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Crushing Strongholds #22- Part 1-Don't be a Lukewarm Christian. · One Voice Many Conversations

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SPEAKER_00: Hello, everyone.
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SPEAKER_00: Welcome back to Crushing Strongholds.
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SPEAKER_00: This is a podcast where we turn pain into power, trauma into triumph, and a place where we can expose the lies of the enemy.
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SPEAKER_00: And how do we do that?
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SPEAKER_00: We do that by equipping believers in the truth and the grace and the love of Jesus Christ.
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SPEAKER_00: Let me just tell you something.
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SPEAKER_00: Your voice and your testimony, it matters.
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SPEAKER_00: It matters so much.
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SPEAKER_00: It matters in dismantling strongholds.
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SPEAKER_00: When we share what we've been through, the struggles that we've overcome, the strongholds that we've faced, it actually helps other people to step out in faith and start conquering their own strongholds.
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SPEAKER_00: So I'm welcome, I just want to welcome you all in.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm glad that you're all here.
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SPEAKER_00: And today has been an just a crazy day, like total spiritual, you know, battle going on, a warfare going on all around me today.
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SPEAKER_00: And I just want to say that the enemy has to flee.
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SPEAKER_00: It can't bother me at the moment because this is an important message.
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SPEAKER_00: And sometimes the enemy wants to block us from what we want to say or need to say.
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SPEAKER_00: Whatever God lays on your heart, sometimes the enemy will put a put a um a foothold on you and try to keep you from succeeding in the message that God lays on your heart.
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SPEAKER_00: So today I just rebuke the enemy in the name of Jesus, and I am happy that you're here.
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SPEAKER_00: I am Mickey.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm a Christian life coach, and I am your host today.
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SPEAKER_00: So bear with me because I have something really heavy on my heart.
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SPEAKER_00: Like I said, the enemy knows it's been a it's been a battle all morning.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, with technical issues and everything else going on in the world today.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, the enemy is literally trying to take me out today, but that's okay, it's not gonna happen.
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SPEAKER_00: So I'm going to stand my ground because I have faith in God and I know that God wants me to be here today with you and for you.
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SPEAKER_00: So I want to talk about the word Christianity.
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SPEAKER_00: And today's title is called Lukewarm Christianity.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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SPEAKER_00: But before I go too deep in being lukewarm, I want to talk about where the word Christianity derived from.
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SPEAKER_00: Where did it come about from?
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SPEAKER_00: Um, a lot of people go, well, it's kind of obvious, you know, it came from Jesus Christ.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, well, was Jesus Christ a Christian?
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SPEAKER_00: Well, obviously not.
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SPEAKER_00: He wasn't a Christian because he is the Christ.
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SPEAKER_00: He is the one we are following.
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SPEAKER_00: It's his characteristic that we are desiring to live and look up to.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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SPEAKER_00: So obviously he wasn't a Christian.
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SPEAKER_00: No one called Jesus a Christian.
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SPEAKER_00: And it would be weird if they did.
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SPEAKER_00: And I remember reading that one time, and I was like, Wow, you know, it kind of threw me for a loop when somebody said, Well, Jesus was a Christian.
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SPEAKER_00: And I was like, Jesus is the Christian, Jesus is the Christ.
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SPEAKER_00: You know, he's not, you know, he's not following, he's following his father, you know, but he's not following himself.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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SPEAKER_00: So I just wanted to clarify that.
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SPEAKER_00: But let's look in the Bible.
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SPEAKER_00: And if you have your Bibles today, let's get it out.
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SPEAKER_00: Let's talk about Jesus.
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SPEAKER_00: Let's talk about being a Christian, what that um kind of looks like today.
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SPEAKER_00: And um, like I said, forgive me if I'm a little bit rattled and kind of a little bit sporadic because I've had a lot going on this morning where the enemy has been just like literally on my nerves.
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SPEAKER_00: Let's just say that.
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SPEAKER_00: So I don't want to go into depth of that, but we're gonna look in Acts 11:26.
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SPEAKER_00: We're gonna talk about when Christianity first came around.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, where did the word come from?
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SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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SPEAKER_00: Acts 11.26 says, and when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch.
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SPEAKER_00: So it was so it was that for a whole year they assembled with the church and taught a great many people.
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SPEAKER_00: And the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.
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SPEAKER_00: Now I want to talk about that a little bit because a lot of people might think, you know, oh, that's that's a good term.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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SPEAKER_00: Honestly, the word Christian came from non-believers, people that didn't believe in Jesus.
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SPEAKER_00: They were kind of mocking it.
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SPEAKER_00: And um they were like, Oh, you're a Christian, you you know, you follow the Christ, and you know how people can be obnoxious and and and talk that way.
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SPEAKER_00: I I could only imagine it when I was doing my research on this and how this city is so diverse, and um where it became a huge city, actually, it's it's so pivotal.
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SPEAKER_00: This this city is crazy.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, where the disciples were teaching on being a Christian, um, what they did is they set the example for what a Christian would look like.
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SPEAKER_00: And the people that were non-Christians in Antioch would be mocking them.
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SPEAKER_00: They'd be like, Oh, you're just a oh, you're a Christian, you're one of those, huh?
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SPEAKER_00: You're one of those.
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SPEAKER_00: And I have to ask you this: how many times has somebody said that to you when you say, I'm a Christian?
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SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna tell you, I've I've heard it.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh, really?
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SPEAKER_00: You're a Christian?
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SPEAKER_00: You're a Christian?
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SPEAKER_00: You think you're a Christian?
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SPEAKER_00: They they will say that to you.
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SPEAKER_00: And I'm gonna tell you something, when people say that, if you say that to someone, stop.
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SPEAKER_00: Stop it.
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SPEAKER_00: Don't do that to somebody, okay?
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SPEAKER_00: Um, for for one, for two, if you are a Christian, we we are gonna get persecuted just like Jesus did.
