David Jeremiah - The Work of the Spirit

July 4, 2026 | 57:29

With the Holy Spirit within us, we may accomplish "greater works" on earth than Jesus Himself because we're all called to bring other to Him.

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Turning Point with Dr. David Jeremiah | David Jeremiah - The Work of the Spirit | July 4, 2026

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♪♪♪
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Dr. david jeremiah: hello, i'm david jeremiah.
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As america marks 250 years, we thank god for this nation
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And for the freedom we enjoy.
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But we also remember that freedom is never free.
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It has always been purchased at a great cost.
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We honor the courage and sacrifice
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Of those who gave greatly so that liberty could live on.
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And as we remember their sacrifice,
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We are reminded to cherish what we have been given,
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To live with gratitude,
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And to look to the lord with humble hearts.
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May we never take these blessings for granted,
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And may god continue to watch over
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And give his grace to our nation.
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♪♪♪
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Dr. jeremiah: many would say, "i believe in the holy spirit."
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But my question is, do you know the holy spirit?
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Do you know what he does, what he provides?
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He was there at creation.
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He came in power at pentecost.
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He's the most personal and perhaps
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The most misunderstood member of the trinity.
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The study of the holy spirit as revealed in scripture
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Shows he is more than a feeling,
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More than a force, more than an emotion,
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More than an experience.
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So who is the holy spirit?
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The holy spirit is god with us, god in us,
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And god at work through us.
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Discover more about the holy spirit
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Than you ever imagined,
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And experience his presence and power as never before.
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♪ all my hope is in jesus ♪
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♪ thank god that yesterday's gone ♪
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♪ all my sins are forgiven ♪
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♪ and i've been washed by the blood ♪
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♪ all my hope is in jesus ♪
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♪ thank god that yesterday's gone ♪
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♪ all my sins are forgiven ♪
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♪ and i've been washed by the blood ♪
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♪ all my sins are forgiven ♪
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♪ all my sins are forgiven ♪
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♪ all my sins are forgiven ♪
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♪ and i've been washed by ♪
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♪ the blood ♪
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♪ i've been washed by the blood ♪
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♪ been washed by the blood ♪
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♪ washed by the blood of jesus ♪
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♪ been washed by the blood ♪♪
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[congregation applauding]
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Male announcer: coming up on "turning point."
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Dr. jeremiah: what jesus was saying to his disciples
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Was this: "while i was on this earth,
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I was localized.
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I could only touch individual men and women
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In my travels
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And speak to a few local audiences.
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But believe me, after i am gone
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And the holy spirit comes to fill my disciples,
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My ministry will be as far spread
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As christians are."
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So wherever there is a christian, there's christ;
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And wherever there's a believer, there's ministry.
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Announcer: that's coming up today on "turning point."
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Announcer: isn't it time to take the journey
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From knowing about the holy spirit
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To deeply knowing him?
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In dr. david jeremiah's new book,
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"the holy spirit you may not know,"
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You will discover what it truly means
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To experience the presence and power of the holy spirit
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In your life.
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You may know about the holy spirit
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As the third person of the trinity,
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But do you know him as your helper,
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Your comforter, your counselor, and friend?
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In "the holy spirit you may not know,"
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Dr. jeremiah shows you how the spirit equips you
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With spiritual gifts,
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Provides guidance in your decisions,
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And empowers you to live the dynamic life jesus promised.
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Because you may not know the holy spirit
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As well as you think.
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But once you do, you'll never be the same.
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♪ o lord my god ♪
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♪ when i in awesome wonder ♪
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♪ consider all ♪
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♪ the worlds thy hands have made ♪
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♪ i see the stars ♪
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♪ i hear the rolling thunder ♪
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♪ thy power throughout ♪
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♪ the universe displayed ♪
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♪ then sings my soul ♪
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♪ my savior, god, to thee ♪
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♪ how great thou art ♪
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♪ how great thou art ♪
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♪ then sings my soul ♪
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♪ my savior, god, to thee ♪
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♪ how great thou art ♪
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♪ how great thou art ♪
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♪♪♪
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♪ and when i think ♪
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♪ that god, his son, not sparing ♪
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♪ sent him to die ♪
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♪ i scarce can take it in ♪
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♪ that on the cross ♪
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♪ my burden gladly bearing ♪
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♪ he bled and died ♪
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♪ to take away my sin ♪
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♪ then sings my soul ♪
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♪ my savior, god, to thee ♪
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♪ how great thou art ♪
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♪ how great thou art ♪
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♪ then sings my soul ♪
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♪ my savior, god, to thee ♪
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♪ how great thou art ♪
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♪ how great thou art ♪
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♪ when christ shall come ♪
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♪ with shout of acclamation ♪
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♪ and take me home ♪
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♪ what joy shall fill my heart ♪
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♪ then i shall bow ♪
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♪ in humble adoration ♪
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♪ and there proclaim ♪
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♪ my god, how great thou art ♪
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♪ then sings my soul ♪
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♪ my savior, god, to thee ♪
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♪ how great thou art ♪
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♪ how great thou art ♪
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♪ then sings my soul ♪
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♪ my savior, god, to thee ♪
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♪ how great thou art ♪
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♪ how great thou art ♪
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♪ how great thou art ♪
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♪ how great thou art ♪♪
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♪♪♪
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♪ wandering into the night ♪
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♪ wanting a place to hide this weary soul ♪
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♪ this bag of bones ♪
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♪ i've tried with all my might ♪
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♪ but i just can't win the fight ♪
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♪ i'm slowly drifting ♪
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♪ a vagabond ♪
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♪ and just when i ran out of road ♪
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♪ i met a man i didn't know ♪
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♪ and he told me that i was not alone ♪
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♪ you picked me up, you turned me around ♪
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♪ you placed my feet on solid ground ♪
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♪ i thank the master, i thank the savior ♪
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♪ because you healed my heart, you changed my name ♪
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♪ forever free, i'm not the same ♪
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♪ i thank the master, i thank the savior ♪
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♪ i thank god ♪
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♪♪♪
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♪ i cannot deny what i've seen ♪
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♪ got no choice but to believe ♪
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♪ my doubts are burning ♪
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♪ like ashes in the wind ♪
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♪ so long to my old friends ♪
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♪ burden and bitterness ♪
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♪ you can just keep it moving ♪
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♪ no, you're not welcome here ♪
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Michael sanchez: come on, sing with me.
