Pastor Tim unpacks Acts 8:1-2 and reveals how persecution, pain, pressure, and unexpected hardship can become the very tools God uses to position you for purpose.
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Tim Timberlake | Tim Timberlake - Pushed Into Purpose | June 21, 2026
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- Hey family
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- Its pastor tim timberlake of celebration church.
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- I'm excited about the word that god has given me
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- For our time together today.
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- I believe that you are going to be not only changed,
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- But transformed from the inside out.
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- The word of god says that faith
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- Comes by hearing and by hearing the word of god.
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- I believe
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- You're about to hear the word of god,
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- And i believe your faith is about to be built.
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- And so i don't want to delay.
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- What is god doing in your life and what you're about to hear?
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- Let's go into the message as it has already
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- Begun, entitled pushed into purpose.
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- They didn't cry to the people.
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- They cried out to god.
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- And this is an echo of jesus.
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- Jesus was
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- Buried by joseph of arimathea.
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- Stephen was buried by devout men
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- The same pattern rejected publicly but honored privately.
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- And who you honor in private will determine
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- Who god places you in front of in public.
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- I will say that again because you missed it.
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- Who you honor in private will determine
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- Who god places you in front of in public.
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- See some of you.
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- You love public adoration,
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- But you don't have
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- Honor privately for the person that matters most in your life.
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- And that is jesus.
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- And there are only two people that really know
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- That you are going to
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- Make it out of the situation that you find yourself stuck in.
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- And those two people are jesus
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- And yourself, and you don't know that
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- You are going to make it unless you talk to him.
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- And so they honor him.
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- They buried him.
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- They were willing to get persecuted because
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- Of their relationship and proximity to his life.
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- And as i read this passage,
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- And i see the tension between what saul is doing and
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- What these devout men are doing, i have to believe that
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- Saul sees this devotion and it marks him.
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- Saul sees these men standing up
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- For this fallen brother, and it marks him.
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- Saul sees this devotion, and it sows a seed
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- Of righteousness in his heart, so that years down the line
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- That seed of righteousness
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- Would reproduce the harvest, that many would come
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- Into the relationship of jesus christ.
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- Because a few devout men decided to stay
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- When it would have been easier to leave.
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- So look at the life of saul.
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- I'm reminded of a few things,
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- And the first thing i'm reminded of
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- Is this point number one, the absence of resistance
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- Is often the presence of agreement.
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- He did not
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- Resist the murder of stephen, which means he agreed with it.
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- And silence can be
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- Very loud under the right circumstances.
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- As a matter of fact, silence can be just as loud
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- As a stone when truth is being crushed,
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- Your agreement to something doesn't need action
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- To be dangerous.
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- It only needs your consent.
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- And some of you, you see injustice and you remain silent
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- And silence.
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- It is not neutrality.
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- Silence is a decision.
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- And if you see injustice and you remain silent,
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- You are silently agreeing with the person
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- Who is being persecuted or put under pressure.
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- And you stand on the sidelines while other witnesses lay their
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- Cloaks at your feet in agreement with what is happening.
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- And you may say, well, that's into my business.
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- If it is injustice, it is your business.
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- You say, i don't know those folks.
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- You don't have to know someone for them
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- To be your brother and sister in the lord.
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- We we not know soft christians.
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- Like we are not
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- The people that run from confrontation.
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- We are the people that infuse peace
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- Into confrontation with the love of jesus christ.
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- And love without truth
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- Is manipulation and truth without love is abuse.
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- And so everything we do, we do it from the lens of love
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- While speaking the truth in love.
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- But make no mistake about it, if you see something
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- And don't say something, you agree with what you see.
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- And when that is your posture,
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- You can only keep your hands clean
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- For a limited amount of time before
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- You start to throw stones yourself.
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- Moving right along.
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- History.
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- It remembers the attackers,
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- But heaven judges the ones who quietly approved it.
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- What are you quietly approving that heaven disapproves of?
