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Tim Timberlake - Spoken For

October 21, 2025 | 28:30

Tim Timberlake - Spoken For
Tim Timberlake deep biblical wisdom empowers audiences to create transformative change in their lives.
#Bible #JewishTradition #Gospel #Purity #Holiness #Covenant #BrideofChrist #SpiritualGrowth #WordofGod #Culture #SecondComing #PromisesofGod #Dedication/Devotion

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Tim Timberlake | Tim Timberlake - Spoken For | October 21, 2025
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  • Hey. family is pastor tim timberlake
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  • Of celebration church.
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  • I'm excited to be with you.
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  • I'm excited to share the word of god.
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  • This is what i want you to do.
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  • I want you to grab your pen, grab your pad, grab your bible,
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  • Text, call,
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  • Email your friends, let them know
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  • We're on live right now as we go on to the word of god
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  • That has already begun.
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  • I truly believe it's
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  • Going to impact your life in a great and a mighty way.
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  • Let's go into the message as it has already begun.
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  • This was a demonstration of a jewish betrothal.
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  • The groom always leaves his home.
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  • He pays a brides price.
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  • He offers a vow,
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  • And then he returns to prepare a place
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  • For this incredible bride.
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  • The bride lives set apart, waiting and preparing herself
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  • For this holy reunion.
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  • And so, john, chapter 17 is the vow jesus prays to the
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  • Father to ratify the covenant before the shedding of blood.
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  • The first century jewish culture.
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  • It was a marriage that involves several key stages.
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  • I want to give you these stages
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  • Because it's important for context
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  • For what we're learning today.
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  • The first stage was the arrangement.
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  • This is when the father and the groom
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  • Would get together,
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  • And they would decide
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  • What the arrangement would be for the bride.
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  • The second stage is the betrothal stage.
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  • This is when wine is shared.
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  • This is when the bride is accepted.
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  • This is when the groom would then say something like, i'm
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  • Going to prepare a place for you.
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  • And this is why john chapter 14, verse three is so powerful
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  • And prophetic to us,
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  • Because this would have been
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  • What jesus had heard all of his life from friends
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  • That were engaged and betrothed to their future spouses.
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  • 14 verse
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  • Three jesus tells us, i'm going to prepare a place for you.
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  • If it were not so, i would not have told you.
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  • And what he's telling us is, as much as i love you,
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  • I have to go prepare a place for you, because
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  • I am returning to get you.
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  • He would then leave to build
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  • A bridal chamber to his father's house.
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  • And then the last stage of the betrothal is the return.
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  • This is when the father would say to the groom, it is time,
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  • And the groom would return unannounced to collect
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  • His bride.
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  • There would be a wedding procession, followed
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  • By a wedding feast lasting for many days.
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  • And so jesus fulfills every role in this covenant
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  • From him, choosing us to be his bride.
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  • In john chapter 15 verse 16, you did not choose me,
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  • But i have chosen you to where he pays the price.
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  • In first peter chapter one, verse 18 through 19,
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  • No silver nor gold, but his own blood.
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  • Then he offers up the cup in luke chapter 22, verse 20,
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  • This is my blood of the covenant.
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  • And then he makes the vow to us.
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  • In john chapter 17.
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  • And after the vow was
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  • Made, he leaves to prepare a place,
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  • But he always promises to return.
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  • According to matthew chapter 25, verse six, in revelations,
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  • Chapter 19, verse seven, so john 17 as we know
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  • It is the vow of the groom.
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  • What he's saying.
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  • Verse number four i have glorified you
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  • Having accomplished the work.
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  • This is pre cross language of completion.
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  • They are not of the world, just as i am not of the world.
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  • And yet he's reminding all of us is that you are
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  • Spoken for.
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  • You have been set apart.
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  • You cannot live how you want to when you belong
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  • To somebody else.
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  • I want to point something out to you
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  • That that that should be
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  • A friendly reminder to all of us when you have been spoken for.
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  • You wait in purity until the groom returns.
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  • And so we're not waiting without hope.
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  • We're not waiting without expectation.
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  • We're not waiting
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  • Without the anticipation
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  • That our groom is going to return for us
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  • Without spot or blemish.
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  • We're not out here in the streets, are we?
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  • Not outside?