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♪ from now till i walk the streets of gold ♪
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♪ i'll sing of how you saved my soul ♪
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♪ this wayward son has found his way back home ♪
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♪ you picked me up, you turned me around ♪
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♪ you placed my feet on solid ground ♪
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♪ i thank the master, i thank the savior ♪
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♪ because you healed my heart, you changed my name ♪
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♪ forever free, i'm not the same ♪
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♪ i thank the master, i thank the savior ♪
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♪ i thank god ♪
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♪♪♪
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♪ i thank god ♪
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♪♪♪
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♪ our god, you reign forever ♪
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♪ our hope, our strong deliverer ♪
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♪ you are the everlasting god ♪
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♪ the everlasting god ♪
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♪ you do not faint, you won't grow weary ♪
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♪ you're the defender of the weak ♪
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♪ you comfort those in need ♪
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♪ you lift us up on wings like eagles ♪
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♪ and you are the everlasting god ♪
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♪ the everlasting god ♪
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♪ you do not faint, you won't grow weary ♪
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♪ you're the defender of the weak ♪
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♪ you comfort those in need ♪
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♪ you lift us up on wings like eagles ♪♪
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[congregation applauding]
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♪♪♪
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♪ jesus, you're the center of ♪
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♪ my joy ♪
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♪ all that's good and perfect comes ♪
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♪ from you ♪
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♪ you're the heart of my contentment ♪
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♪ hope for all i do ♪
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♪ jesus, you're the center of ♪
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♪ my joy ♪
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♪ when i lost my direction ♪
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♪ you're the compass for my way ♪
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♪ you're the firelight ♪
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♪ when the nights are long ♪
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♪ and cold ♪
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♪ in sadness, you are the laughter ♪
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♪ that shatters all my fears ♪
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♪ when i'm all alone ♪
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♪ your hand is there to hold ♪
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♪ oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-ohhh ♪
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♪ jesus, you're the center of ♪
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♪ my joy ♪
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♪ all that's good and perfect comes ♪
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♪ from you ♪
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♪ you're the heart of my contentment ♪
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♪ hope for all i do ♪
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♪ jesus, you're the center of ♪
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♪ my joy ♪
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♪ and you are why i find pleasure ♪
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♪ in the simple things in life ♪
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♪ you're the music ♪
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♪ in the meadows and the streams ♪
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♪ you're in the voices of the children ♪
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♪ you're in my family and my home ♪
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♪ you are the source and the finish ♪
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♪ of my highest dreams, ooh ♪
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♪ jesus, you're the center of ♪
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♪ my joy ♪
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♪ yes, you are lord ♪
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♪ all that's good and perfect comes from you ♪
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♪ i know it comes from you, lord ♪
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♪ yes, it does, i know it's true ♪
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♪ you're the heart of my contentment ♪
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♪ hope for all i do ♪
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♪ jesus ♪
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♪ you are ♪
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♪ you're the center ♪
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♪ of my joy ♪
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♪ and jesus ♪
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♪ you are ♪
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♪ you're the center ♪
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♪ the center of my joy ♪
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♪ you are everything ♪
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♪ you're everything ♪
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♪ lord, you're everything ♪
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♪ lord, you're my everything ♪
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♪ of my joy ♪
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♪ jesus ♪
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♪ you are ♪
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♪ the center ♪
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♪ of my joy ♪
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♪ jesus ♪
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♪ you are ♪
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♪ the center ♪
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♪ of my joy ♪
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♪ jesus ♪
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♪ you are ♪
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♪ the center ♪
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♪ of my joy ♪
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♪ jesus, you're the center of my joy ♪
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♪ ohh-oh-oh-oh ♪
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♪ ohh-oh-oh-oh ♪
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♪ of my joy ♪♪
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[congregation applauding]
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Announcer: isn't it time to take the journey
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You may know about the holy spirit
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As the third person of the trinity,
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But do you know him as your helper,
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Your comforter, your counselor, and friend?
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In "the holy spirit you may not know,"
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Dr. jeremiah shows you how the spirit equips you
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With spiritual gifts,
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Provides guidance in your decisions,
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And empowers you to live the dynamic life jesus promised.
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As well as you think.
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And now here is dr. jeremiah with his message
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"the work of the spirit."
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Dr. jeremiah: when walt disney opened disneyland in anaheim
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On july 17, 1955,
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It covered 160 acres of former orange groves.
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Opening day was chaotic, rides broke down,
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Paint was still wet, and the pavement was so soft
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Women's high heels sank into the asphalt.
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But walt had built something no one had ever seen,
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A place where imagination came to life,
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And he called it "the happiest place on earth."
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Walt died in 1966, never seeing his next dream come true.
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But he did something very few people get to do.
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He built something that was greater after he was gone
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Than it ever was when he was here.
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By his team, the imagineers he had trained,
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They picked up the blueprint
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And built beyond what walt ever imagined.
