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Tim Timberlake | Tim Timberlake - You Must Be Born Again | May 11, 2025
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- Hey, family.
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- I bring you greetings from jacksonville, florida.
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- I am excited about today's broadcast,
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- And i can't wait to unpack the word that god has given me
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- For our time together.
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- We are in john chapter three, and the word of the lord.
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- For today is you must be born again.
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- I want you to grab your word,
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- Grab your notepad, grab your pen, call somebody,
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- Let them know we're on live right now.
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- Let's go into the word of god as it has already begun.
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- And let's be transformed by the renewing of our mind.
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- Jesus talking to nicodemus.
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- It's challenging the status quo,
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- Challenging his perspective, challenging his religious
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- Beliefs, challenging his rituals and his antics,
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- Really challenging the core of what he is has done
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- To in his mind, earn
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- His place in the kingdom of god.
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- For nicodemus, hearing those words,
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- You must be born again.
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- We're disrespectful because nicodemus thought
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- That he earned and inherited his place in the kingdom of god
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- Based upon him being a pharisee
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- And a teacher of the jews.
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- See, in this particular context,
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- In this particular time, jewish identity was everything
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- The first century jewish world.
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- They believed being born a jew
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- Was to be physically born into abraham's lineage.
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- This was considered to be a interest ticket
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- Into the kingdom of god, to be born a jew meant to jewish
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- Pharisees and rabbis and priests,
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- That you automatically inherited a place in the kingdom of god.
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- They believe this because of covenant birthright
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- Being a descendant of abraham
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- Meant more to them than anything else.
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- They also believed that because they were strictly
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- Obedient to the law, that this somehow gave them
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- The benefit of being a kingdom citizen.
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- And so jesus telling nicodemus, all that you have done up
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- Until this point has not earned you a place in the kingdom
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- Of god, was probably, to nicodemus, disrespectful.
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- It was disrespectful because nicodemus
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- Had been taught, and he had taught others,
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- That the only thing that you had to do
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- Was practice and keep the law.
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- If you were just a good person and you were a great person
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- And you follow all these steps, you would inherit
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- The kingdom of god.
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- And jesus is telling nicodemus, all those things
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- Are nothing if you're not born again.
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- That context
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- Sounded familiar to nicodemus, but it was not explained
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- To nicodemus in such terms because jewish rabbi,
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- Jewish priest, when you converted from
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- Being a gentile to practicing judaism, you were told
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- You are now like a newborn child
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- That were like, it holds a lot of weight
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- Because that were like means
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- You're almost there, but you're not quite there yet.
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- When someone says you're like family,
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- What they're implying is you're almost there,
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- But you're not there yet.
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- When someone says you're like a friend,
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- They're telling you, you're
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- Almost there, but you're not there yet.
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- And what jewish priests and pharisees and
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- And those that practiced the laws were teaching those
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- That had converted from being a gentile to now practicing
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- Judaism is you're almost there, but you're not there yet.
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- And what jesus is debunking is the myth that you can make
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- It without being born again,
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- Religion that tries to cleanse you.
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- But it's salvation in a relationship
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- With jesus christ that resurrects you.
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- If you're not resurrected and you're not born again,
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- You can try all these different things to cleanse you
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- And you still not be clean enough
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- To inherit the kingdom of god.
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- And jesus is explaining to nicodemus and essentially
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- Explaining to us today, the only way you inherit
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- The kingdom of god is you must be born again.
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- There not multiple ways to god.
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- There not multiple streams to god
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- There not multiple avenues to god.
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- You must be born again.
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- Nicodemus practicing all these different things.
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- He understood both jewish and greek culture
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- And what jesus was explaining to him was from the greek word
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- Anothen, which means again and from above.
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- So jesus is explaining to nicodemus,
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- Not only do you have to be born again,
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- You must be born again, this time from above.
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- You all have heard me say this if you've been going
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- Or you've been watching,
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- Or you've been leaning into
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- Anything that we've been doing for the last three weeks
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- When you were born into your mother's womb,
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- You begin to exist.
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- But when you were born again, you begin to live.
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- And the thing about some of us in this moment is
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- We have to settle
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- For existing and not living, because we have not been born
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- Again.
