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Tim Timberlake | Tim Timberlake - The Weight Of A Witness | May 27, 2025
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- Hey. family is pastor tim
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- Timberlake of celebration church,
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- And i'm excited about the word
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- That god has given me for our time today.
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- I want us to go right into the message.
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- This message that god has given me.
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- I pray that it changes and transforms us
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- From the inside out.
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- Scripture teaches us that men look on the outside,
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- But it is god that looks on the inside.
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- We're going to be walking through the book of john today,
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- And so we hop into a message entitled the weight of a
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- Witness.
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- The persecution.
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- You will receive the crown
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- Of righteousness.
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- I want to take us back to john 15, verse number 18.
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- It says, if the world hates you know it has hated me before.
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- It hated you.
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- If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own.
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- But because you are not of the world.
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- But i chose you out of the world,
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- Therefore the world hates you.
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- Remember the word that i said to you, a servant?
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- It's not greater than their master.
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- If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you.
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- And if they kept my word, they will also keep yours.
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- Point number one is this.
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- Before pain shows up in your story.
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- Peace shows up in his promise.
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- Before pain
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- Ever showed up in your story.
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- Ever showed up in your life?
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- Ever showed up in your season, in your situation?
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- His peace was already a promise
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- Given to you that you just have to step into.
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- This is what the word of god teaches us.
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- You're going to be hated. you're going to be persecuted.
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- None of us will be spared from pain.
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- But because of the promises that jesus has already given us,
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- There will be peace
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- That meets you
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- When you step into these encounters of persecution, hate,
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- And pain.
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- He says to us in his word, the world hates
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- You and knows that it hated me before it hated you.
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- And the reality is,
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- Is that this particular point in scripture,
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- The disciples had not experienced the cross.
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- They had that experience, pentecost,
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- And they had not experienced real persecution.
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- And so jesus speaks into a future pain,
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- What they have not yet experienced,
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- Which gives us the indication that god will speak victory.
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- And to places you haven't even struggled yet.
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- Some of you will get that when you get home.
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- I said, god
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- Speaks victory into places you have not even struggled yet.
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- God already has victory in your 2026
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- As you're still walking out struggles in your 2025.
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- God already has victory
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- In your 2027, and some of you are just trying to get by today.
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- You don't have to get by with jesus.
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- He says, you will overcome and you will stand,
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- And you stand strong
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- In the test of the enemy, because i did it.
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- And now i've infuse you with power to do it as well.
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- Give you some
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- Insight into the scriptures so that we're all on the same page
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- In ancient rome.
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- Allegiance to caesar.
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- Ment protection
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- And ment,
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- You didn't have to worry about persecution.
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- I mean, you were not threatened with your life.
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- It means that if you would need something from the government,
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- That the government would take care of you.
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- Reminds me of what we experienced today.
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- All up in arms.
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- Because we expect the government to take care of us.
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- Y'all, quiet!
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- It's okay.
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- Y'all don't scare me.
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- And we expect the government to save us.
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- And we expect politics to change things for us.
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- But politics were never meant to be your god.
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- Politics were never meant to give you grace.
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- Politics did not hang on the cross.
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- It said it's bled for you so that you can be redeemed
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- And restored.
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- So don't put more faith in a governmental structure
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- And system than you do the almighty god.
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- You can't expect what you see right now.
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- You can anticipate what you're living through right
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- Now because it's biblical.
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- We forget what the book says,
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- And we get our stressed out and worried, and we get fearful,
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- And we get anxiety about what the news is telling us.
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- Turn the news off.
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- Open up the word of god.
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- See what god says about you.
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- You want to hear his voice. get in his word.
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- You want to know what tomorrow looks like?
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- See what his word says.
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- Allegiance to caesar.
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- Protection.
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- And if you did not confess your allegiance to caesar
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- And confess that caesar was lord, you were labeled a rebel.
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- If you were labeled a rebel,
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- You're persecuted
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- And murdered in the streets of rome.
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- You were tortured.
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- You were crucified.
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- The early christians
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- Didn't just worship jesus privately.