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  • We know who is spoken for us.
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  • We know who we belong to.
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  • We know that our king is soon to return,
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  • And so we steward our lives accordingly.
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  • Verse number 16.
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  • He sets his bride apart.
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  • I desire that they may be with me
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  • Where i.
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  • Verse 24
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  • He uses language of the eternal union.
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  • And why does this matter?
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  • Why is jesus talking to god this manner?
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  • For the last prayer
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  • That he prays and shots ear of the disciples.
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  • Understanding john chapter 17 as a betrothal
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  • Vow reframes our relationship with jesus.
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  • He didn't just save you from judgment.
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  • He pledged himself to you in love.
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  • He didn't just intercede to protect you.
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  • He interceded to possess you.
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  • You are the possession of the most high god.
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  • You aren't just forgiven.
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  • You are spoken for.
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  • This reframes our theology
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  • From having this performance based faith
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  • To a covenant based belonging.
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  • So i want you to take this down as point number one.
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  • Point number one is this purity isn't oppression.
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  • It's preparation.
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  • Purity isn't oppression.
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  • It is preparation.
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  • Don't flirt with the world when you've been spoken for.
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  • Don't flirt with sin.
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  • When you've been spoken for. you've been spoken for.
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  • You belong to somebody.
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  • Don't flirt with the world
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  • When you have been spoken for.
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  • Verse number 16 says, they are not of the world,
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  • Just as i am not of the world.
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  • Let me give you my definition of purity.
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  • How i would define purity.
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  • It's purity isn't the absence of struggle.
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  • It's the refusal to give your body, your mind,
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  • Or your worship to someone or something.
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  • Jesus did not die to marry.
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  • Let me say it again.
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  • Purity isn't the absence of struggle.
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  • It's the refusal to give your body, your mind,
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  • Or your worship to someone or something.
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  • Jesus did not die to marry.
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  • So if they have not
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  • Committed themselves to jesus first
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  • And then committed themselves to you, don't
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  • Give your purity to them. why?
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  • Because you've been spoken for.
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  • Hear me.
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  • This isn't just sexual.
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  • This is spiritual.
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  • Don't entertain
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  • Depression because you've been spoken for.
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  • You're not hearing me.
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  • When you know who has spoken for you,
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  • You know what you will tolerate and accept.
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  • I'm not
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  • Telling you the thoughts won't try to enter your mind.
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  • I'm not telling you.
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  • Temptation won't try to flood your reality.
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  • I'm not even telling you that.
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  • You won't even be tempted to sin.
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  • I'm saying when you come to yourself
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  • And you realize
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  • Who has spoken for you
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  • And give you the strength and the courage to fight
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  • Every adversary, every weapon that's been turned against you,
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  • Every dart that's aimed in your direction, everybody.
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  • Depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation.
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  • Because you know who has spoken for you.
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  • Do you know who you belong to?
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  • You know who belong.
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  • When you belong to you know who's spoken for.
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  • You know who shed their blood for you.
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  • You know what?
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  • You have the authority and the power to fight against.
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  • Only a clueless child
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  • Trust to fight an enemy
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  • That jesus has already defeated.
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  • Some of y'all
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  • Are entertaining the spirits
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  • When all you have to do is speak to them in the name of jesus.
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  • Hear me.
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  • Some of you are entertaining relationships,
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  • And all you have to do is speak to them in the name of jesus.
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  • Some of you are entertaining conversation and entertain,
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  • Instagram pages and entertaining your favorite
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  • Tiktok personality.
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  • And all you have to do is turn it off
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  • And declare the mighty name of jesus what it is that he desires
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  • For you because you know who you belong to.
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  • I wish i had a talk back church this morning
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  • That understood and knew who has spoken for you.
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  • Who knows that you are covered by the blood of jesus christ?
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  • You are veiled and adorned in righteousness,
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  • And you should work out your life with godly purity.
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  • You can't live any kind of way.
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  • You cannot do any kind of way and stamp jesus on it.
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  • You can't walk out this life any kind of way you want to
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  • And expect god to bless you. no, no, no.
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  • He says, i have died for you, so act like it.
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  • You're not dating culture.
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  • You were engaged to a king.
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  • Did you hear what i said?