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- But somehow, someway,
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- We think because of our good works
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- And our great deeds,
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- That we are going to inherit the kingdom of god.
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- And the reality is, is the only way we will
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- Inherit the kingdom is if we are born again.
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- So jews, jesus is
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- Confronting the limits of religion.
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- He's teaching us that religion can't rebirth you.
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- Your pedigree can't redeem you.
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- And although
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- Your first birth got you here,
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- It's only your second birth that will get you in.
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- If you're taking notes and i encourage you to,
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- I want you to write this down.
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- Point number one is this.
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- Your status
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- Doesn't substitute
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- For salvation.
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- And here's the reality of your life.
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- I know you may have status.
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- I know you may have stature.
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- I know you may have worldly influence.
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- I know you may be a person of affluence,
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- But your status does not substitute your salvation.
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- And you may be listening to me right now.
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- You may be going back through all the good things
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- And all the great deeds you've done,
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- And how much you've given the charity,
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- And how much you've done for humanity and society.
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- But your status does not substitute for salvation.
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- And what jesus wants you to know today,
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- That if you're not born again,
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- All of those things that you've done,
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- They still add up to nothing.
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- See being around the things of god isn't
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- The same as being transformed by the spirit of god.
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- You may be around and even in church
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- And church culture could have raised you, but
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- It is only christ that can resurrect you.
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- And there's some of us that they know church,
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- And we know church lingo, and we know when to
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- Lift our hands, and we know when to cry on to.
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- And we know what to say and when to say it.
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- And we know the church language.
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- When someone asks you, how are you doing?
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- And we say, we're blessed.
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- And i am going and blessed and i outgoing,
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- But you're far from god.
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- And the bible describes
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- It as having a form of godliness with no relationship.
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- And jesus is explaining to nicodemus,
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- You know about god, but you don't really know him.
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- You've been practicing and keeping
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- All these laws in your mind, but you have not developed
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- A relationship with them.
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- And all these different things have garnered you status, but
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- Your status is not a substitute for salvation.
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- See? family.
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- What we have to come to grips with is proximity to jesus
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- Does not equal intimacy with jesus.
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- Proximity
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- Does not equate to intimacy
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- Because you can be around someone all your life
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- And still not be transformed by them.
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- Jesus is explaining to nicodemus
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- As nicodemus comes to him in the night.
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- Your rituals,
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- Your religion,
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- Your practices,
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- Your keeping of the law, your antics.
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- They all amount to your status,
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- But not your salvation.
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- What he's telling nicodemus
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- Is your status won't get you into heaven.
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- You, knowing the things to
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- Do but not knowing me won't get you into heaven.
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- You know, in religion.
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- But not having a relationship won't
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- Get you into the kingdom of god.
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- And this is where some of us find ourselves today.
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- We've been around this western culture,
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- Church culture, so long that we have begin to believe
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- That this is supposed to be about us.
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- That we serve god
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- And we are faithful to the bride of christ when we feel like it
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- And when we want to go, and when it fits our schedule.
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- And we've made this relationship about us.
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- And if jesus doesn't
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- Answer our prayers, our stop being consistent and faithful,
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- Because surely i am good enough to get the best from him
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- Without giving him my best in return.
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- We've made this about status
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- Instead of about salvation.
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- One of the things that i've come to learn about god
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- Is that god is not impressed by my spiritual resume.
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- If my heart is still unemployed.
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- And some of our hearts are unemployed,
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- And we're trying to give god our spiritual resume
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- And tell him, these are all the good things that we've done.
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- This is how great of a person i am,
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- And this is the things that i'm expecting from you.
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- And this is how great i am.
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- And we are our own cheerleaders.
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- And when you have to give your resume to jesus,
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- It is like you singing your own birthday song.
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- Jesus does not care about your resume.
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- If your heart is still unemployed,
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- He doesn't want some of you.
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- He doesn't want most of you.
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- He doesn't want the majority of you.
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- He wants all of you. he does not want your religion.
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- He does not want your rituals.
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- He wants your relationship.
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- And the only way you can
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- Establish a relationship with jesus is through salvation.
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- And salvation creates an opportunity for you to be born
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- Again.