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- They confessed him publicly,
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- Even if it cost them their lives,
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- Even if it cost them their recognition
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- And their influence
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- And their
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- Influence and influence, even if it cost them their resources,
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- Even if it cost them family members and friendships.
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- And i just came to tell you today,
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- We're coming up on a season
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- Where your allegiance to jesus is going to cost you
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- Some things.
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- See, i know we're
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- Real comfortable right now because we don't have to
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- Privately display what we publicly say we believe.
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- But there's coming a day in time
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- Where you're going to have to
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- Publicly declare your loyalty and allegiance to jesus.
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- And if you don't,
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- Life will look completely different
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- Than what you anticipated and expected.
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- It's easy for us to believe privately.
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- It's easy for us to text our friends.
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- I see you at church.
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- It's inconvenient for us to make a stand for righteousness.
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- When it cost us those same friendships
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- That we thought would be with us for the rest of our lives.
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- Yes. if you allegiance cost
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- You everything, would you still be loyal to him?
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- It's quite up.
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- If your loyalty
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- To jesus cost you your resources,
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- Would you still be loyal to him?
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- It's easy for us to say right now.
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- Easy for us to say right now, because none of those things
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- Are being tested.
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- But there's coming a day.
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- Where you will be tested,
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- Your loyalty will be tested.
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- Your allegiance will be tested,
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- And society may try to cancel you.
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- But here's the good news.
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- Society can't cancel what god has already called.
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- Y'all not hearing me.
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- And the same faith
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- That saved you is the same faith that will separate you.
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- God did not call you.
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- He did not save you.
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- He did not choose you for you to blend in with the world.
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- He called you.
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- He saved you.
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- He redeemed you
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- So that you won't be separated and set apart.
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- He called you a royal priesthood.
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- He called you a peculiar people.
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- He called you chosen.
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- And i wonder to anybody that's willing
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- To publicly declare their allegiance to jesus,
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- Even if it cost you
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- Some things you thought would not leave you.
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- Let's go a little bit deeper.
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- John chapter 15, verse 20 says,
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- If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you.
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- Point number two is this you know
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- You're his not just when you feel loved,
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- But when you walk through hate and still
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- Hold on to your hope.
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- Hear me, family
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- Resistance is not rejection.
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- Resistance is a reflection.
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- When people resist you, it is not rejecting you.
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- It is a reflection of who they believe in.
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- Every season of rejection was an indication to me
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- That the season that i was in
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- Was too small to hold me, and god was calling me higher.
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- You're not hearing me.
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- I said every season of rejected and i've had many
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- I've had many close doors.
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- I've had many close windows.
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- I've had many close opportunities.
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- It was not resistance and rejection to me.
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- It was direction for the thing god wanted me to walk
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- In through.
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- What we must understand is
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- Persecution is never personal.
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- It's always spiritual.
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- If they hate you without a cause,
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- It's because grace gave you a calling
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- That they cannot cancel.
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- People hate you and don't even know you.
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- People talk matter.
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- You ain't even had a conversation with you.
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- I was talking to my brother
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- Who pastors two weeks ago.
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- Coaching society was trying to cancel him
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- Because he stood on truth flat footed.
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- I said, bro, they don't know what.
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- What difference does it make?
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- They don't know you.
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- Of course they go talk bad about you.
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- They talking about the image that they think they know,
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- But what they are doing, they're not talking about you.
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- They're talking about the jesus on the inside of you.
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- They're intimidated by what you stand for.
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- And so often what you stand for makes other people's
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- Demons nervous, so they have no other option
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- But to try to cancel you, because the light of jesus
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- On the inside of you illuminates their sin.
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- They hate you without a cause.
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- Just because grace gave you a calling that they cannot cancel.
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- Hear me? family. spiritual warfare.
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- It always feels personal because it hits personal places,
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- But it's never really about you.
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- It's about who's at work on the inside of you.
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- And when you understand
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- Who's on the at work
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- On the inside of you, you can stand flatfooted
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- Look in the face of the enemy and smile.
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- Greater is he that is in me, that he that is in the world.
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- I see you're trying, satan, but you will not win.