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They opened walt disney world in florida in 1971,
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A resort complex so large it could fit
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All of san francisco inside its borders,
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With room to spare.
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Today, the disney empire spans six resorts,
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12 theme parks, a cruise line, movie studios,
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Television networks, and over 220,000 employees
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Around the world.
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And that story reminds me of something i read
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In the bible.
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And i have to tell you, what i read in the bible,
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The first time this really dawned on me,
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It was so amazing.
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I had to go back and read it a couple of times
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To make sure i was reading it correctly.
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It's what jesus said in john 14:12.
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Here's what he said, "most assuredly,"
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Speaking to his disciples, "i say to you
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That he who believes in me,
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The works that i do he will do also;
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And greater works than these will he do,
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Because i go to my father."
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When i first came across that verse,
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I remember stopping and asking myself,
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What in the world could this possibly mean?
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Maybe you've had the same question
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Cross your mind.
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How could anyone--i mean, especially ordinary people
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Like us--how could we ever do greater works than jesus?
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What was he telling his disciples that day
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And what is he saying to us right now?
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Could it really be true that we are meant to continue
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The work of jesus
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And even see it multiplied in our time?
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At first it sounds impossible.
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I mean, it feels so bold to be true.
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But jesus never exaggerated, he never spoke
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Just to inspire people or impress them.
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He is truth itself, and every word he spoke
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Was absolutely reality.
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When he said we would do greater works, he meant it.
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The possibility of greater works takes us to the works
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That jesus performed during his public ministry.
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They were mind boggling.
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He banished diseases, he cast out demons,
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He raised corpses to life.
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He created wine and fish and bread with a word
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And a touch.
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He calmed mighty storms with just a word.
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How could it be said that, in any stretch of imagination,
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That the works of the disciples
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And our works who belong to his church
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Are greater than jesus's works?
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Has this promise ever been fulfilled?
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Can we point to anything that would help us understand
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That, in some way, this is being fulfilled
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In our generation?
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And some have said, "well, the key here is
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That you have to understand that the greater works
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Are related to belief."
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In other words, the reason we don't do these greater works
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Is because we don't believe enough.
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Is that true?
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The problem with this is that if our ability
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To do such works depends on our faith,
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Then we would have to have greater faith in jesus.
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And jesus didn't say, "he who believes in me
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With sufficient faith,"
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Or "he who believes in me with all his heart,"
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Or "he who believes in me intensely with great sincerity
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Shall do greater works."
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He just simply said, "he who believes in me
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Will do greater works."
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But that makes no sense.
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Greater works, greater miracles than he performed?
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I mean, what could that mean?
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In john 2, at the wedding feast in cana,
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Jesus converted the simple molecular structure of water
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Into the far more complex molecular structure of wine.
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Can we do that?
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In john 4, by a word uttered over 10 miles from the scene,
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Jesus instantly reversed the decay process
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And restored to full vigor and activity
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The cellular structure destroyed by a mortal illness.
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Can we do that?
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In john 6:1-14, jesus took five loaves and two fish
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And created out of them enough bread and meat
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To feed 5000 hungry men and their families.
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Can i do that? can you do that?
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In john 6, jesus created an anti-gravitational force
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Of unknown nature that enabled him to walk
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Along the surface of the stormy sea.
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In john 11, jesus stood at the mouth
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Of an opened grave
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And called through the veil of death
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To his friend lazarus.
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Not only was lazarus dead, his limbs, his eyes,
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His brain, and internal organ
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Were already in a state of decay.
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The man had been dead for four days,
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And putrefaction was well under way.
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And yet at the captive and creative word of jesus,
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All the cells and functions of that body
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Were instantly restructured,
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And the departed spirit was summoned again to the body.
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Lazarus lived and spoke and thought and remembered.
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Awesome!
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What could possibly qualify as a greater work than that?
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Great works, marvelous miracles--
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And think about it: every one of these acts
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Was only superficial and temporary.
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I mean, i'm not discounting what jesus did,
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But i'm simply making the point that no one
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Was permanently helped by these miracles.
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None of men's deepest needs were met
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By these works of power.
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He created food for a single meal,
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But the people got hungry the next day.
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He stilled the raging sea, but only until the next storm.
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He healed bodily ailments,
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But every person he healed eventually died anyway.
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I don't know what you think about lazarus,
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But i really feel bad for him.
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He had to die twice. that's what happened to him.
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He had already passed into glory.
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He was already walking the streets of heaven,
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Talking to abraham, moses, and david,
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Filling his eyes with heavenly splendor
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And gazing on the very throne of god,
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And what happened?
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Jesus brought him back.
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Years later, he had to repeat the whole process
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All over again.
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He had to die again.
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And the miracle of bringing lazarus back
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Was no favor to lazarus.
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Jesus did it as a sign miracle for everybody who watched.
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I remember a story by a teacher i had
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In the seminary named john mitchell.
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He used to come to the seminary
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And teach classes for three weeks,
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And i was in some of his classes.
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He was a teacher for many years at multnomah bible college.
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And he used to tell the story of sitting at the bedside
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Of a dying friend,
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And the man seemed to be slipping out of his life.
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His breathing grew very, very shallow
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Until finally it seemed to stop.
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And when this happened, dr. mitchell thought,
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"he's gone now."
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Suddenly the man's eyes popped open,
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And he looked into the craggy face of dr. mitchell.
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"who's there?" the man said.
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"it's all right," dr. mitchell said,
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"it's just me."
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"oh," the man groaned, "i'm so disappointed."
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You see, he thought he was going to look
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Into the face of jesus or at least an angel.
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Instead, he saw the same old hospital room
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And the face of the old scotsman mitchell.
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If he was disappointed, just imagine how lazarus felt.
