear.
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- A sound.
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- That gathered in this room,
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- And they're on one accord.
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- There's not division that's important.
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- And one accord doesn't
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- Mean that we agree on everything.
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- One accord means that we agree
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- On what matters most.
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- Scripture is very clear.
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- There are people from all different walks of life, people
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- That had different
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- Backgrounds, people that were raised differently.
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- So there was a difference of opinions.
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- I'm sure there were differences of politics.
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- I'm sure there were different
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- Races and creeds and skin colors and hair textures.
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- There were
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- Differences in the room, but they were all on one accord.
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- They had an expectation that jesus was going to fulfill
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- Every promise that he had left them with.
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- But in order for them to see the power here, me there
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- First had to be a purging.
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- And so they have this conversation.
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- Who's going to fill the seat of judas?
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- Because in order for us
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- To experience power, there has to be a purging point.
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- Number two is this i want you to write this down.
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- Purification always comes before power.
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- Purification always comes before power.
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- You want to know why are you living a powerless life?
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- Because you're not pure.
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- You want to know why mountains don't move when you speak?
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- Because you're not living pure.
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- You want to know why?
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- It seems like there's no authority
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- And spiritual dominion in your life.
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- Because you're not living up here.
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- Life?
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- How do i know?
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- Because purification always comes before power.
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- No, the scripture didn't say that.
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- The power of the holy spirit fell.
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- And then they decided who would replace judith?
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- Scripture says they decided who would replace judith.
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- And then the power of the holy spirit filled,
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- Which teaches us that in order for the power to fall,
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- There has to be a purging and a purification first.
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- And in your life,
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- If you want to experience the power of the holy spirit,
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- You gotta
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- Purge yourself of everything that's a reflective of judith
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- In your life,
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- So that you can be more like jesus
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- And experience the power of the holy spirit.
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- You gotta ring yourself of everything that is unpure ,
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- Everything that is filthy, everything that is contaminated
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- So that jesus can do his work on the inside of you.
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- The scripture teaches us that the disciples said,
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- Let another take his office.
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- It's another passage of scripture that says, god,
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- Raise us up.
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- One and he sits down another.
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- God will not fill with power
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- What you have contaminated with toxic.
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- Stop praying that god will use you
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- In a mighty way and you're still using women.
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- It's okay.
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- I'll preach to myself.
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- Stop praying
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- That god will use you to do
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- Great and mighty things in the earth.
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- And you still talk down to your man that god blessed you with.
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- Stop praying that god would use you to do supernatural things,
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- And you have in store that the things
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- He's placed in your hands right here, right now,
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- God will only bless you with power when you live pure.
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- So instead of judging someone else
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- Because they look like judas found the judas
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- In your own heart and ring him out.
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- Let another take his place.
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- God will sit you down and replace you
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- Before you even realize you've been fired.
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- You don't believe me?
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- Look at saul and david.
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- Saul still carry the title.
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- This king david was anointed to be king,
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- Which tells me
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- That god will fire you and let you keep your title,
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- And he will anoint somebody else
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- To do what it is that he needs done in the earth.
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- He said, sit him down and raise up another.
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- Give somebody else the seat,
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- You hear me?
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- You have to be careful of who you listen to.
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- Just because they got a title don't mean they got power.
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- Just because they got a title don't mean they know scripture.
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- Just because they got a title don't mean
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- They got a relationship with god.
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- Before the spirit is poured out,
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- Betrayal had to be dealt with.
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- And what we see in this text is that the upper room wasn't
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- Just a prayer room, it was also a purification room
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- Because god won't pour new power
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- Into a community still carrying rooms from unresolved
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- Betrayal.
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- Did you hear what i just said?
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- I said, god
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- Won't pour new power into a community
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- Still carrying wounds
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- From old betrayal.
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- Did you hear what i just said?
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- And the desire is that god would pour new power,
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- New oil, newness in this house and in you,
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- So that you can experience
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- The fullness of what he desires to do.
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- Can i get a good amen?
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- What we need to understand is god
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- Will absolutely replace in your life what you won't release.
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- So if he's asking you to release something
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- And you don't release it,
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- He will replace it or he'll replace you.
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- He said, if you don't praise me,
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- I will call a rock
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- A rock don't got no mouth for a rock.
- 00:14:33.522 --> 00:14:35.090
- Don't got no lungs or a rock.
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- Don't got no breath like a rock.
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- Don't got no, no, no, no, no voice.
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- But he will create in that rock what he placed in you to do.
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- If you don't do what he's called you to do.
- 00:14:43.632 --> 00:14:53.042
- And so we have to bring ourselves to the conclusion
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- That.
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- Some of us have been praying
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- For fresh fire.
- 00:15:00.349 --> 00:15:03.886
- When we have not cleaned up
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- The ashes of judas in our own life.