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- I know you're trying to to aim those weapons
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- And those those those, you know the enemy artillery towards me.
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- But the weapons of your warfare
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- Will never succeed against my god.
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- Scripture teaches us.
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- Yea, though i walk through the valley
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- Of the shadow of death, i will fear no evil.
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- Listen to me.
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- You got to go through some things to understand
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- Who got your back.
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- You got to walk through the valley
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- To know who's walking with you.
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- You gotta go through darkness to know who
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- The light of the world on the inside of you.
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- And i want to tell anybody.
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- Listen to me right now.
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- That's grateful that he's still alive and well.
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- Y'all know what trip me out.
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- We got time today, so i'm just going unpack it to you.
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- We are like, on monday
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- Of last week, jesus went back into the tomb,
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- And the tomb was rolled back in front of the grave.
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- And jesus not going to reappear till next year.
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- Listen to me, family. he's still alive.
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- He's still well. he's still on the throne.
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- And he's
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- Still navigating and working in every situation
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- And circumstance you will find yourself in.
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- So let them talk.
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- They talked about him,
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- And you best believe they will talk about you.
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- I love about this passage of scripture is jesus
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- Ties our suffering directly to his own, which gives us
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- The indication he's not detached from what you feel.
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- He deeply identifies with it.
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- And what we have to understand is persecution.
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- Is it proof that you're doing something wrong?
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- Persecution is proof.
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- You're shining too bright for the comfort.
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- The pressure you feel.
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- Is it pushing you away from god?
- 00:12:40.543 --> 00:12:43.445
- The pressure you feel is proving you belong to him.
- 00:12:43.445 --> 00:12:47.583
- But you have to understand.
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- Is there hatred is not a judgment on you.
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- It's a revelation of who they actually serve.
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- The world rejected
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- Perfection in the flesh.
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- What makes us believe that they will accept
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- And acknowledge our progress?
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- Some of us are so focused
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- On all the wrong people,
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- Trying to see our progress.
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- When all you need is the approval of one,
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- If you get the approval of one,
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- You get favor from the one that matters most.
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- And if you get favor from the one that matters most,
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- He'll open up doors you can open for yourself.
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- He'll closed doors.
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- You're not strong enough to close.
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- He'll move people out of the way who are set before you,
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- Who are more educated than you, than god.
- 00:13:37.633 --> 00:13:40.269
- People. they got a better background.
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- And you people who are more qualified than you.
- 00:13:41.904 --> 00:13:43.939
- But you got something they don't.
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- You got the favor of the most high god.
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- And if you got favor, you don't need their approval.
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- Let's continue to go a little bit deeper.
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- John chapter 15 verse 26 says,
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- But when the helper comes,
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- He will bear witness about me.
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- Point number three is this family, the spirit's job
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- Isn't just to soothe,
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- It's to strengthen,
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- To speak
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- And to stand
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- When the helper enters into your life.
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- When the holy spirit arrives in your life,
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- The holy spirit comes to give you
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- A holy boldness.
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- Scriptural context and insight.
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- As jesus is speaking to a group of people
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- Who understood jewish law.
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- These people understood
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- That in the jewish court systems,
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- A testimony was needed by a witness.
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- A testimony was needed by someone else
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- That was an eye witness
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- To what actually occurred.
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- And what he's telling us is,
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- Is when the holy spirit enters into the equation,
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- There may be people talking about you, there may be people
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- Hating you,
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- There may be people persecuting you,
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- But they can't argue with the witness
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- That stands for truth.
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- This witness doesn't just go to the judge
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- Because other people are talking about you.
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- This witness
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- Goes to the almighty judge on your behalf and reminds
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- The father that jesus took every sin, every sickness,
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- Every sorrow and nailed it to the cross for you and for me,
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- Because we did not have the ability,
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- The power or the authority
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- To take our own sin on our shoulders by ourselves.
- 00:15:52.134 --> 00:15:56.138
- And so this witness, known as the helper and the comforter,
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- He goes to the judge and he tells the judge
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- They're guilty.
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- But jesus shed his blood for them.