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What a letdown to find himself back in his grave clothes,
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Lying in a slab in a dark tomb.
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Yet the author of life called him back,
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And he stepped once again into the lesser light of the sun.
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Now i want to ask you a question.
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Can we do something greater than that?
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The possibility of greater works.
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But the promise is that jesus tied
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His promise of greater works
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To the coming of the holy spirit,
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And this is what we can't miss.
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In john 14:12, jesus said, "and greater works
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Than these he will do."
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And what reason does he give?
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Here's the key: "because i go to my father."
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This is a common phrase and a common teaching.
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John 7:39 says, "but this he spoke concerning the spirit,
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Whom those believing in him would receive;
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For the holy spirit was not yet given,
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Because jesus was not yet glorified."
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John 16:7, jesus said, "nevertheless i tell you
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The truth.
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It is to your advantage that i go away;
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For if i do not go away, the holy spirit, or the helper,
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Will not come to you; but if i depart,
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I will send him to you."
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These greater works that jesus promised us
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Are dependent upon jesus physically leaving this world
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And going back to heaven.
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Those things could not happen, he said,
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Until he went to his father and sent the holy spirit
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To take his place.
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After jesus had spoken these words to his disciples,
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He went to the garden that night where he was captured,
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Taken to trial, brutally crucified.
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He rose from the grave on the first day of the week
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And appeared to the believers over a period of 40 days.
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He then ascended back to his father,
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And ten days after he returned to heaven,
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The holy spirit was poured out at pentecost,
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And the third person of the trinity
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Came upon everyone who believed.
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And peter and the other disciples stood
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In front of the very mob and the very rulers
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Who had crucified jesus and proclaimed the resurrection
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And the offer of salvation,
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And 3000 people got saved in that service.
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And someone has said that more people believed
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On the day of pentecost than had believed
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In the entire three and a half years
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Jesus walked on this earth, and i believe that is true.
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Amazing as our lord's words are in john 14:12,
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It is literally true that a believer today
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May accomplish greater works on earth
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Than our lord himself accomplished.
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And i'm going to suggest to you three ways that that is true.
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It is not in any way a disrespect to jesus,
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It's the word of jesus to us himself.
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First of all, we have a greater message today.
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The great works jesus did while on this earth
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Dealt with the material.
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The greater works that he promised
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Deal with the spiritual.
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In luke 10:17, the disciples had returned
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From their first preaching mission,
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And the bible says, "and the seventy returned
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With joy, saying, 'lord, even the demons
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Are subject to us in your name.'"
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And they were thrilled that they had been able
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To cast out demons, but jesus corrected them.
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He said, "behold, i give thee the authority
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To trample on serpents and scorpions,
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And over all the power of the enemy,
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And nothing shall by any means hurt you.
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Nevertheless do not rejoice in this,
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That the spirits are subject to you,
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But rather rejoice because your names
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Are written in heaven."
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Did you hear what jesus said?
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They had been cheering and laughing
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And high-fiving each other
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Because they had been able to throw out
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Some evil spirits, and jesus said, "that's okay,
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But don't get all excited about that.
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What you really need to get excited about
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Is that your names are written down in heaven."
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What was jesus saying?
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The spiritual is far more important
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Than the material.
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The eternal is infinitely more important
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Than the temporal.
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You and i have difficulty understanding that.
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One of the reasons we do not have greater works
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Going on in our lives is because we do not understand
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The priority of the spiritual over the material.
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We have a much greater message because conversion
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Is the greatest miracle we could ever be associated with.
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A friend of mine told me about a group of short-term missionaries
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Who held evangelistic meetings in africa.
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During these meetings, the believers reported
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A blind man miraculously received his sight.
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When the believers came back to report
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To the sending churches,
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That was just about all they could talk about--
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A man's sight restored.
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What a miracle!
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Yet during those same meetings, many embraced jesus as savior
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And found eternal salvation.
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Many stepped out of spiritual blindness
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Into the light of god's kingdom.
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But that news seemed to receive second billing to the miracle.
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If we could only view these things as god does,
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If we could just see them through god's eyes--
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The message of reconciliation
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Meets the basic needs of every man and woman,
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Every boy and girl,
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And it meets those needs permanently
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And never has to be repeated.
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In miracles, only god's power and goodness are revealed,
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But in conversion,
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God's grace is revealed, something that causes
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Even the angels to look over the bowels of heaven
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And wonder.
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The message of the saving grace of god, men and women,
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Is the greater message because it is the message
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That extended to the gentiles
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And rolled outward across the world
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Like a mighty tsunami wave.
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The death, burial, and resurrection of jesus christ
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Have given to us in this generation
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The greatest message that has ever been communicated
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To any people, at any time, in any place.
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There's never been anything like it,
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And there never will be.
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At any time will there ever be anything like the gospel.
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It is called the eternal gospel,
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The good news.
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And you and i can show compassion
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And reach out to help people with their hurts.
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We can minister to them in their sorrow.
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We can assist them in dealing with
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Terrible addictions
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And dysfunctional family situations.
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But if in the process we do not give them
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Jesus christ and salvation, we have only postponed
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The inevitable.
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We have not helped them.
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Our message is greater because it is for eternity.
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Over the years of ministry, god has given me
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Some wonderful friends.
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Many of them here in this church
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And many of them here in the city,
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Some of them spread across the nation.
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One of my best friends is a doctor
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Who lives in boone, north carolina.
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He keeps in touch with me almost every other week or so.
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We talk on the phone.
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He started a group called medical missions,
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And this group brings doctors together
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And helps them go to the mission field
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For two weeks at a time every summer.
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And my friend, he goes to africa.
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I think he's in africa almost more than he's here.
