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The 7 Hidden Mysteries Jesus Left in Plain Sight · truthunedited

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  Speaker 1: Have you ever read one of jesus parables and walked
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  Speaker 1: away confused? Have you ever wondered why the Sun of God,
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  Speaker 1: who came to bring light would speak in shadows? Have
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  Speaker 1: you ever felt that, maybe, just maybe, there's more behind
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  Speaker 1: his words than what most sermons reveal. If those questions
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  Speaker 1: stir something in you, you're not alone, Because today we
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  Speaker 1: are stepping behind the veil. To day, You're not going
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  Speaker 1: to just read parables. You're going to see them for
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  Speaker 1: what they truly are, divine mysteries hidden in plain sight,
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  Speaker 1: truths encoded in simplicity, eternal realities whispered to the hungry
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  Speaker 1: but concealed from the casual. And if you stay with
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  Speaker 1: this teaching until the end, I believe scales will fall
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  Speaker 1: off your eyes. I believe the stories you've heard a
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  Speaker 1: hundred times will suddenly break open like sealed scrolls. You
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  Speaker 1: won't just learn about the kingdom. You'll see how it moves,
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  Speaker 1: how it judge, how it separates, how it burns, how
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  Speaker 1: it gathers, how it rewards, and how it returns. Because
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  Speaker 1: every parable Jesus spoke carried not just wisdom, it carried warning.
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  Speaker 1: Each one split crowds in two, each one concealed glory
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  Speaker 1: behind humility. Each one invited the desperate while offending the familiar.
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  Speaker 1: And most Christians, yes, even leaders, miss the entire point
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  Speaker 1: because we've turned mysteries into metaphors. We've made eternal truths
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  Speaker 1: into Sunday School illustrations. But Jesus said otherwise. He said
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  Speaker 1: in Matthew thirteen eleven. To you it has been given
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  Speaker 1: to know the secrets of the Kingdom of Heaven. But
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  Speaker 1: to them it has not been given. Did you catch
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  Speaker 1: that secrets, mysteries, parables were not designed to make the
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  Speaker 1: kingdom easier to understand. They were designed to separate those
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  Speaker 1: who hunger for truth from those who are satisfied with tradition.
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  Speaker 1: Let me make this plain. If your heart isn't burning
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  Speaker 1: for revelation, you'll read the words of Jesus and never
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  Speaker 1: hear his voice. You'll see his parables, but never touch
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  Speaker 1: the kingdom. You'll nod in agreement while missing eternity. This
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  Speaker 1: is not just about understanding scripture. This is about being
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  Speaker 1: counted worthy to receive its treasures. Jesus often said, he
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  Speaker 1: who has ears, let him hear. Why, because hearing in
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  Speaker 1: the kingdom isn't about having two functioning ear drums. It's
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  Speaker 1: about having a spirit awakened by truth, pierced by holiness,
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  Speaker 1: and desperate enough to dig. So I ask you right now,
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  Speaker 1: are you willing to dig? Are you willing to let
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  Speaker 1: go of shallow interpretations and casual theology to unearth what
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  Speaker 1: the Lord buried in plain sight? Are you willing to
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  Speaker 1: ask the Holy Spirit to show you what you've never
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  Speaker 1: seen before, even if it confronts everything you thought you knew.
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  Speaker 1: Because in the next few moments we will journey into
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  Speaker 1: seven of jesus most powerful parables, and what we find
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  Speaker 1: will not be surface level inspiration. These are not motivational teachings.
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  Speaker 1: These are eternal warnings. These are maps to judgment. These
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  Speaker 1: are codes to glory. These are wake up calls to
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  Speaker 1: the sleeping Church. But before we go there, before we
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  Speaker 1: touch what is holy, I want to take a moment
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  Speaker 1: and prepare our hearts. Because revelation is not something you learn,
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  Speaker 1: it is something you receive. And unless your spirit is yielded,
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  Speaker 1: you will hear these words but miss the voice behind them.
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  Speaker 1: So let's pause together. Wherever you are, close your eyes,
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  Speaker 1: lift your heart and join me in this prayer. Father,
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  Speaker 1: in the name of Jesus, we come before you, not
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  Speaker 1: as spectators, not as students, but as seekers. You said,
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  Speaker 1: it is the glory of God to conceal a matter,
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  Speaker 1: and the glory of kings to search it out. So
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  Speaker 1: we come to search, We come to seek, We come
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  Speaker 1: to knock until the door opens. Lord, remove every veil
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  Speaker 1: of tradition, tear down every wall of pride, break every
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  Speaker 1: lens of familiarity, and grant us, by your spirit, the
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  Speaker 1: wisdom and revelation to discern your mysteries. Let these parables
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  Speaker 1: not be stories but swords. Let them not be teachings,
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  Speaker 1: but truths that judge us. Speak. Lord, we are listening,
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  Speaker 1: and we will not walk away unchanged. In Jesus name. Amen, family,
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  Speaker 1: I want to remind you before we begin. This ministry
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  Speaker 1: is here to serve the remnant. We are not here
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  Speaker 1: for algorithm. We are not here for applause. We are
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  Speaker 1: here for truth, and truth by nature, costs something. If
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  Speaker 1: this messa it speaks to you, If this kind of
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  Speaker 1: teaching feeds your spirit, I invite you to walk with
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  Speaker 1: us deeper, download the ebooks, study with us, pray with us,
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  Speaker 1: and if God leads you, sew into this work so
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  Speaker 1: that we can keep building this altar of truth without compromise.