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  • When you know that you are engaged to royalty,
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  • When you know
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  • That you are
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  • Engaged to the high priest, when you know that you are engaged
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  • To the king of kings and the lord.
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  • You carry yourself differently
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  • Than other people carry themselves,
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  • Because you know who got you and who's covering you and who's
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  • Keeping you and who's lifting you out of the muck and by
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  • And who saved you from hell.
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  • You know who got your back?
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  • What we forget
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  • Is that the bride doesn't date of the lovers.
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  • While waiting on the groom.
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  • We've been dating.
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  • We've been seeking affirmation from men and women.
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  • We've been looking for the pats on the back. and.
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  • Oh, you look good today.
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  • When jesus tells you that every single morning.
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  • Hear me.
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  • Let me break it down for you even further.
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  • You're not from here.
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  • Hear me?
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  • You work here,
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  • And some of you got work husbands and work wives.
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  • Y'all not hearing me?
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  • You got work husbands and work wives.
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  • And you've been stepping outside of your holy union with christ
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  • Because you like where you work.
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  • You like where you work
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  • More than where you're supposed to be headed.
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  • So you entertain conversations.
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  • You know, your groom has asked you not to entertain.
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  • You flirt with sin
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  • Even though your groom has already died for
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  • It's because we don't have a revelation
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  • Of what the groom has already done for us.
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  • See, when we belittle
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  • The groom to what's in his hand,
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  • That we never remember what's in his heart.
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  • Simply put,
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  • You can't carry the name of the groom
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  • And act like you're still single.
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  • I got to move point number two.
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  • Point number two.
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  • Don't just sit my head.
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  • The prayer.
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  • Live like you've been prayed for.
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  • You weren█t an afterthought.
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  • You weren█t a coinkydink.
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  • You want a mistake.
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  • You were intentionally designed by god.
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  • You were handpicked.
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  • Chosen by the king of kings and the lord of lords.
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  • He knows you in ways you can never know yourself.
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  • Scripture says he knows
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  • The amount of hairs you have on your head.
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  • He knows you.
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  • You are not a mistake.
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  • Which means that you were in the room
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  • Of the presence of god before you were born into this world.
  • 00:13:36.498 --> 00:13:41.303
  • So if he was intentional
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  • With where he placed you
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  • And when he placed you there.
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  • Stop living life.
  • 00:13:49.445 --> 00:13:51.046
  • Prayer is a passive tool to get you through.
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  • It's how heaven moved
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  • To find you place to position
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  • You for such a time as this.
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  • Jesus was not just praying
  • 00:14:03.959 --> 00:14:05.794
  • In the garden of gethsemane to pass time.
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  • He was praying to position you for this time and this place
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  • For such a time as this.
  • 00:14:13.669 --> 00:14:17.740
  • He says in verse 20, i do not ask for these things
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  • Only, but also for those who will believe.
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  • So what we must understand and realize is
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  • You're not walking in your own strength.
  • 00:14:29.718 --> 00:14:31.353
  • You're walking in a prayer.
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  • Jesus already prayed.
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  • We think we're so spiritual
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  • And we think that
  • 00:14:41.730 --> 00:14:43.799
  • We're spiritual giants.
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  • We think.
  • 00:14:47.770 --> 00:14:51.240
  • There's nothing we can do
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  • And say that god won't move on our behalf.
  • 00:14:54.810 --> 00:14:58.013
  • What we must understand
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  • Is, before we prayed our first prayer,
  • 00:15:01.216 --> 00:15:03.719
  • We were standing in the
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  • Prayer of the groom who prayed for us.
  • 00:15:05.254 --> 00:15:09.758
  • So the reason you have life.
  • 00:15:10.359 --> 00:15:13.896
  • And well-being.
  • 00:15:14.263 --> 00:15:16.699
  • Because you're standing in the prayer
  • 00:15:16.699 --> 00:15:18.600
  • That jesus prayed for you in the garden of gethsemane.
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  • I want to ask you this question
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  • Because it's the question that god asked me.
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  • What would you change
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  • If you lived like you were the answer
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  • To the son of god's intercession.
  • 00:15:36.919 --> 00:15:42.891
  • What would you change if you lived like
  • 00:15:43.759 --> 00:15:46.862
  • You were the answer to the son of god's
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  • Intercession?