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Every time i try to get a hold of him, he's in africa.
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And they go there and they perform surgeries,
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And they help people there that would never get help
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If they didn't come,
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Because there's just nothing like that for these people.
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One day he told me something i never forgot.
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He said, "david, we used to go to africa
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And do surgeries on the people that would come--
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Broken limbs, dysfunctional faces."
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And he said, "one day it dawned on us
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That all we were doing was fixing them up
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And we were making them healthier on their way to hell."
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If you don't give them the gospel,
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You're not helping them.
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He said, "we made a commitment on that day
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That we would never do another surgery
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Until we presented the gospel
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To the person who was getting the surgery,
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If they were capable of hearing it,
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And giving them an opportunity to receive jesus christ."
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What he was saying is the physical is important.
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And it is true: sometimes people don't care what we know
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Unless they know how much we care.
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But if you only help people physically
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And don't give them the gospel, you haven't really helped them.
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You've only made them okay and-- till the inevitable,
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When they won't be okay for a long time.
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So i'm telling you that jesus tells us
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One of the greater things about what we do
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Is we don't just help people physically--
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And we do that as we can-- but he's given to us
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The wonderful privilege of communicating
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The message of the gospel, which is life changing.
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And some of you here today, you know what i'm talking about
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Because you remember what you were
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Before jesus christ entered into your life
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And what he's done to make you a new person.
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So listen to me.
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One of the reasons why we can do greater works
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Is because our message is a greater message.
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And then number two, we have a greater ministry.
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Think about this for a moment.
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The works jesus did while he walked
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The dusty paths of israel were localized in scope.
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If you were up on a space flight
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And could look down on the great curve of the earth,
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And if the shuttle was in the right orbital position
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And weather permitted, you would strain your eyes
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And see a little strip of land
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At the edge of a great continental shelf.
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That little strip of land is israel.
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Believe it or not, it is the size of new jersey--
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The whole nation.
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During his lifetime, the son of god was confined
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In his influence to a comparatively small section
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Of that slice of middle east.
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And if you've ever been to israel,
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You know it's not a very big place.
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It's like a postage stamp.
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I did an event there some years ago,
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And we had so many people with us
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We couldn't have the opening service
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In the same hotel.
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We had to split it up.
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And one was in one place and one was about 25 miles away
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In another place,
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And they said, "dr. jeremiah, we're going to have you speak
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In this service,
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And then we have a helicopter waiting for you
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And we're going to take you to the other one
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For the other one."
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So i said, "okay," i had no idea what i was getting into.
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The helicopter was located in the corner of a dark field
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With guards all around it, so nobody could get to it.
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I said, "where's the lights?"
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"oh, we can't turn the lights on,
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They might shoot us."
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Oh my goodness!
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Got in the helicopter and we flew in the dark.
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The pilot was saying, "over there's jordan.
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Over there's," and he talked about
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All the lands that were surrounding,
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And you could see them all from israel.
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That's where jesus was.
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He spent his whole time in that little postage stamp nation.
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And yet in just a little more than 300 years,
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Christianity closed all the temples
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In heathen roman empire
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And numbered its converts by the millions
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As the gospel spread beyond the borders of israel
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And began to fill the world.
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And today, there are billions of people
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Who claim christ as their savior.
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I just spent three days with people
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Who helped us take that message to these nations.
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And i told them, and i say this humbly,
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I believe, i now speak 19 different languages
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Because, through ai, they take my voice--
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It's my voice--and they put it into the language
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Of other nations.
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They coordinate my lips with the words.
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And i'm telling you, people, if you would see it,
00:41:47.510 --> 00:41:49.812
You would think david jeremiah is speaking in chinese,
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And i'm not.
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But the message is being preached
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In all these places.
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And they're just getting started,
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I'm going to have more languages
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Next time i talk to you about this.
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What i'm saying is we carry the ministry of the gospel
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To the ends of the earth.
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Jesus didn't do that.
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Jesus ministered in israel.
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He never left israel.
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But he empowered his disciples to go into all the world
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And preach the gospel.
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And he has told us that's our responsibility,
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Each of us, to find a way to leverage the gospel
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For the whole world.
00:42:26.583 --> 00:42:28.051
And that's why we have radio and why we have television,
00:42:28.051 --> 00:42:30.653
And that's why we do social media
00:42:30.653 --> 00:42:32.622
And why we write books is because we're trying to reach
00:42:32.622 --> 00:42:35.592
As many people as we can with the gospel.
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That's what jesus has empowered us to do.
00:42:38.261 --> 00:42:40.563
These are the greater works he's given us to do
00:42:40.563 --> 00:42:43.633
Because he went to the father.
00:42:43.633 --> 00:42:44.968
And isn't it interesting?
00:42:44.968 --> 00:42:46.336
He went to the father and put his dna
00:42:46.336 --> 00:42:48.972
In every single christian who's still on this earth.
00:42:48.972 --> 00:42:51.708
His dna is the holy spirit, isn't that something?
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[congregation applauding]
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While he was in israel, he was confined in his own body.
00:42:56.646 --> 00:43:00.416
When he went to heaven, he said, "i'm going to give you all
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The holy spirit."
00:43:02.385 --> 00:43:03.720
And the holy spirit came on the day of pentecost,
00:43:03.720 --> 00:43:06.055
And now every single person who believes in jesus christ
00:43:06.055 --> 00:43:09.225
Has the holy spirit living in them,
00:43:09.225 --> 00:43:11.260
And they can carry the message of christ wherever they go.
00:43:11.260 --> 00:43:14.297
I pray a prayer sometimes when i get up in the morning.
00:43:14.297 --> 00:43:16.966
"lord jesus, help me to take the influence of christ
00:43:16.966 --> 00:43:19.402
Wherever i go today."