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- What are you standing on the sidelines watching?
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- That heaven is urging you to speak up against?
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- What is it that you can do that you're not doing
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- Because you're too afraid of losing the identity
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- You've made for yourself,
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- Or the influence that you've garnered or
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- Or the little platform that you think you have.
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- What is it that you are not doing
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- Because of who
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- You think you are, that god has called you to do?
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- Because people, their lives weigh in the balance,
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- Because you remain silent.
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- And i just want to encourage you with this truth.
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- Pain and discomfort will push you closer to jesus.
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- It will push you closer
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- Than blessing and breakthrough ever could.
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- Because if you got what you pray for,
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- The way that you prayed for it, you wouldn't even
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- Talk to him no more.
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- And that's what makes romans chapter eight.
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- So powerful.
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- He says, i'll take the good and i'll take the bad,
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- And i'll make it work together
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- For the good of those that love the lord.
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- He doesn't just say, i'll take the good,
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- And everything will be great, and your life will be perfect.
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- You won't have any pain, you won't have any issues.
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- You won't have anything.
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- You need to be delivered and set free from.
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- Everything will be all, all good.
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- Everything will be a better roses for the rest of your life.
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- As soon as you receive me, everything will be perfect.
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- He doesn't say that. he says that you will be persecuted.
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- You will have affliction.
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- He says, after you have suffered for a little while.
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- On the flip side, he doesn't
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- Say that there would just be pain.
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- Your life won't just always be painful.
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- I know it seems that way based upon
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- The season you find yourself in right now
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- And the discomfort you find yourself in right now
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- And the pressure you find yourself in right now.
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- And i know it seems like there is no hope
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- Because i've been dealing with this for this many years,
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- And this amount of time
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- And this many people have left me,
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- And this is how my physical body feels.
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- And this is where my mind takes me.
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- And this is
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- How things have panned out as far as finances in my life.
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- And i know it seems like
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- Every single day you wake up
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- And there's new pain that encounters you,
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- But at the same time, every single day
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- You wake up, new mercies encounter you as well,
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- And you have to have your mind made up
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- That if god is providing new mercies for you,
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- Then that new mercies he's providing for you,
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- You not only will receive, but you will retain.
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- So that when you find yourself
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- In seasons of pain and in moments of pressure,
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- You understand where your help comes from.
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- It does not come from people. it does not come from your job.
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- It does not come from your business.
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- It does not come from your employer.
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- It does not even come from your spouse.
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- Your help comes from the lord.
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- And if you get that mistaken, and if you get that twisted,
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- Your faith will be rocky whenever life gets rocky.
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- But those
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- Whose faith is anchored in jesus are not swayed to the left
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- Or to the right based upon what happens.
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- You understand,
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- If pain is in my life, that pain is pushing me
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- Closer to the purpose and the plan
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- That god has for me, and it will not leave
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- Until it finishes the job and the assignment that is
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- Supposed to finish.
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- And i'm not talking to
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- Everybody, but i do believe i'm talking
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- To some people who are faced with pain and pressure right now
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- That don't know which way is up from down,
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- That don't know the timeline
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- Or when you're coming out, or when you're going over
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- Or when god is going to bring you through.
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- But i just came to encourage you today.
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- Keep going.
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- You can't stop here.
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- You're going to win this battle.
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- But it is a battle.
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- Scripture says, fight the good fight of faith.
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- It is a fight.
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- But if you keep fighting, you win.
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- Will pastor?
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- How do you know that?
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- I know that because the end of the book says so.
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- He called you victorious.
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- He calls you more than a conqueror.
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- He called you a overcomer.
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- He called you triumphant in jesus name.
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- And so if he can just hang on,
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- If he can just hold on to his unchanging
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- Hand, i'm telling you, he will get you through.
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- He will bring you out.
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- He will pull you over.
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- He will give you enough strength to scale
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- Every mountain and defeat every giant
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- And defeat the pain and the pressure
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- You find yourself up against today.