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  • Verse 17
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  • He says, sanctify them in your truth.
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  • Because your word is truth.
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  • Number three.
  • 00:16:06.081 --> 00:16:08.751
  • Don't just desire protection.
  • 00:16:08.751 --> 00:16:11.687
  • Pursue consecration.
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  • Jesus didn't
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  • Just ask god to protect us.
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  • He asked him to purify us.
  • 00:16:20.362 --> 00:16:23.866
  • Some of us are praying for protection
  • 00:16:23.866 --> 00:16:25.567
  • When we should be praying that god would throw out of us
  • 00:16:25.567 --> 00:16:29.805
  • Everything that is pulling our purity away.
  • 00:16:29.805 --> 00:16:36.011
  • So just as much as we pray for protection,
  • 00:16:36.879 --> 00:16:39.314
  • We should also be praying for purity.
  • 00:16:39.314 --> 00:16:42.918
  • See how quiet it gets when we talk?
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  • Purity and holiness and righteousness.
  • 00:16:44.353 --> 00:16:50.025
  • As a matter of fact,
  • 00:16:50.492 --> 00:16:51.193
  • I want to challenge you.
  • 00:16:51.193 --> 00:16:54.797
  • Stop asking god to cover you.
  • 00:16:54.797 --> 00:16:58.100
  • If you're not committed
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  • To asking god to clean you.
  • 00:17:00.769 --> 00:17:09.711
  • Because god only has a desire
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  • To cover those
  • 00:17:14.249 --> 00:17:16.351
  • Who ask him to clean them.
  • 00:17:16.351 --> 00:17:23.358
  • If we are unwilling to be sanctified,
  • 00:17:24.193 --> 00:17:27.930
  • We have to stop asking
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  • God to be set.
  • 00:17:29.765 --> 00:17:34.770
  • There's a lot of us
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  • That want to be used by god.
  • 00:17:35.938 --> 00:17:41.410
  • But we still haven't given up the ability
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  • To like being used by others.
  • 00:17:45.314 --> 00:17:53.755
  • Jesus is after.
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  • It's not a part of you.
  • 00:17:56.258 --> 00:17:59.328
  • Jesus is after
  • 00:17:59.328 --> 00:18:01.897
  • All of you.
  • 00:18:01.897 --> 00:18:04.833
  • Are you hearing me?
  • 00:18:04.833 --> 00:18:06.635
  • He did not die
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  • For fraction of you.
  • 00:18:07.836 --> 00:18:10.873
  • He didn't vow for percentage of you.
  • 00:18:10.873 --> 00:18:12.975
  • He didn't give his life for the majority of you.
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  • He gave his life for all of you.
  • 00:18:15.978 --> 00:18:22.718
  • So what is the brides covering?
  • 00:18:23.385 --> 00:18:27.156
  • What is the brides gown?
  • 00:18:27.689 --> 00:18:30.526
  • What is the brides veil?
  • 00:18:30.526 --> 00:18:33.695
  • Consecration.
  • 00:18:34.062 --> 00:18:38.000
  • How do you remain covered?
  • 00:18:38.567 --> 00:18:40.702
  • Purity and consecration.
  • 00:18:40.702 --> 00:18:43.338
  • How do you remain covered?
  • 00:18:43.338 --> 00:18:45.474
  • Being set apart.
  • 00:18:45.474 --> 00:18:47.709
  • Living and pursuing righteousness.
  • 00:18:47.709 --> 00:18:51.180
  • What does righteousness mean?
  • 00:18:51.180 --> 00:18:52.514
  • Righteousness does not mean that you are perfect.
  • 00:18:52.514 --> 00:18:54.950
  • Righteousness means that you have a heart's desire to do
  • 00:18:54.950 --> 00:18:58.153
  • Things the right way.
  • 00:18:58.153 --> 00:19:01.323
  • Hear me.
  • 00:19:01.323 --> 00:19:02.324
  • Righteousness means you stop letting the world
  • 00:19:02.324 --> 00:19:05.961
  • Strip your gown off.
  • 00:19:05.961 --> 00:19:14.269
  • You allow him to cover you in purity
  • 00:19:15.037 --> 00:19:18.106
  • Because you're consecrated.
  • 00:19:18.707 --> 00:19:21.710
  • Everybody wants his power.
