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Ron Carpenter | G...Mail Part 1 | June 3, 2022
- - Hi, I'm Ron Carpenter and I get to be your host.
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- Please don't change that channel,
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- because I believe any time you get information,
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- information can be empowering and life-changing,
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- especially when you get it from the word of God.
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- So if you want tomorrow to be different than today,
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- these next few minutes could change your life forever.
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- Stick around.
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- (smooth upbeat music)
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- RCTV 388 Message: 4-24-22 Airs: 6-5-22
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- When I was in my 20s, those of you who, not many,
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- but may have been involved way back in those days,
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- we were not a very big church.
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- They may be a few faces here that remember those days.
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- There's something about the younger generation
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- that takes a lot of heat from the older generation.
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- Usually it has to do with methodologies.
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- We change the methodologies.
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- We change from Sunday school to life groups,
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- and hell is going to open up wide and swallow you whole.
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- We changed, we did three services at 9:00, 11:00,
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- instead of 10 o'clock, and we just started making changes.
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- We thought that God was bigger than the way we are doing it.
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- And I remember just taking so much heat from older ones.
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- And I always said, you know what?
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- When I start getting a little age on me and I'm not old,
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- I turned 40 last year.
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- (congregation murmuring)
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- I might need to step away.
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- (congregation laughing)
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- We're not old, but I've been doing this a while.
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- And I never wanted to be the guy to turn around
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- and do what was being done to me.
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- I remember I didn't like that.
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- I didn't like walking in a pastor's meeting
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- and feeling like a villain.
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- I didn't like that.
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- I didn't like feeling like a rebel.
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- In fact, I really wanted to fit in.
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- I wanted friends desperately,
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- but they were hard to come by,
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- because whatever is different, people, by nature, criticize.
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- By nature, people, if they don't understand the thing,
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- they usually become critical of it
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- instead of trying to understand it.
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- And so I didn't want to be that person,
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- but I have now come to 32 years of doing this.
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- And I'm looking around seeing younger generations
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- take their leadership positions in the kingdom,
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- and I'm concerned on two or three fronts.
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- This is one of them.
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- I'm concerned that we are now becoming
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- a biblically illiterate generation,
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- because nobody tries to share their faith,
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- which was the way it was.
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- We were meant to be witnesses,
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- to share our faith, to share testimonies.
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- People were not meant to get saved at church.
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- They were meant to get saved in the cubicle next to you,
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- on the loading dock next to you,
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- on the forklift next to you,
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- and the machine shop next to you.
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- And this is the gathering together of the saints,
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- where Ephesians 2 says
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- that this is where he builds his house
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- to become a holy temple, where he dwells by his Spirit.
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- This is where the equipping of the saints takes place.
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- So we turn the services
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- into the soul-winning arm of the church.
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- Now we don't say anything about Jesus.
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- We say, come to church.
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- Come to church, come to my church.
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- And we think if we can get you to church,
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- we'll get you saved.
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- Not a bad strategy.
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- Problem is it keeps all of our experience ankle-deep.
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- - [Congregation] Yes.
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- - Because we have to be talking the gospel of Jesus
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- every week to get people saved,
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- because it's not happening outside the church.
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- So now we do not have teaching and preaching
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- that is equipping the people, and I am concerned,
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- because if people don't have a phone
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- or don't have a Bible app,
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- they don't know what scripture to turn to.
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- And I'm going to tell you something, there might be a day,
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- and I hope I never see it in my lifetime,
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- where you can't get Google to answer your question for you.
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- You may need to know how to get to God on your own.
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- You may need to be able to pull a scripture
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- out of your heart, instead of out of your phone.
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- That's one concern.
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- Another concern is that we live through
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- what's going on on the stage.
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- Instead of it being personal to us, we experience it,
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- and if it's good on the stage, it's good in us,
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- and if it's bad on the stage, it's bad in us.
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- And if they have a great one, it was great for me.
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- And if they have a...