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- How do i know this?
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- Because i've seen too much
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- And i've heard too much.
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- I've experienced his grace and his mercy
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- When i have been in seasons of pain,
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- And i have been in season of discomfort,
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- And i have been in seasons of confusion and chaos.
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- And when i lean on his word and when i lean into
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- His presence, he never has failed.
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- That he never will.
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- Point number two is this
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- God will always raise up carriers when the world
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- Tries to create casualties.
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- God has called you for such a time as this.
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- He's graced you.
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- He's equipped you.
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- He's gifted you the talents,
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- The gifts, the anointings that you have.
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- Those are not just for you.
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- Those are for the people that will be impacted by you.
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- Those are for the people that are around you.
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- Those are the people that you have not met yet,
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- That god is going to use you to impact their life,
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- To see them in eternity.
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- When i say that god will use you, i mean god will use you,
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- Your imperfect self, your sin prone self, your fractured self.
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- God will use you.
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- He's not asking you to be perfect.
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- He's asking you to pursue and serve
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- The one that is perfect,
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- The one that is holy, the one that is true,
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- The one that is still alive and well.
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- And so he's not waiting for you to change.
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- He sent his son to change you, and he absolutely will
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- If you allow him to.
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- And you
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- Accept him to be your lord and your savior and your master
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- And your king of kings, and your alpha and omega
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- And all those other things you need him to be.
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- He will, in fact be them if you allow him to be.
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- And so god will always raise up carriers
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- When the world tries to create casualties.
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- And the reality of this text
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- Is that you cannot erase what god has decided
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- To remember.
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- And when god,
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- When he honors someone,
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- When he honors you,
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- He will always keep you
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- And he will always lift you.
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- Even means
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- That you don't get to see how he lifts you.
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- Stephen did not get to see these devout men lift him,
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- But he was lifted anyway.
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- And here's my question.
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- Will you do the heavy lifting
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- When no one is watching?
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- Will you be faithful
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- When no one else is being faithful?
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- Will you remain steadfast and unmovable
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- When everyone else is being hopeless and faithless?
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- Will you remain steadfast?
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- Will you remain loyal?
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- Will you remain devout
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- When there
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- Is no devotion around you?
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- Point number three is this
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- The kingdom is carried forward
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- By people who refuse to let holy things
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- Be treated as common.
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- I said, the kingdom of god is carried forward
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- By people who refuse to let holy things
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- Be treated as common.
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- These moments with god are not coming.
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- These gatherings in his presence are not common.
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- These moments with your savior are not common.
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- The quickest way to lose
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- Reverence is to become familiar with god.
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- The quickest way to lose reverence is to not honor god
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- With your time, and with your fullness of mind
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- And fullness of heart, and to be in his presence.
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- But your mind be elsewhere.
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- The quickest way
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- To lose devotion and reverence and
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- And miss an opportunity to see what god is actually doing,
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- Is to be seated at his feet.
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- While your heart is still attached
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- To someone that's separate from him.
- 00:14:36.125 --> 00:14:41.363
- And as we live in a world that screams
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- Mission, mission, mission.
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- May we be a people
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- That is so consumed with lifting those that can no longer
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- Lift themselves, that people say ministry,
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- Ministry, ministry.
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- What does it look like
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- To be faithful?
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- What does it look like
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- To be devout?
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- What does it look like to be loyal?
- 00:15:13.963 --> 00:15:15.597
- What does it look like to be unmovable?
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- Unshakable in the things that god
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- Has called you to be unmovable and shakeble in?
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- Faithfulness is not attractive.
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- Faithfulness is not sexy.
- 00:15:29.378 --> 00:15:33.449
- But faithfulness is always worth it.
- 00:15:34.249 --> 00:15:37.920
- Hear me before you clap because i want you to hear me.
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- Women.
- 00:15:42.524 --> 00:15:43.792
- Instead of looking for a sexy man, look for a faithful man.