00:43:19.402 --> 00:43:21.137
And all of us can do that.
00:43:21.137 --> 00:43:23.039
And when we do that, we're doing the greater works
00:43:23.039 --> 00:43:25.742
That jesus said we would do
00:43:25.742 --> 00:43:27.176
Because we're going where he did not go,
00:43:27.176 --> 00:43:29.479
But he sent us as his representatives.
00:43:29.479 --> 00:43:32.782
Today our words are carried across the entire globe.
00:43:32.782 --> 00:43:36.619
I do not preach in a small corner of israel.
00:43:36.619 --> 00:43:39.555
When i preach, i speak in a large city.
00:43:39.555 --> 00:43:42.592
But even more amazing
00:43:42.592 --> 00:43:43.960
Is how, through the blessing of modern technology,
00:43:43.960 --> 00:43:46.896
These messages are recorded and shared
00:43:46.896 --> 00:43:48.865
Around the world instantly, continuously, almost endlessly
00:43:48.865 --> 00:43:52.835
Through many different channels.
00:43:52.835 --> 00:43:55.805
I remember when television first appeared,
00:43:55.805 --> 00:43:57.640
And i know some of you remember that too
00:43:57.640 --> 00:43:59.308
Because you're older than i am, but um.
00:43:59.308 --> 00:44:03.680
But, you know, i don't know if you remember this,
00:44:03.680 --> 00:44:05.548
When that first happened,
00:44:05.548 --> 00:44:06.883
Those of us who were conservative christians,
00:44:06.883 --> 00:44:08.885
We weren't sure that was a good thing.
00:44:08.885 --> 00:44:10.853
I know my dad wasn't sure it was a good thing.
00:44:10.853 --> 00:44:13.556
We didn't get a television for a long time
00:44:13.556 --> 00:44:15.692
After it became available.
00:44:15.692 --> 00:44:17.026
And when we did, my father used to sit on the bench,
00:44:17.026 --> 00:44:20.096
And every time a commercial come on,
00:44:20.096 --> 00:44:21.431
He'd go and shut the thing down.
00:44:21.431 --> 00:44:22.765
He was afraid it'd be a beer commercial
00:44:22.765 --> 00:44:24.367
Or a cigarette commercial.
00:44:24.367 --> 00:44:25.735
I mean, that was his exercise for the night,
00:44:25.735 --> 00:44:27.637
Sit on the couch, go turn it off,
00:44:27.637 --> 00:44:28.971
Sit on the couch.
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There were no remotes back then, remember?
00:44:30.306 --> 00:44:32.942
And i remember hearing people preach about television
00:44:32.942 --> 00:44:36.412
Being the result of the prince of the power of the air,
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That it was satanic and it was no use,
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And you didn't want to do television.
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And of course it was like anything else:
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It is whatever you use it to be.
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And we finally got over that and realized that,
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While it was a tool that could hurt people,
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It was a wonderful tool that could help people.
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And we began to do television ministry,
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And god uses that.
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And we use every form of communication--
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Television, radio, print, podcasts,
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Social media, live streams, apps.
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Whatever comes next, we use it to proclaim the gospel,
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And the farther the better,
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The faster the better, the sooner the better
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Until jesus comes back.
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What jesus was saying to his disciples was this:
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"while i was on this earth, i was localized.
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I could only touch individual men and women
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In my travels
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And speak to a few local audiences.
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But believe me, after i am gone
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And the holy spirit comes to fill my disciples,
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My ministry will be as far spread
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As christians are."
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So wherever there is a christian, there's christ;
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And wherever there's a believer, there's ministry.
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We have a greater message.
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We have a greater ministry, and then one more thing:
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We have greater miracles.
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I can almost hear some of you say,
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"okay, i've been with you so far, pastor,
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But now the miracle thing, i'm not into that.
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How could there be greater miracles
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Than the one we've heard?"
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Let me suggest to you that the lord jesus,
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While he was on this earth,
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Never saw a conversion like that of saul of tarsus.
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He never saw a revival like the great awakenings
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That have shaken our world.
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The miracle of conversion is indeed a grade-a miracle.
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It is the greatest miracle there is.
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Do you believe that?
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Just think about what happens when someone comes to christ.
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A person who once lived closed from god,
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Self-centered, and without direction,
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Becomes alive to god.
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The one who was spiritually dead is now filled with joy and peace
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Through the power of the holy spirit.
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A life that was once in chaos now has order and meaning
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And purpose.
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He's born again.
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A miracle of grace and a living testimony
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To the god who creates and saves, wow!
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That's what happens when a person receives jesus.
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That's what happened to you when you said yes to him.
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You were a closed system and you became an open system.
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You were chaos and now you are a new creation.
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The longer god gives me the opportunity to preach
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And teach, the more overwhelmed and amazed i am
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That he does what he does through the salvation of souls.
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By his grace, he works in human hearts
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In ways you and i can never comprehend.
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Sometimes we hear the stories and we say,
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"how in the world could that have happened?"
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He can take a person who is going totally
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The wrong direction, and in a moment of time,
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Through an encounter with jesus christ,
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Radically change that person and set him on a road
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To happiness in his heart.
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Jesus christ is the only one who can do that.
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And that is the miracle he's called us to participate in.
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We spread throughout our neighborhoods, our nation,
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And our world
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As ambassadors of the gospel of jesus christ.
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And wherever that gospel is preached,
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Wherever someone comes to christ,
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The greatest miracle that ever happens on the earth
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Is happening in the life of that person.
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They are changed for eternity.
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And i'll tell you again what billy graham said:
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They will live as long as god, amen.