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- And you got to understand,
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- there's no such thing as a bad service,
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- because God doesn't live on a stage, God lives in you.
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- Well, I need a revival today, I need a move of God.
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- Well, you need to stir yourself up
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- because the move is inside of you.
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- I hope God shows up today.
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- Well, God came in the room when you came in the room.
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- He don't live in curtains and carpet and chairs,
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- he lives in people.
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- So you determine the magnitude of God
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- that we will experience
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- by the posture above which you approach this moment.
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- And so I don't want to be generational bashing,
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- but out of concern, I felt like for the first time,
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- actually in many years, I needed to do a series on prayer.
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- Now, before people say, "Ah, I don't want to hear that,"
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- and you get your pocketbook, start going out,
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- God's locked the doors on both sides, hallelujah.
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- And I'm really gonna go through prayer,
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- and then I'm going to take a couple of Sundays,
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- where I'm going to pray for you.
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- Not laying over.
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- I want you to watch me pray,
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- because I have never at a time in my life,
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- seen the most ridiculous prayer request in my life
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- being answered and being answered at warp speed.
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- Let me just talk a minute, can I talk a minute?
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- Can I just talk?
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- Come on, I'm just loving on you, is that all right?
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- Look at your neighbor and say,
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- "Just let the pastor love on you a minute, let him love."
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- The heavens, and I'll get there,
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- I didn't plan on saying this,
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- the heavens are all about legalities.
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- When you pray, you are entering heavenly space,
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- and you got to understand that heaven is a courtroom.
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- - [Congregation] Come on.
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- - There used to be a big thing in the '90s,
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- late '80s and '90s, on spiritual warfare, spiritual warfare.
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- And come on, we going to fight.
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- I remember people preaching in fatigues
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- and all kind of stuff.
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- But the fact is we are citizens of the kingdom
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- and kingdom citizens don't fight.
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- - [Congregation] Come on, come on.
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- (congregation clapping)
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- - He has given his angels charge over thee
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- to bear you up in their wings
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- and guard you in all of your ways,
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- so you don't dash your foot against the stone.
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- Angels are the military power of God, not citizens.
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- - [Congregation] Come on now.
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- - See, I can see half of you right now,
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- I've never thought I'd heard such.
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- And I started looking at the Bible,
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- and God is the only mighty wise God and judge,
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- judge's courtroom language.
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- Jesus is the only mediator between God and man.
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- That means lawyer, courtroom language.
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- Zachariah 9,
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- "And the court stood and the books were opened."
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- That's courtroom language.
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- - [Congregation] Yes.
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- - The Bible talks about the testimony of the blood.
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- Testimony is courtroom language.
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- The Bible talks about a great cloud of witnesses.
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- What is a witness?
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- They are courtroom language.
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- The Bible talks about the accuser of the brethren.
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- That's the prosecutor, he's the devil.
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- So we know that he's the accuser,
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- and he stands before God and accuses you day and night.
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- He searches your life to try to get in God's face
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- and tell God why you're not worthy
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- of your prayers being answered.
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- And if you don't understand when you pray,
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- what you are entering, you have to work a legal system.
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- - [Congregation] Yes.
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- - [Congregation] Wow.
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- - And most of us only pray at the blessing
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- or when there's an emergency.
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- Help!
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- You don't go in a courtroom and scream, "Help!"
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- You go understanding there is a protocol.
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- We've forgotten all protocols in approaching God.
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- Everybody just goes in and starts worshiping, no!
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- I will enter his gates with thanksgiving.
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- Then when I've entered that portal,
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- I'll enter his courts with praise.
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- Then I'll come boldly into the throne room of faith
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- to obtain mercy and find grace in my time.
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- There is a protocol, and we've just blah.
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- We just don't even talk about him.
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- But you got to understand,
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- your God is a king, not a president.
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- (congregation clapping)
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- And in the kingdom,
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- everybody don't have a vote, a right and an opinion.
