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The Spirit of Grace Part 4 | The Spirit of Grace Part 4 | December 22, 2021
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- male announcer: Coming up next on "Changing Your World."
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- Creflo Dollar: I'm gonna give you the "want to"
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- that you don't want to right now.
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- And, oh, if we can just work together, you're gonna wake up
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- one day and you're gonna have a new "want to."
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- And what you used to want, you ain't gonna want it no more.
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- And you will look at that want, but you'll say, "She cute, but
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- she's not cute enough for my salvation."
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- 'Cause you got a new "want to."
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- ♪ This is your world, ♪
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- ♪ so let's vow to make it a better place. ♪
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- ♪ Let every heart that needs to know, ♪
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- ♪ your love is here to stay. ♪
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- ♪ Oh-oh, it's time we live a new life. ♪
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- ♪ Oh-oh, let his love shine bright in you. ♪
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- ♪ Oh-oh, we're saved by his grace, ♪
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- ♪ so we embrace your love today. ♪
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- ♪ We are changed. ♪♪
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- Creflo: Philippians 2 and 12: "Wherefore, my beloved, as you
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- have always obeyed, not as in my presence only,
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- but now much more in my absence, work out your
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- own salvation with fear and trembling."
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- Now, that sounds like--"Well, see, Brother Dollar, right
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- there, he said we're supposed to work it out."
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- And then you start singing the song, "Work it out."
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- No, no, no, you have to keep reading.
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- "Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
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- For it is God which worketh in you both to," what?
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- "And to do of his--" All right,
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- now look at this in the Amplified.
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- Philippians 2:13 in the Amplified says: "[Not in your
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- own strength,]" look at there, "for it is God Who is all the
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- while effectually at work in you [energizing and creating
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- in you the power and desire]."
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- Look at what the Holy Spirit's doing.
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- "[Creating in you the power and the desire.]"
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- He's creating the desire.
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- You see, obviously, you didn't have the desire but he's
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- creating a desire for you to live right.
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- Maybe you didn't have the desire before but he's working in you,
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- energizing you, and giving you the desire, a new "want to,"
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- amen, "both to will and to work for
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- His good pleasure and satisfaction and delight."
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- Now look at the New Living Translation.
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- So the Holy Spirit's the one that's creating desire.
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- The Holy Spirit knows how to create desire.
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- Say out loud, "The Holy Spirit knows how to create desires."
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- Now look at this: "For God is working in you," doing what?
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- "Giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases him."
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- You've always wanted to please him,
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- you just didn't know how and, to be honest,
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- you didn't have the desire or the will to do it.
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- And that's where the Holy Spirit comes in there.
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- He says, "I will create the desire."
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- You know what he's saying?
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- "I'm gonna give you a 'want to,' I'm gonna replace your old
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- 'want to' with my 'want to,' and then you're gonna want to."
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- See, right now, you might not want to stop having sex
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- with everybody except your spouse.
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- I'm just saying, I'm just saying.
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- Ain't nobody got to--ain't nobody got to leave.
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- We still friends. And that's the issue.
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- It's like, but I don't want to stop smoking this weed.
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- I don't want to stop cussing.
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- And the Holy Spirit says, "I know, that's why I was sent.
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- And if you just believe and just stick with me,
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- I'm gonna give you the desire." Y'all got to hear me.
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- "I'm gonna give you the "want to"
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- that you don't want to right now.
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- And, oh, if we can just work together, you're gonna wake up
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- one day and you're gonna have a new 'want to.'
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- And what you used to want, you ain't gonna want it no more.
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- And you will look at that want but you'll say,
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- 'She cute, but she's not cute enough for my salvation.'
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- 'Cause you got a new 'want to.'"
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- You got a new "want to," are you listening to what I'm saying?
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- And what we've been trying to do is we've been trying to
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- manufacture a new "want to" out of our own efforts, out of our
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- own performance, out of our own discipline, and the Holy Spirit
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- says, "I don't need you and your self-help books.
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- If self-help could have got the job done,
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- then I would have stayed where I was."
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- Ha, ha, ha, ha.
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- Hey, he says, "But I've been sent to be your helper."