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  Speaker 1: Your support, your prayers, your shares, your generosity is the
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  Speaker 1: oil that keeps this flame burning. Now are you ready,
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  Speaker 1: because in a moment, we're diving into the first hidden mystery,
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  Speaker 1: a parable you've probably heard dozens of times but never
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  Speaker 1: truly seen. The Parable of the sour not just a
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  Speaker 1: lesson about evangelism, but a prophetic map of spiritual warfare,
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  Speaker 1: heart condition, and why most believers never grow into what
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  Speaker 1: God planted in them. If you're ready for that revelation,
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  Speaker 1: comment right now. Uncover the mystery, declare it in faith,
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  Speaker 1: Make your spirit alert, because this is not a game,
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  Speaker 1: This is not entertainment. This is a Kingdom transmission. With
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  Speaker 1: that said, prepare your heart, turn down the noise, remove distraction,
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  Speaker 1: because now we begin the seven mysteries. Jesus hid in
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  Speaker 1: plain sight. You've probably heard it preached a hundred times,
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  Speaker 1: The parable of the sewer. A man goes out to
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  Speaker 1: sow seed. Some falls on the path, some on rocky ground,
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  Speaker 1: some among thorns, and some on good soil. Simple, right,
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  Speaker 1: A nice little sermon about how to be good soil
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  Speaker 1: for God's word. But that's where most people stop That's
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  Speaker 1: where the mystery remains buried, because this parable is not
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  Speaker 1: just about receiving a good sermon. It's not about how
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  Speaker 1: well you sit in church or how loud you say Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus wasn't describing four types of people. He was exposing
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  Speaker 1: four stages of spiritual war, and only one of them survives.
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  Speaker 1: What if I told you that every time God speaks
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  Speaker 1: to you, Hell launches a counter attack. What if I
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  Speaker 1: told you the enemy doesn't fear your Bible reading. He
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  Speaker 1: fears what happens when the Word takes root in your
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  Speaker 1: spirit and begins to multiply. That's the mystery. Jesus was
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  Speaker 1: showing us that the seed is perfect. But it's not
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  Speaker 1: the seed that determines the outcome. It's the soil, the
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  Speaker 1: condition of your inner life, the unseen posture of your
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  Speaker 1: heart when God speaks. That's what determines whether you walk
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  Speaker 1: in breakthrough or live in cycles. The first soil, the
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  Speaker 1: path is not evil. It's just hardened, hardened by disappointment,
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  Speaker 1: hardened by religious routine, hardened by cynicism. And when the
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  Speaker 1: Word hits it, it doesn't penetrate. It just sits there, exposed, vulnerable,
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  Speaker 1: easy for the birds, the demonic forces to swoop in
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  Speaker 1: and steal it. Some of you have been robbed not
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  Speaker 1: because you didn't hear from God, but because you were
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  Speaker 1: too hardened to let the word in. You dismissed it,
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  Speaker 1: you labeled it emotionalism. You told yourself that's not for me,
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  Speaker 1: and the seed never stood a chance. Then comes the
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  Speaker 1: rocky soil. It receives the Word with joy, loud praise,
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  Speaker 1: big feelings, tears at the altar. But it's shallow, no root,
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  Speaker 1: no discipline, no secret life in God. So when pressure comes,
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  Speaker 1: when persecution comes, when the honeymoon season ends, the word
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  Speaker 1: dies not because it wasn't true, but because it wasn't deep.
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  Speaker 1: This is the trap of many believers. You want instant
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  Speaker 1: fruit without consistent root. But God is not looking for
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  Speaker 1: emotional excitement. He's looking for spiritual endurance. The third soil
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  Speaker 1: is the most deceptive. It's not hard, it's not shallow,
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  Speaker 1: it's crowded. The Word is planted and it starts to grow,
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  Speaker 1: But so do the thorns, the cares of life, the
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  Speaker 1: deceitfulness of wealth, the addiction to busyness, the obsession with
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  Speaker 1: what people think. It's not that you rejected the word.
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  Speaker 1: It's that you gave it competition, and now your heart
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  Speaker 1: is overrun. You love God, but you also love control.
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  Speaker 1: You want Jesus, but you also want comfort. And so
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  Speaker 1: the word gets choked silently, slowly, until the promise withers,
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  Speaker 1: while your schedule thrives. But then there is the good soil.
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  Speaker 1: And here's the mystery. Good soil is not lucky. It
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  Speaker 1: is cultivated, it is broken, it is plowed, It has
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  Speaker 1: been through drought and storm and crushing. It is not
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  Speaker 1: perfect soil. It's prepared soil. It's the heart that trembles
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  Speaker 1: when God speaks. It's the one who repents quickly, who
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  Speaker 1: forgives deeply, who obeys immediately. It's the one who lets
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  Speaker 1: the word dig deep roots in secret, unseen places, so
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  Speaker 1: when the storm comes, fruit still bursts forth. And notice this,
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  Speaker 1: The fruit is not the same for everyone. Some thirtyfold,
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  Speaker 1: some sixty sum one hundred, which means the issue is
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  Speaker 1: never about having the same outcome as someone else. It's
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  Speaker 1: about maximizing what God planted in you. Some of you
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  Speaker 1: are chasing someone else's harvest when God is calling you
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  Speaker 1: to multiply your own. Here's the danger many in the
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  Speaker 1: church today are trying to manufacture fruit without first dealing
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  Speaker 1: with the soil. You want anointing, but you skip over repentance.
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  Speaker 1: You want miracles, but you ignore discipline. You want to prophesy,
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  Speaker 1: but you won't let the word confront your hidden rebellion.
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  Speaker 1: And Jesus is warning us the condition of your heart
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  Speaker 1: determines the destiny of His word in you. Let me
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  Speaker 1: make it plain. God is still speaking, The seed is
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  Speaker 1: still being sown. The question is what is your heart
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  Speaker 1: doing with it? Are you dismissing it or are you
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  Speaker 1: letting it break you? Are you shouting about it one
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  Speaker 1: day and forgetting it the next? Are you trying to
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  Speaker 1: grow your calling in a garden full of weeds? Or
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  Speaker 1: are you willing to go deep? Let him plow through
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  Speaker 1: every lie, every trauma, every idle until the soil is
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  Speaker 1: ready for fire. Because here's the truth. The enemy doesn't
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  Speaker 1: need to stop God from speaking. He just needs to
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  Speaker 1: harden your soil. He just needs to keep you shallow.