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- What the king says becomes law when it leaves his mouth.
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- And so what we are entering into
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- is understanding the keys of the kingdom
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- and what it means to pray here,
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- but affect what is going on in a world I cannot see.
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- And can I just be real simple now?
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- One of the hardest things in the world, it has been to do,
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- every preacher will tell you, is to get people to pray.
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- And I've looked at those groups when they were talking,
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- I said, "Nonsense, what are you doing?"
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- I said, "The only thing that you got to do to get people pray
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- is let them see their prayers work."
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- - [Congregation] Come on now.
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- - If people see their prayers being answered,
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- you'll never have to have another prayer conference.
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- You'll never have to have intercessory prayer night again.
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- The reason people don't want to pray
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- is because it's long, it's laborious.
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- It's a monologue, it's not a dialogue.
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- They don't hear back from God
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- and they never see anything happen.
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- We don't see anything happen
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- because we don't know how to run the court.
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- You got to know what the room is when you walk into it
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- and how to approach whoever that is.
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- There is a way to approach God.
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- You enter his gates with thanksgiving.
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- Then you enter his courts with praise,
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- then you got to tell him how great he is.
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- - [Announcer] And In this series, "G...Mail,"
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- Ron Carpenter talks prayer.
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- You'll learn how not only to pray, but more importantly,
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- how to target your prayers to get them answered.
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- - The Bible says that Jesus, when he left the earth,
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- went back to heaven
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- and he forever makes intercessions for us.
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- It means he is your lawyer, he is your mediator,
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- he is your in-between,
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- and he gives you the right to approach the Father.
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- Hallelujah.
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- And you do him just like you did while I was with you.
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- He said, "Whatever you ask in my name."
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- (bright music)
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- (bright pop music)
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- - Hey again, you know what?
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- We're going to get back to that great word in just a minute.
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- I hope you're enjoying it,
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- but I always stop right in the middle
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- to offer just a word of thanks.
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- I want to tell each and every one
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- who's just viewing right now, thank you.
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- You certainly, in the day of what?
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- 1100 cable channels
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- and a phone that attaches to the internet in your hand,
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- you have options.
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- And the fact that you're here watching right now,
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- I'm so grateful and I don't take it for granted.
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- Number two, to thank those people who have supported
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- and allowed us to be on here.
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- We didn't do anything, because we believe in God's people,
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- that when they know the message is being preached,
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- and they want it to go as far as it can
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- and reach as many people as it can.
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- And that's what we here,
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- at Ron Carpenter Ministries, are endeavoring to do.
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- You've been with us on a long journey,
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- many of you since '98, some of you for a few weeks,
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- but maybe you've been blessed and you've never given.
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- Would you consider making this program do what it does.
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- Whether it's a one-time gift
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- or you want to become a monthly partner,
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- this is the gift we'll send you to say, thank you
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- for partnering with us.
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- We hope that this partnership is a blessing.
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- And I hope that every time you turn on this TV
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- and you see this program,
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- I hope that it impacts your life in a positive way.
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- Now let's get back to the word.
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- - Revelation 5:10, and then gentlemen in the back,
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- go straight to Revelation 1:6 and then eight.
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- So let's start at Revelation 5:10.
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- "And have made us kings and priests to our God,
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- and we shall reign on the earth."
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- We shall reign.
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- Somebody say, that means me, that means me.
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- Revelation 1, "And has made us kings and priests
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- to his God and Father.
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- To him be glory and dominion forever and ever, amen."
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- Go to verse eight.
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- "'I'm alpha and I'm omega,
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- I'm the beginning and the end,' says the Lord,
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- who is, who was, and who is to come, the almighty."
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- So Lord, bless the reading of your word in Jesus' name,
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- and everybody said, amen, hallelujah.
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- You got any amens left in you, or y'all don't?
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- Amen them out all last week, or you got a few left?
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- Kings and priests.
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- Kings and priests.
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- And he has made us to be kings and priests.