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- Point number two.
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- And another way of explaining this is this
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- You don't need a second chance.
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- You need a second birth.
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- Some of you have been praying,
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- God, just give me another chance.
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- I'll do better this time.
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- God, just give me another chance.
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- Give me another chance, give me another chance.
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- And the prayer should be god, make me new again.
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- Kill my flesh so that your spirit
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- Resurrect a new life in me.
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- But we don't like to hear.
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- We have to die so that jesus could raise to new life in us,
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- Because that makes our flesh uncomfortable.
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- That means we have to
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- Actually get out of comfort and convenience,
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- And sit with god long enough for him to break off of us.
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- Everything that
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- We've been holding on to that has made us more like us
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- And more like the enemy, and not like him.
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- You don't need a second chance.
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- You need a second birth.
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- We have to bring ourselves to the place where we stop
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- Trying to rehab
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- What jesus came to replace.
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- Some of us are trying to rehab,
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- But jesus wants us to replace.
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- And he's not going to rehab the relationship
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- That he never wanted you to be in in the first place.
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- He's not going to rehab the job he told you not to take.
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- He's not going to rehab the time that you've been wasting,
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- He wants to replace it.
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- And when you turn it over to him,
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- He will crucify it and resurrect out of it
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- What he desires to come back to new life.
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- What we have to
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- Understand is this salvation isn't about self-help.
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- It is about self death.
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- And some of us are still trying to serve god
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- While still being alive.
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- Let me remind you, what does a dead person say?
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- How does a dead person walk?
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- How does a dead person move?
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- How does a dead person work?
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- They connect and to new life is given
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- Back to them by them being resurrected to new life again.
- 00:13:17.947 --> 00:13:21.817
- And when you're resurrected to a new life again,
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- It's a bring you to depending on jesus
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- Every single step of the way, every single day of your life.
- 00:13:26.689 --> 00:13:30.092
- And when you wake up, you remind yourself,
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- I am dead, but christ is alive on the inside of me.
- 00:13:32.061 --> 00:13:35.898
- And if it had not been for his grace on my side,
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- Where in the world would i be?
- 00:13:39.501 --> 00:13:41.470
- I tell you what you will be.
- 00:13:41.470 --> 00:13:42.805
- You'll be bound for hell. stuck in a casket.
- 00:13:42.805 --> 00:13:45.708
- But he's so fit to touch your dead corpse
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- And bring you back to life again.
- 00:13:48.310 --> 00:13:50.412
- And i wonder, is
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- Anybody grateful for the grace of jesus christ?
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- Say yes.
- 00:13:55.384 --> 00:14:01.824
- So this relationship isn't about self-help.
- 00:14:02.691 --> 00:14:05.361
- You can't help yourself.
- 00:14:05.361 --> 00:14:08.297
- You've tried.
- 00:14:08.297 --> 00:14:10.566
- You've been spinning your wheels in the mud,
- 00:14:10.566 --> 00:14:12.368
- Trying to help yourself,
- 00:14:12.368 --> 00:14:13.769
- Trying to prove to yourself that you're not a bad person.
- 00:14:13.769 --> 00:14:16.538
- Trying to prove to yourself that you can actually do
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- The things that you said you're going to do.
- 00:14:19.041 --> 00:14:20.976
- And the reality is, you can't,
- 00:14:20.976 --> 00:14:22.478
- Without the help of jesus christ.
- 00:14:22.478 --> 00:14:24.513
- We are all in dire need
- 00:14:24.513 --> 00:14:27.449
- Of the only thing that jesus can give us,
- 00:14:27.449 --> 00:14:30.853
- And that is his grace
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- And his mercy.
- 00:14:33.689 --> 00:14:36.859
- God will never bless
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- What he called you to bury.
- 00:14:41.063 --> 00:14:44.266
- Some of you, your praying you god, i just want you to bless.
- 00:14:45.434 --> 00:14:48.704
- I just want you to bless.
- 00:14:48.704 --> 00:14:51.440
- And god is saying, i just want you to bury.
- 00:14:49.538 --> 00:14:52.775
- I just want you to bury.
- 00:14:52.775 --> 00:14:54.043
- I just want you to bury you.