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  Speaker 1: He just needs to distract you long enough that the
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  Speaker 1: seed never takes root. And some of you, if you're honest,
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  Speaker 1: you've been hearing sermons, watching teachings, reading the word, but
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  Speaker 1: you're not changing why because the seed is falling on crowded, crusted,
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  Speaker 1: your careless ground. But today something can change right now.
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  Speaker 1: If you'll surrender the soil, if you'll let the Holy
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  Speaker 1: Spirit till the ground, If you'll say, Lord, break me
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  Speaker 1: where I've been hard, deepen me where I've been shallow,
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  Speaker 1: unclutter me where I've been distracted, then the word will
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  Speaker 1: do what it was always meant to do, multiply, bear fruit,
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  Speaker 1: and make you unshakable. If you're ready for that, I
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  Speaker 1: want you to type in the comments break the soil, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: declare it. Let the enemy hear it, Let your own
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  Speaker 1: soul hear it. Because that confession is a doorway to transformation.
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  Speaker 1: And if you'll partner with God right now, you won't
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  Speaker 1: just hear this parable you'll become it. Now get ready,
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  Speaker 1: because the next mystery takes us deeper. Jesus said, let
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  Speaker 1: both grow together until the harvest. What if God allows
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  Speaker 1: E to grow beside you on purpose. What if he's
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  Speaker 1: not removing it because he's revealing it. What if the
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  Speaker 1: judgment is coming but it's disguised as patience. The next
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  Speaker 1: revelation may disturb you, but it will also deliver you.
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  Speaker 1: You've prayed for God to remove the wicked. You've asked
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  Speaker 1: him to expose the fake, to silence the blasphemers, to
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  Speaker 1: tear down the ones who mock holiness while wearing spiritual masks.
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  Speaker 1: But then you look around and wonder, why are they
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  Speaker 1: still flourishing. Why does it seem like the tears thrive
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  Speaker 1: while the wheat suffers. Why does God allow the fake
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  Speaker 1: to remain right beside the faithful? This is where the
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  Speaker 1: mystery deepens. Jesus gave a parable that shattered every expectation
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  Speaker 1: of swift judgment and exposed the wisdom of divine patience.
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  Speaker 1: He said, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man
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  Speaker 1: who sowed good seed in his field, But while every
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  Speaker 1: one was sleeping, the enemy came and sowed tears fake
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  Speaker 1: wheat among the real and went his way. When the
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  Speaker 1: plants began to grow, the servants noticed the deception. They
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  Speaker 1: came to the Master and asked, shall we pull up
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  Speaker 1: the tears? But the Master said no, let both grow
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  Speaker 1: together until the harvest, because if you try to separate
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  Speaker 1: them now, you might uproot the wheat as well. That
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  Speaker 1: single decision let both grow together is not weakness, It
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  Speaker 1: is divine brilliance. It is the terrifying wisdom of God,
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  Speaker 1: the kind that offends human justice while upholding eternal judgment.
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  Speaker 1: Because while we demand immediate separation, God sees the end
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  Speaker 1: from the beginning. While we cry out for exposure, God
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  Speaker 1: waits until the fruit is undeniable. And while we label
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  Speaker 1: someone a tear, God may still be working to break
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  Speaker 1: their heart and save their soul. But make no mistake,
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  Speaker 1: the harvest is coming. There will be a day when
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  Speaker 1: angels separate the wheat from the tears. And when that
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  Speaker 1: day arrives, there will be no more hiding, no more pretending,
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  Speaker 1: no more blending in. The fakes will be burned, the
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  Speaker 1: faithful will shine, and every field will be purged of deception.
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  Speaker 1: So why does this matter to you? Because some of
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  Speaker 1: you have been losing sleep over tears. You've been obsessed
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  Speaker 1: with exposing what God is still allowing to grow. You've
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  Speaker 1: been trying to pull weeds before their time, damaging your
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  Speaker 1: own roots in the process. You've made it your mission
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  Speaker 1: to confront every hypocrite, correct every false prophet, and judge
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  Speaker 1: every impure motive. But here's the mystery. God's silence is
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  Speaker 1: not approval, It's strategy. And when you try to execute
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  Speaker 1: judgment before God's appointed time, you risk uprooting what he's
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  Speaker 1: still developing. Jesus wasn't saying tars are harmless. He was
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  Speaker 1: saying that premature judgment is. There's a process to exposure,
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  Speaker 1: and only the Lord of the harvest has the right
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  Speaker 1: to execute it. That doesn't mean you tolerate sin. It
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  Speaker 1: means you discern your assignment. You weren't called to cleanse
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  Speaker 1: the field. You were called to stay planted and bear
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  Speaker 1: fruit until the fire comes. But let's go deeper. The
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  Speaker 1: word tear in the original language refers to a plant
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  Speaker 1: that looks almost identical to wheat in its early stages.
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  Speaker 1: It's indistinguishable until maturity. That means some people around you
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  Speaker 1: may appear anointed, gifted, even godly, but time will prove
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  Speaker 1: their true nature. Don't rush the revelation. The harvest always
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  Speaker 1: tells the truth. You don't need to guess. Just wait,
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  Speaker 1: the fruit will speak. And here's where it gets personal.
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  Speaker 1: Some of you are not just surrounded by tears. You've
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  Speaker 1: entertained tear like thinking in your own life. Thoughts that
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  Speaker 1: mimic truth but have no root in obedience. Desires that
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  Speaker 1: feel spiritual but lead you away from holiness. Voices that
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  Speaker 1: affirm your feelings but deny your cross. This parable isn't
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  Speaker 1: just about people, It's about influences. And if you're not careful,
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  Speaker 1: you'll let counterfeit convictions grow next to true revelation and
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  Speaker 1: then wonder why your life feels confused. So what do
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  Speaker 1: you do? You stay planted, you stay discerning, you stay obedient,
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  Speaker 1: and above all, you stay surrendered. Because the day is
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  Speaker 1: coming when God will send his angels to separate what
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  Speaker 1: is real from what is religious. And you don't want
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  Speaker 1: to be found fighting battles. He never told you to
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  Speaker 1: fight focused on enemies he already planned to deal with,
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  Speaker 1: or uprooting lives he was still in the process of redeeming.