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The power behind the greater works
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Is also expressed in this passage.
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How do we go about the greater works?
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If you read this passage of scripture,
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You won't have any doubt about it.
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John 14 says, "most assuredly, i say to you,
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He who believes in me,
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The works that i do he will do also;
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And greater works than these he will do,
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Because i go to my father.
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And whatever you ask in my name, that i will do,
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That the father may be glorified in the son.
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If you ask anything in my name, i will do it."
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The greater works are accomplished through prayer.
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I never go anywhere that people don't come up and say to me,
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"dr. jeremiah, we pray for you every day."
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You have no idea the power that is in that.
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We wouldn't be where we are, doing what we're doing,
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Touching the people we touch if people didn't pray.
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The lord has honored these prayers.
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And i believe with all my heart that the secret
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To all that god has done and all that he's going to do
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Is found in the power of prayer, and i promise you, when we pray,
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Our dreams will be greater than our memories.
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It is exciting to me to understand
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What begins to happen as we pray.
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Take another look at that verse.
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Jesus said, "and whatever you ask in my name,
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That i will do."
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If you ask anything in his name, he will do it.
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That's no small distinction.
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I want you to read this carefully,
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Because we often misread this verse.
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Listen carefully.
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We think god wants us to do his work for him,
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So we pray, "lord, i'm praying to you
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To help me do this work,"
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But that's not what the verse says.
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Listen to what the verse says:
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"and whatever you ask in my name, i will do it."
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God doesn't want us to do it; he wants to do it through us.
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If we keep trying to do it ourselves,
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We're going to get worn out.
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We're going to get really tired, really weary.
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We aren't capable of doing god's work,
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But god wants to do his work through us.
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And he says, "if you ask anything in my name,"
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It doesn't say, "you will be able to do it."
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He says, "if you ask anything in my name,
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Watch out, i'll do it.
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I'll do it through you. i'll do it for you.
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I'll do it by you."
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I remember hearing about a preacher some years ago
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Who said he could build a great church
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If there was no god.
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I'm not sure that's a compliment.
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Sometimes we do commendable, praiseworthy things
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In the energy of our flesh,
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But when god begins to do the work through us,
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It is an entirely different proposition altogether.
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Incredible things begin to happen,
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Things we never dreamed would happen.
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So i tell you, the possibility of greater works
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And the promise of it and the power behind it,
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The priority of the greater works.
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A long time ago, a pastor of the moody church
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In chicago made this statement.
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He said, "never undertake more christian work
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Than can be covered in continual prayer."
00:50:40.843 --> 00:50:44.580
Good counsel-- and i have a feeling
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That many of us are over our limit.
00:50:45.981 --> 00:50:48.551
I have a feeling that many churches
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Are well over their limit.
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Oh, how we need to grasp the priority of prayer.
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I have no idea what is going to happen
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In and through this ministry, because i'm not going to do it.
00:50:56.158 --> 00:50:58.994
God's going to do it through me.
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As we pray, god will show us what he's doing,
00:51:01.730 --> 00:51:04.533
And we'll get under the spout,
00:51:04.533 --> 00:51:06.435
Find out what god is doing and get in on it.
00:51:06.435 --> 00:51:09.105
Find out where god is blessing and be a part of it.
00:51:09.105 --> 00:51:11.941
You don't have to look very far;
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You can figure that out yourself.
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The reason i'm excited about it is because i know
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God's vision for you and for me, for my family
00:51:17.146 --> 00:51:20.216
And your family, for my city and your city is
00:51:20.216 --> 00:51:22.918
Greater than our own individuals could ever be.
00:51:22.918 --> 00:51:26.856
It reminded me as i look back over my life
00:51:26.856 --> 00:51:29.058
And over the years, what god has done,
00:51:29.058 --> 00:51:32.495
How he has taken the little things you do
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And you do them faithfully,
00:51:35.264 --> 00:51:36.599
And pretty soon those little things
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Become other things, and you do those faithfully,
00:51:37.933 --> 00:51:40.002
And then other things happen.
00:51:40.002 --> 00:51:41.537
That's the story of ministry.
00:51:41.537 --> 00:51:42.938
You don't just show up one day and all of a sudden you have
00:51:42.938 --> 00:51:45.774
The immeasurable blessing of god.
00:51:45.774 --> 00:51:47.743
You trust god for every day
00:51:47.743 --> 00:51:49.378
To do what you know he wants you to do,
00:51:49.378 --> 00:51:50.913
And sometimes it's an incidental thing.
00:51:50.913 --> 00:51:53.582
But listen to god, he will tell you.
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I know that for a fact.
00:51:55.284 --> 00:51:56.619
If you ask god to direct you and lead you, he will do it.
00:51:56.619 --> 00:52:00.456
You may not like what he tells you to do,
00:52:00.456 --> 00:52:02.158
But he will do it, and you can count on it.
00:52:02.158 --> 00:52:05.528
And so often in the past, i've concentrated on this goal
00:52:05.528 --> 00:52:09.398
And that goal, and i'm really into goals
00:52:09.398 --> 00:52:12.201
And objectives and plans,
00:52:12.201 --> 00:52:13.802
But i believe that people should not concentrate
00:52:13.802 --> 00:52:16.338
As much as they do on the goal, but more on the power.
00:52:16.338 --> 00:52:20.009
God will help you do this.
00:52:20.009 --> 00:52:21.877
So what i want to leave with you today
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As we close our minds around this passage is this:
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Let's don't short-circuit what god wants to do
00:52:29.118 --> 00:52:31.754
In our life.
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You know, god would do much more in the lives of his people
00:52:33.088 --> 00:52:35.057
Except for unbelief.