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- "Well, you know, Brother Dollar, like the Bible says,
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- 'God helps those who helps themselves.'"
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- The Bible don't say that; Benjamin Franklin said that.
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- See, we're so--we're so open for all the wrong narratives.
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- And we just let--we just let folks just say anything
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- and if it ends on--up on TV or on a paper
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- or a magazine, you think it was real, you think it's true.
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- I got folks still thinking stuff about me that's true.
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- I ain't got time to be defending myself.
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- The Lord's my defense, I ain't got time to be doing that.
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- You just heard somebody create a narrative
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- and then all your life you just believed it, that's your fault.
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- You ought not to believe everything you hear.
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- Ain't got time to be going around, every time I
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- see somebody, "Hey, how you doin'?
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- Now, I don't know what you heard about me, but--"
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- I ain't got time to be doin' that.
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- He will work in you.
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- He is working in you right now.
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- If you don't quit, you get a chance to see the masterpiece
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- that the Holy Spirit has created, and you will wake up
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- one day, the habit that you used to have gone, and you can't
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- figure out why you don't want it no more.
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- And it was a secret, you did it in the booth in the back
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- in the corner in the dark, didn't nobody know about it.
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- You didn't think nobody know about it.
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- In these days of cell phones, somebody will see you.
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- But if you'll let the Holy Spirit do his work,
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- he'll change your "want to."
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- You didn't use to want to pray and now you can't wait to pray.
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- You didn't use to want to come to church
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- and now you can't miss a service.
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- You didn't use to want to, watch this, tithe.
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- You remember how you used to be.
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- "Tithe? I ain't tithing crook.
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- What's he--and his last name were Dollar?
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- And tithe? Ah, man, y'all can't see that?"
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- Somebody need to change your "want to."
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- But you know what happens when you push
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- the Holy Spirit out of your life?
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- When you push him out of your life, you've now tried
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- to govern your life and you are not
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- very successful in changing your "want to."
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- You kind of stick with the same
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- old stuff you've been wanting to do.
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- And you find yourself in the center of the circle and
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- self-centeredness produces self-righteousness and all of
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- that leads to bitterness which will now open the door for any
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- type of perversion in your life because God never intended for
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- you to operate and live a life of self-righteousness
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- and self-centeredness, amen?
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- Now, let me keep going just for a moment.
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- I didn't plan on doing this, this morning,
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- but we there so let's do it.
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- Let's look at Psalms 37 and 4. Psalms 37 and 4.
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- It's important that you know only thing he's asking you
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- to do is to believe him, and he'll do the work.
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- We just can't believe that by resting in
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- what he said that something can be done.
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- That by the grace of God, God can give you something you
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- didn't deserve or didn't even work for.
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- Taffi, a--Taffi a few weeks ago
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- taught about the God of the surprise.
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- And I wanna prophesy to you that you're about
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- to encounter the God of the surprise.
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- Some of y'all need a surprise, but a good one.
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- You understand what I'm saying?
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- And the God of the surprise is on the move, praise the Lord,
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- if you don't give up, cave in, and quit.
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- All right, Psalms 37:4, you're familiar with this Scripture.
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- Let's read it out loud: "Delight thyselves
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- in the Lord: and he'll," what?
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- "Delight yourself." Become pliable.
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- It literally means to come to know and to come to receive him.
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- Now what happens when I come to know and receive him?
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- This is so good here, the desire of our hearts are going to be
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- shaped and created according with our delight in him.
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- And so, in other words, he says, as you expose yourself to him,
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- he's gonna create a desire and a will in your heart
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- to be like what you've been exposed to.
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- And in other words, ladies and gentlemen,
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- the Word is gonna shape your desires.
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- The Holy Spirit's gonna shape your desires.
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- You remember John 15 and 7, he says: "If you abide in me and my
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- Word abide in you, you'll ask what you will,
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- and it'll be given to you"?
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- Well, what's happening here?
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- Basically, what he's saying: "If you let the Word abide in you
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- and you abide in my Word, you're going to ask what you will."
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- Well, what is the will gonna be?
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- It's gonna be what you've been abiding in.