- 00:15:43.792 --> 00:15:49.999
- Man. instead of looking for a woman that got body ody ody
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- Look for a faithful woman.
- 00:15:54.636 --> 00:16:01.610
- Instead of chasing a bag.
- 00:16:02.177 --> 00:16:03.679
- Chase faithfulness. chase loyalty.
- 00:16:03.679 --> 00:16:06.515
- Chase being unmovable.
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- Chase what it looks like to be righteous.
- 00:16:08.617 --> 00:16:10.686
- Seek ye first the kingdom of god and his righteousness,
- 00:16:10.686 --> 00:16:14.189
- And all these things shall be added unto you.
- 00:16:14.189 --> 00:16:18.227
- Be faithful.
- 00:16:18.227 --> 00:16:19.528
- And if you find yourself in seasons of pressure
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- And in seasons of pain, be faithful.
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- Be faithful. when others run.
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- Be faithful when others quit.
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- Be faithful when others give up.
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- Be faithful when others go silent.
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- Be faithful when others walk away.
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- Be faithful when others compromise.
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- Be faithful when others fall under pressure, be faithful.
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- Look at your neighbor and tell your neighbor.
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- Be faithful.
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- Be faithful.
- 00:16:52.194 --> 00:16:54.129
- When you want to choose comfort over your anointing.
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- Be faithful when you
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- Want to chase and applause, but there's no applause there.
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- Be faithful and others forget what matters most.
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- Be faithful when others look the other way.
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- Be faithful when others treat what is holy as common.
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- Be faithful.
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- Be faithful,
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- Be faithful.
- 00:17:17.019 --> 00:17:18.053
- And when others only show up when it's easy, be
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- Faithful.
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- Be faithful.
- 00:17:25.461 --> 00:17:29.264
- And if you can,
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- Find yourself faithful.
- 00:17:30.265 --> 00:17:34.470
- You will find yourself victorious.
- 00:17:35.204 --> 00:17:40.676
- For the word of god says.
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- It is impossible to please him.
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- Without faith.
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- So if pain finds you,
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- May it find you faithful.
- 00:17:55.224 --> 00:17:58.627
- If pressure finds you, may it find you faithful.
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- If chaos finds you and not your in your door,
- 00:18:01.830 --> 00:18:05.067
- May it find you faithful.
- 00:18:05.067 --> 00:18:06.802
- If confusion finds you in it often does.
- 00:18:06.802 --> 00:18:09.404
- Because it finds me and everyone else that breathes.
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- May it find you faithful.
- 00:18:12.407 --> 00:18:15.010
- But what you cannot do is be faithless.
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- You're not under
- 00:18:27.222 --> 00:18:28.023
- The pressure you're under so that
- 00:18:28.023 --> 00:18:30.926
- Your faith could fall apart.
- 00:18:30.926 --> 00:18:33.629
- The enemy will love that.
- 00:18:33.629 --> 00:18:36.765
- The enemy will love for you to remain silent.
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- He would love for you
- 00:18:38.600 --> 00:18:40.169
- To think that god has abandoned and forsaken you,
- 00:18:40.169 --> 00:18:42.471
- But god has not abandon it, forsaking you.
- 00:18:42.471 --> 00:18:44.506
- The scripture says that he's with you
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- Every step of the way, even when you don't feel him,
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- Even when you don't hear him,
- 00:18:48.510 --> 00:18:49.545
- Even when you don't see him, he's closer to you
- 00:18:49.545 --> 00:18:51.380
- Than your own breath because he is god.
- 00:18:51.380 --> 00:18:53.782
- And scripture says beside him there is no one else.
- 00:18:53.782 --> 00:18:56.318
- Which means that if he does not do it, it won't get done.
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- If he does not come, no one else is coming.
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- If he does not work it out, it will not get worked out.
- 00:19:01.323 --> 00:19:03.559
- If he does not heal you, you will not get healed.