- 00:15:05.187 --> 00:15:11.961
- We have to ask god to ring us out,
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- Purify our
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- Hearts, filter everything in us
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- That is not like him
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- So that we can become like him.
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- The holy spirit doesn't
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- Want you just to experience him from the outside in.
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- He wants you to experience him from the inside out.
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- And if you live a spirit less life,
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- You live a powerless life.
- 00:15:45.594 --> 00:15:48.764
- And that's what some of us find ourselves today,
- 00:15:48.764 --> 00:15:53.202
- Walking around with the title only
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- And none of the benefits to it.
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- If i give you the pink slip to a vehicle, but
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- I don't give you the vehicle, you only have a title.
- 00:16:06.915 --> 00:16:13.989
- And some of you have been taking that title
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- And you've been showing that title off, and you've never sat
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- Inside the vehicle.
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- You got the keys, it's got fuel.
- 00:16:24.833 --> 00:16:28.804
- You never seen it
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- Because you haven't asked, where is it
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- You've settled for just having the title.
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- In order for you
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- To walk out scripture the way jesus desires
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- For you to walk out the scripture,
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- You have to ask for the vehicle
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- That gets you from where you are to where you need to be,
- 00:16:50.659 --> 00:16:53.262
- And that is the holy spirit.
- 00:16:53.262 --> 00:16:54.663
- The holy spirit is the greatest secret in the universe.
- 00:16:54.663 --> 00:16:57.466
- The holy spirit is jesus unlimited.
- 00:16:57.466 --> 00:16:59.535
- The holy spirit can be your best friend and your comforter.
- 00:16:59.535 --> 00:17:03.005
- If you welcome him into your life. or guess what?
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- You will continue to box him out if you never invite him in.
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- And we've settled.
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- We've settled
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- Because we have our own agendas.
- 00:17:14.516 --> 00:17:16.051
- We have our own ways, we have our own ambitions,
- 00:17:16.051 --> 00:17:18.420
- And we never ask the holy spirit,
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- What do you desire to do in and through me?
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- It is not until we get to that point in place
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- Where we experience the fullness of what god desires.
- 00:17:26.161 --> 00:17:30.933
- Life is still full of yourself.
- 00:17:31.567 --> 00:17:33.202
- The holy spirit will not fill you.
- 00:17:33.202 --> 00:17:36.939
- Because god refuses
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- To pour his spirit into a vessel
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- That is still loyal to toxic.
- 00:17:42.111 --> 00:17:47.916
- Stop asking god to fill you.
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- And if he's still going to be sleeping
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- With everybody you come into contact with,
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- Stop asking god to fill you.
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- If you never have a desire to change your conversations
- 00:17:58.760 --> 00:18:01.396
- And the way you talk, stop asking god to fill you.
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- If you already know
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- That you have no desire to be committed
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- To the place of discipline in your life.
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- When you follow jesus
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- And are disciple to his word,
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- Why do i give such heart and hard
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- Suggestions and criticisms?
- 00:18:20.382 --> 00:18:23.852
- Because we live in a society
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- That tells you you can live however you want to live,
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- And god will still bless you.
- 00:18:28.490 --> 00:18:30.425
- And that is a lie.
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- Amen.
- 00:18:32.628 --> 00:18:34.730
- We live in a society that teaches us.
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- You pray one time that god will save you
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- And you can live however you want to live.
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- And stewart, that gift will.
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- That is a lie.
- 00:18:44.139 --> 00:18:45.807
- The devil is a liar
- 00:18:45.807 --> 00:18:48.844
- And his greatest weapon against the church
- 00:18:48.844 --> 00:18:53.081
- And the bride of jesus christ is pastors
- 00:18:53.081 --> 00:18:56.818
- Who malpractice the word of god.
- 00:18:56.818 --> 00:19:03.592
- And so a pastor.
- 00:19:03.992 --> 00:19:05.227
- You've been on a tangent lately talking about other pastors.
- 00:19:05.227 --> 00:19:14.236
- Why have you been talking about
- 00:19:14.870 --> 00:19:16.071
- Other pastors lately?
- 00:19:16.071 --> 00:19:19.241
- Because time is running out
- 00:19:19.241 --> 00:19:21.543
- And people are being deceived.
- 00:19:21.543 --> 00:19:23.845
- Scripture teaches us that certain pastors, ministers,
- 00:19:23.845 --> 00:19:27.583
- Prophets, evangelists, apostles they are wolves
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- In sheep's clothing.
- 00:19:31.620 --> 00:19:36.358
- And guess what?
- 00:19:36.725 --> 00:19:37.826
- We've been made to believe because people preach it
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- That sheep are dumb and they are not.