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- In other words, the Holy Spirit's gonna
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- shape your desire to line up with his will.
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- And you're gonna start wanting what he wants.
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- When he says, "Delight yourself in the Lord and I'll give you
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- the desire of your heart," he doesn't mean,
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- "I'm gonna give you your Christmas list."
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- What he means, and we use it like that so wrong.
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- "Delight yourself in the Lord, he'll give you--
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- he'll give you that car if you delight yourself in him," and
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- you're like, "Well, how do you delight?"
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- And then you wake up the next morning smiling, what you doin'?
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- "I'm delighting myself in the Lord."
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- "Why?" "So I can get that car."
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- That's not what he's talking about.
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- He's talking about if you'll come to know him and spend
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- time with him, then he'll shape your desire.
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- How can he shape your desire?
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- 'Cause you're spending time with the very image
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- you're getting ready to be shaped in.
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- That word you've been abiding in and abiding--
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- and has been abiding in you, it's shaping your desire.
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- The exposure to God's Word that you get
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- when you come to church, it's shaping your desire.
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- The time that you spend studying God's Word,
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- meditating in his Word, listening to the Word,
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- praying the Word, it's shaping your desire.
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- You're not gonna just wanna desire
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- just anything, some selfish thing.
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- You're going to wanna desire what he--you're gonna desire
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- what you've been spending time with.
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- Boy, that is true in the natural, isn't it?
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- That is true in the natural too.
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- That is absolutely true in the natural.
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- You spend time around a bunch of junk in the natural,
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- it'll create a desire, won't it?
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- You spend time in God's Word and you spend time
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- with God, he will shape your desire.
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- See, your desire didn't just pop up.
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- What you desire to do, whether good or bad,
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- came from somewhere, it was shaped in you.
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- "Well, I just desire to have sex all the time."
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- Well, we know what you're doing all the time.
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- You have to expose yourself to a thing
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- in order for it to shape your "want to."
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- "Well, I just want to," ain't no such
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- thing as "I just want to."
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- Your "want to" is subjected to what
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- has shaped you to want to.
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- Does everybody understand what I'm saying here?
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- He will shape your desire.
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- Now, here's what I wanna say to you before I move on.
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- God is shaping your desire. He's giving you the will to do.
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- And so you wonder, "How am I gonna change bad behavior?"
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- He's changing it. He's changing it.
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- It's not a waste of time to come to church.
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- That's why we come to church.
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- We don't come to church so we can deserve a reward.
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- "What you doin' this morning?"
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- "I'm going to church. Lord knows I need it.
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- Maybe the Lord will make something happen for me.
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- Maybe I'll win the Lotto if I just go
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- to church every day this month," that's not what this for.
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- This is about shaping your desire and giving you the will
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- to do in line with God's Word, that's what it's for.
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- "Well, I would come to church but we can't dance and shout."
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- You can dance and shout once I finish.
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- But you need to sit down and get fed.
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- You need to--you need to chill on the emotionalism just for a
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- minute and you need to learn something because the devil's
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- beating your brains out and you have no idea that it's him and
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- you don't know what to do to stop it and then when you get by
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- yourself in the booth in the back in the corner of the dark,
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- when you don't think nobody watching you, then the desire of
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- that has been unaffected and unimpacted by God's Word begins
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- to come up and then it brings about the guilt and the
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- condemnation and the shame which blocks God's love
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- and what he wants to do in your life, amen.
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- Don't--somebody like, "Sure is. Is that what that is?
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- Is that why I felt like that this morning?"
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- It can all change if you will acknowledge and trust in the
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- presence of the Holy Spirit in your everyday life.
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- You expect to be with the Holy Spirit every day.
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- You wake up and say, "Good morning, Holy Spirit."
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- You talk to him throughout the day, "What we gonna
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- do, Holy Spirit?"
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- You go in a meeting and say, "Holy Spirit, give me wisdom.
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- I think I understand it, but if something
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- pop up in this meetin', I'm trusting
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- that you'll help me to do what I need to do.
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- Holy Spirit, give me the grace to be able to do this, this
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- interview I'm getting ready to do, Lord.
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- I thank you that I got the job, but I need you.