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  Speaker 1: If you're still with me and your spirit is stirred,
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  Speaker 1: I want you to type this in the comments right now.
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  Speaker 1: I will not uproot what God is still handling. Let
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  Speaker 1: that confession be your posture, Let that wisdom anchor you.
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  Speaker 1: Because the kingdom doesn't panic, it waits. The king doesn't rush,
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  Speaker 1: he reigns. And when that day comes, when the fire descends,
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  Speaker 1: when the angels gather, when the final separation begins, May
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  Speaker 1: you be found faithful. May you be wheat, May you
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  Speaker 1: be fruitful, May you be ready. Now take a breath,
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  Speaker 1: because the next mystery is going to shift your entire
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  Speaker 1: understanding of the Gospel. Jesus tells of a man who
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  Speaker 1: stumbles upon treasure in a field and sells everything he
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  Speaker 1: owns to buy it. But what if that treasure isn't
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  Speaker 1: what you think it is. What if the true cost
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  Speaker 1: of heaven isn't what you're offering, but what you're surrendering.
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  Speaker 1: If you're ready to discover the price of kingdom treasure,
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  Speaker 1: stay with me me. Have you ever wondered why Jesus
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  Speaker 1: described the Kingdom of Heaven like buried treasure, Not a temple,
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  Speaker 1: not a throne, not lightning or thunder, a hidden treasure
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  Speaker 1: in a field, just sitting there, buried in the dirt,
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  Speaker 1: overlooked by crowds, waiting for someone with eyes to see.
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  Speaker 1: He said, A man was walking through that field, just walking,
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  Speaker 1: not even looking, when suddenly he stumbled across it. He
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  Speaker 1: uncovered the corner of something eternal, and in that moment,
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  Speaker 1: something inside of him snapped into place. He didn't just
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  Speaker 1: admire it, he didn't just pray about it. He buried
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  Speaker 1: it again, ran home, sold everything he had, and bought
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  Speaker 1: the entire field just to possess the treasure. Jesus called
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  Speaker 1: that the kingdom, not a feeling, not a religion, a
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  Speaker 1: revelation so costly it demands everything. This parable is short,
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  Speaker 1: but it contains one of the most explosive mysteries in
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  Speaker 1: all of Scripture. Most people read it as acute metaphor
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  Speaker 1: about loving Jesus more than material things. But Jesus was
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  Speaker 1: not talking about emotions. He was talking about transactions. This
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  Speaker 1: is a revelation of what the Kingdom of God truly costs.
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  Speaker 1: And here's the part most believers miss. The treasure was
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  Speaker 1: free to see, but not free to possess. It had
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  Speaker 1: to be purchased, not with money, but with everything. This
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  Speaker 1: man didn't make a donation. He liquidated his life. He
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  Speaker 1: didn't negotiate a deal. He surrendered completely. He gave up
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  Speaker 1: his preferences, his opinions, his convenience, his security, his plans,
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  Speaker 1: his identity. Everything went why because he saw something worth
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  Speaker 1: more than anything he'd ever known, something eternal, incorruptible and holy,
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  Speaker 1: something that no one else in that field even noticed.
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  Speaker 1: He paid the price because he had revelation. Everyone else
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  Speaker 1: walked past the field. They didn't see it, they didn't know,
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  Speaker 1: but this man saw, and seeing made him responsible. That's
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  Speaker 1: the mystery. Once you see the Kingdom, really see it,
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  Speaker 1: you can't unsee it. You can't go back to casual Christianity.
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  Speaker 1: You can't pretend your job is enough. You can't act
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  Speaker 1: like Sunday is sufficient. You've seen the treasure, and now
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  Speaker 1: you either walk away from it or you sell everything.
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  Speaker 1: There is no middle ground. But here's the tragedy. Most
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  Speaker 1: people admire the treasure but won't buy the field. They
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  Speaker 1: visit revival meetings, they feel the spirit, they hear the
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  Speaker 1: voice of God calling them deeper. But then they go
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  Speaker 1: home and weigh the cost, and it's too much. They
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  Speaker 1: want the power, but not the process. They want the crown,
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  Speaker 1: but not the cross, and so they walk away. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: still in church, may be still singing, but the field
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  Speaker 1: remains unbought, and the treasure remains buried. This is why
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  Speaker 1: the Kingdom is hidden in plain sight. It's not because
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  Speaker 1: God is playing games. It's because he knows that only
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  Speaker 1: the desperate will dig, only the hungry will sell everything.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the test. God will never force you to
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  Speaker 1: buy the field. He'll just show you what's in it.
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  Speaker 1: The rest is on you. What field is God calling
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  Speaker 1: you to buy right now. Maybe it's a calling you've
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  Speaker 1: been avoiding because it scares you. Maybe it's a relationship
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  Speaker 1: you need to walk away from because it's choking your anointing.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe it's a secret sin you've protected because it comforts
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  Speaker 1: your flesh. Maybe it's a dream that's yours but not his.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever it is, you cannot possess the treasure and keep
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  Speaker 1: the life you had before. The kingdom does not fit
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  Speaker 1: inside a life built on self. That's why Jesus said,
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  Speaker 1: whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
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  Speaker 1: The kingdom doesn't come through addition, it comes through exchange.
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  Speaker 1: You lay down everything, and he gives you eternity. You
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  Speaker 1: surrender control, and he gives you the keys of heaven.
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  Speaker 1: But it costs you. It costs you you, and I
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  Speaker 1: want to be honest with you. There are people watching
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  Speaker 1: this right now who are still standing in the field.
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  Speaker 1: You've seen glimpses of glory, you've felt the stirrings of God,
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  Speaker 1: you've tasted the presence, but you haven't bought the field.