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- I'm going to get as simple as I can.
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- I don't want to deal with the kingly side.
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- That's a whole different message, okay?
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- I want to deal with the priestly side.
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- That's all I can swallow today.
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- The word priest right there basically means intercessor.
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- Intercessor.
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- People that can peer,
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- people that can speak,
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- people that can touch the unseen realm,
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- and they are the bridge through which what God wants
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- becomes what is.
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- - [Congregation] Yeah.
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- - These are the people that can look around them
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- and see the difference between what God intended
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- and what actually is happening,
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- and they become the bridge of change.
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- And God has made us to become priests.
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- He's made us to become prayerful people.
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- He's made us to be the people
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- that can stand in the middle of two worlds, okay?
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- Remember, I've told you about the unseen and the seen.
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- I've been driving that in the ground
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- probably the last six months,
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- that there is a world that you cannot see,
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- for the things which are seen
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- were made by things which are not seen, okay?
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- And the things which are seen are temporary,
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- the things which are not seen are eternal.
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- So in other words, I'm living in a world
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- that I can see, smell, touch and feel,
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- and here, I'm living in that world,
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- but the Bible tells me it is not the parent realm,
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- it is the subject realm.
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- And what's going on here is subject
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- to what is going on there.
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- Now, when we don't like what's happening right here,
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- we usually want to go and fix it.
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- So let me get my hands on it, let me get my two cents worth.
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- Let me have a conversation.
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- But the fact is, if I want to change what's happening here,
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- then I need to know how to access there
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- and rearrange things there.
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- And then when I've rearranged things there,
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- I can rearrange things here.
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- Why is it when someone goes to war,
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- the first thing they do is send in an airstrike?
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- They don't send in ground troops.
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- They send in an airstrike.
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- They're not amening me.
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- I may need you to lay that Oregon Scream
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- every once in a while,
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- because they just kind of looking at me, hallelujah,
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- Look at your neighbor and say,
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- "Amen him at least once before you leave today."
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- Come on, somebody.
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- - [Congregation] Amen.
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- - Something's got...
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- In the natural sense,
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- they know something's got to happen in the air.
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- They don't send troops in on the ground
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- till they've taken the air.
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- In the church,
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- we're trying to possess what's happening on the ground,
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- but we've never taken the air.
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- And these spirits, these territorial spirits are different
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- in different regions.
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- Many, many religious spirits here.
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- Many religious spirits, keeping people divided,
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- keeping people fighting, come on,
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- keeping people racially divided, economically divided,
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- socially divided.
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- There's so many religious spirits people
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- that care more about titles than they care about anointing.
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- Come on, somebody.
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- People fighting for place in the church.
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- People trying to posture themselves
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- to be with certain people.
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- And then I fly over to the west coast
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- and it ain't religious spirits, it's just heathen.
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- They don't know about a title,
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- don't care about a title and this and that and other,
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- but you have no idea the shape they gonna come in the church
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- and you have no idea what they've been doing, say the night,
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- before they got there.
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- You just got to pray heathen devils out of them, hallelujah.
- 00:17:28.363 --> 00:17:31.066
- So no matter what, I know when I go to coastal regions,
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- it's much different than other places.
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- What's happening in the natural, seems to me most,
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- when I go across the Midwest, I feel something different.
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- And I've been well traveled, especially across this nation.
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- And you can go in
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- and you can see where spirits have been in charge
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- and been ruling for not only just decades,
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- but centuries, maybe millenniums.
- 00:17:51.286 --> 00:17:53.188
- And there's got to be a people who understand
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- we are Kings and priests unto our God,
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- and we know how to stand in the earth and access the heavens
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- and pray a hole through the sky
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- and say, "Lord, your kingdom come," come on.
- 00:18:03.832 --> 00:18:06.201
- "And you will be done on the earth,
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- on the earth, on the earth," say it, "on the earth,
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- on the earth as it is in heaven."