- 00:14:54.043 --> 00:14:55.010
- I just want you to bury god.
- 00:14:55.010 --> 00:14:56.345
- No, no, no, she she she's the one for me.
- 00:14:56.345 --> 00:14:58.180
- God, she's the one. she's the one.
- 00:14:58.180 --> 00:14:59.515
- I want you to bury it. i want you to bury god.
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- God, god.
- 00:15:01.550 --> 00:15:02.384
- He lift his hands and worship god.
- 00:15:02.384 --> 00:15:03.986
- And he knows the words to the song.
- 00:15:03.986 --> 00:15:05.387
- I want you to bury it.
- 00:15:05.387 --> 00:15:06.522
- I want you to bury it. i want you to bury it.
- 00:15:06.522 --> 00:15:08.290
- But, god,
- 00:15:08.290 --> 00:15:09.191
- There's never going to be an opportunity
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- That comes like this again. i want you to bless it.
- 00:15:10.292 --> 00:15:12.561
- I want you to bless it, and i want you to bury it,
- 00:15:12.561 --> 00:15:14.630
- And i want you to bury it, and i want you to bury it,
- 00:15:14.630 --> 00:15:16.799
- Because god will never bless what he's called you to bury.
- 00:15:16.799 --> 00:15:20.369
- But some of us are blinded by the reality of life,
- 00:15:20.369 --> 00:15:23.772
- And our heart has gotten hardened.
- 00:15:23.772 --> 00:15:25.574
- So we think everything we want is what god wants for us.
- 00:15:25.574 --> 00:15:29.111
- If we made this relationship about what god can do for us
- 00:15:29.111 --> 00:15:33.248
- And not what we're supposed to do and surrender to him.
- 00:15:33.248 --> 00:15:43.292
- The reality is,
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- You don't need a better version of you.
- 00:15:46.228 --> 00:15:49.498
- You don't need a better version of you.
- 00:15:49.498 --> 00:15:51.266
- You don't need a better version of who you used to be.
- 00:15:51.266 --> 00:15:54.036
- You need a buried version of you.
- 00:15:54.036 --> 00:15:56.305
- A version of you
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- That wakes up in the morning and tells god i'm dead. now.
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- What? i'm dead.
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- Raise me to new life.
- 00:16:03.145 --> 00:16:04.780
- I'm dead.
- 00:16:04.780 --> 00:16:05.647
- Have your way in me i'm dead.
- 00:16:05.647 --> 00:16:07.916
- Lead me in.
- 00:16:07.916 --> 00:16:08.917
- Direct me and show me what you want me to do.
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- I'm dead.
- 00:16:11.620 --> 00:16:12.721
- Raise the son of the living god on the inside of me.
- 00:16:12.721 --> 00:16:15.891
- So i can do whatever it is you want me to do.
- 00:16:15.891 --> 00:16:18.494
- You don't need a better version of you.
- 00:16:18.494 --> 00:16:20.529
- You need a buried version of you.
- 00:16:20.529 --> 00:16:23.866
- You know what our problem is?
- 00:16:24.500 --> 00:16:25.601
- We're still alive. we're still trying to live. we.
- 00:16:25.601 --> 00:16:28.037
- We think that god came so we can let know.
- 00:16:28.037 --> 00:16:30.105
- He sent his son so you could die.
- 00:16:30.105 --> 00:16:35.144
- I'm stuck on.
- 00:16:35.511 --> 00:16:36.678
- I'm living my life like his golden.
- 00:16:36.678 --> 00:16:43.052
- Is supposed to be dead.
- 00:16:43.552 --> 00:16:46.221
- But the dead person have a
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- Will on their own.
- 00:16:48.057 --> 00:16:51.193
- Is a dead person having an opinion?
- 00:16:51.193 --> 00:16:54.730
- A dead person have a preference?
- 00:16:54.730 --> 00:16:58.000
- Made this relationship
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- About us because we're still trying
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- To maintain our life.
- 00:17:03.772 --> 00:17:07.676
- While receiving the life
- 00:17:08.210 --> 00:17:09.578
- He laid down for us.
- 00:17:09.578 --> 00:17:12.915
- It will never work that way.