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- And so by the grace of jesus christ,
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- You're now found innocent
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- Because there's an eye witness that testifies on your behalf.
- 00:16:11.687 --> 00:16:15.591
- And i want to say, anybody listening to me that's grateful
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- That not only do you have a helper,
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- Not only do you have a comforter,
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- Not only do you have the holy spirit,
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- But you got a witness that bears witness of the blood of jesus
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- Christ that covers you when you couldn't cover yourself.
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- The spirit is the first witness
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- Inside you, empowering you to be the second,
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- And the helper, the holy spirit
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- Isn't just sent for your comfort.
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- He's sent for holy confrontation.
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- The holy spirit don't play about you.
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- He sent for holy confrontation.
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- The holy spirit isn█t timid.
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- The holy spirit,
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- Holy spirit stands ten toes down, flat footed,
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- Waiting for the enemy to try something.
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- So he can strike them down.
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- The holy spirit don't play no games.
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- When you acknowledge and accept jesus
- 00:17:06.442 --> 00:17:08.710
- And the holy spirit enters into the equation,
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- He says, all you gotta do is stand firm
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- In the word that i've already given you.
- 00:17:13.248 --> 00:17:15.284
- He said, vengeance is mine and i'll fight the battles.
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- You are not strong enough to fight,
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- And i'll defend what you're not strong enough to defend.
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- You don't got to fight for your name.
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- All you gotta do is declare the name of the lord
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- Is a strong power.
- 00:17:27.930 --> 00:17:29.531
- And that the very mention of that name.
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- Every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall proclaim
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- That jesus christ,
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- His lord.
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- How we must understand
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- That the spirit does not come to make us comfortable.
- 00:17:41.977 --> 00:17:45.414
- The spirit comes to make us courageous.
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- We got enough weak,
- 00:17:55.090 --> 00:17:57.259
- Spineless, timid
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- People in the world.
- 00:18:00.496 --> 00:18:03.398
- But the world needs to see is a group of people
- 00:18:03.398 --> 00:18:05.300
- That are courageous, standing on the word of god, bold
- 00:18:05.300 --> 00:18:08.403
- In their belief, holding on to that firm foundation.
- 00:18:08.403 --> 00:18:12.307
- That is jesus christ.
- 00:18:12.307 --> 00:18:15.844
- God never called you to be quiet
- 00:18:16.478 --> 00:18:19.681
- About what he carried you through.
- 00:18:19.681 --> 00:18:23.385
- So if you don't hear anything else,
- 00:18:24.186 --> 00:18:27.489
- I need you to hear me.
- 00:18:27.489 --> 00:18:28.790
- When i tell you this.
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- God did not call you to be understood.
- 00:18:31.193 --> 00:18:34.997
- He called you to be undeniable.
- 00:18:35.631 --> 00:18:39.835
- I'm not here to be understood.
- 00:18:40.435 --> 00:18:43.639
- I'm not here to be liked by many.
- 00:18:43.639 --> 00:18:45.407
- Matter of fact,
- 00:18:45.407 --> 00:18:46.775
- I remember talking to a black pastor
- 00:18:47.576 --> 00:18:50.612
- And black pastor said, listen, man,
- 00:18:50.612 --> 00:18:52.848
- If you want these type of people
- 00:18:52.848 --> 00:18:54.082
- To come to your church, you got to dress like this.
- 00:18:54.082 --> 00:18:56.051
- You got to wear a suit.
- 00:18:56.051 --> 00:18:56.919
- You got to wear a tie
- 00:18:56.919 --> 00:18:58.053
- Because people of influence are never going to come.
- 00:18:58.053 --> 00:18:59.988
- If you wear jeans and a hoodie.
- 00:18:59.988 --> 00:19:02.491
- And i said, that ain't what god called me to do.
- 00:19:02.491 --> 00:19:04.026
- And he laughed. he said, listen to me, man.
- 00:19:04.026 --> 00:19:05.627
- You█ll never pastor influencial people.