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  Speaker 1: You're waiting you're weighing, and God is calling not out
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  Speaker 1: of anger, not out of pressure, but out of mercy
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  Speaker 1: because the field is still available. The treasure hasn't been taken,
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  Speaker 1: but the window is closing. The most dangerous thing you
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  Speaker 1: can do is delay obedience. Delayed obedience is disobedience dressed
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  Speaker 1: in religious language. And if you keep admiring the treasure
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  Speaker 1: without selling everything, your heart will eventually grow numb to
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  Speaker 1: the value of what you once longed for. So here's
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  Speaker 1: my challenge. Right now, wherever you are, ask yourself, what
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  Speaker 1: haven't I sold, What haven't I surrendered? What am I
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  Speaker 1: still holding back while pretending I've bought the field? And
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  Speaker 1: if the Holy Spirit reveals something, don't brush it off,
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  Speaker 1: don't argue, don't rationalize, just give it up, because no
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  Speaker 1: idle is worth missing the treasure, no comfort is worth
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  Speaker 1: forfeiting the kingdom. If you're ready to make that confession
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  Speaker 1: to day, I want you to write in the comments,
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  Speaker 1: I'm buying the field. That's your declaration, that's your surrender,
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  Speaker 1: that's your transaction. Don't just admire the mystery, enter into it.
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  Speaker 1: Because Jesus never meant for you to just understand this
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  Speaker 1: parable He meant for you to become it. And now
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  Speaker 1: prepare yourself, because the next mystery cuts even deeper. It's
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  Speaker 1: not about a hidden treasure, It's about a price a pearl.
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  Speaker 1: But this time the man wasn't stumbling. He was searching,
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  Speaker 1: and what he found shattered every other pursuit in his life.
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  Speaker 1: But what if I told you the pearl was never
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  Speaker 1: a thing. He wasn't stumbling through a field. This time,
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  Speaker 1: he wasn't distracted or drifting. This man wasn't surprised by
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  Speaker 1: the treasure. He was searching for it, carefully, deliberately. He
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  Speaker 1: was a merchant, trained in value, familiar with the weight
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  Speaker 1: of what was precious. But even in all his expertise,
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  Speaker 1: nothing he had ever handled compared to what he found.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus said, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a merchant
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  Speaker 1: looking for fine pearls, and when he found one of
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  Speaker 1: great price, one so rare, so pure, so costly, he
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  Speaker 1: went and sold everything he had to buy it, everything
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  Speaker 1: gone for one pearl. At first glance, it sounds similar
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  Speaker 1: to the parable of the treasure. But the mystery here
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  Speaker 1: runs deeper, because this merchant was not an accident. He
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  Speaker 1: represents the seeker, the one who has tasted the world
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  Speaker 1: and still comes up empty. He knows the market, he
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  Speaker 1: knows what glitters but doesn't last. He's seen beauty twisted
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  Speaker 1: by pride. He's held things that were once priceless, now
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  Speaker 1: rusted by time, and yet something in him is still searching,
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  Speaker 1: Something in him knows there's more. And then it happens,
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  Speaker 1: in a moment of holy revelation. He finds it, not
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  Speaker 1: a collection, not a set, one single pearl, and in
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  Speaker 1: that moment, the value of everything else becomes irrelevant. He
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  Speaker 1: doesn't hesitate, he doesn't negotiate, he doesn't try to keep
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  Speaker 1: a portion back. He liquidates everything. Why because this pearl
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  Speaker 1: is not like the others. It is perfect, complete, beyond
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  Speaker 1: anything the world could offer. But here's the part most
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  Speaker 1: people miss. This parable is not just about your pursuit
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  Speaker 1: of the kingdom. It's about the kingdom's pursuit of you.
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  Speaker 1: Because pearls are not like gold. They don't come from
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  Speaker 1: the earth. They are born in suffering. A pearl is
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  Speaker 1: formed when an irritant a wound enters an oyster, and
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  Speaker 1: over time that wound is coated and transformed into something beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: A pearl is pain redeemed. What if I told you
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  Speaker 1: that the Kingdom is not just the thing you're searching for,
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  Speaker 1: it's the thing that's been forming in you all along,
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  Speaker 1: That what you thought was delay was actually development, That
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  Speaker 1: your affliction, your ejection, your isolation were producing something eternal
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  Speaker 1: inside of you. The pearl of great price is not
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  Speaker 1: just Jesus, it's Jesus formed in you. It's his nature
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  Speaker 1: emerging in your suffering. It's his likeness being shape through
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  Speaker 1: your surrender. And just like the merchant, when you truly
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  Speaker 1: see that, when you see what God is doing in
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  Speaker 1: your pain, you will stop trying to protect your reputation,
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  Speaker 1: defend your platform, or preserve your comfort. You'll sell it all,
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  Speaker 1: you'll lay it all down, because the pearl of Christ
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  Speaker 1: in you is worth far more than anything you could
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  Speaker 1: build without him. But here's the warning. Many to day
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  Speaker 1: are chasing pearls that aren't priceless. You've been spending your
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  Speaker 1: life on imitation beauty, relationships that flatter but don't refine,
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  Speaker 1: ministries that entertain but don't sanctify, teachings that soothe but
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  Speaker 1: don't confront. And Jesus is calling you back to the
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  Speaker 1: only pearl that matters, the one formed in fire. The
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  Speaker 1: one sealed by obedience, the one that demands everything but
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  Speaker 1: gives everything back in return. This is where the mystery pierces,
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  Speaker 1: because God will allow your disappointments to be come the
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  Speaker 1: womb of your transformation. He will let the world wound
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  Speaker 1: you so he can form something wholly in the hidden place.
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  Speaker 1: And when it's time, he'll bring you to the moment
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  Speaker 1: of revelation. You'll see the pearl, You'll feel the weight
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  Speaker 1: of what he's been forming, and you'll have to choose
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  Speaker 1: cling to the old or purchase the new. This is
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  Speaker 1: not about adding Jesus to your lifestyle. This is about
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  Speaker 1: exchanging your entire life for him. This is not emotionalism.