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SPEAKER_00: And and it says Jesus was hated first, and he's the Christ.
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SPEAKER_00: So if they're gonna hate Jesus, they're gonna hate Christians, okay?
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SPEAKER_00: So if they're not following Jesus, like the the um non-believers in Antioch, they were making fun of the Christians.
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SPEAKER_00: That's where the word Christianity came from, that's where Christians came from.
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SPEAKER_00: But it's kind of fun because it became an honorable term.
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SPEAKER_00: Christians were like, I am I am following Jesus.
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SPEAKER_00: I am a Christian.
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SPEAKER_00: Go ahead and call me a Christian all day long if you want to.
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SPEAKER_00: It's okay.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna stay a Christian.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, they didn't budge, and the term grew and grew and grew.
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SPEAKER_00: And let me show you why.
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SPEAKER_00: I want to, this is so cool when I think about this, because this is why the term grew the way it did.
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SPEAKER_00: And it started with the disciples.
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SPEAKER_00: Jesus had 12 disciples, and yes, a lot of them fled and and went to other parts of the nation to teach Jesus, okay?
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SPEAKER_00: They were teaching Jesus, and you know, the word Christian in in the Greek means um uh means Christ's men, okay, or followers of Christ.
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SPEAKER_00: That's what it actually means in the Greek language, okay?
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SPEAKER_00: So a lot of the uh Herodians and um which were those that were following Herod, okay, Agrippa Hera the first, okay, they were following him.
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SPEAKER_00: Um they were not following Jesus, okay.
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SPEAKER_00: So having that in mind, I want to look at why it became such an honorable term that we use still today.
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SPEAKER_00: And I don't know if you know this, but the word Christian Christians, excuse me, not Christianity, Christians, has been mentioned only three times in the Bible.
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SPEAKER_00: And I actually was very surprised about this because I thought it was gonna be all throughout, especially the New Testament.
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SPEAKER_00: Obviously, we're not gonna see it in the Old Testament because Jesus hadn't come yet.
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SPEAKER_00: So if you go to look up the word Christian and you go to the Old Testament and you don't find it, please don't be surprised.
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SPEAKER_00: It's really not gonna be in there.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, it's after Christ, and it was actually after Christ's death that this um term came about, not even when Jesus was on the earth, it came after Jesus' death, okay?
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SPEAKER_00: Um, because the disciples were upholding where Jesus when Jesus died and left, they were upholding that.
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SPEAKER_00: They were staying right there, they were still following Christ even after Christ's death, and that's so important that you understand that.
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SPEAKER_00: So as a disciple of Christ, Christian means also disciple, like a pupil, a student, someone that follows after somebody that wants to be like them.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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SPEAKER_00: The one thing about Jesus, though, we want to follow after Christ and be like Christ and not like anyone else.
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SPEAKER_00: Now I know a lot of people that have idols.
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SPEAKER_00: If you have an idol and you're like, oh man, when I grow up, I want to be just like them.
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SPEAKER_00: I want to be just like them.
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SPEAKER_00: And and I I get it because I've had idols.
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SPEAKER_00: Or let's say you had a favorite teacher in school.
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SPEAKER_00: I've had a couple of favorite teachers, some I could, you know, leave leave behind, some I really, really liked.
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SPEAKER_00: And I was like, oh man, when I grow up, I want to be a teacher because they were just good at what they did.
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SPEAKER_00: They taught, um, they were come, you know, they had the passion to be a teacher.
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SPEAKER_00: They actually did what they were supposed to do.
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SPEAKER_00: They taught.
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SPEAKER_00: Um so I would look up to them, and they were they became important people in my life.
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SPEAKER_00: And I'd be, I want to be just like them.
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SPEAKER_00: I want to be just like them.
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SPEAKER_00: I want to be just like them.
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SPEAKER_00: And um, growing up, I never wanted to be me.
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SPEAKER_00: I wanted to be somebody else.
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SPEAKER_00: So um, I was following after something, but it should have been Jesus.
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SPEAKER_00: It should have been Jesus.
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SPEAKER_00: So to be a Christian is to to follow Christ.
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SPEAKER_00: And what does that mean?
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SPEAKER_00: It means to also act like Christ.
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SPEAKER_00: So, how do we do that?
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SPEAKER_00: How do we act like Jesus?
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, we don't just, if you're a non-believer and you don't go to church and you've never really heard any of the teachings, any of the teachings in this word from Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, any of these teachings.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, even before, you know, I mean, of course, Jesus came the New Testament, but you know, he's even talked about in the in the Old Testament, but in the Gospels, if you don't know anything about this and you become a Christian, let's say you get saved and you want this, you don't know what it is, you want it.
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SPEAKER_00: How are you gonna act like Jesus if you don't know?
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SPEAKER_00: How are you gonna act like Jesus if you honestly do not know how to act like Jesus?
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SPEAKER_00: Well, how do you act like Jesus?
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SPEAKER_00: You study Jesus.
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SPEAKER_00: Jesus.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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SPEAKER_00: I had to spend a lot of time, stop being Martha, and act like Mary, and and sit at the feet of Jesus and start reading his word.
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SPEAKER_00: And I literally was devouring it.
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SPEAKER_00: And the more I read it, the hungrier I got.
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SPEAKER_00: My appetite for the Lord was amazing.
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SPEAKER_00: It was amazing.
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SPEAKER_00: And at first, it was confusing.
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SPEAKER_00: I was confused.
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SPEAKER_00: And then as God started showing me stuff in my life and nudging me and pointing me into different directions, I was like, I wanted to be more and more like Jesus.
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SPEAKER_00: I wanted to learn how to be more obedient, I wanted to learn how to be more compassionate.
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SPEAKER_00: So, what does it look like to act like Jesus?
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, Jesus had a specific type of behavior, okay.
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SPEAKER_00: He literally didn't sin.