  • 00:19:21.710 --> 00:19:25.047
  • But are you willing
  • 00:19:25.514 --> 00:19:26.682
  • To live the life of purity he desires for you to live in?
  • 00:19:26.682 --> 00:19:33.288
  • What i've come to the conclusion of
  • 00:19:34.089 --> 00:19:36.792
  • Is the world doesn't need a louder church.
  • 00:19:36.792 --> 00:19:41.296
  • The world needs a church
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  • That knows purity.
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  • That knows how to pursue the king
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  • And the groom with righteousness.
  • 00:19:49.037 --> 00:19:51.273
  • Not a perfect church.
  • 00:19:51.273 --> 00:19:53.575
  • The church will never be perfect because we're in it.
  • 00:19:53.575 --> 00:19:56.678
  • Are you? listen to me.
  • 00:19:57.145 --> 00:19:58.680
  • I know you think you're perfect.
  • 00:19:58.680 --> 00:20:01.149
  • You're not.
  • 00:20:01.149 --> 00:20:08.357
  • But what we can do is practice purity
  • 00:20:09.091 --> 00:20:12.361
  • And holiness and righteousness.
  • 00:20:12.361 --> 00:20:15.964
  • And that is what jesus is praying.
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  • Point number four is this.
  • 00:20:19.668 --> 00:20:20.602
  • As we close.
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  • The spirit isn't dressing you
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  • For popularity.
  • 00:20:30.045 --> 00:20:34.249
  • He's dressing you for purpose.
  • 00:20:34.883 --> 00:20:40.589
  • When i read this,
  • 00:20:41.023 --> 00:20:43.525
  • What jumped off the page to me about
  • 00:20:43.525 --> 00:20:45.160
  • Verse number 22.
  • 00:20:45.160 --> 00:20:48.397
  • Is don't pray for a glory you're unwilling to carry.
  • 00:20:48.397 --> 00:20:54.469
  • Verse 22 says, the
  • 00:20:54.903 --> 00:20:56.071
  • Glory that you have given me, i have given to them.
  • 00:20:56.071 --> 00:20:59.274
  • Jesus shared his glory with us
  • 00:20:59.908 --> 00:21:02.544
  • Not as a decoration, but as identification.
  • 00:21:02.544 --> 00:21:06.782
  • They belong to me.
  • 00:21:07.215 --> 00:21:09.851
  • I have spoken for them.
  • 00:21:09.851 --> 00:21:12.554
  • You carry his nature.
  • 00:21:12.554 --> 00:21:14.489
  • That means you carry his responsibility.
  • 00:21:14.489 --> 00:21:17.959
  • You carry his name.
  • 00:21:18.427 --> 00:21:20.329
  • That means you carry responsibility.
  • 00:21:20.329 --> 00:21:24.399
  • You carry his likeness.
  • 00:21:24.900 --> 00:21:26.802
  • That means you carry responsibility.
  • 00:21:26.802 --> 00:21:29.938
  • You carry his image.
  • 00:21:30.405 --> 00:21:32.140
  • That means you carry responsibility.
  • 00:21:32.140 --> 00:21:36.712
  • Demonstrates to us
  • 00:21:37.145 --> 00:21:38.280
  • That glory isn't glitter.
  • 00:21:38.280 --> 00:21:41.316
  • It's weight.
  • 00:21:41.316 --> 00:21:45.587
  • And if you're wearing it,
  • 00:21:46.154 --> 00:21:48.123
  • You should walk like it.
  • 00:21:48.123 --> 00:21:52.761
  • You should talk like it.
  • 00:21:53.295 --> 00:21:55.797
  • You should steward your life that way.
  • 00:21:55.797 --> 00:21:59.901
  • Simply put.
  • 00:22:00.235 --> 00:22:03.238
  • You can't wear his crown of glory
  • 00:22:03.238 --> 00:22:06.808
  • And still be out here trying to chase
  • 00:22:06.808 --> 00:22:08.343
  • Clout.
  • 00:22:08.343 --> 00:22:12.481
  • Revelations that says
  • 00:22:12.981 --> 00:22:16.184
  • That the crowns that he's given to the elders.
  • 00:22:16.184 --> 00:22:18.987
  • They cast him down at his feet.