- 00:19:03.559 --> 00:19:05.861
- But god is a healing god. he's a delivering god.
- 00:19:05.861 --> 00:19:08.764
- He's a saving god to our faith.
- 00:19:08.764 --> 00:19:10.499
- That's not in our ability.
- 00:19:10.499 --> 00:19:11.967
- Our faith is in god's ability.
- 00:19:11.967 --> 00:19:13.902
- But what we have to do is remain faithful.
- 00:19:13.902 --> 00:19:22.544
- And if you can find yourself faithful,
- 00:19:23.312 --> 00:19:26.648
- You will find yourself victorious.
- 00:19:26.648 --> 00:19:30.686
- You are not like everyone else.
- 00:19:31.320 --> 00:19:38.927
- You are not like everyone else.
- 00:19:39.561 --> 00:19:42.764
- Look at me.
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- You are not called to do
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- What the world is doing.
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- You have been set apart.
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- You have been called righteous.
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- You have been called a holy priesthood.
- 00:19:55.244 --> 00:19:58.247
- You have been called a peculiar people.
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- You have been called separate, set aside for such
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- A time as this.
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- You are not like everyone else.
- 00:20:06.521 --> 00:20:10.726
- You are uncommon.
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- There aren't many like you.
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- You are one of one.
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- You are different and you have to understand your difference.
- 00:20:15.397 --> 00:20:19.201
- And when you get a revelation of your difference,
- 00:20:19.201 --> 00:20:21.570
- You want to allow people to pigeonhole you into becoming
- 00:20:21.570 --> 00:20:24.640
- Who they want you to be because you are focused on
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- Who god is making you into being.
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- You don't break the way other people break.
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- You don't bend the way other people bend.
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- You don't run. what other people retreat.
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- You don't stay with other people that have shrunk.
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- You are different.
- 00:20:38.553 --> 00:20:40.389
- And the reality is, is where other people are being
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- Scattered.
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- God is sending you because you are different.
- 00:20:44.426 --> 00:20:48.063
- What makes you different?
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- You being faithful.
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- That's what makes you different.
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- Faithfulness over convenience.
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- Faithfulness over comfort.
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- Faithfulness with things get tough and difficult and hard.
- 00:21:00.909 --> 00:21:04.880
- Faithfulness to the word of god when it would be easier to
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- Run away.
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- You stay faithful.
- 00:21:08.750 --> 00:21:14.556
- And if it's broken, you better
- 00:21:15.157 --> 00:21:16.658
- Believe god is building.
- 00:21:16.658 --> 00:21:20.028
- And if it's not fixed, you better
- 00:21:20.729 --> 00:21:22.230
- Believe god is working.
- 00:21:22.230 --> 00:21:25.434
- And if things are not change,
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- You better believe that
- 00:21:27.202 --> 00:21:28.170
- God has a plan in motion to deliver to you
- 00:21:28.170 --> 00:21:31.473
- What it is he desires for you to see,
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- And what it is he desires for you to hear.
- 00:21:33.742 --> 00:21:35.377
- Why and how do i know this?
- 00:21:35.377 --> 00:21:36.945
- Because you are not like everyone else.
- 00:21:36.945 --> 00:21:42.818
- You're different.
- 00:21:43.251 --> 00:21:47.055
- Separate.
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- Holy.
- 00:21:48.924 --> 00:21:50.726
- Set apart.
- 00:21:50.726 --> 00:21:54.062
- And you may think that in this season
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- You're losing ground and that life is burying you.
- 00:21:55.764 --> 00:22:00.502
- But what if god is planting you?
- 00:22:00.502 --> 00:22:06.341
- But what if
- 00:22:06.675 --> 00:22:07.843
- Every time somebody throws dirt on you, heaven rejoices
- 00:22:07.843 --> 00:22:11.313
- Because the seed is being planted?