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SPEAKER_00: And see, we were automatically born into sin, although we were given free will.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, but God gave us a free will, but he wanted us to stand up to our flesh, he wanted us to overcome that and be obedient to God and and follow Jesus, okay?
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SPEAKER_00: Excuse me.
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SPEAKER_00: Like I said, I know it's gonna be tested today.
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SPEAKER_00: Anyway, so what does it look like to follow and act like Jesus?
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SPEAKER_00: Well, one, Jesus was not only the Messiah, a lot of people didn't even know he was the Messiah.
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SPEAKER_00: People didn't even recognize him as the mess the Messiah.
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SPEAKER_00: But he lived a life of love and compassion everywhere he went.
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SPEAKER_00: Everywhere he went.
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SPEAKER_00: Love and compassion.
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SPEAKER_00: That's why it's so important that when we talk about um the commandments, you know, it says, love your neighbor as yourself.
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SPEAKER_00: You know, first we love God and then we love our love our neighbor as ourselves.
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SPEAKER_00: We we have no other God but God.
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SPEAKER_00: And so Jesus did this.
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SPEAKER_00: Jesus literally showed this by example in everything he did.
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SPEAKER_00: Everything he did out of love and compassion.
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SPEAKER_00: That's one way to act like Jesus.
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SPEAKER_00: So if you don't know today how to actually act like Jesus, I'm gonna share a little bit with you.
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SPEAKER_00: And this is gonna this is gonna get deep, and we're gonna continue to go through this as I as I talk about it because it's really, really been on my heart.
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SPEAKER_00: And I'm gonna tell you the truth right now.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm so transparent today.
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SPEAKER_00: I didn't always act like Jesus.
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SPEAKER_00: I acted like a fool.
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SPEAKER_00: I made a lot of grave mistakes in my life.
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SPEAKER_00: I've hurt a lot of people.
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SPEAKER_00: I've followed the wrong people, I've listened to the wrong people, I've challenged the wrong people.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, and I used to be so ashamed of it that I used to run away from God because I used to think that He would not love me anymore because of that.
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SPEAKER_00: And that was put on me by a lot of people that said, You're not a Christian.
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SPEAKER_00: You're not a Christian if you do these things.
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SPEAKER_00: You're not.
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SPEAKER_00: There's no way you're a Christian if you've done this.
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SPEAKER_00: If you spoke like that or you acted like that, or if you sinned like this, if if if you went out and um you went out with your friends and you had a drink, you're no longer a Christian.
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SPEAKER_00: You lost your Christianity.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay?
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SPEAKER_00: And and there's times when you get to make that choice, even as a Christian.
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SPEAKER_00: I know a lot of Christians that actually go out and drink.
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SPEAKER_00: I don't um I don't want to tell them to do it or not do it.
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SPEAKER_00: They need to have that conviction for themselves.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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SPEAKER_00: How they act.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, I had a lot of relationships out of marriage after my divorce because I never wanted to get married again because I was so afraid of getting hurt that um I wasn't gonna allow that wall to come down.
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SPEAKER_00: And I decided that um a couple years ago, um, God really got on me and said, You're not doing this anymore.
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SPEAKER_00: You're not living this lifestyle.
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SPEAKER_00: The reason you're never gonna find another husband with the heart posture that you're carrying, because for one, you're carrying over all of that hurt onto somebody else.
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SPEAKER_00: And for two, you need to first heal from what you've been hurt from before you can step into another relationship.
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SPEAKER_00: You need to know what it's like to be single, you need to know what it's like to love yourself so that someone else can love you.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, so there was a lot there, but I was, you know, having relationships out of marriage, so I was committing adultery, and that's a huge sin.
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SPEAKER_00: That is a huge sin.
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SPEAKER_00: And so I thought I couldn't be forgiven for that.
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SPEAKER_00: And I carried a lot of shame and guilt because of that.
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SPEAKER_00: And then I decided I'm not gonna be that person anymore, and now I don't.
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SPEAKER_00: I just I just don't, and I won't until I get married again.
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SPEAKER_00: And if I get married again, then um, you know, I know God will bring joy in that relationship and that that covenant that that we have with marriage.
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SPEAKER_00: Anyhow, love and compassion.
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SPEAKER_00: Now, also, how do we act like Jesus?
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SPEAKER_00: We embrace our identity in who we are in Christ.
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SPEAKER_00: Who are we in Christ and who is Christ in us?
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SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, it is a huge, huge, significant identity marker, okay, to be like Christ.
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SPEAKER_00: You know, I want to be like Christ, and I want I want Christ to know that I strive to to live every day more like Jesus.
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SPEAKER_00: Remember that what would Jesus do?
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SPEAKER_00: The WWJD, what would Jesus do?
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SPEAKER_00: What would Jesus do?
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SPEAKER_00: You know, we we need to strive to be like Jesus every single day.
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SPEAKER_00: That's another way that we can um call ourselves Christians, okay?
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SPEAKER_00: If we're following what Jesus did and we do what Jesus did, and um we adhere to his characteristic through his love and his compassion, our identity, we won't be questioning it because our identity will lie lie with him with Jesus, okay?
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SPEAKER_00: We we will know who we are in Christ.
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SPEAKER_00: Also, we need to um um demonstrate the faith.
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SPEAKER_00: Jesus had faith, he healed, he had did he performed miracle after miracle, he healed people, he rose people from the dead.
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SPEAKER_00: We are supposed to demonstrate that kind of faith.
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SPEAKER_00: And I've heard people say, I can't do that, I'm not Jesus.
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SPEAKER_00: No, you're not, but do you have Jesus inside of you?
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SPEAKER_00: Are you a Christian?
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SPEAKER_00: If you're questioning whether you can demonstrate that faith, it's because you don't have enough faith in Jesus and what he's given you.
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SPEAKER_00: He went to the cross for you, he died for you, he loves you so much that he had enough faith in humanity to take on all of our wretched sin from this world and bear it on the cross so that he so that we could be who God created us to be in God's given purpose for our life.