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- And Lord, if you don't want me to have the job, hey, just
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- close that thing up so I won't walk out
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- talkin' about, 'Lord, where were you?'
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- No, I walk out, say, 'He got a better one for me.
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- He didn't wanna have me there.'"
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- You just gotta trust in the Holy Spirit, that he's walking
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- with you, talking with you, he's guiding you, hallelujah.
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- But we don't--we don't spend no time talking to him.
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- You go in your closet sometime, "Holy Spirit,
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- what you want me to wear today?"
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- "Ah, now that's just too deep." No, it's not.
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- He's a living, real reality in my life.
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- Help me, Holy Spirit. Show me what to do, Holy Spirit.
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- The Lord been helping me and my dress because I'm trying to--
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- I'm trying to figure out how
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- this generation do stuff.
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- And some of it I like, and some of it I gotta get used to,
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- like them tight straight-leg jeans.
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- I don't know how they wanna wear something that don't cover
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- your--it don't cover you all up in the back.
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- But I'm just asking the Holy Spirit, "Help me.
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- Help me so that another generation
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- can receive what I say."
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- "Well, I just think you ought to put your suit and tie on."
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- Well, ain't nobody ask you what you--
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- see, I wanna be relevant until I'm 120.
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- So if changing the way you dress can help in that, I'm willing to
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- do it because I'm hungry for souls.
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- And if you're not building image but building the church, then
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- you don't care what nobody say because you're concerned about
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- building people and not building your own image.
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- Amen.
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- So I don't know, I might start preaching in shorts and
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- flip-flops if that do--I have to get my feet fixed but, you know,
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- I--grease them dogs up before you walk out, you understand?
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- Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
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- It's good to be free. It's good to be free.
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- You got to quit being in bondage to people and allow
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- the Holy Spirit to deliver you into the call
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- and the mission that he's called you to do.
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- Everybody can't be a rap singer. Hey, man.
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- Everybody can't be--everybody can't take--why do what you can
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- do when you can do what you're anointed to do?
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- There's an anointing on everybody in here to do a job,
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- a special anointing that can't nobody do it like
- 00:19:16.201 --> 00:19:20.706
- you do it with the anointing that God gave you.
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- Before you were born, he selected an anointing and put it
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- on you, and you don't even know about it yet, but that's why he
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- gave you the Holy Ghost, it's to help you discover you.
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- All right, now let me go on. I think I'm ready to say this.
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- Yeah, I say--I said that.
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- You notice I've been preaching the same thing
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- for the last two months, why?
- 00:19:43.829 --> 00:19:48.033
- I'm just trying to figure out a better way to say it each time I
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- say it until you can get it, amen?
- 00:19:50.669 --> 00:19:56.241
- Now, I wanna show you something here.
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- Go with me to a couple of Scriptures here,
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- 1 Corinthians chapter 2, verse 9 and 10,
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- Galatians chapter 1, and then Matthew 16.
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- And that's what we're gonna do today.
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- 1 Corinthians 2, I'm--guys, I'm gonna give you
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- this 'cause I'm gonna put this down in a minute.
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- 1 Corinthians 2:9-10, I wanna look at that in
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- King James and the Amplified; Galatians 1:11-12,
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- and then Matthew 16, the King James.
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- All right, now watch this carefully.
- 00:20:30.742 --> 00:20:32.544
- Now here's what I gotta say, this is what I've been working
- 00:20:32.544 --> 00:20:35.013
- on the last two weeks, here's what I gotta say.
- 00:20:35.013 --> 00:20:38.150
- The main purpose of the Holy Spirit
- 00:20:38.150 --> 00:20:43.021
- is to reveal knowledge to you.
- 00:20:43.021 --> 00:20:48.794
- His main job is to show you something.
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- Now, verse 9: "But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, ear
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- has not heard, neither have it entered into the heart of man,
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- the things which God hath," past tense,
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- "prepared for them that love him."
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- How many of you love God?
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- Well, he said he's prepared some things
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- for you that your eye hadn't seen.
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- He says he's prepared some things for you
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- that your ear hadn't heard.
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- He said he's prepared some things
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- for you that your heart hadn't even received.