  • 00:22:19.621 --> 00:22:23.925
  • They know who's spoken for them.
  • 00:22:24.559 --> 00:22:27.829
  • Do you know who's spoken for you?
  • 00:22:27.829 --> 00:22:31.099
  • Do you know who shed their blood
  • 00:22:31.733 --> 00:22:34.202
  • And laid down their life for you?
  • 00:22:34.202 --> 00:22:37.639
  • Who calls you by name?
  • 00:22:38.106 --> 00:22:41.076
  • Who has set you apart?
  • 00:22:41.076 --> 00:22:43.578
  • Who declares that you are royal priesthood?
  • 00:22:43.578 --> 00:22:45.680
  • That you are a peculiar people.
  • 00:22:45.680 --> 00:22:47.516
  • That you have been consecrated,
  • 00:22:47.516 --> 00:22:49.418
  • Set aside, sanctified for such a time as this?
  • 00:22:49.418 --> 00:22:53.355
  • John, chapter 17 is not about performance.
  • 00:22:53.355 --> 00:22:56.558
  • It's about a priest declaring his love for a bride.
  • 00:22:56.558 --> 00:23:01.096
  • It's a proposal.
  • 00:23:01.496 --> 00:23:02.731
  • It's jesus getting down on his knees for us as the bride,
  • 00:23:02.731 --> 00:23:07.803
  • To demonstrate his loyalty and faithfulness to us.
  • 00:23:07.803 --> 00:23:11.540
  • And it's time for us to demonstrate our faithfulness
  • 00:23:11.540 --> 00:23:14.643
  • And loyalty to him.
  • 00:23:14.643 --> 00:23:18.346
  • He prayed for you like you were already his.
  • 00:23:18.346 --> 00:23:22.951
  • He spoke to the father
  • 00:23:23.418 --> 00:23:24.486
  • Like you were already his.
  • 00:23:24.486 --> 00:23:28.290
  • He declared his love for you
  • 00:23:28.890 --> 00:23:30.125
  • Like you were already his.
  • 00:23:30.125 --> 00:23:33.628
  • It's time for you.
  • 00:23:34.062 --> 00:23:35.330
  • It's time for us.
  • 00:23:35.330 --> 00:23:36.698
  • It's time for those that say they believe to act like it.
  • 00:23:36.698 --> 00:23:46.875
  • Stop living
  • 00:23:47.209 --> 00:23:48.009
  • Like you're still available.
  • 00:23:48.009 --> 00:23:53.415
  • Are you listening to me?
  • 00:23:53.949 --> 00:23:57.018
  • Stop living like you're still available.
  • 00:23:57.018 --> 00:24:00.355
  • You've been spoken for.
  • 00:24:00.355 --> 00:24:04.025
  • You can't imagine
  • 00:24:04.459 --> 00:24:06.695
  • The cost
  • 00:24:06.695 --> 00:24:08.563
  • Of the ring he gave you.
  • 00:24:08.563 --> 00:24:12.167
  • You can imagine.
  • 00:24:12.567 --> 00:24:16.304
  • The commitment
  • 00:24:16.638 --> 00:24:17.405
  • He made to the father for you.
  • 00:24:17.405 --> 00:24:20.675
  • You can't imagine the weight he carries
  • 00:24:21.510 --> 00:24:24.379
  • So that you would never have to carry it.
  • 00:24:24.379 --> 00:24:28.383
  • See, the groom
  • 00:24:28.717 --> 00:24:29.584
  • Always protects his bride.
  • 00:24:29.584 --> 00:24:35.156
  • Every good husband
  • 00:24:35.590 --> 00:24:38.326
  • Will shouldered the weight of things
  • 00:24:38.326 --> 00:24:41.129
  • That the bride should never have to shoulder.
  • 00:24:41.129 --> 00:24:46.368
  • That's why in ephesians chapter
  • 00:24:47.002 --> 00:24:48.770
  • Three it says, husbands, treat your wives
  • 00:24:48.770 --> 00:24:52.941
  • As christ
  • 00:24:53.241 --> 00:24:55.810
  • Treated and love the church.
  • 00:24:55.810 --> 00:25:00.382
  • Honored.
  • 00:25:00.649 --> 00:25:04.152
  • You can imagine
  • 00:25:04.519 --> 00:25:05.353
  • What he paid for you.