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SPEAKER_00: Isn't that amazing when you think about it?
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SPEAKER_00: So I want to talk about one more thing before I get sidetracked.
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SPEAKER_00: Um Agrippa, Herod Agrippa the first, okay.
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SPEAKER_00: Um he was um descendant from David.
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SPEAKER_00: Any anyway, anyway, hold on.
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SPEAKER_00: I know what it is, I just have to read it.
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SPEAKER_00: Um he was a king who heard the apostle Paul's defense um of his faith.
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SPEAKER_00: So he was listening to Paul preach.
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SPEAKER_00: Paul was preaching, and um Paul gave a really good testimony, and Agrippa approached Paul and said, Your testimony was so good, um, I am seriously persuaded into becoming a Christian.
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SPEAKER_00: How do I do that?
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SPEAKER_00: And um, like I said, a lot of people followed um Agrippa, Herod, Her Herod Agrippa, okay.
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SPEAKER_00: His first name is Herod, okay.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, they followed him, and um which is a good thing because Agrippa listened to Paul and Paul persuaded him um to become a Christian.
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SPEAKER_00: Praise God, right?
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SPEAKER_00: I mean, so Antioch became this huge city um uh around Christianity, and we're gonna talk about that in the next episode because I really want to stay focused on the word Christian.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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SPEAKER_00: Um I could go several different directions if I want to with this, but I want to talk about um again what it means to be a Christian.
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SPEAKER_00: In 1 Peter 4, 16, it says, However, if you suffer as a Christian, do not be ashamed, but praise God that you bear that name, the name Christian.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, because remember, like I said, they hated Jesus first.
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SPEAKER_00: Then they're gonna hate Christians next.
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SPEAKER_00: So all non-believers are gonna hate Christians.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, that's just that's just how it is, I guess.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, so when Christians are being hated on, we're gonna go through some suffering.
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SPEAKER_00: Some of the hate that we're gonna receive is gonna be people that we love and care about.
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SPEAKER_00: Our own family, our own children, our friends.
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SPEAKER_00: People in our church, even that aren't really walking the way Jesus wants us to walk.
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SPEAKER_00: They're not walking that direction.
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SPEAKER_00: They're saying they're a Christian, but they never read the gospel.
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SPEAKER_00: So you gotta read the gospel.
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SPEAKER_00: You gotta get in there and you gotta know and learn who Jesus Christ is.
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SPEAKER_00: Don't call yourself a Christian and say that you're following Christ if you're really not following Christ.
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SPEAKER_00: Now that doesn't mean you become perfect and sin-free.
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SPEAKER_00: You're never ever gonna sin again.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm I'm so tired of people that are like, oh, you can't say you follow Jesus, you're a sinner.
20:54
SPEAKER_00: You know what?
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SPEAKER_00: I was a sinner, and now I'm saved by grace.
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SPEAKER_00: So you can eat those words just as just as fast as I can.
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SPEAKER_00: And I refuse to call myself a sinner any longer because sin was taken to the cross that day when Jesus died, and I accepted Jesus as my Lord and Savior, and you can too.
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SPEAKER_00: You can too, my friends.
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SPEAKER_00: I want you to understand, Jesus came to save people from their sins.
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SPEAKER_00: They are saved.
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SPEAKER_00: If you accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior into your heart, you follow after him, you read his word, and you start to let it penetrate into your heart.
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SPEAKER_00: I had a very, very ugly, hardened heart because of some of the hurt that happened in my life.
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SPEAKER_00: I didn't know how to overcome it.
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SPEAKER_00: That stronghold kept me hostage for way too long.
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SPEAKER_00: I literally was in a pit of hate, a pit of fear and a pit of discouragement, and I couldn't get past it.
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SPEAKER_00: I didn't know how.
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SPEAKER_00: I did not know how until I sat at the feet of Jesus.
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SPEAKER_00: Jesus walked me out of that pit.
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SPEAKER_00: He kind of pushed me a few times, Mlack Allah.
22:09
SPEAKER_00: He had pushed me.
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SPEAKER_00: Like, I mean, it's okay.
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SPEAKER_00: He pushed me a few times.
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SPEAKER_00: Let's just be real.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, but still, he got me out of a place where I did not belong.
22:18
SPEAKER_00: And I'm thankful because I could have died there.
22:22
SPEAKER_00: There's times when I should have died there.
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SPEAKER_00: There's times when I tried to take my own life there.
22:30
SPEAKER_00: But see, Jesus loved me so much that he kept hanging on to me.
22:37
SPEAKER_00: You know what they say?
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SPEAKER_00: Jesus will leave the 99 and go for the one.
22:42
SPEAKER_00: And every one of us, I think, can relate to being that one at least once in your lifetime.
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SPEAKER_00: Me, it was many times.
22:48
SPEAKER_00: I mean, Jesus was probably like shaking his head, like, how many times do I got to do this?
22:51
SPEAKER_00: Would you knock it off already?
22:53
SPEAKER_00: And um, you know, we we we tend to be habit formed and we run back to what we think is our comfort zone when it's really not, it's the danger zone.
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SPEAKER_00: And that's gonna be another episode too, later.
23:06
SPEAKER_00: So, anyhow, back to the word Christian.
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SPEAKER_00: Why do we talk about being lukewarm?
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, for one, as we're suffering and being persecuted as a Christian, if we're claiming to be a Christian, okay, we're not to be ashamed of it.
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SPEAKER_00: Do not be ashamed, but praise God that you bear that name.
23:37
SPEAKER_00: My name is Christian.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay.
23:40
SPEAKER_00: Now, there's times I didn't want to be a Christian because I was seeing Christians not be Christians.
23:47
SPEAKER_00: And honestly, that was me.
23:49
SPEAKER_00: And that's where we're gonna get into the next part of this um this topic today.
23:53
SPEAKER_00: And I'm gonna dive in real fast because it's not even hard, it's not even long.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, so when you become a Christian, you get saved, you need to become dedicated to following Jesus.