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- But now look at the next verse: "But God
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- hath revealed them unto us," how?
- 00:21:26.231 --> 00:21:30.068
- congregation: "By the Spirit."
- 00:21:30.068 --> 00:21:31.403
- "For the Spirit searches all things,
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- yea, the deep things of God."
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- So if the Spirit searches the deep things of God,
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- he knows what God has already done for you
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- and now is prepared to reveal it to you.
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- Every one of us has--have a purpose.
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- Every one of us has a mission.
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- Every one of us has an anointing, but the Holy Spirit
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- says, "I'm gonna reveal some things to you
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- that have been hidden for you, not from you," oh my goodness.
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- All right, now, go to Galatians 1, Galatians 1:11-12.
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- Now, for example, look at what he did
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- with the apostle Paul, Galatians 1.
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- The gospel of grace that Paul preached,
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- he said, "But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel
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- which was preached of me is not after man."
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- He said, "I didn't get this by man."
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- Verse 12: "For I neither received it of man, neither was
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- I taught it by man, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ."
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- Here is Paul walking around trying to be the best Pharisee
- 00:22:40.672 --> 00:22:43.508
- that he can be, and then on the road to Damascus,
- 00:22:43.508 --> 00:22:46.678
- the Holy Spirit reveals his mission,
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- his assignment, his purpose, his anointing.
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- I believe, ladies and gentlemen, that we're gonna have to have
- 00:22:55.887 --> 00:22:58.557
- revelation in these last days, and the Holy Spirit
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- has been sent to give us revelation.
- 00:23:01.760 --> 00:23:04.362
- It wasn't like Paul was an expert in hearing from God.
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- On the road to Damascus, Jesus revealed it to him.
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- And I believe that some of you are gonna have
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- a Damascus experience where the Holy Spirit's
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- gonna reveal some things to you.
- 00:23:17.342 --> 00:23:19.110
- Now, this is a--this is a, in Matthew chapter 16:13, I've been
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- trying to get here for the last month.
- 00:23:23.982 --> 00:23:28.019
- We here. I said, we're here.
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- All right, I remember teaching this years ago and didn't
- 00:23:33.725 --> 00:23:38.597
- understand like what I understand right now today.
- 00:23:38.597 --> 00:23:43.168
- "When Jesus came into the coast of Caesarea Philippi,
- 00:23:43.168 --> 00:23:47.606
- he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men
- 00:23:47.606 --> 00:23:52.244
- say that I the Son of man am?"
- 00:23:52.244 --> 00:23:56.414
- Do you ever ask yourself the question, "What's the difference
- 00:23:56.414 --> 00:23:58.316
- between the Son of God and the Son of man?"
- 00:23:58.316 --> 00:24:00.919
- Jesus was the Son of God.
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- Then when he got a body, he became the Son of man.
- 00:24:02.521 --> 00:24:06.258
- It's the body that took him from being the
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- Son of God to the Son of man.
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- He has a physical body. Now, watch this.
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- And here's how they answer: "And they said, Some say that thou
- 00:24:15.734 --> 00:24:19.371
- art John the Baptist: some, Elias; some,
- 00:24:19.371 --> 00:24:24.209
- Jeremiah, you know, or one of the prophets."
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- Verse 15: "He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?"
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- So they're around Jesus and they have
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- no revelation of who he was.
- 00:24:38.957 --> 00:24:44.029
- They just thought he was a good prophet.
- 00:24:44.029 --> 00:24:47.265
- Watch this, "Simon Peter said--answered
- 00:24:47.265 --> 00:24:50.635
- and said unto him, Thou art," watch this,
- 00:24:50.635 --> 00:24:53.972
- "the Christ, the Son of the living God."
- 00:24:53.972 --> 00:24:58.710
- Now, Christ is not Jesus's last name.
- 00:24:58.710 --> 00:25:05.183
- Somebody say, "Anybody know Jesus's last name?"
- 00:25:05.183 --> 00:25:06.818
- "I dunno, Jesus Christ or Christ?"
- 00:25:06.818 --> 00:25:10.021
- No, Christ is not Jesus's last name.
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- Christ is translated, "the Anointed One."
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