- 00:17:13.515 --> 00:17:17.219
- God is not looking
- 00:17:17.653 --> 00:17:18.620
- For a better version of you.
- 00:17:18.620 --> 00:17:22.458
- He's looking for a buried version of you.
- 00:17:22.458 --> 00:17:26.628
- Look at your neighbor and tell your neighbor
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- It's time for you
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- To die.
- 00:17:32.234 --> 00:17:42.077
- Some of y'all like, not me.
- 00:17:42.678 --> 00:17:44.746
- And i still got a life to live. i.
- 00:17:44.746 --> 00:17:52.454
- Your flesh is still too alive.
- 00:17:53.055 --> 00:17:56.391
- The flesh is still leading you.
- 00:17:56.391 --> 00:17:57.593
- Your flesh is still ruling, and your flesh
- 00:17:57.593 --> 00:17:59.161
- Is still leading you into sin.
- 00:17:59.161 --> 00:18:00.429
- It's telling you when to eat, what to eat, when to eat.
- 00:18:00.429 --> 00:18:02.631
- It is telling you, oh, i feel like doing this today.
- 00:18:02.631 --> 00:18:04.967
- And you actually agreeing with your flesh
- 00:18:04.967 --> 00:18:06.502
- And doing what you know you should not be doing.
- 00:18:06.502 --> 00:18:08.270
- Your flesh is telling you, i'm
- 00:18:08.270 --> 00:18:09.404
- Going to stay over this girl's house this time of night
- 00:18:09.404 --> 00:18:11.273
- And you know
- 00:18:11.273 --> 00:18:12.074
- Your flesh is leading you into sin
- 00:18:12.074 --> 00:18:13.342
- Because your flesh has become your idol and not jesus christ.
- 00:18:13.342 --> 00:18:18.413
- It's time for us to die.
- 00:18:18.914 --> 00:18:22.151
- You know what's wrong with most churches?
- 00:18:22.151 --> 00:18:24.820
- It is full of people who still think that they are alive.
- 00:18:24.820 --> 00:18:31.460
- It's not until we come to the realization
- 00:18:32.327 --> 00:18:34.363
- That we're supposed to die daily, that we see christ
- 00:18:34.363 --> 00:18:38.367
- Resurrected to new life on the inside of us.
- 00:18:38.367 --> 00:18:44.540
- The gospel
- 00:18:44.840 --> 00:18:45.641
- Isn't about behavior modification.
- 00:18:45.641 --> 00:18:52.548
- It's about spiritual rejuvenation.
- 00:18:53.315 --> 00:18:57.052
- The gospel isn't about you getting better.
- 00:18:57.052 --> 00:18:59.721
- It's about you dying so that the christ
- 00:18:59.721 --> 00:19:02.191
- That raised from the dead can be raised to new life
- 00:19:02.191 --> 00:19:05.060
- On the inside of you.
- 00:19:05.060 --> 00:19:09.965
- And religion.
- 00:19:10.332 --> 00:19:12.534
- It may clean you up,
- 00:19:12.534 --> 00:19:15.170
- But only jesus can make you new.
- 00:19:15.170 --> 00:19:18.407
- Religion tells you you can incorporate other things.
- 00:19:18.407 --> 00:19:21.543
- Crystals will clean you, sage will clean,
- 00:19:21.543 --> 00:19:24.846
- Ouija boards will clean you.
- 00:19:24.846 --> 00:19:28.817
- Putting hair in a bottle and shaking it up and poking
- 00:19:28.817 --> 00:19:31.520
- It will clean you and it'll curse whoever curses you.
- 00:19:31.520 --> 00:19:34.523
- All these different things will clean you,
- 00:19:34.523 --> 00:19:36.091
- And we've been trying to incorporate
- 00:19:36.091 --> 00:19:37.492
- All these different things and what
- 00:19:37.492 --> 00:19:39.428
- Is meant to make you holy.
- 00:19:39.428 --> 00:19:43.498
- Religion will clean to you,
- 00:19:44.099 --> 00:19:45.400
- But only christ will resurrect and redeem you.
