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Tim Timberlake | Tim Timberlake - Truth Has A Name | April 21, 2025
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- Hey, friends and family.
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- I'm pastor tim
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- Timberlake of celebration church, and i'm excited
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- For today's broadcast.
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- God has given me a word
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- As we unpack a brand new series entitled come and see.
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- And my prayer is that as we venture
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- Through the word of god, the book of john, chapter one,
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- We see exactly what jesus desires for us.
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- Let's go into the word of god, as it has already begun
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- With the message entitled come and see in this series,
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- Message for today is truth has a name.
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- John writes,
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- Not just to tell us what jesus did, but
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- He writes to tell us who jesus is.
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- So john doesn't start in bethlehem.
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- He starts in eternity.
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- He doesn't begin with the manger.
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- He begins with the cosmos.
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- He doesn't introduce jesus as the son of mary.
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- He introduces him as the son of god,
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- And he introduces him in a way that reminds us
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- That he was in the beginning, before the beginning, even began
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- To begin by telling us in the beginning was the word.
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- And so john wants you to know
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- From the very first verse, jesus is not just merely a prophet.
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- He's not just merely a teacher.
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- He's not just a healer.
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- He is god in human flesh.
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- And if he walked among them, it means he is still walking
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- Among us. now.
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- The passage that we just read isn't just theology,
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- It's an invitation for us to be transformed
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- And renewed in our thinking by the word of god.
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- So today, as we lean into john chapter one, verses
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- One through 18, i want to unpack five truths
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- That we will find in the scripture
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- In the first truth that i want us to impact is this number one,
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- Truth isn't a concept, it is a person.
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- Truth isn't a concept, it is a person.
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- John chapter
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- One, verses one says, in the beginning was what the word
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- And the word was with god, and the word was god.
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- So i can't apply my truth when my truth
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- Is not aligned with the truth can a good a good amen.
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- And i can have a perspective of truth
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- If i don't know the person of truth.
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- Why is this important?
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- Because truth isn't just a concept.
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- Truth is a person
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- And our world society
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- And culture.
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- It likes to treat truth like it's a buffet,
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- And we pick and choose what we have an appetite for,
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- And we leave what does not appeal to us,
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- When in fact this is not a buffet.
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- This is an assignment
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- That god was on when he sent his son
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- Jesus for us to accept him fully or not accept him at all.
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- And so as we search through the word of god
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- And as we look through john chapter one, verses
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- One through 18, we're not looking
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- Just for good things to apply to our life.
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- We're looking for someone to walk with,
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- Someone to talk to,
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- Someone to hold us by our hand.
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- In every season we find ourselves
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- In, whether they are mountaintop seasons or valley seasons.
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- The truth is always with us.
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- And the reality is, is when we walk with the truth,
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- Scripture tells us the truth shall set us free.
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- So john starts this
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- Gospel by slamming the door on nonsense.
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- And the nonsense is this
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- Jesus doesn't just speak truth.
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- Jesus is the truth.
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- And if truth is a person,
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- You don't get to define what truth is.
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- It's mighty quiet in here this morning.
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- You either receive him or you reject him.
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- But there is no middle ground when it comes
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- To defining what truth is.
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- And as i've walked with jesus now for 22 years, i have learned
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- I don't need new truth.
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- I need to submit to the one who has been true
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- Throughout all of history.
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- And when i am surrendered and submitted to the truth,
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- He gives me
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- Perfect truth, and perfect truth gives me perfect peace
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- With which transcends everything that i can think of
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- And navigate in my own power and ability.
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- You pay attention.
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- You realize that culture keeps shifting the truth.
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- Well, the reason culture keeps shifting the truth
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- Is because the truth keeps shifting their comfort.
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- And if you're not careful, you will apply what society
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- And culture tells you
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- And think that it is the gospel, when in fact it has nothing to
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- Do with the gospel.
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- But when you apply
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- The truth to your life and you walk with the truth,
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- It begins to shape your life around the truth
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- And not allow your life to shape what you define
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- As true.
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- Truth isn't what feels right.
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- Truth is what remains.
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- When feelings, fade,
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- Truth isn't what you define it is.
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- Truth is what god says it is.
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- Before the first star flickered.