  • 00:25:05.353 --> 00:25:09.891
  • So as we look at john 17,
  • 00:25:10.458 --> 00:25:12.794
  • We have to remember you've been spoken for.
  • 00:25:12.794 --> 00:25:18.700
  • Not only have you been spoken for.
  • 00:25:19.434 --> 00:25:21.336
  • You've been paid for.
  • 00:25:21.336 --> 00:25:22.537
  • Unfortunately for me, this is the worst part of
  • 00:25:23.538 --> 00:25:26.308
  • Today's broadcast is when i tell you we're out of time.
  • 00:25:26.308 --> 00:25:30.378
  • But we're still in the middle of this incredible series
  • 00:25:30.378 --> 00:25:33.081
  • That i believe is going to bless you.
  • 00:25:33.081 --> 00:25:34.616
  • So my encouragement to you is two things.
  • 00:25:34.616 --> 00:25:37.252
  • Join us right back here.
  • 00:25:37.252 --> 00:25:38.219
  • Same time, same place next week.
  • 00:25:38.219 --> 00:25:40.288
  • And the second thing
  • 00:25:40.288 --> 00:25:41.423
  • Is prayerfully consider partnering with us and just
  • 00:25:41.423 --> 00:25:44.793
  • Pray through what it is that god what have you to contribute.
  • 00:25:44.793 --> 00:25:48.797
  • Our team is going to throw some information
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  • At the bottom of the screen.
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  • I want you to get your phone out, scan that qr code.
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  • Follow that email address.
  • 00:25:54.469 --> 00:25:56.037
  • Look at that mailing address.
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  • And then pray and ask god if this is a season,
  • 00:25:57.672 --> 00:26:00.809
  • That he would have you lock arm in arm
  • 00:26:00.809 --> 00:26:02.510
  • With us to help advance the gospel of jesus christ.
  • 00:26:02.510 --> 00:26:05.747
  • Before we close this broadcast,
  • 00:26:06.414 --> 00:26:08.149
  • I'm not going to do so without praying with you,
  • 00:26:08.149 --> 00:26:10.552
  • Believing god for you, and setting myself in agreement
  • 00:26:10.552 --> 00:26:13.722
  • With your faith for what you may be believing god for.
  • 00:26:13.722 --> 00:26:17.125
  • And so, right now, in the name of jesus,
  • 00:26:17.125 --> 00:26:18.760
  • I thank you for my brothers and my sisters that are watching
  • 00:26:18.760 --> 00:26:21.296
  • Tuning in all over the world.
  • 00:26:21.296 --> 00:26:23.131
  • I ask right now that you would do something
  • 00:26:23.131 --> 00:26:25.700
  • Supernatural and significant in this moment for their life.
  • 00:26:25.700 --> 00:26:29.838
  • God, you know the plans and the purpose you have for them
  • 00:26:29.838 --> 00:26:32.507
  • And those plans are good.
  • 00:26:32.507 --> 00:26:34.309
  • Your word teaches us that.
  • 00:26:34.309 --> 00:26:36.244
  • And so right now, in the name of jesus, i
  • 00:26:36.244 --> 00:26:37.846
  • Thank you that we would discover those good plans
  • 00:26:37.846 --> 00:26:40.415
  • And experience the future that you have for us.
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  • It is in your name we pray. amen.
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  • Well family if you are ever in the jacksonville area.
  • 00:26:47.022 --> 00:26:49.591
  • Come by, visit us on a sunday morning, 9 a.m.
  • 00:26:49.591 --> 00:26:52.093
  • And 11 a.m..
  • 00:26:52.093 --> 00:26:53.361
  • If you're not in the jacksonville,
  • 00:26:53.361 --> 00:26:54.663
  • North florida area, continue to watch us right here
  • 00:26:54.663 --> 00:26:57.265
  • As we continue to deliver you the message of the gospel
  • 00:26:57.265 --> 00:27:00.735
  • Of jesus christ.
  • 00:27:00.735 --> 00:27:01.903
  • I want you to know god loves you and i love you.
  • 00:27:01.903 --> 00:27:04.172
  • And i see you right back here next week.
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  • Same time, same place. be blessed.
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  • ♪♪
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  • ♪♪
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