- 00:18:11.974 --> 00:18:14.143
- And you become the vessel by which what God wants
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- becomes what is in the earth.
- 00:18:17.546 --> 00:18:19.414
- Somebody give God just five seconds of praise.
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- Hallelujah.
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- Somebody say, pray.
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- - [Congregation] Pray.
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- - Now,
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- we have been put here
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- to bridge an unseen and a seen realm.
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- We've been called to be that intercessor.
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- And the Bible says, and when we learn how to do that,
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- we will reign on the earth.
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- But the extent of our reign
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- will follow the extent of our pray.
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- Without the pray, you don't extend the reign.
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- So if you understand how to be a king
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- and how to be a priest, then you extend the reign of God
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- through his people in the earth realm.
- 00:19:10.599 --> 00:19:13.235
- So that's what I'm trying to teach now.
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- Can I go a little bit deeper?
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- - Yes. - Okay.
- 00:19:16.505 --> 00:19:17.673
- - So the first thing we understand
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- is we are a kingdom of priests.
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- Look at your neighbor and say, "You're supposed to pray,
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- You've been called to pray."
- 00:19:21.343 --> 00:19:23.512
- Matthew 21:12-13.
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- Matthew 21:12-13.
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- Why is my neck so red?
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- I guess that happens when you're born in possum kingdom,
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- doesn't it?
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- I just was.
- 00:19:39.094 --> 00:19:39.928
- Then Jesus went into the temple of God,
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- drove out all who bought and sold in the temple,
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- overturned the tables,
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- the money changers,
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- and all the seats of those who sold doves.
- 00:19:54.910 --> 00:19:58.347
- He said to them, "It is written,
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- 'My house shall be called a house of prayer,
- 00:20:02.084 --> 00:20:06.688
- but you have made it a den of thieves.'"
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- My house shall be called a house of prayer.
- 00:20:11.493 --> 00:20:13.762
- Now let me back up,
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- I'm going slow, because I'm going to take two Sundays
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- and just build a foundation.
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- I'm not even talking about prayer for two weeks.
- 00:20:20.035 --> 00:20:21.970
- I'm going to talk about a posture, okay?
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- So are y'all in a hurry to get out, or can I finish?
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- Let me finish.
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- All right.
- 00:20:29.344 --> 00:20:30.212
- The church is preaching the gospel of Jesus,
- 00:20:33.148 --> 00:20:36.718
- because we've turned the services
- 00:20:36.718 --> 00:20:38.487
- into the soul-winning arm of the church.
- 00:20:38.487 --> 00:20:40.555
- Nobody's being discipled.
- 00:20:40.555 --> 00:20:42.057
- Okay?
- 00:20:43.358 --> 00:20:44.192
- So people got saved,
- 00:20:44.192 --> 00:20:45.727
- but they don't have a clue what they've been saved to.
- 00:20:45.727 --> 00:20:47.796
- And whenever God saves you from something,
- 00:20:49.498 --> 00:20:51.700
- he also simultaneously saves you to something.
- 00:20:51.700 --> 00:20:54.436
- And we've done a decent job
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- of telling them what they've been saved from,
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- they're clueless about what they've been saved to,
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- that they're now rightful sons
- 00:21:02.210 --> 00:21:03.679
- to the inheritance of their heavenly Father,
- 00:21:03.679 --> 00:21:06.448
- and they have rights to everything in his house.
- 00:21:06.448 --> 00:21:09.718
- And we've not taught them that, so we don't live that way.
- 00:21:09.718 --> 00:21:12.487
- We live like we're outsiders, like we're beggars.
- 00:21:12.487 --> 00:21:14.956
- And I hear people praying to God, begging God for things,
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- God said is already theirs.
- 00:21:17.693 --> 00:21:19.094
- - [Congregation] Come on now.
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- - So when you're begging for things
- 00:21:20.329 --> 00:21:21.630
- that God already said is yours.,
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- that lets me know how you see yourself.