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- Before the first mountain stood,
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- Before the first heartbeat echo jesus was
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- Because he both stood in time and out of time
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- At the same time and the foundation of our faith.
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- It is not built on human philosophy or
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- Religious tradition.
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- It is built on the eternal existence of jesus christ.
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- And if jesus is eternal, then your foundation
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- Must be unshakable.
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- So what does this mean?
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- This means that you can't put your faith
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- In temporary things and expect eternal security,
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- Right?
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- So if the foundation of your faith is money,
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- One recession will bankrupt your soul.
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- If the foundation of your faith
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- Is popularity, one scandal will erase your influence.
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- If the foundation of your faith is your own strength,
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- One tragedy will crush you only a faith
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- That is built on the eternal one can withstand the temporary
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- Storms of this life.
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- And make no mistake about it, you will go through some storms
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- And you will go through some wildernesses
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- And you will face some giants.
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- But with the help of the truth, you will overcome them all.
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- Because when you look at the scoreboard
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- Of the only one that has stood true to the test of time,
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- There are no losses, there are no defeats,
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- There are only wins and victories.
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- So as believers in christ jesus, we don't fight for victory.
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- We fight from victory.
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- Can i get a good amen on that?
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- And so light.
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- It always shines in darkness.
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- Because darkness can't overcome light.
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- But i want to give you point number two.
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- Point number two is this.
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- If the darkness can't defeat the light, stop
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- Acting like it can.
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- Did you hear what i said?
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- If darkness cannot defeat light,
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- Stop acting like it can.
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- The world loves to panic.
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- Culture loves to sing you
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- Into a frenzy.
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- Society loves to have you fearful.
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- Guess what?
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- This time last year,
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- There was a president in office.
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- And one side was fearful because of the way he was leading.
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- This year, there's a president in office,
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- And there's a side that's fearful
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- Because of the way he's leading.
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- Hear me?
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- If darkness cannot
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- Overcome light, stop acting like it can
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- Right now.
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- And although the world loves to panic
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- And send you into a political
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- Uproar with chaos and cultural decay and moral confusion,
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- John chapter one verse five is not a suggestion.
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- It is a declaration.
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- And the declaration is this darkness
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- Can't overcome the light period.
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- So no matter what you see,
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- No matter what is a headline in today's news, no matter
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- What's going on or whatever channel is your preference.
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- Darkness cannot overcome light,
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- So no matter what your current reality is,
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- No matter what your current situation is,
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- If it is not in the word of god, you don't have to worry.
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- You don't have to fear.
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- You won't be overcome by it
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- Because the king of glory is going to overcome it.
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- How do i know it?
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- Because he is the truth,
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- And the truth will set you free.
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- Oh, i love the verse that says greater is he
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- That is in me than he that is in the world.
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- And i don't care what everyone else is doing.
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- You have to have your mind made up that for me
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- And my house, we will serve.
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- Y'all sit down.
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- Y'all acting crazy.
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- All right?
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- Hear me, hear me, hear me.
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- Darkness.
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- Darkness may be loud, but
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- Light never needs a microphone.
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- It just has to shine.
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- And when the light of jesus christ shines.
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- It pushes out all darkness, all fear.
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- All worry, all stress, all anxiety.
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- And the reality is, is
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- If you believe darkness is winning,
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- You forgotten what side you're on.
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- Because the word of god is true.
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- It doesn't lie.
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- It doesn't change based upon
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- Our political preference, based upon the economic crisis.
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- It doesn't change based upon the stock market.
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- It remains the same.
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- And it is the one constant that jesus
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- Has given us to remain anchored with our faith in him.
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- And if we sway to the left and to the right,
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- And if we fear what we see, then we have forgotten
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- Whose side we are on.
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- Number three.
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- According to john, verse one,
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- Verses ten through 11.
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- It says he was in the world,
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- And the world was made through him.
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- Yet the world did not know him.
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- He came to his own,
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- And his own people did not receive him.
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- You know what i've come
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- To learn, y'all?
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- Point number three.
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- Point number three is this.
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- The world loves a powerless jesus.
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- The world
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- Loves a powerless jesus.
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- They love baby jesus in a manger.
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- Harmless, quiet.
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- Non-threatening.
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- They love jesus to teacher, wise and compassionate.
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- Full of nice quotes for instagram and your facebook
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- And x formerly twitter.