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  Speaker 1: It's not inspiration. Its transaction. The Kingdom costs what you're
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  Speaker 1: still afraid to give up. And the moment you see
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  Speaker 1: the pearl, the moment your eyes are opened, you become accountable.
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  Speaker 1: You can't unknow it, you can't unsee it. You either
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  Speaker 1: surrender or you walk away forever. So I'll ask you boldly,
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  Speaker 1: what are you still trying to keep? What are you
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: still afraid to sell? What has become too precious to
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  Speaker 1: place on the altar? If the Holy Spirit is speaking right, now,
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  Speaker 1: don't argue, don't delay, let it go, sell everything, because
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  Speaker 1: the pearl is priceless and He's worth it all. If
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  Speaker 1: that's your heart, write this in the comments. I choose
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  Speaker 1: the pearl. Let the enemy see it, let your flesh
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  Speaker 1: hear it, Let Heaven record it. Because that confession marks
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  Speaker 1: the death of compromise and the birth of kingdom clarity.
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  Speaker 1: No more divided pursuits, no more counterfeit treasure, just Christ
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  Speaker 1: and Him crucified. And now brace yourself because the next
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  Speaker 1: mystery will shake your view of eternity. Jesus said. The
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  Speaker 1: Kingdom is like a net cast into the sea, gathering
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  Speaker 1: all kinds of fish. But when it's full, it's dragged
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  Speaker 1: to shore and the separation begins. Not everyone stays, not
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  Speaker 1: every one enters. Some are thrown away, and the angels
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  Speaker 1: are watching. You thought this was about fish. You thought
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  Speaker 1: it was a story about the sea. But this parable
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  Speaker 1: buried in Matthew thirteen like a prophetic warning, is not
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  Speaker 1: about oceans. It's about eternity. It's not about fish, it's
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  Speaker 1: about souls. Jesus said again, the Kingdom of Heaven is
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  Speaker 1: like a net cast into the sea, gathering every kind,
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  Speaker 1: every kind the clean and the unclean, the real and
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  Speaker 1: the religious, the anointed and the counterfeit. And when the
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  Speaker 1: net is full, it is dragged to shore, and then
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  Speaker 1: the sorting begins. Let the image burn itself into your imagination.
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  Speaker 1: A massive net pulled by invisible hands through the waters
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  Speaker 1: of time, generation after generation, swept in pastors and prostitutes,
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  Speaker 1: prophets and politicians, deacons and demons. The net doesn't discriminate,
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  Speaker 1: It gathers all because judgment isn't based on what you
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  Speaker 1: look like in the sea. It's what you are when
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  Speaker 1: brought to shore. Jesus said, when the net reaches land,
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  Speaker 1: the angels sit down and separate the good from the bad.
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  Speaker 1: Not based on charisma, not based on reputation, based on nature,
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  Speaker 1: based on fruit, based on whether you were ever truly
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  Speaker 1: born of the spirit. The good are kept, the bad
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  Speaker 1: are thrown away. This is not a metaphor. This is
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  Speaker 1: the judgment of God. What makes this mystery so dangerous
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  Speaker 1: is that everyone in the parable made it into the net.
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  Speaker 1: They were all gathered, they were all in the kingdom externally,
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  Speaker 1: they all traveled in the same direction, sang the same songs,
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  Speaker 1: maybe even quoted the same scriptures. But only some were kept,
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  Speaker 1: the others were discarded, And now the truth comes crashing in.
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  Speaker 1: Not everyone who is gathered is saved. Not everyone who
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  Speaker 1: is near the kingdom belongs to it. Proximity is not possession.
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  Speaker 1: Inclusion is not salvation. The net gathers many, but only
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  Speaker 1: the true are kept. There are people watching this who
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  Speaker 1: have confused being caught with being changed. You were raised
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  Speaker 1: in church. You know the lingo, you know how to
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  Speaker 1: cry during worship, you know how to post the verses.
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  Speaker 1: You've been swept into the net, but you've never been transformed.
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  Speaker 1: You've never repented, you've never surrendered. You are a fish
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  Speaker 1: in the net, but your nature has never changed. And
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  Speaker 1: when that net is finally dragged ashore, it won't matter
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  Speaker 1: how long you swam with the righteous. It will matter
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  Speaker 1: whether your name is written in the Book of life.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus didn't leave the interpretation of this parable up for debate.
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  Speaker 1: He said, the angels will come and separate the wicked
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  Speaker 1: from the righteous, and they will throw the wicked in
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  Speaker 1: to the furnace of fire, where there will be weeping
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  Speaker 1: and gnashing of teeth. That's not poetry, that's prophecy. It's
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  Speaker 1: not a metaphor. It's a warning. Why does this matter?
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  Speaker 1: Because modern Christianity has celebrated inclusion and ignored separation. We
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  Speaker 1: preach about the wideness of the net, but not the
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  Speaker 1: holiness of the shore. We gather crowds but never confront them.
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  Speaker 1: We tell people they're loved, but we don't tell them
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  Speaker 1: they're lost. And the danger is this. A full net
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  Speaker 1: is not the goal. A faithful heart is. And now
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  Speaker 1: the question presses into your soul. Are you ready to
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  Speaker 1: be sorted? Are you ready to be weighed, examined, tested
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  Speaker 1: and revealed? Because the kingdom isn't about surviving the sea,
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: It's about standing on the shore, and that day is
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  Speaker 1: coming quickly. But let me go deeper. This net is
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  Speaker 1: moving even now. Every sermon, every prophetic word, every outpouring
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  Speaker 1: of the spirit, it's all drawing souls closer to that
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  Speaker 1: final moment. And some of you feel it, that urgency,
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  Speaker 1: that pull, that divine confrontation. That's not just emotion. That's
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  Speaker 1: the drag of the net and your being given one
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  Speaker 1: more chance before the separation begins. So I ask you, plainly,
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  Speaker 1: under the authority of the Word of God, are you
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  Speaker 1: still hiding in the crowd? Of the net. Or are
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  Speaker 1: you fully surrendered to the King of the kingdom. Are
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  Speaker 1: you living to blend in? Or have you been born again?