- 00:19:40.429 --> 00:19:44.466
- Sheep are some of the smartest creations
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- That god has ever created,
- 00:19:47.069 --> 00:19:48.537
- But they need to be led by a shepherd and shepherds
- 00:19:48.537 --> 00:19:53.108
- That tried to mislead the sheep need to be called out.
- 00:19:53.108 --> 00:19:57.279
- And that's the stage that i stand on in this season
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- To call out every false shepherd, every false prophet,
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- Every so called apostle that has no relationship
- 00:20:04.853 --> 00:20:08.924
- With jesus, that tries to fulfill their flesh, his desire
- 00:20:08.924 --> 00:20:12.728
- To manipulate, to control, to lead you aside
- 00:20:12.728 --> 00:20:16.765
- From what it is that god has called you to do.
- 00:20:16.765 --> 00:20:21.303
- And so what we must understand
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- Is that those people understand religion,
- 00:20:25.340 --> 00:20:27.476
- But they do not understand the kingdom of god.
- 00:20:27.476 --> 00:20:30.379
- And point number three is this religion
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- Controls the room, but the spirit of god consumes it.
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- Scripture teaches
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- Us according to acts chapter two,
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- And suddenly that came from heaven,
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- A sound like a mighty rushing wind.
- 00:20:45.294 --> 00:20:48.463
- What were they doing when this sound
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- Happened in this room? they were praying.
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- They were expecting. they were believing.
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- They had their expectancy
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- Antenna to the frequency of heaven.
- 00:20:55.837 --> 00:20:58.140
- And they were travail ing in the spirit.
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- They had their eyes and ears open.
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- They had their hearts open. they had their minds open.
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- They were flexible and pliable to to whatever
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- The holy spirit wanted to do.
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- And they did not allow religion to fill the room
- 00:21:10.185 --> 00:21:13.088
- Because the holy spirit
- 00:21:13.088 --> 00:21:14.456
- Had a desire to fill the room, they did not let
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- Their preferences fill the room.
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- They they allowed the holy spirit to fill the room.
- 00:21:18.927 --> 00:21:21.029
- That's why you won't see certain things at celebration church.
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- Not because they're not good things,
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- But because they are preference over purpose.
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- And if i can't teach it,
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- It's confusing to people that are lost,
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- That are coming into church for the very first time.
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- So if you leave because your preferences
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- Are not displayed,
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- You have missed an opportunity to step in to greater purpose.
- 00:21:41.650 --> 00:21:44.786
- That's why we don't have a choir every sunday.
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- I love a choir.
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- I love a choir.
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- But this preference
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- Am i saying we won't ever have a choir?
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- No, i'm not saying that.
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- I'm saying we won't have it every sunday though,
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- Because it's about purpose over preference.
- 00:21:59.134 --> 00:22:02.137
- The things that you won't see because it's purpose
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- Over preference.
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- And we can't allow religion
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- To infiltrate what god desires to do through his spirit.
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- Amen.
- 00:22:12.414 --> 00:22:13.548
- What is tradition? what is tradition?
- 00:22:13.548 --> 00:22:15.884
- What is tradition?
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- Tradition is taking a good thing
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- That worked once and implementing it
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- As if it will work the same way forever.
- 00:22:21.189 --> 00:22:25.894
- That's what it is.
- 00:22:26.328 --> 00:22:28.163
- And just because it worked once
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- Does not mean that it will work the same way forever.
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- Can you imagine if noah would have said,
- 00:22:34.536 --> 00:22:37.172
- Let's just stay on the ark?
- 00:22:37.172 --> 00:22:39.908
- Did the ark not work?
- 00:22:39.908 --> 00:22:43.178
- Did it not carry them?
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- Did it not keep them?
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- Did it not transport them from where they were to where
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- God was taking them?
- 00:22:50.652 --> 00:22:52.721
- But at some point, guess what happened?
- 00:22:52.721 --> 00:22:54.423
- The water ran out and noah could have decided.
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- Me and my family are going to continue
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- To stay on this boat because it worked.
- 00:22:59.928 --> 00:23:03.098
- And a lot of churches are like that.
- 00:23:03.098 --> 00:23:06.968
- It would rather stay in a season
- 00:23:07.602 --> 00:23:11.173
- That god has moved on from because it worked
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- Here.
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- My family don't get caught where god used to be.
- 00:23:17.412 --> 00:23:25.120
- Religion controls the
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- Room, but the spirit of god consumes it.
- 00:23:26.922 --> 00:23:30.125
- The spirit didn't come quietly.
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- He came suddenly.
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- Wind and fire aren't gentle metaphors.
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- These are metaphors that give us a vivid picture
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- Of how the power of the holy spirit fell
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- When there was prayer, when there was anticipation,
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- When there was expectation, it was not a quiet room.
- 00:23:46.808 --> 00:23:50.045
- And we have to get out of this mentality
- 00:23:50.045 --> 00:23:52.013
- That the power of the holy spirit will come in our silent,
- 00:23:52.013 --> 00:23:56.685
- It said there was a sound
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- Of a mighty rushing wind.