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- But jesus, the king of glory,
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- The one who calls you out of sin,
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- The one who calls you to repentance,
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- The one that calls you to live a holy and righteous life.
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- The one that called you to be set apart.
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- The one that called you a peculiar people.
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- That one that called you a holy priesthood.
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- The world does not like that jesus,
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- Because that
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- Jesus calls you to a higher standard,
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- That jesus does not leave you in a place of comfort
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- And convenience.
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- That jesus called you to a place of holy conviction.
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- Oh, that that jesus
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- Is who they crucified.
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- That jesus who they rejected.
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- And too many christians
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- Are helping them.
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- Because we keep watering him down.
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- We keep belittling
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- The power of jesus
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- To the perspective of how
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- We think other people should receive him.
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- And we make jesus into someone
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- That he's not
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- Because we believe
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- He should fit our preference
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- Instead of remain true to his word.
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- And if your jesus
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- Never demands any change from you,
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- You were following a mascot
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- And not the messiah.
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- If your jesus never demands that you come
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- Out of sin and live a holy and righteous life,
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- You were following a mascot and not the messiah.
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- If your jesus never causes you to love your brothers
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- And your sisters as much as you love yourself,
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- You are following a mascot and not the messiah.
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- Because the jesus of the bible always
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- Pulls you out of mediocrity into a place
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- Where you expect him to do what only he can do,
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- And that is change and transform you from the inside out.
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- And the world
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- May accept the jesus who inspires,
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- But it crucify that
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- Jesus who reigns and rules.
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- The word of god says
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- That in the beginning
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- He was the word,
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- And the word was with god, and the word was god.
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- And it says,
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- He was in the world, and the world was made through him.
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- Yet the world did not know him.
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- He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him.
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- And culture and society were rather give more power
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- To the universe than they do the son of god.
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- Let me place a pen here for a moment.
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- If you believe the universe is blessing you,
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- If you believe the universe is opening doors for you.
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- If you believe the universe got you from where
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- You were to where you are right now,
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- You are not in the same world that you should be in.
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- Because scripture is very clear.
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- According to john chapter one,
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- He created the world, he entered the world.
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- He is the world, and he's changing your world.
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- When you apply him as the truth of your world.
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- He is the changing his word for your perspective.
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- The universe ain't
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- Done nothing for you.
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- We don't mind boasting about
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- The universe, and we don't mind talking about good energy
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- And all these good auras and all, but but listen to me.
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- If it don't come from the bible and it don't come from jesus.
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- Then it ain't gonna change your life.
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- I wish i had a church up in here right now.
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- I mean, you can't mix
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- Your preference with the truth of the gospel
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- Of jesus christ.
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- And if you choose comfort over christ,
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- Don't blame him when your faith
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- Has no power.
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- It's all who received him.
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- He gave the right
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- To become children of god.
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- Hear me.
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- Number four is this.
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- You don't earn a place in the family.
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- You receive it.
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- You don't pay for a place in the family.
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- You receive it.
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- It's not your good deeds and how many doors
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- You knock on that position you to be a child of god.
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- You receive it.
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- In john
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- Chapter one, verses 12 to 13, it dismantles
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- The lie that you can earn god's love.
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- You don't work your way up
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- In the kingdom of god.
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- You are adopted.
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- You are accepted,
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- And you are sealed and seated
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- In heavenly places with christ jesus.
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- And so god doesn't
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- Need our resumés.
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- To be a child of god.
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- He needs our surrender.
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- Family.
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- When i read this.
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- This bless me so much and every time i read it, i get
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- Emotional
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- Because i know what it is to live without a parent.
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- I know what it is to lose a father.
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- I know what it is
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- At 12 years old, for your life to change and your hero
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- No longer be your hero because he's no longer with you.
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- He is now in heavenly places.
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- What the scripture means for us
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- Is that jesus isn't just offering
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- Forgiveness.
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- He's offering you an opportunity
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- To be a part of a family.
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- Salvation isn't just about membership in a religion.
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- It's about being a son and a daughter in a family
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- That will last throughout all generations.
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- The good news
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- For those that have lost
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- Parents is this if you receive him,
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- You don't just get a ticket to heaven
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- To get a father.