- 00:22:11.313 --> 00:22:18.920
- So instead of crying in defeat,
- 00:22:19.554 --> 00:22:22.791
- Cry to water the harvest
- 00:22:22.791 --> 00:22:26.027
- For the seed that is being shown
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- To the sacrifices you are making so that god can get glory
- 00:22:27.829 --> 00:22:31.666
- Out of this.
- 00:22:31.666 --> 00:22:38.173
- You didn't fall apart.
- 00:22:38.640 --> 00:22:41.276
- You fell into alignment.
- 00:22:41.276 --> 00:22:44.413
- You didn't give in.
- 00:22:44.880 --> 00:22:45.747
- You gave up.
- 00:22:45.747 --> 00:22:49.217
- You didn't throw in the towel.
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- You throw your hands up.
- 00:22:50.585 --> 00:22:53.722
- And you remember it
- 00:22:54.189 --> 00:22:55.157
- From where your help came from.
- 00:22:55.157 --> 00:23:00.328
- As i read this, the holy spirit
- 00:23:00.962 --> 00:23:02.764
- Reminded me of psalms chapter 118.
- 00:23:02.764 --> 00:23:09.771
- Give thanks to the lord,
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- For he is good.
- 00:23:13.642 --> 00:23:18.280
- His steadfast love
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- It endures forever.
- 00:23:20.682 --> 00:23:24.820
- Let the house of aaron
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- Say, his steadfast love endures.
- 00:23:26.721 --> 00:23:30.025
- Let those who fear the lord say his steadfast love.
- 00:23:30.025 --> 00:23:34.396
- It endures forever.
- 00:23:34.396 --> 00:23:35.797
- Out of my distress i called on the lord
- 00:23:35.797 --> 00:23:40.101
- And the lord answered me, and set me free.
- 00:23:40.101 --> 00:23:47.609
- The lord is on my side.
- 00:23:48.109 --> 00:23:50.545
- I will not fear.
- 00:23:50.545 --> 00:23:53.548
- What can man do to me?
- 00:23:53.548 --> 00:24:00.655
- You got to talk to yourself like that.
- 00:24:01.490 --> 00:24:04.059
- You gotta look in the mirror and remind the enemy.
- 00:24:04.059 --> 00:24:06.261
- What can you do to me?
- 00:24:06.261 --> 00:24:10.265
- You gotta remind yourself that the enemy is a defeated folk.
- 00:24:11.433 --> 00:24:15.837
- That god has given you all authority.
- 00:24:15.837 --> 00:24:18.673
- He's given you all dominion to trample
- 00:24:18.673 --> 00:24:21.877
- Over serpents and to stop on scorpions.
- 00:24:21.877 --> 00:24:24.913
- He's placed the enemy under your feet.
- 00:24:24.913 --> 00:24:27.282
- So if he fights the enemy under your feet.
- 00:24:27.282 --> 00:24:30.118
- Why do you keep elevating him in your life?
- 00:24:30.118 --> 00:24:34.556
- What can a man
- 00:24:34.890 --> 00:24:38.126
- Do to you?
- 00:24:38.126 --> 00:24:43.064
- A man cannot take your soul.
- 00:24:43.665 --> 00:24:46.902
- A man cannot sift or steal your spirit.
- 00:24:46.902 --> 00:24:50.438
- What can a man do to you?
- 00:24:50.438 --> 00:24:56.845
- It's not an enemy.
- 00:24:57.279 --> 00:24:59.814
- Not a demon
- 00:25:00.148 --> 00:25:02.350
- And a devil strong enough
- 00:25:02.350 --> 00:25:04.986
- To stop the plan of god in your life.
- 00:25:04.986 --> 00:25:09.224
- For the word of god says,
- 00:25:09.224 --> 00:25:12.527
- The lord is on my side.
- 00:25:12.527 --> 00:25:17.165
- We're out of time for today's broadcast,
- 00:25:18.033 --> 00:25:20.268
- But there's still so much work to discuss and unpack.