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  Speaker 1: Have you been swept in or have you bowed down?
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  Speaker 1: Because one day the angels will sit and they will sort,
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  Speaker 1: and there will be no more chances. If this truth
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  Speaker 1: is awakening something in your soul, I want you to
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  Speaker 1: declare it boldly in the comments. Don't let me die
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  Speaker 1: in the net. Let that confession ring in your spirit.
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  Speaker 1: Let it shake you free from every false assurance. Let
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  Speaker 1: it call you into holy examination. Because better to be
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  Speaker 1: pierced by truth to day than thrown away in silence tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: And now prepare yourself for the seventh mystery. Jesus said,
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  Speaker 1: the kingdom is like a householder who brings out treasures
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  Speaker 1: new and old. What if everything you thought was irrelevant
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  Speaker 1: was actually sacred. What if the ancient truths you've ignored
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  Speaker 1: are the keys to the future you've prayed for. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: turned to his disciples after revealing a string of mysteries
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  Speaker 1: and asked a question that echoes across time. Have you
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: understood all these things? And they said, yes, Lord, But
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: understanding was never the end. Jesus responded not with comfort,
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: but with a final mystery hidden in the language of legacy.
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  Speaker 1: He said, every scribe instructed concerning the Kingdom of Heaven
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  Speaker 1: is like a householder who brings out of his treasure
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  Speaker 1: things new and old one sentence, but inside it a
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  Speaker 1: revelation about time, stewardship, and the weight of spiritual inheritance
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  Speaker 1: that most believers have never seen. The image is of
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  Speaker 1: a master of a house, a steward, someone with keys,
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  Speaker 1: someone with access to a treasury. This man doesn't just
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  Speaker 1: keep the house, he doesn't just maintain it. He draws
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  Speaker 1: from it. And when he opens the treasure, he doesn't
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  Speaker 1: bring out just what is shiny and new. He brings
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  Speaker 1: out the old, the ancient, the storied, the things buried
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  Speaker 1: under dust but burning with eternal relevance, and alongside them
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  Speaker 1: the new, the fresh revelation, the present word, the living
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  Speaker 1: bread for now. This is the mark of a true
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  Speaker 1: Kingdom's scribe, the ability to discern what is timeless and
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  Speaker 1: what is timely, and to hold both intension. Many to
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  Speaker 1: day chase only the new, new revelations, new experiences, new manifestations.
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  Speaker 1: They despise the old, the structured, the ancient paths. They
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  Speaker 1: mock doctrine. They minimize the fear of the Lord. But
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  Speaker 1: the kingdom is not built on spiritual novelty. It is
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  Speaker 1: built on covenantal continuity. What is new must honor what
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  Speaker 1: is eternal, or it is counterfeit. The householder does not
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  Speaker 1: discard the old, he treasures it. Yet others cling only
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  Speaker 1: to the old. They idolize tradition, They speak only in
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  Speaker 1: language shaped by what once was, Blind to what the
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  Speaker 1: Spirit is saying now, they reject the new out of
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  Speaker 1: fear or pride, unable to see that God is still speaking,
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  Speaker 1: still moving, still revealing glory in ways that do not
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  Speaker 1: contradict the old, but fulfill it. Jesus was confronting both
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  Speaker 1: errors in this one parable. He was saying, if you
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  Speaker 1: are to steward the kingdom, you must treasure both. You
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  Speaker 1: must love the ancient truths, the fear of the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: the holiness of God, the Blood, the Cross, the judgment
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  Speaker 1: to come. But you must also hear the Spirit to
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  Speaker 1: day what he is emphasizing now, what he is breaking, building, correcting,
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  Speaker 1: Breathing on this mystery hits hard for those who feel
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  Speaker 1: stuck between generations. You see a church divided between those
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  Speaker 1: who remember fire but lost it, and those who carry
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: zeal but lack roots. And here you stand called to
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  Speaker 1: be a householder, called to hold both, to honor the
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  Speaker 1: fathers and walk with the spirit, to preserve what is
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: eternal and release what is fresh, to be a bridge,
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  Speaker 1: a scribe of the kingdom. But this mystery also demands
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  Speaker 1: something dangerous. You must know the treasury, you must live
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  Speaker 1: in it. You can't give what you don't carry. You
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  Speaker 1: can't teach what you haven't touched. You can't pretend to
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  Speaker 1: be a householder if you've never sat in the secret
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  Speaker 1: place where God deposits the treasures of his heart. This
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  Speaker 1: is not about spiritual information, it's about spiritual formation. You
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  Speaker 1: become a householder by dwelling in the word, by praying
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  Speaker 1: in secret, by fasting in private, by walking in reverence,
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: by studying the whole counsel of God, not just what
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: is trending. You become a householder when you stop sampling
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: the kingdom and start surrendering to it. And if that's
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: your cry today, if you want to be one who
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: brings out treasure to a starving world, then make that
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  Speaker 1: confession public. Write in the comments, make me a householder.
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: That's your commissioning. That's your calling, not to be famous,
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  Speaker 1: but to be faithful, not to entertain, but to equip,
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  Speaker 1: not to impress, but to impart. Because the kingdom does
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: not advance through performers. It advances through scribes who treasure
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: what God has hidden. You've now seen the seven mysteries
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: Jesus hid in plain sight. Each one slices through shallow
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  Speaker 1: faith and calls you into the weight of glory. But
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: we are not done, because hidden behind these parables is
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  Speaker 1: a question Jesus still asks to day, have you understood
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: all these things? That is not a test of intellect,
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  Speaker 1: It is a test of obedience, and your response will
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  Speaker 1: determine whether you admire the kingdom or enter it. The
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: disciples were confused. They had just watched Jesus speak to
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  Speaker 1: thousands in parables, stories of seeds, soils, nets, and treasure.