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- You don't see yourself as in the house,
- 00:21:25.067 --> 00:21:26.635
- you see yourself as on the outside, wanting God's favor,
- 00:21:26.635 --> 00:21:30.072
- not knowing you already have God's favor.
- 00:21:30.072 --> 00:21:32.174
- Come on, somebody.
- 00:21:32.174 --> 00:21:33.809
- I'm preaching.
- 00:21:33.809 --> 00:21:34.676
- Here's the problem.
- 00:21:36.178 --> 00:21:37.546
- While the church is preaching the gospel of Jesus,
- 00:21:37.546 --> 00:21:39.581
- Jesus never one time preached the gospel of Jesus.
- 00:21:39.581 --> 00:21:42.217
- - [Congregation] Come on.
- 00:21:42.217 --> 00:21:43.085
- - Not one time.
- 00:21:44.186 --> 00:21:45.354
- He preached the gospel of the kingdom.
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- - [Congregation] Yes.
- 00:21:46.822 --> 00:21:48.623
- - And we've done a great job
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- at preaching the gospel of Jesus,
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- we've done a pitiful job
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- at preaching the gospel that Jesus preached.
- 00:21:53.962 --> 00:21:56.264
- - [Congregation] Come on.
- 00:21:56.264 --> 00:21:57.766
- - Dwayne, you've been with me several times.
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- We can go into churches, where I'm a speaker,
- 00:22:02.037 --> 00:22:04.506
- where you're a speaker sometimes too.
- 00:22:04.506 --> 00:22:06.041
- We can go in churches and talk about the kingdom,
- 00:22:06.041 --> 00:22:08.110
- and the people in the entire building are clueless.
- 00:22:08.110 --> 00:22:10.212
- - [Dwayne] Yes, sir.
- 00:22:10.212 --> 00:22:11.680
- - Clueless, they look like a calf at a new gate,
- 00:22:11.680 --> 00:22:13.949
- because they've been entertained
- 00:22:15.384 --> 00:22:16.618
- and they know that Jesus saves people.
- 00:22:16.618 --> 00:22:18.120
- Yeah, pastors, pastors look like a calf at a new gate.
- 00:22:18.120 --> 00:22:21.256
- And they'll ask us to come back in the back and say,
- 00:22:21.256 --> 00:22:23.492
- "Tell it," and they start typing.
- 00:22:23.492 --> 00:22:25.260
- And so the only thing Jesus was obsessed with,
- 00:22:26.428 --> 00:22:28.697
- the churches don't ever talk about.
- 00:22:28.697 --> 00:22:30.799
- Jesus couldn't open his mouth, the kingdom,
- 00:22:30.799 --> 00:22:32.267
- the kingdom is like, the kingdom is like.
- 00:22:32.267 --> 00:22:34.102
- The kingdom is like a son, the kingdom is like a coin.
- 00:22:34.102 --> 00:22:36.138
- The kingdom is like the wheat and the tears, and the sheep,
- 00:22:36.138 --> 00:22:38.707
- and kingdom, kingdom, kingdom, kingdom.
- 00:22:38.707 --> 00:22:40.842
- And you get to the church, nothing.
- 00:22:40.842 --> 00:22:42.811
- So Jesus had an obsession.
- 00:22:43.945 --> 00:22:45.480
- I went to years of seminary and never even had a class.
- 00:22:45.480 --> 00:22:48.250
- I don't even had a lecture on the kingdom,
- 00:22:49.951 --> 00:22:52.421
- but you read Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John,
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- it's all Jesus talked about.
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- - [Congregation] Yes, sir.
- 00:22:55.824 --> 00:22:57.325
- - So what is this kingdom and how does it come?
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- Huh!
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- My house shall be called a house of prayer.
- 00:23:01.496 --> 00:23:05.734
- If y'all don't shout with me, I'm going to shout myself down.
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- I'm going to go back there and buy my own CD
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- and shout myself down.
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- God has had three houses.