- 00:25:20.268 --> 00:25:23.138
- And so i want to encourage you to come back here.
- 00:25:23.138 --> 00:25:25.707
- Same time, same place next week as we continue to walk
- 00:25:25.707 --> 00:25:29.077
- Through the book of acts
- 00:25:29.077 --> 00:25:30.278
- And see how our lives can be transformed, changed,
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- Renewed in our minds, our souls refreshed
- 00:25:33.481 --> 00:25:35.517
- And our spirits revived again.
- 00:25:35.517 --> 00:25:37.485
- I believe there's nothing like the word of god
- 00:25:37.485 --> 00:25:39.621
- To give us direction, to give us a physical blueprint
- 00:25:39.621 --> 00:25:42.924
- As to how we can get from where we are
- 00:25:42.924 --> 00:25:44.960
- To where god desires for us to be.
- 00:25:44.960 --> 00:25:47.429
- And make no mistake about it, i truly believe
- 00:25:47.429 --> 00:25:49.864
- God wants you somewhere.
- 00:25:49.864 --> 00:25:51.433
- I truly believe that every step god has placed in front of you
- 00:25:51.433 --> 00:25:54.703
- Is intentionally designed to get you into greater purpose.
- 00:25:54.703 --> 00:25:58.239
- And so i'm honored to go on this journey with you.
- 00:25:58.239 --> 00:26:00.875
- I'm honored to walk in in hand with what
- 00:26:00.875 --> 00:26:02.844
- Jesus is doing in and through your life.
- 00:26:02.844 --> 00:26:04.879
- And i want you to be a part of
- 00:26:04.879 --> 00:26:06.681
- What god is doing here at celebration church.
- 00:26:06.681 --> 00:26:09.184
- And that's why i encourage it. come back here.
- 00:26:09.184 --> 00:26:11.486
- Same time, same place next week.
- 00:26:11.486 --> 00:26:13.421
- If you're ever in the jacksonville area,
- 00:26:13.421 --> 00:26:14.956
- Come in person.
- 00:26:14.956 --> 00:26:16.124
- We have three expressions hour nine, 11 and 1:30 p.m.
- 00:26:16.124 --> 00:26:19.427
- Bilingual service.
- 00:26:19.427 --> 00:26:20.629
- It's incredible time in the word of god.
- 00:26:20.629 --> 00:26:23.064
- If you're not within driving
- 00:26:23.064 --> 00:26:24.165
- Distance of jacksonville it's okay.
- 00:26:24.165 --> 00:26:26.301
- Continue to see us right here on this incredible network.
- 00:26:26.301 --> 00:26:29.938
- Before i close, i want to pray for you.
- 00:26:29.938 --> 00:26:32.240
- Set myself in agreement with you for what you may be.
- 00:26:32.240 --> 00:26:34.142
- Believe in god for right now, in the name of jesus.
- 00:26:34.142 --> 00:26:37.278
- I thank you for my brother and my sister that are watching,
- 00:26:37.278 --> 00:26:39.714
- That are leaning into this moment
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- With great anticipation and expectation.
- 00:26:41.349 --> 00:26:43.952
- God, that you can do more than we ever could.
- 00:26:43.952 --> 00:26:46.521
- Your word says in ephesians chapter three verse 20,
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- Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above
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- All that we can ask or think, according to the power
- 00:26:52.927 --> 00:26:56.164
- That's at work on the inside of us.
- 00:26:56.164 --> 00:26:57.899
- And so right now, god,
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- I thank you that you are working things out,
- 00:26:59.200 --> 00:27:01.069
- That we don't have the power to work out.
- 00:27:01.069 --> 00:27:03.071
- You're working things through that
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- We don't have the knowledge to work through,
- 00:27:04.539 --> 00:27:06.641
- And you're helping us overcome those things,
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- God, that we need the strength to overcome.
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- In the name of jesus, i pray.
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- Amen.
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