- 00:19:05.627 --> 00:19:08.096
- I talked to a white pastor who said, listen to him, man,
- 00:19:08.096 --> 00:19:10.165
- You got to talk like this
- 00:19:10.165 --> 00:19:11.400
- In order for white people to come to your church.
- 00:19:11.400 --> 00:19:14.069
- I said, i don't talk like that.
- 00:19:14.069 --> 00:19:15.404
- He laughed at me and said, white people are
- 00:19:15.404 --> 00:19:16.872
- Never coming to your church.
- 00:19:16.872 --> 00:19:21.043
- Y'all not hearing me?
- 00:19:21.543 --> 00:19:28.817
- Y'all not hearing me?
- 00:19:29.318 --> 00:19:34.389
- Y'all not hearing me?
- 00:19:34.890 --> 00:19:38.427
- Listen,
- 00:19:38.660 --> 00:19:39.761
- You don't have to be what they expect you to be
- 00:19:39.761 --> 00:19:43.398
- In order for god to use you.
- 00:19:43.398 --> 00:19:48.670
- Hear me?
- 00:19:48.937 --> 00:19:49.504
- Family two years ago.
- 00:19:49.504 --> 00:19:52.174
- Two years ago.
- 00:19:52.174 --> 00:19:53.408
- Resurrection weekend, as a staff
- 00:19:53.408 --> 00:19:55.911
- We were just praying
- 00:19:55.911 --> 00:19:57.112
- God, would you just send somebody?
- 00:19:57.112 --> 00:19:59.281
- Would you just send anybody?
- 00:19:59.281 --> 00:20:00.983
- Two years ago,
- 00:20:00.983 --> 00:20:01.950
- I could take a cinderblock
- 00:20:01.950 --> 00:20:03.385
- And throw it into the audience and not worry about
- 00:20:03.385 --> 00:20:05.587
- Hitting nobody.
- 00:20:05.587 --> 00:20:06.989
- Two years ago.
- 00:20:06.989 --> 00:20:08.056
- Fast forward two years.
- 00:20:08.056 --> 00:20:09.558
- Last week we had over 1400 people receive salvation
- 00:20:09.558 --> 00:20:13.829
- For the very first time.
- 00:20:13.829 --> 00:20:15.530
- You're not here to be understood.
- 00:20:15.530 --> 00:20:18.200
- You're here to be undeniable.
- 00:20:18.200 --> 00:20:23.338
- So listen.
- 00:20:23.639 --> 00:20:26.308
- Number four is the world
- 00:20:26.308 --> 00:20:28.744
- Isn't threatened by your opinions.
- 00:20:28.744 --> 00:20:32.047
- The world is threatened by your obedience.
- 00:20:32.047 --> 00:20:35.884
- Your witness
- 00:20:36.184 --> 00:20:38.320
- Is proof
- 00:20:38.320 --> 00:20:40.355
- That you've been
- 00:20:40.355 --> 00:20:42.824
- With the lord.
- 00:20:42.824 --> 00:20:44.926
- Your witness is proof that you don't know
- 00:20:44.926 --> 00:20:48.664
- Just about jesus.
- 00:20:49.097 --> 00:20:51.300
- You know jesus in an intimate way.
- 00:20:51.300 --> 00:20:54.636
- You can stay in his presence and not leave.
- 00:20:55.504 --> 00:21:00.409
- You can know and testify that he is
- 00:21:01.143 --> 00:21:05.514
- Good and good all by himself.
- 00:21:05.514 --> 00:21:10.185
- When the world screams.
- 00:21:10.686 --> 00:21:14.156
- You're not threatened because you hear the whisper
- 00:21:14.156 --> 00:21:17.659
- Of the voice of god.
- 00:21:18.126 --> 00:21:21.997
- So when asked me, pastor, how do you know?
- 00:21:21.997 --> 00:21:25.233
- How do you know that what you believe is a truth?
- 00:21:25.233 --> 00:21:28.337
- How do you know that your god is.
- 00:21:29.071 --> 00:21:31.873
- Is the real god
- 00:21:31.873 --> 00:21:33.608
- True and living god?
- 00:21:33.608 --> 00:21:35.977
- I said,
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- Simply put.