- 00:24:00.288 --> 00:24:04.993
- The holy spirit doesn't come
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- To make your life more comfortable.
- 00:24:07.195 --> 00:24:09.464
- He comes to make your life more combustible.
- 00:24:09.464 --> 00:24:12.133
- He does not come so that you may stay the same.
- 00:24:12.133 --> 00:24:14.803
- The holy spirit comes so that you can change
- 00:24:14.803 --> 00:24:17.305
- And be more like your savior.
- 00:24:17.305 --> 00:24:19.274
- The holy spirit does not come so that you can leave moments
- 00:24:19.274 --> 00:24:22.410
- The same way that you entered them.
- 00:24:22.410 --> 00:24:24.079
- He comes so that you can leave transformed from the inside out.
- 00:24:24.079 --> 00:24:29.284
- God's
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- Power doesn't just fill the house.
- 00:24:30.352 --> 00:24:33.121
- God's power flips that house upside down.
- 00:24:33.121 --> 00:24:36.191
- And so what we must understand on this beautiful
- 00:24:37.158 --> 00:24:39.427
- Pentecost sunday, it's pentecost isn't just a moment.
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- It's a movement that wrecks your normal routine
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- And your normal schedule.
- 00:24:45.400 --> 00:24:46.668
- It silences your notifications.
- 00:24:46.668 --> 00:24:48.837
- It tells you that your calendar does not matter anymore.
- 00:24:48.837 --> 00:24:51.640
- It looks at your dream board
- 00:24:51.640 --> 00:24:52.874
- And tells you dream a little bigger.
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- Well family
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- It's the portion of the broadcast
- 00:24:56.011 --> 00:24:57.512
- Where i tell you we're out of time.
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- We're not out of message.
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- Continue to go on this journey
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- With this as we continue to travel to the book of acts
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- To see how the word of god can change us, transform
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- Us, renew our mind by the power of the holy spirit.
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- My prayer is that today you see some areas
- 00:25:12.827 --> 00:25:15.530
- In your life that need to better reflect jesus christ.
- 00:25:15.530 --> 00:25:19.034
- I want to do right now.
- 00:25:19.034 --> 00:25:19.968
- I want to set myself in agreement with you.
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- I want to pray for you.
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- I want you to repeat this prayer for me.
- 00:25:23.238 --> 00:25:24.706
- If you feel distant from jesus,
- 00:25:24.706 --> 00:25:26.675
- If you feel like you've been
- 00:25:26.675 --> 00:25:27.742
- Traveling on this journey, we call it life alone.
- 00:25:27.742 --> 00:25:30.011
- You don't have to.
- 00:25:30.011 --> 00:25:31.279
- He desires to walk hand in hand with you.
- 00:25:31.279 --> 00:25:33.148
- He desires to live, move, breathe in and through
- 00:25:33.148 --> 00:25:36.918
- You and allow your vessel to become his temple.
- 00:25:36.918 --> 00:25:40.589
- And so i want you to repeat this prayer for me.
- 00:25:40.589 --> 00:25:42.223
- Lord jesus, come into my heart.
- 00:25:42.223 --> 00:25:45.226
- I repent for my sin and i ask you to forgive me today.
- 00:25:45.226 --> 00:25:49.731
- God, i turn away from the life and the lifestyle
- 00:25:49.731 --> 00:25:54.603
- That i've created for myself and i run towards you.
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- Use me, i repent.
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- I confess with my mouth that you are my lord and my master,
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- And i believe within my heart of hearts
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- That you died, was buried and resurrected
- 00:26:06.081 --> 00:26:09.284
- So that i could experience eternal life with you.
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- In jesus name we pray. amen.
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- Family.
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- My prayer is that this broadcast has been a blessing to you,
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- And if it has, would you prayerfully
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- Consider partnering with us?
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- Our team is going to throw some information
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- At the bottom of the screen as you look at it.
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- Allow it to to to register with your spirit.
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- Pray. ask god.
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- God, is this a ministry
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- That you desire for me to partner with him?
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- If so there's no amount too smal there's no amount to large.
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- We're so grateful for all of our partners and
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- All of our potential partners
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- That are watching this broadcast right now,
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- And i'm so grateful that we get this opportunity
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- To spread the gospel of jesus christ all over the world.
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- And so if you're ever in the jacksonville area,
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- Stop by celebration church on sunday, 9 a.m.
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- And 11 a.m..
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- If you're not within driving
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- Distance of north florida, it's okay.
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- Continue to watch us right here.
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- Every single week, same time, same place.
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- And until the next time i want you to know god loves you.
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- I love you too. i'll see you soon.
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- Be blessed.
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- ♪♪
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- ♪♪
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