- 00:19:45.400 --> 00:19:51.807
- So jesus is telling nicodemus,
- 00:19:52.407 --> 00:19:55.544
- Who understood jewish law
- 00:19:55.544 --> 00:19:59.147
- Because he was a well educated pharisee.
- 00:19:59.147 --> 00:20:02.818
- Point number three, that you want formulas
- 00:20:02.818 --> 00:20:08.257
- But i bring freedom.
- 00:20:08.690 --> 00:20:12.461
- We've been looking for formulas.
- 00:20:13.095 --> 00:20:14.396
- We've been looking for information.
- 00:20:14.396 --> 00:20:15.731
- We've been looking for knowledge and getting for a life of what
- 00:20:15.731 --> 00:20:19.701
- Knowledge can do for us.
- 00:20:19.701 --> 00:20:20.936
- And jesus is saying,
- 00:20:20.936 --> 00:20:22.137
- You want formulas,
- 00:20:22.137 --> 00:20:23.572
- I'm bringing freedom.
- 00:20:23.572 --> 00:20:25.107
- And if you receive freedom,
- 00:20:25.107 --> 00:20:26.842
- You have to get rid of the excuses.
- 00:20:26.842 --> 00:20:28.810
- When you don't get all the formulas.
- 00:20:28.810 --> 00:20:32.147
- We want to rationalize our way into the kingdom of god.
- 00:20:33.215 --> 00:20:36.451
- We want to earn our way into the kingdom of god.
- 00:20:37.419 --> 00:20:39.554
- You know what other religions tell you? you gotta work for it.
- 00:20:39.554 --> 00:20:43.292
- Jehovah's witnesses, so
- 00:20:43.792 --> 00:20:44.893
- You got to knock on them a certain amount of doors.
- 00:20:44.893 --> 00:20:48.497
- This is the only relationship
- 00:20:49.131 --> 00:20:50.766
- That you can receive and inherit the kingdom of god.
- 00:20:50.766 --> 00:20:53.869
- You don't have to work for it.
- 00:20:53.869 --> 00:20:57.673
- You receive it.
- 00:20:58.040 --> 00:21:01.076
- Harikrishna tells you.
- 00:21:01.076 --> 00:21:02.110
- You have to work for it all.
- 00:21:02.110 --> 00:21:04.179
- Allah tells you, you have to work for it.
- 00:21:04.179 --> 00:21:06.581
- Buddha tells you, you have to work for it.
- 00:21:06.581 --> 00:21:09.017
- The hundreds of thousands of gods in hinduism
- 00:21:09.017 --> 00:21:11.320
- Tell you, you have to work for it.
- 00:21:11.320 --> 00:21:12.754
- And jesus is coming to tell you.
- 00:21:12.754 --> 00:21:14.690
- You have to be born again.
- 00:21:14.690 --> 00:21:19.361
- And nicodemus, confused
- 00:21:19.861 --> 00:21:21.463
- Because he's used to formulas that say.
- 00:21:21.463 --> 00:21:23.632
- Shall i go back into my mother's womb.
- 00:21:23.632 --> 00:21:28.303
- And jesus begins to break it down
- 00:21:29.037 --> 00:21:32.541
- And tell him what is born of flesh
- 00:21:32.541 --> 00:21:35.677
- Is flesh,
- 00:21:35.977 --> 00:21:38.480
- But what is born of water?
- 00:21:38.480 --> 00:21:40.582
- And the spirit
- 00:21:40.582 --> 00:21:42.884
- Is of the spirit,
- 00:21:42.884 --> 00:21:45.253
- Can you control the wind.
- 00:21:45.253 --> 00:21:47.622
- If you cannot control the wind, you cannot control
- 00:21:47.622 --> 00:21:50.726
- The spirit of god.
- 00:21:50.726 --> 00:21:54.463
- But jesus was explaining to nicodemus
- 00:21:54.463 --> 00:21:57.833
- Is, if your faith only makes sense,
- 00:21:57.833 --> 00:22:01.370
- It will not make a difference.
- 00:22:01.370 --> 00:22:04.740
- If you can rationalize your way into a better life,
- 00:22:05.774 --> 00:22:09.411
- If you can rationalize your way into stronger faith,
- 00:22:09.411 --> 00:22:12.414
- Your faith will not make a difference.