- 00:21:36.378 --> 00:21:39.014
- Because he is the only one that's
- 00:21:39.014 --> 00:21:41.383
- Not in the grave.
- 00:21:41.383 --> 00:21:44.986
- Over 500 accounts
- 00:21:45.420 --> 00:21:47.956
- Written and given to us by men and women
- 00:21:47.956 --> 00:21:51.126
- That saw jesus after
- 00:21:51.126 --> 00:21:52.494
- He was crucified, after he hung on the cross,
- 00:21:52.494 --> 00:21:54.696
- After he was buried.
- 00:21:54.696 --> 00:21:56.231
- They tell us he was
- 00:21:56.698 --> 00:21:57.799
- Resurrected again.
- 00:21:57.799 --> 00:22:00.802
- No other god can say
- 00:22:00.802 --> 00:22:03.271
- That they are still alive.
- 00:22:03.271 --> 00:22:05.440
- Allah is still in the grave.
- 00:22:05.440 --> 00:22:08.477
- Harikrishna is still in the grave.
- 00:22:09.211 --> 00:22:11.847
- Buddha is still in the grave.
- 00:22:11.847 --> 00:22:14.783
- Every other hindu god is still in the grave.
- 00:22:14.783 --> 00:22:18.587
- But the god we serve, the king of kings and the lord of lords,
- 00:22:18.587 --> 00:22:21.690
- The alpha and the omega.
- 00:22:21.690 --> 00:22:23.125
- The one who finished before he started you.
- 00:22:23.125 --> 00:22:25.627
- He's alive and well.
- 00:22:25.627 --> 00:22:28.296
- He rolled back the stone.
- 00:22:28.296 --> 00:22:30.599
- He stepped out of victory.
- 00:22:30.599 --> 00:22:32.501
- And he's still alive and well.
- 00:22:32.501 --> 00:22:38.039
- So what we must understand.
- 00:22:38.640 --> 00:22:42.010
- Is that when he says.
- 00:22:42.511 --> 00:22:43.478
- I'm going to leave with you, help!
- 00:22:43.478 --> 00:22:46.581
- He's not just talking
- 00:22:46.581 --> 00:22:49.618
- About our friends and our family.
- 00:22:49.618 --> 00:22:51.219
- He's talking about the holy spirit.
- 00:22:51.219 --> 00:22:54.389
- We understand who the helper is through the word of god.
- 00:22:55.490 --> 00:22:58.126
- We understand that the bible was not written by men
- 00:22:58.126 --> 00:23:00.896
- Reaching for god.
- 00:23:00.896 --> 00:23:02.397
- The bible was written by god, reaching for men and women.
- 00:23:02.397 --> 00:23:08.170
- The only
- 00:23:08.437 --> 00:23:09.037
- Book breathed on by heaven
- 00:23:09.037 --> 00:23:12.274
- That has survived the fires of history,
- 00:23:12.274 --> 00:23:15.444
- The test and the ridicule of science,
- 00:23:15.444 --> 00:23:18.413
- The scrutiny of critics and still undefeated.
- 00:23:18.413 --> 00:23:22.951
- It is the only book written on three different continents,
- 00:23:22.951 --> 00:23:26.154
- In three different languages by 40 different people
- 00:23:26.154 --> 00:23:28.957
- Kings, fishermen, prophets,
- 00:23:28.957 --> 00:23:30.826
- Doctors, prisoners and poets over 1500 years.
- 00:23:30.826 --> 00:23:34.629
- Yet it tells one unified story with no contradictions.
- 00:23:34.629 --> 00:23:41.970
- It's the only book
- 00:23:42.404 --> 00:23:45.140
- That has been number one
- 00:23:45.140 --> 00:23:47.108
- Since it was written, and it is not
- 00:23:47.108 --> 00:23:49.411
- Even close.
- 00:23:49.411 --> 00:23:52.814
- It is the only book that is alive
- 00:23:52.814 --> 00:23:56.151
- That breathes,
- 00:23:56.151 --> 00:23:58.620
- That moves,
- 00:23:58.620 --> 00:24:00.922
- That restores,
- 00:24:00.922 --> 00:24:03.158
- That redeems, that saves,
- 00:24:03.158 --> 00:24:07.128
- Because it is the word of god.