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SPEAKER_00: Don't just speak it, say it, and then continue on with what you're doing.
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SPEAKER_00: Go and be a dedicated follower of Jesus.
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SPEAKER_00: Go follow Jesus, follow after him, desire him.
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SPEAKER_00: Want to be like Jesus.
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SPEAKER_00: All of those idols out there that you want to be like.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh, I want to do that.
24:29
SPEAKER_00: I want to, I want to be better, I want to be like her, I want to be like him, I want to be a rock and roll star.
24:35
SPEAKER_00: I want to be a famous athlete.
24:38
SPEAKER_00: I want to be a huge rich entrepreneur, a business owner with thousands and millions of whatever dollars, you know, all of that is great.
24:46
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
24:47
SPEAKER_00: It's okay to have dreams, but look at it through the way Jesus would do it.
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SPEAKER_00: Follow Jesus in that.
24:55
SPEAKER_00: He's gonna help you.
24:57
SPEAKER_00: It's okay to want to have things, but don't follow people.
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SPEAKER_00: Follow Jesus, be dedicated.
25:04
SPEAKER_00: He is a very particular teacher, and his teachings and lifestyle become in a Christian term, basically um, he's our savior.
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SPEAKER_00: He's saving us from ourselves.
25:25
SPEAKER_00: He, you know, obviously the sin already.
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SPEAKER_00: He already took the sin, but he's saving us from ourselves, and he's also taking us into eternity.
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SPEAKER_00: He's saving us from hell.
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SPEAKER_00: Hell.
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SPEAKER_00: Something people don't like to talk about.
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SPEAKER_00: The H E, you know, double hockey stick word.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh, don't say that word.
25:44
SPEAKER_00: Oh, don't threaten me with the word hell.
25:47
SPEAKER_00: It's not a threat, honey.
25:49
SPEAKER_00: It's not a threat.
25:50
SPEAKER_00: I'm not threatening nobody, but y'all can read the word, and hell is a real place.
25:55
SPEAKER_00: So is the lake of fire.
25:56
SPEAKER_00: And I'm not gonna dive into that today because that is a whole nother series for later on.
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SPEAKER_00: But just know that you need to um be thankful that Jesus saved you from that place.
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SPEAKER_00: So follow him.
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SPEAKER_00: If you follow him, you're not gonna fall off the edge.
26:15
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
26:15
SPEAKER_00: Now let's talk about being um lukewarm, okay.
26:19
SPEAKER_00: And the reason why I want to talk about being lukewarm is because a lot of Christians, um their faith is very apathetic.
26:31
SPEAKER_00: Very apathetic.
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SPEAKER_00: And if you don't know what that means, it means um, oh yeah, I'm a Christian, but you're not enthusiastic about it.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, you show no feeling, actually, no interest in it.
26:45
SPEAKER_00: A lot of people, are you a Christian?
26:47
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I'm Christian.
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SPEAKER_00: You lack concern.
26:52
SPEAKER_00: That's huge.
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SPEAKER_00: You lack concern if you're lukewarm.
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SPEAKER_00: Because we are not to be lukewarm, we are not to be apathetic when it comes to being followers of Christ.
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SPEAKER_00: When we say we are Christians, we need to be serious.
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SPEAKER_00: We need to be concerned, not worrisome, concerned.
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SPEAKER_00: When we speak about Jesus, we need to make sure we're doing it correctly.
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SPEAKER_00: We're not to, we're not to be blasphemous, we're not to make a mockery, we're not to make fun of, we're not to use him as a curse word.
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SPEAKER_00: Lord forgive me, because I I've done all those things.
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SPEAKER_00: I've done all of those that I just explained to you.
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SPEAKER_00: And I had to learn that by reading his word.
27:38
SPEAKER_00: I lived around people that the only words out of their mouth were blasphemous words.
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SPEAKER_00: They weren't even curse words, they were blasphemous words of mockery towards God and Jesus Christ.
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SPEAKER_00: And I just would say it because I was around it and it became a habit.
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SPEAKER_00: And then when I tried, when I started learning about it, and I was like, oh, I can't, oh, don't say that.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh my gosh.
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SPEAKER_00: Or if I hear it on, like if I hear it on TV, I'll change the channel.
28:06
SPEAKER_00: I'll stop watching a movie now if I hear it.
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SPEAKER_00: Because my heart is convicted, because I know what they're saying, and it's wrong.
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SPEAKER_00: It's dishonoring.
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SPEAKER_00: They should they show no um enthusiasm or emotion or feeling, and they don't even lack concern in saying it.
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SPEAKER_00: And boy, the Lord does not like it.
28:26
SPEAKER_00: He does not take it lightly when you say his name in vain.
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SPEAKER_00: So if that's you, even as a Christian, I know a lot of Christians that curse.
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SPEAKER_00: A lot of them.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh, I'm a Christian, walk out the door, you blank it, blank, blank, blank it.
28:40
SPEAKER_00: I mean, I've done it.
28:41
SPEAKER_00: I mean, I'm not gonna lie, I've done it.
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SPEAKER_00: So make sure that you're not apathetic.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay.
28:52
SPEAKER_00: You need to not be lukewarm.
28:53
SPEAKER_00: So I want to share this scripture with you, okay?
28:58
SPEAKER_00: Okay, because um the spiritual lukewarmness, it's condemned.
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SPEAKER_00: And let's look at Revelations 3, 15, and 16 real quick.
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SPEAKER_00: I want to read this to you, and then we're gonna wrap this up.
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SPEAKER_00: I know this was long, and um I know I missed a few things.
29:16
SPEAKER_00: There's some things I wanted to say I didn't say, and there's some things that I, you know, are probably okay with not saying.
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SPEAKER_00: But Revelations 3, 15, 16 says, I know your deeds that you are neither cold nor hot.
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SPEAKER_00: I wish you were either one or the other.