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- Oh, and i tell you,
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- My greatest desire is just to be a son of god.
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- My greatest desire, my greatest mandate, my
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- Greatest assignment in the earth is to just be a son.
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- I don't have to earn being a son.
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- I don't have enough money to pay to be a son.
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- I don't have enough good deeds to work to be a son.
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- All i have to do is receive what god can only give.
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- And that has been a son and a daughter of the most high god.
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- So if you are a child of god.
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- Stop acting like
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- You are an orphan.
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- I break the spirit.
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- Of abandonment.
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- Right now.
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- Those that feel like god.
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- Has forgot about you
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- And turned his back on you. with
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- That he's forsaken you and he doesn't remember you.
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- Scripture says he knows you by name.
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- And he knows the number of hairs on your head.
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- God has not forgotten you.
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- God remembers you.
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- And his religion
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- Gives you a rulebook.
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- It is jesus
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- That gives you relationship
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- With his father
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- And says you no longer have to live like you own your own.
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- You now have a seat at the table
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- With the family of god.
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- Point number five.
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- Jesus didn't come
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- Just to inspire us.
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- He came to indwell us.
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- The scripture says in
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- John chapter one, verse 14.
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- The word became flesh
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- And dwelt among us,
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- And we have seen his glory.
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- By living
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- The rest of my life.
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- Desperate to see the glory of god.
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- We are living in a dying world.
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- And jesus entered into this world
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- According to first john, chapter one.
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- And the word became flesh.
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- And dwelt among us.
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- And now
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- We have seen
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- His glory.
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- Jesus didn't die,
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- So we could just admire him.
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- Jesus died
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- So that we could abide in him.
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- In john's gospel
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- Doesn't just introduce
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- Jesus to us.
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- It forces us to make a decision.
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- That brings us to the conclusion that truth
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- Isn't an opinion,
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- And darkness
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- Is not winning.
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- And jesus did not come for an applause.
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- He came for souls.
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- The question
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- Isn't whether jesus is who
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- He says he is.
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- The question
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- You have to ask yourself
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- Is, will you live like it
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- Or family?
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- We're out of time for today's broadcast,
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- But we are not out of message
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- And encourage you to do whatever you can
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- To continue to join us as we go on this journey
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- And this series. come and see.
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- Today's message was truth has a name, and i pray
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- That you know who the truth is, and his name is jesus.
- 00:24:37.592 --> 00:24:40.729
- And scripture teaches us the truth, will set us free.
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- There's nothing that you have going on in your life
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- That will keep you bound under the power of jesus.
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- His name is above
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- Every other name, and scripture teaches us
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- About the very mention of that name.
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- Every knee shall bow,
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- And every tongue shall proclaim that jesus christ is lord.
- 00:24:56.278 --> 00:25:00.649
- And so just for a moment, i want you to think about
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- What has been trying
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- To stand against that name today in your life.
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- Whether it's fear,
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- Whether it's doubt,
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- Whether it's worry, stress, anxiety,
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- None of those things
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- Have the authority or the dominion over you.
- 00:25:12.127 --> 00:25:15.196
- The way that jesus has the authority and dominion
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- Over them.
- 00:25:17.966 --> 00:25:19.301
- And so i just want to pray with you.
- 00:25:19.301 --> 00:25:21.036
- I want to set myself
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- An agreement with you for what you may be believing god for.
- 00:25:22.237 --> 00:25:25.040
- I'm going to stretch my hands towards the screen
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- As a point of contact, because i believe
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- That faith has no boundaries, because the spirit of god
- 00:25:29.778 --> 00:25:32.414
- Has no boundaries.
- 00:25:32.414 --> 00:25:33.882
- And so right now, in jesus name, i set myself in agreement
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- With my brother and my sister.
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- Right now, no matter where they are all over the world.
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- And i ask god that you would
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- Hear their requests, hear their cries, hear
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- Their petitions, got an answer them
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- According to your plans and purpose for their life.
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- We speak healing right now over those that need to be healed.
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- We speak deliverance right now, over
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- Those that need to be deliverance, deliver
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- And got right now in the name of jesus.
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- We thank you that you are breaking chains and setting
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- The captives free by your power in your might
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- In jesus name we pray. amen.
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- Well, family, if today's broadcast
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- I love you too. be blessed.
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