- 00:24:07.729 --> 00:24:11.733
- And john said, in the beginning was the word
- 00:24:11.733 --> 00:24:17.105
- And the word was with god,
- 00:24:17.105 --> 00:24:19.941
- Because the word was god.
- 00:24:19.941 --> 00:24:22.744
- The reason the word of god
- 00:24:22.744 --> 00:24:24.713
- Is so powerful, because it is god given to us
- 00:24:24.713 --> 00:24:28.683
- In pages so that we can apply to our everyday lives.
- 00:24:28.683 --> 00:24:33.421
- And we applied
- 00:24:33.755 --> 00:24:34.656
- This great word, this great gospel.
- 00:24:34.656 --> 00:24:38.260
- It can identify, we can understand,
- 00:24:39.027 --> 00:24:42.330
- And we can know
- 00:24:42.697 --> 00:24:44.132
- That this generation does not need a new message.
- 00:24:44.132 --> 00:24:47.969
- It needs bold messengers.
- 00:24:47.969 --> 00:24:53.074
- We have to get out of comfort.
- 00:24:53.675 --> 00:24:57.379
- We have to bring ourselves
- 00:24:57.946 --> 00:24:59.047
- To the conclusion.
- 00:24:59.047 --> 00:25:02.183
- That we can no longer
- 00:25:02.183 --> 00:25:03.985
- Casually carry
- 00:25:03.985 --> 00:25:07.556
- What other people gave their lives for.
- 00:25:07.556 --> 00:25:12.861
- Well, family, we're out of time today,
- 00:25:13.662 --> 00:25:15.230
- But we're not out of message.
- 00:25:15.230 --> 00:25:16.898
- We've been walking to the book of john
- 00:25:16.898 --> 00:25:18.466
- And my prayers that you would continue
- 00:25:18.466 --> 00:25:20.101
- To walk through this incredible book with us.
- 00:25:20.101 --> 00:25:22.704
- If this message and broadcast has blessed you
- 00:25:22.704 --> 00:25:25.173
- Today, would you prayerfully consider partnering with us?
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- Our team is going to throw some information
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- At the bottom of the screen here.
- 00:25:29.978 --> 00:25:31.646
- I want you to either scan that qr code
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- Or go to the website. mail in that partnership.
- 00:25:33.415 --> 00:25:35.750
- There's no partnership too large, no partnership too small.
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- That is, partner with us, whether it's in prayer
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- Or whether it's through your financial contribution.
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- Right now,
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- I want to set myself in agreement
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- With those that may have prayer.
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- If you don't have a prayer
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- Request right now and one pops up
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- Later, again, that information
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- Is going to be at the bottom of the screen for you to either
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- Call, email us, or write in your prayer request.
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- We want to pray with you.
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- Set ourselves in agreement with you.
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- Stand firm in faith with you for what it is
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- That you may be believing god for.
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- So right now, in the name of jesus,
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- I set myself in agreement with our brothers and sisters
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- That are watching all over the world.
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- And i ask you right now, god, that
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- Not only when you hear their request and petitions,
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- But god you would see fit to get to them
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- What you desire for them to steward in this season.
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- We thank you, god, for supernatural
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- Healing for those that need healing.
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- We thank you for your provision, for those that need provision.
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- We thank you, god that you're opening up doors
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- That we█re not strong enough to open and close doors
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- That were not wise enough to close.
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- That is, in your name, we pray.
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- The name that is above every other name.
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- The name of jesus, the christ our king.
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- Amen.
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- Well, family, if you're ever in the jacksonville area,
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- Stop by on a sunday morning, visit us at 9 a.m.
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- 11 a.m..
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- If you don't stay within
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- The jacksonville or north florida area,
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- Continue to watch us right here on this incredible broadcast
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- As we continue
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- To pump out the word of god until the next time,
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- I want you to know god loves you.
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- I love you, and i'll see you soon.
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- Be blessed.
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- ♪♪
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