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SPEAKER_00: So because you are lukewarm, neither hot nor cold, I am about to spit you out of my mouth.
29:43
SPEAKER_00: He's gonna spit you out.
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SPEAKER_00: God will spit you out.
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SPEAKER_00: We are not not to be lukewarm Christians.
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SPEAKER_00: He would rather you not be a Christian at all than to be a fake Christian.
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SPEAKER_00: Because when you say you're a Christian and you don't act like one, that's blasphemous.
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SPEAKER_00: You're mocking Jesus Christ, you're mocking God.
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SPEAKER_00: When you're a Christian and you use his name in vain, that's that it's horrible.
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SPEAKER_00: And God has convicted me so much of this lately that literally I it's weird, but now I hear it all the time from people and I'm like, oh, oh, you know, and I kind of, you know, I don't want to just jump on them and be like, hey, don't say that.
30:32
SPEAKER_00: You know, don't say that.
30:33
SPEAKER_00: And um, I haven't quite learned how to approach people that are saying it all the time around me because I don't want to hear it anymore either.
30:40
SPEAKER_00: I don't want to hear people cursing and mocking my Lord and Savior.
30:44
SPEAKER_00: He died for me, he went to the cross for me.
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SPEAKER_00: How dare I speak of him so like like garbage, like trash.
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SPEAKER_00: When you talk like that and you curse him and you speak his name in vain, that is horrible.
30:57
SPEAKER_00: We need to stop doing that.
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SPEAKER_00: We need to stop being lukewarm.
31:03
SPEAKER_00: If you want to be a Christian, pick up this Bible.
31:09
SPEAKER_00: Read about Jesus, who he is, what he did, how he acted, how he loved, his compassion, his faith, how he demonstrated faith, his miracles.
31:22
SPEAKER_00: All of the stuff Jesus has for us as disciples.
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SPEAKER_00: When you're a Christian, you become a disciple.
31:33
SPEAKER_00: That means you're being willing to be taught by Jesus Christ and his word.
31:39
SPEAKER_00: So I don't know where you're at today.
31:41
SPEAKER_00: I don't know where you're at.
31:43
SPEAKER_00: I know where I've been, and I haven't been in the best place.
31:47
SPEAKER_00: Okay?
31:48
SPEAKER_00: I haven't been in the best places.
31:50
SPEAKER_00: I've allowed myself to adhere to the world instead of adhering to Jesus Christ.
31:57
SPEAKER_00: And I've had to get on my knees and my face, and I've had to literally bugger cry and get it out because um man, did I have to repent.
32:10
SPEAKER_00: And I had to repent.
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SPEAKER_00: And I had to ask for help because I kept catching myself doing over and over again.
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SPEAKER_00: And I was like, Lord, why can't I stop this habit?
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SPEAKER_00: What is this?
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SPEAKER_00: Help me, help me to be strong enough to get past this habit.
32:28
SPEAKER_00: Okay, we all have bad habits.
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SPEAKER_00: I don't care what it is.
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SPEAKER_00: There's people that drink, there's people that smoke, there's people that have sex out of marriage, there's people that curse, there's people that eat food all day long, and they just peg out, peg out, peg out, peg out, peg out, peg out.
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SPEAKER_00: Even if they're full, they just eat because they want to eat.
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SPEAKER_00: You know, that's their comfort zone.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay.
32:48
SPEAKER_00: There's there's people that do all kinds of stuff out of habit.
32:56
SPEAKER_00: And we shouldn't be doing that.
32:58
SPEAKER_00: Our body is a temple.
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SPEAKER_00: When Jesus comes and lives inside of you, your temple is supposed to represent Jesus.
33:10
SPEAKER_00: And now I get it.
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SPEAKER_00: Don't get me wrong.
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SPEAKER_00: And please don't think that I'm condemning or shaming anyone because I am first to tell you, my temple, I mean, when Jesus came in, I had to rearrange furniture, I had a clean house.
33:25
SPEAKER_00: And I'm still cleaning house because I'm still finding stuff in my own house that needs to be worked on.
33:32
SPEAKER_00: I'm constantly in the remodel mode.
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SPEAKER_00: And that's okay.
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SPEAKER_00: Because Jesus knows that I'm doing it because I want to be more like him.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna, I'm gonna come across some stuff that I need to work on.
33:48
SPEAKER_00: And sometimes I'm gonna, I'm just gonna get sidetracked and I'm gonna step back into my old habit and I'm gonna do something.
33:54
SPEAKER_00: I'm like, oh man, I did it again.
33:55
SPEAKER_00: I did it again.
33:57
SPEAKER_00: I used to get so mad at myself, mad.
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SPEAKER_00: I've just beat myself up for days, weeks even, if I would do something over and over again and I couldn't get past it.
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SPEAKER_00: Like, man, I'm such a failure, I'm such a loser.
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SPEAKER_00: Christ isn't gonna forgive me.
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SPEAKER_00: I can't stop this habit.
34:15
SPEAKER_00: Christ has already forgiven you.
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SPEAKER_00: He knows what you're going through and he wants to go through it with you.
34:20
SPEAKER_00: By the way, whatever mess you're in, he wants to be right in the middle of it with you.
34:26
SPEAKER_00: Don't wait until you clean up your act to call on God.
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SPEAKER_00: Call on him now.
34:32
SPEAKER_00: By the way, time is running out.
34:34
SPEAKER_00: We are living in the end times.
34:37
SPEAKER_00: We are getting so close, so close to Jesus' return.
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SPEAKER_00: He's about to call some people home.
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SPEAKER_00: He's about to raise the dead.
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SPEAKER_00: And I know we don't know the day or the hour, but there's a lot of teachings on it.
34:55
SPEAKER_00: A lot of teachings on it.
34:57
SPEAKER_00: Look it up.
34:57
SPEAKER_00: It's it's it's it's been broadcasted lately so much that it really is an epiphany.