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- God could not wait to get Israel out of Egypt.
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- And then how dare God?
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- He told a bunch of slaves to give an offering.
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- - [Congregation] Yeah.
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- - How dare God?
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- Taking advantage of those poor people.
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- Those poor people needed that blessing,
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- and he took an offering to build him a tabernacle.
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- Why? Because as soon as he got them out,
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- he wanted to meet with them.
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- And that tabernacle was the place of meeting.
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- So God could not wait after he got them out.
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- He didn't just want to get them out.
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- See, that's what happens, we get people saved.
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- - [Congregation] Come on.
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- - And we pull them out in the wilderness
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- and say, okay, there's some sand out here, enjoy it.
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- But you got to understand there's a promised land, okay?
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- So unless we're taking people into promised land,
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- we have failed in our ultimate attempt
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- of bringing the kingdom into the earth.
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- Are y'all still with me?
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- So God dwelled in the Old Testament tabernacle,
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- which/became the temple.
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- David took an offering to build the temple.
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- He said, "How can I live in a palace,
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- and my God lives in a tent?"
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- And so he took up an offering to build a temple.
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- He gave the greatest offering to date
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- that's ever been given in history
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- up until the multi-billions of dollars, is what David gave.
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- And then God said, "You can't build it,
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- because there's too much blood on your hands."
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- So his son, Solomon, got to build a temple.
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- So God lived in the tabernacle/temple in the Old Testament.
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- Then Jesus came, and the Bible says in Colossians in here.
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- In fact, I think I got it.
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- Did I give you Colossians, the verse in Colossians,
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- maybe chapter two, maybe chapter three,
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- somewhere right in there.
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- Yeah.
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- "For in him dwells the fullness of the Godhead bodily."
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- So when Jesus came, remember, there was a renting of two
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- of the curtain that was in the temple.
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- Why? Because now a curtain could no longer hold him,
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- Jesus in him was the fullness of the Godhead.
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- God the Father, God the Word, and God the Spirit,
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- all walked around in Jesus.
- 00:25:19.501 --> 00:25:20.969
- "And the Word became flesh and dwelled among us,
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- and we beheld the glory,
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- the glory as of the only begotten of the Father."
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- Come on, somebody.
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- Everything in heaven emptied itself
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- and walked in the earth called Jesus.
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- Jesus was not 50-50, Jesus was a hundred-hundred.
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- He was all man, he was all God.
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- He was all flesh, he was all spirit.
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- And in him, all of heaven dwelled.
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- somebody shout amen.
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- Shout amen.
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- - Before we go, I just want to ask you,
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- have you ever accepted Jesus Christ into your heart
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- to be your personal Lord and savior?
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- It's not about church,
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- it's not about a code of conduct, it's not about a religion.
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- It's not even about a belief system.
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- It's about a person, a person who came as the Son of God
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- to pay a horrible price to purchase our salvation,
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- who wants to live on the inside of you,
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- live on the inside of me,
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- be our personal Lord and savior,
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- and be there every time you call on his name
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- and you never have another day alone
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- and never fight another battle alone.
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- That's the Jesus I offer you.
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- What does it cost me, pastor?
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- It's free.
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- It's the gift of grace.
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- If you would like to know him,
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- the prayer goes something like this, Lord, Jesus,
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- I believe you died and rose again for my salvation.
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- I ask you to come into my heart and into my life
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- and be my Lord and savior.
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- I ask you to wash me of my sins.
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- I'm sorry, I ask your forgiveness.
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- I accept your gift of salvation
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- and thank you from this moment forward that I'm saved.
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- In Jesus' name, amen.
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- It just happened.
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- And I got a big smile on my face
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- because I know the journey that just started for you, amen.
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- Please write in, let us know.
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- Please call in, let us know.
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- Write a letter, let us know,
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- Email us, let us know,
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- but we don't want you to make this decision alone.
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- Please tell us.
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- Ah, we're so excited for you.
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- Until next time, God bless.
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