- 00:22:12.414 --> 00:22:15.951
- Because a faith that is alive requires a spirit
- 00:22:15.951 --> 00:22:20.655
- You cannot control.
- 00:22:20.655 --> 00:22:25.761
- I say it again
- 00:22:26.094 --> 00:22:27.496
- A faith that is alive
- 00:22:27.496 --> 00:22:29.931
- Requires a spirit you cannot control.
- 00:22:29.931 --> 00:22:33.735
- So hear me any spirit that you are
- 00:22:33.735 --> 00:22:36.905
- Trying to control is a demonic spirit.
- 00:22:36.905 --> 00:22:40.175
- And you were practicing witchcraft.
- 00:22:40.175 --> 00:22:46.314
- Y'all not talking to me today.
- 00:22:46.915 --> 00:22:48.784
- I don't care if you use scripture.
- 00:22:49.518 --> 00:22:51.219
- Guess what?
- 00:22:51.219 --> 00:22:52.421
- Satan knows scripture and he still is the author of life.
- 00:22:52.421 --> 00:22:55.590
- I don't care what pastor you listen to
- 00:22:55.590 --> 00:22:57.659
- If they're utilizing any spirit to manipulate control,
- 00:22:57.659 --> 00:23:01.463
- To try to change what it is
- 00:23:01.463 --> 00:23:02.931
- That god never asked for you to take.
- 00:23:02.931 --> 00:23:05.100
- It is a spirit of witchcraft,
- 00:23:05.100 --> 00:23:07.002
- And you need to stop listening to that person
- 00:23:07.002 --> 00:23:09.471
- Because any spirit
- 00:23:09.471 --> 00:23:10.906
- That you try to control, it's a spirit of witchcraft.
- 00:23:10.906 --> 00:23:14.576
- How do i know that to be true?
- 00:23:15.177 --> 00:23:16.778
- Because faith that is alive requires a spirit.
- 00:23:16.778 --> 00:23:18.914
- You cannot control the spirit of god
- 00:23:18.914 --> 00:23:21.183
- Should not be trying to, to, to to be dictated
- 00:23:21.183 --> 00:23:24.319
- And boxed in by what you think it should do in your life.
- 00:23:24.319 --> 00:23:28.590
- Come on, the spirit of god is not
- 00:23:29.324 --> 00:23:31.126
- Given to you for you to try to control him.
- 00:23:31.126 --> 00:23:34.429
- We live in a society in an age
- 00:23:35.030 --> 00:23:36.498
- Where we try to box in the holy spirit.
- 00:23:36.498 --> 00:23:39.100
- We got our formulas.
- 00:23:39.100 --> 00:23:41.336
- Today i'm going to church.
- 00:23:41.336 --> 00:23:43.104
- They go sing 3 or 4 songs.
- 00:23:43.104 --> 00:23:46.041
- Pastor gonna get up, he go preach 35 minutes.
- 00:23:46.041 --> 00:23:50.078
- At the end of that, he's going to give an altar call.
- 00:23:50.078 --> 00:23:53.348
- After that, he's going to get ready to take up offering.
- 00:23:53.348 --> 00:23:56.218
- That's when we get up and leave.
- 00:23:56.218 --> 00:24:00.989
- So we can miss traffic
- 00:24:01.456 --> 00:24:04.292
- And make it to brunch on time,
- 00:24:04.292 --> 00:24:06.461
- Because we know religion and rituals and we know antics
- 00:24:06.461 --> 00:24:10.031
- And we know what makes us comfortable,
- 00:24:10.031 --> 00:24:11.600
- But we don't know our relationship. i don't know
- 00:24:11.600 --> 00:24:13.869
- When's the last time you've been on a date?
- 00:24:13.869 --> 00:24:15.971
- I don't know.
- 00:24:15.971 --> 00:24:17.205
- When's the last time you been out with somebody you love?
- 00:24:17.205 --> 00:24:18.807
- I don't know.
- 00:24:18.807 --> 00:24:19.908
- What's the last time you've been deep in conversation
- 00:24:19.908 --> 00:24:21.476
- And they were talking to you.