00:52:35.057 --> 00:52:37.193
The one thing that keeps god from doing his work,
00:52:37.193 --> 00:52:39.161
God won't bless unbelief.
00:52:39.161 --> 00:52:41.030
If we don't believe god will do it, he won't do it.
00:52:41.030 --> 00:52:43.999
If you trust him to do it, you better be ready
00:52:43.999 --> 00:52:46.635
Because the surprise is about to come.
00:52:46.635 --> 00:52:49.238
We have to put our feet in the water
00:52:49.238 --> 00:52:51.307
Before god calls the water back.
00:52:51.307 --> 00:52:53.676
We have to take the first step; we can't just wait.
00:52:53.676 --> 00:52:55.945
Let's see what god does, and if he does something,
00:52:55.945 --> 00:52:57.746
Maybe i'll be a part of it.
00:52:57.746 --> 00:52:59.848
No, you have to be bold in your faith,
00:52:59.848 --> 00:53:01.850
And you have to pray this prayer:
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Lord, help me today to do the greater works
00:53:03.185 --> 00:53:06.755
That you talked about in john 14.
00:53:06.755 --> 00:53:09.391
Show me some people who need jesus
00:53:09.391 --> 00:53:11.026
And let me help them come to jesus,
00:53:11.026 --> 00:53:13.329
Some people who might come to church
00:53:13.329 --> 00:53:15.264
And hear about christ and become christians,
00:53:15.264 --> 00:53:18.334
Some children who need to go to sunday school,
00:53:18.334 --> 00:53:20.269
But they need somebody to take them.
00:53:20.269 --> 00:53:22.271
All of these things that god puts in our hearts to do--
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You know what i'm talking about.
00:53:24.640 --> 00:53:26.342
It's different for every one of us.
00:53:26.342 --> 00:53:28.177
God has a unique plan for your life and for mine.
00:53:28.177 --> 00:53:31.714
I have no idea what is going on in your life,
00:53:31.714 --> 00:53:34.316
But he wants to work through his spirit
00:53:34.316 --> 00:53:37.286
And help you do the greater works.
00:53:37.286 --> 00:53:39.822
You're not going to find a framed copy of it
00:53:39.822 --> 00:53:42.091
Hanging on the wall in some office.
00:53:42.091 --> 00:53:44.893
God is going to do it in his own way--
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In startling, unexpected ways-- as we trust him,
00:53:47.863 --> 00:53:51.100
And you will probably be surprised when it happens.
00:53:51.100 --> 00:53:53.535
Someone once told me: if it makes sense,
00:53:53.535 --> 00:53:55.237
It's probably not from god.
00:53:55.237 --> 00:53:57.673
If it's logical, probably god didn't tell you to.
00:53:57.673 --> 00:54:00.075
If you're always doing the logical things,
00:54:00.075 --> 00:54:01.777
God's probably not in the equation.
00:54:01.777 --> 00:54:04.280
Say, "god, help me to do something outside of the box
00:54:04.280 --> 00:54:06.815
For you.
00:54:06.815 --> 00:54:08.150
Help me to leverage what you've equipped me to do
00:54:08.150 --> 00:54:10.185
For the kingdom and for the glory of christ."
00:54:10.185 --> 00:54:12.655
And when we do that, we will see revival,
00:54:12.655 --> 00:54:16.525
We will see salvation, we will see the blessing of god.
00:54:16.525 --> 00:54:20.095
Nothing that is ever needed will be in lack,
00:54:20.095 --> 00:54:22.498
But we will have all that god promised for us.
00:54:22.498 --> 00:54:25.668
That is my prayer for us as we reach out
00:54:25.668 --> 00:54:27.636
Across the world.
00:54:27.636 --> 00:54:28.971
I remind you of a very special statement
00:54:28.971 --> 00:54:30.906
That's a part of our dna, here it is.
00:54:30.906 --> 00:54:33.409
The light that shines the farthest
00:54:33.409 --> 00:54:35.678
Has to shine the brightest at home.
00:54:35.678 --> 00:54:38.747
If we're going to reach the world, it starts with us.
00:54:38.747 --> 00:54:42.484
We have to be the bright light here first
00:54:42.484 --> 00:54:45.954
Before we can touch the world,
00:54:45.954 --> 00:54:47.289
And we are that by the grace of god.
00:54:47.289 --> 00:54:49.325
I think about our candle lighting ceremony
00:54:49.325 --> 00:54:51.694
That we have every year on christmas eve,
00:54:51.694 --> 00:54:53.429
And it's such a testimony to what happens.
00:54:53.429 --> 00:54:56.031
With one light coming down the center aisle
00:54:56.031 --> 00:54:58.033
And then little by little, all the lights being lit
00:54:58.033 --> 00:55:00.336
Until the room is filled with the glory of light.
00:55:00.336 --> 00:55:03.772
And we sing that little song,
00:55:03.772 --> 00:55:05.374
"this little light of mine, i'm going to let it shine.
00:55:05.374 --> 00:55:07.843
Hide it under a bushel?
00:55:07.843 --> 00:55:09.278
No, i'm going to let it shine."
00:55:09.278 --> 00:55:12.114
Let's ask god to help us shine like we never have,
00:55:12.114 --> 00:55:14.917
Holding our lights up high,
00:55:14.917 --> 00:55:16.552
Making a difference in people's lives around us
00:55:16.552 --> 00:55:19.288
For the glory of christ and for the salvation of many.
00:55:19.288 --> 00:55:22.391
And god bless us as we do it, and all god's people said amen.
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Dr. jeremiah: if god calls you to do something
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I've got an ability."
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For as long as you can.
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David Jeremiah - The Work of the Spirit

July 4, 2026 | 57:29

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