35:04
SPEAKER_00: And it should be an eye-opener to you and your heart.
35:07
SPEAKER_00: And you better get right with God.
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SPEAKER_00: Nobody on this earth is gonna save you from hell.
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SPEAKER_00: Only Jesus.
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SPEAKER_00: Only Jesus.
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SPEAKER_00: And he wants you in heaven with him.
35:20
SPEAKER_00: He wants you wearing fine linen.
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SPEAKER_00: He doesn't want you to have to go through the tribulation.
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SPEAKER_00: He doesn't want you to have to get persecuted.
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SPEAKER_00: He wants to take you up with him.
35:32
SPEAKER_00: And that's coming.
35:35
SPEAKER_00: The end is coming.
35:38
SPEAKER_00: And he doesn't want us to worry or be afraid of it because if you are a follower of Jesus Christ and you are a Christian like you say you are, then you don't have nothing to worry about.
35:48
SPEAKER_00: We're not supposed to sit around and worry about it.
35:50
SPEAKER_00: We're supposed to be telling people about Jesus so they can get they can get saved.
35:53
SPEAKER_00: We're supposed to be taking this word of word, this gospel, and sharing it abroad.
35:59
SPEAKER_00: Get into the gospels.
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SPEAKER_00: Read Matthew, Mark, Luke, John.
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SPEAKER_00: Read it, read it, read it, read it for yourselves.
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SPEAKER_00: Get it in your heart.
36:05
SPEAKER_00: Call on Jesus.
36:06
SPEAKER_00: And if you don't know Jesus today, I want to I want to do this with you.
36:10
SPEAKER_00: I want to do this because it's so important.
36:12
SPEAKER_00: I want to talk to you about the prayer, okay?
36:17
SPEAKER_00: And a lot of people call it the sinner's prayer.
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SPEAKER_00: I call it the prayer of salvation.
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SPEAKER_00: It's the prayer that that leads us into salvation and eternal life.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay.
36:27
SPEAKER_00: And if you do not know Jesus today, I hope that you come to know him right now in this moment.
36:34
SPEAKER_00: So I want to let's just let's let's pray, because I'm just I'm just feeling it.
36:38
SPEAKER_00: I feel the Holy Spirit saying, now's the time.
36:41
SPEAKER_00: Now's the time to pray.
36:42
SPEAKER_00: So let's just pray.
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SPEAKER_00: Heavenly Father God, Lord, Lord God, I'm a sinner.
36:49
SPEAKER_00: I'm a sinner saved by your grace, Lord.
36:51
SPEAKER_00: And I know, Lord, that you came to this earth.
36:54
SPEAKER_00: You came to this earth as a baby, and you were the Messiah.
36:58
SPEAKER_00: And you and you took on all of the weight and the sins and and everything of the world.
37:05
SPEAKER_00: And you took it to the cross that day.
37:08
SPEAKER_00: You took all of our sin to the cross that day so that we could be free.
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SPEAKER_00: So that we could be free.
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SPEAKER_00: Because you knew, and God knew that we could not free ourselves, but you could come and do it.
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SPEAKER_00: And you did.
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SPEAKER_00: You took it to the cross today.
37:20
SPEAKER_00: And Lord, I just ask that you just forgive me and Lord, help anybody that's listening to this prayer right now, right now, Lord, that you change their hearts.
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SPEAKER_00: You change their hearts and understand what you did for them.
37:35
SPEAKER_00: And where all of this goes, Lord.
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SPEAKER_00: I thank you for eternal life.
37:41
SPEAKER_00: Lord, I just ask that you forgive me of my sins.
37:44
SPEAKER_00: I repent, Lord, and help me every day, help me every day to grow and be a follower of you, Lord.
37:50
SPEAKER_00: Lord, I just ask that you come into my heart, you take away my sin, and that you take me to heaven with you when the time comes.
38:01
SPEAKER_00: Lord, I just thank you.
38:02
SPEAKER_00: I thank you for dying on that cross for me.
38:04
SPEAKER_00: Lord, I believe in you.
38:05
SPEAKER_00: And I just ask that you just help me to share your word for the time that I have left here on earth.
38:14
SPEAKER_00: And Lord, help me not to be selfish.
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SPEAKER_00: Help me to have love and compassion and faith and demonstrate the person that you are, Lord.
38:22
SPEAKER_00: And I thank you, Lord.
38:23
SPEAKER_00: I thank you, thank you, thank you for dying on the cross for me.
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SPEAKER_00: Thank you for saving my life.
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SPEAKER_00: In Jesus' name I pray.
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SPEAKER_00: Amen.
38:32
SPEAKER_00: If you prayed that prayer today, if you prayed, and you asked Jesus into your heart, he's there.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay?
38:42
SPEAKER_00: He's everywhere, but he's there now.
38:45
SPEAKER_00: He's he's inside of you.
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SPEAKER_00: In you.
38:51
SPEAKER_00: Doesn't matter what your temple looks like right now.
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SPEAKER_00: Now that you have Jesus, talk to him.
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SPEAKER_00: He's your savior.
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SPEAKER_00: Talk to him.
39:04
SPEAKER_00: Develop a relationship with him.
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SPEAKER_00: Learn who he is.
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SPEAKER_00: Have a desire to act like him and follow him.
39:13
SPEAKER_00: Jesus should be your best friend.
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SPEAKER_00: And I have a I have a couple of really good best friends.
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SPEAKER_00: And I'm not trying to trade them in or anything because I love them.
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SPEAKER_00: I love them dearly.
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SPEAKER_00: I love my best friend with all my heart.
39:26
SPEAKER_00: And um, she knows it too.
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SPEAKER_00: But I love Jesus, and I share Jesus with her all the time.
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SPEAKER_00: We talk about it.
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SPEAKER_00: Our friendship is is is we are both knowing who Jesus is.
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SPEAKER_00: Make a relationship with him.
39:45
SPEAKER_00: You don't have a relationship with him.