- 00:24:21.476 --> 00:24:22.744
- And before they got finished, you grabbed your things.
- 00:24:22.744 --> 00:24:25.380
- You headed for the door
- 00:24:25.380 --> 00:24:26.715
- Because you understood the bill was coming.
- 00:24:26.715 --> 00:24:28.850
- Because you understand what antics and religion.
- 00:24:28.850 --> 00:24:31.553
- But you don't know relationship is.
- 00:24:31.553 --> 00:24:33.421
- Relationship stays
- 00:24:33.421 --> 00:24:34.956
- And it listens and it endures because that's what love does.
- 00:24:34.956 --> 00:24:39.194
- I'm so sick and
- 00:24:39.194 --> 00:24:40.362
- Tired of the western us church that has made it about us
- 00:24:40.362 --> 00:24:43.899
- And what we want and the things we want to do.
- 00:24:43.899 --> 00:24:46.401
- And instead of leaning into the things god desires for us,
- 00:24:46.401 --> 00:24:50.772
- We know formulas, but
- 00:24:51.273 --> 00:24:52.941
- We don't know freedom.
- 00:24:52.941 --> 00:24:57.846
- And if that offends you,
- 00:24:58.380 --> 00:25:00.015
- I don't apologize.
- 00:25:00.015 --> 00:25:07.822
- Because of faith,
- 00:25:08.256 --> 00:25:09.824
- That is a life requires a spirit.
- 00:25:09.824 --> 00:25:12.894
- You can't control.
- 00:25:12.894 --> 00:25:15.997
- And some of us don't need more information.
- 00:25:15.997 --> 00:25:20.835
- We need more surrender.
- 00:25:20.835 --> 00:25:22.604
- We need to see what a broken church looks like.
- 00:25:22.604 --> 00:25:25.907
- Surrendered to the most high god that says, god,
- 00:25:25.907 --> 00:25:29.244
- We are where your spirit is and we don't want to do nothing
- 00:25:29.244 --> 00:25:32.714
- Without you.
- 00:25:32.714 --> 00:25:35.116
- Well, we're out of time for today.
- 00:25:35.850 --> 00:25:37.719
- We're not out of the word of god.
- 00:25:37.719 --> 00:25:39.287
- So i want to encourage you to do whatever you can to be
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- Right back in the same place with the same time next week.
- 00:25:42.190 --> 00:25:46.094
- My prayers at this broadcast has been a blessing to you,
- 00:25:46.094 --> 00:25:48.763
- And if so, would you prayerfully consider partnering with us?
- 00:25:48.763 --> 00:25:52.000
- We've been so blessed
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- By the letters that we've been getting in.
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- Specifically, i want to call out
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- All of my inmates that are watching right now.
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- The letters that you write, the prayers that you send,
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- They don't go and read, and we always cover you in prayer.
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- So i'm grateful
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- That we get this opportunity
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- To impact you and spread the gospel of jesus christ to you.
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- And i'm so thankful for our partners
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- All around the world
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- That partner with us in helping us and enabling us
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- To continue to spread the message of jesus christ far
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- And wide.
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- Our team is going to throw some information
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- At the bottom of the screen.
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- I want you to scan that qr code, call us. send
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- In that partnership, and allow us to know
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- That you are with us, not only in prayer
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- And in your financial contribution as well.
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- Before we close, i want to pray with you.
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- Set my faith in agreement with what you may be, believing
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- God for it.
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- So right now, in jesus name,
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- I thank you for my brothers and my sisters
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- That are watching this broadcast.
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- I ask right now in the name of jesus,
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- That you would be where they are,
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- That your presence would be felt in an undeniable way.
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- I█m so grateful that you're not only a god that hears,
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- But you are also a god that provides.
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- And so, god,
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- We ask that you provide all that they have need of.
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- In jesus name we pray. amen.
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- Well, family, if you're ever in the jacksonville area, stop by.
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- Visit us on sunday, 9 a.m.
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- And 11 a.m..
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- If you are outside of the jacksonville area,
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- Continue to watch us
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- Right here at same time, same place, untill the next time
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- I want you to know god loves you and i love you to be blessed.
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- ♪♪
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