39:47
SPEAKER_00: Don't just don't just pray a prayer and then walk off and act like, okay, I'm safe now.
39:52
SPEAKER_00: Everything's good.
39:53
SPEAKER_00: I'm saved now.
39:54
SPEAKER_00: I don't have to do anything.
39:58
SPEAKER_00: And let me tell you this: when you get saved, the enemy is gonna come after you.
40:03
SPEAKER_00: I know that doesn't sound fun, does it?
40:06
SPEAKER_00: I wish somebody would have told me that years ago.
40:08
SPEAKER_00: I got saved when I was 10 years old, and let me tell you, I've been running from the enemy for many years.
40:11
SPEAKER_00: And sometimes I just went and sat with him because, you know, he caught me.
40:15
SPEAKER_00: I'm like, I'm just gonna, I'm just gonna stay here for a minute.
40:18
SPEAKER_00: Thank God God was protecting me, kept pulling me back, pulling me back, and and grabbing me and bringing me back to where I needed to be.
40:24
SPEAKER_00: And people would say during those times that I did that, people would say, You weren't a Christian.
40:28
SPEAKER_00: You weren't a Christian, you weren't a Christian.
40:30
SPEAKER_00: Yes, I was.
40:31
SPEAKER_00: I was a Christian.
40:33
SPEAKER_00: Because my Savior went and died on a cross for me.
40:35
SPEAKER_00: And guess what?
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SPEAKER_00: He's already dropped the charges.
40:37
SPEAKER_00: And so nobody can hold that over you anymore.
40:40
SPEAKER_00: They don't get to hold those charges on you anymore.
40:43
SPEAKER_00: Only God can.
40:44
SPEAKER_00: God's gonna be the ultimate judge.
40:46
SPEAKER_00: We're gonna face him.
40:48
SPEAKER_00: Why Jesus sits at the right hand on judgment day.
40:52
SPEAKER_00: So whatever you have on your slate that you need cleaned, whatever is in your temple that needs to be taken care of, take care of it today.
41:02
SPEAKER_00: Take care of it today.
41:04
SPEAKER_00: God wants to take it all.
41:06
SPEAKER_00: He'll erase it.
41:06
SPEAKER_00: The moment you ask repentance, he erases it.
41:10
SPEAKER_00: We're the ones who bring it back.
41:13
SPEAKER_00: God isn't the constant reminder.
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SPEAKER_00: We remind ourselves.
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SPEAKER_00: Remember that.
41:19
SPEAKER_00: You know, Jesus loves you, he loves you so much.
41:22
SPEAKER_00: And I know this was long, and I could go on all day.
41:25
SPEAKER_00: Like, my spirit is so heavy, my heart is so burdened for so much right now.
41:31
SPEAKER_00: For my family, for my friends, for people I don't even know.
41:36
SPEAKER_00: I scroll on Facebook sometimes, or I'm on TikTok, and I'll just run across a post, and someone will be like, Can you pray for my nephew?
41:43
SPEAKER_00: I saw it today.
41:44
SPEAKER_00: I'm like, I don't know, I don't know their nephew, but yes, I can pray for them.
41:49
SPEAKER_00: They're on life support.
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SPEAKER_00: And I was like, you know, Lord, I don't know them, but you do.
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SPEAKER_00: So I'm gonna take a moment and I'm gonna stop.
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SPEAKER_00: And Lord, whatever their need is, I just ask that you meet it, Lord.
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SPEAKER_00: Meet them where they're at.
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SPEAKER_00: You know that you know their situation, you know their heart's desire.
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SPEAKER_00: Lord, I just ask that you meet them where they're at.
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SPEAKER_00: And I hope that they are saved.
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SPEAKER_00: I hope that they know you, Jesus.
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SPEAKER_00: I pray for salvation for so many people.
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SPEAKER_00: So many people are gonna get left behind.
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SPEAKER_00: Millions are gonna get left behind.
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SPEAKER_00: Don't take it lightly.
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SPEAKER_00: I used to take it lightly.
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SPEAKER_00: You don't want to go through the tribulation.
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SPEAKER_00: I believe millions are gonna get saved during the tribulation.
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SPEAKER_00: And yes, you'll receive a white robe, but you're gonna get persecuted.
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SPEAKER_00: And I don't even want to go into that right now because that that topic is gonna scare the bejebis right out of you.
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SPEAKER_00: It scared the bejibi right out of me.
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SPEAKER_00: So again, I just want to thank you for being here.
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SPEAKER_00: And in closing, I just want to say if you need prayer for anything, you can go to my um my webpage, crushingstrongholds.com, and there's a place on there that you can actually request prayer, and I will I will pray with you.
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SPEAKER_00: Crushingstrongholds.com.
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SPEAKER_00: If you need prayer, go there and I'll pray with you personally.
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SPEAKER_00: We'll we'll figure out a way to meet up and talk and pray, whether it's through text or phone or Zoom.
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SPEAKER_00: There's so many ways to communicate and pray with each other.
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SPEAKER_00: Why aren't we doing it?
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SPEAKER_00: Why are we not doing it?
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SPEAKER_00: If you're a Christian, start doing it.
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SPEAKER_00: Do it.
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SPEAKER_00: And I pray for you.
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SPEAKER_00: I pray for all my listeners today, and I thank you.
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SPEAKER_00: And I just hope that God will intervene.
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SPEAKER_00: And I'm thankful that He's allowed me to fill in the gaps on some days for some people that need it.
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SPEAKER_00: So, with that note, I just want to say thank you for joining me today for another episode of Crushing Strongholds.
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SPEAKER_00: It's been amazing.
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SPEAKER_00: I have been blessed.
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SPEAKER_00: I hope you've been blessed.
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SPEAKER_00: I hope that you understood everything that we talked about today.
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SPEAKER_00: And um, I hope that you have a fantastic day.
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SPEAKER_00: And with that, I bid you a farewell, God bless, and take care.