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  Speaker 1: But he didn't explain anything to the crowd. Noifications, no breakdown,
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: just riddles wrapped in farming language. When the crowds left,
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: the disciples leaned in and asked the question that burns
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  Speaker 1: behind every sermon ever preached, Why do you speak to
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: them in parables? They weren't asking out of curiosity, They
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  Speaker 1: were asking out of holy tension, because something didn't feel right.
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: Why would Jesus, the light of the world, hide truth
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: in story form? Why would he veil revelation in metaphors?
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: And Jesus didn't soften his answer. He said, to to you,
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: it has been given to know the mysteries of the
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: Kingdom of Heaven, but to them it has not been given.
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  Speaker 1: He went further, seeing they do not see hearing, they
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: do not hear, nor do they understand. And then came
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: the chilling conclusion. Their hearts have grown dull, their ears
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: are hard of hearing. Their eyes they have closed, lest
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  Speaker 1: they should see with their eyes, hear with their ears,
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: understand with their hearts, and turn. So I should heal them. Wait,
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  Speaker 1: did you catch it? Jesus wasn't hiding the truth because
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: he was cruel. He was hiding it because of the
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: crowd's condition. He spoke in parables not to make it easier,
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: but to separate the hungry from the hardened. The parables
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: were filters, tests, invitations, wrapped in mystery. To the proud,
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: they were noise to the hungry. They were keys. This
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: is the eighth mystery. Not everyone who hears truth is
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: granted understanding, because access to the deep things of God
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: is not first about intellect, It's about posture. Revelation is holy.
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  Speaker 1: It's not entertainment, it's not content. It's not for casual scrolling.
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  Speaker 1: It is for the surrendered, the pierced, the trembling, the
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  Speaker 1: ones who don't just want to hear, they want to obey.
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  Speaker 1: That's why Jesus ended his explanation with this declaration, Blessed
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  Speaker 1: are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for
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  Speaker 1: they hear. He was saying, you didn't earn this, you
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  Speaker 1: were given this. And many righteous men long to see
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  Speaker 1: what you see and didn't, but you, by mercy, have
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  Speaker 1: been given access. This should shake us, because many to
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  Speaker 1: day treat revelation like information. We collect sermons, we rate messages,
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  Speaker 1: we debate teachers. But Jesus didn't teach for applause. He
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  Speaker 1: taught for alignment. And he still hides mysteries not from us,
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  Speaker 1: but for us, and only the broken hearted find them.
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  Speaker 1: Some of you have been wondering why your spiritual hunger
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  Speaker 1: has grown while others around you are drifting. Why you
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  Speaker 1: feel pierced when others feel bored. Why you cry in
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  Speaker 1: worship while others scroll past. It's not emotionalism, it's access.
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  Speaker 1: You've been granted eyes to see. That's not common, that's
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  Speaker 1: not natural, that's mercy. But don't mistake access for a rival,
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  Speaker 1: because the same heart that receives revelation can lose it.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus warned that those who hear and do not act,
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  Speaker 1: what little they have will be taken. Revelation demands response,
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  Speaker 1: and if you treat holy things casually, the veil returns,
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  Speaker 1: the parables become riddles again, and the fire grows cold.
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  Speaker 1: This mystery is especially urgent now because we are living
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  Speaker 1: in a generation addicted to information but allergic to transformation.
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  Speaker 1: We want in sight without obedience, fire without sacrifice, revelation
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  Speaker 1: without repentance. And Jesus is still speaking in parables, not
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  Speaker 1: to entertain, but to expose. So I ask you plainly,
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  Speaker 1: what is the condition of your heart? Are you dull, distracted,
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  Speaker 1: double minded? Or are you still trembling at his word?
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  Speaker 1: Because the kingdom doesn't bow to pride, it doesn't open
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  Speaker 1: for the indifferent. It opens to those who fear the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: who treasure every word, who don't just want to know truth,
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  Speaker 1: but become it. And if that's your desire, make it visible.
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  Speaker 1: Write in the comments, give me eyes to see. Let
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  Speaker 1: that be your prayer, your cry, your declaration, Because if
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  Speaker 1: God is still granting vision, still opening ears, then we
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  Speaker 1: dare not waste the invitation. Don't settle for hearing stories.
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  Speaker 1: Press into their substance. Don't just admire the parables. Become
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  Speaker 1: the disciple who understands them. The ninth mystery is coming,
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  Speaker 1: and it's not found in Matthew. It's found in a parable.
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  Speaker 1: Many ignore because they think it's about lost sheep or coins.
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  Speaker 1: But it's deeper than that. It's the mystery of the prodigal,
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  Speaker 1: where the real danger wasn't in the pig pen, but
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  Speaker 1: in the pride of the brother still in the house.
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  Speaker 1: If you're ready, we'll go there. Next. Everyone remembers the
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  Speaker 1: son who ran. Every One preaches the pig pen, the rebellion,
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  Speaker 1: the awakening, the return, and rightly so. His story is
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  Speaker 1: the story of all of us, at some point, wandering, empty, broken,
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  Speaker 1: then embraced by mercy. But Jesus didn't end the parable
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  Speaker 1: when the father ran. He didn't close the story at
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  Speaker 1: the robe and the ring. He added another scene, quiet, subtle,
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  Speaker 1: often skipped by sermons, because in that final scene stands
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  Speaker 1: the mystery most dangerous to those already in the house.
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  Speaker 1: The elder brother. He wasn't rebellious. He was responsible. He
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  Speaker 1: didn't run off to sin. He stayed and served. He
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  Speaker 1: did everything right on the outside. But when grace irrupted,
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  Speaker 1: when the father threw a party for a repentant wreck,
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  Speaker 1: something dark surfaced, anger, resentment, jealousy, and he refused to
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  Speaker 1: go in. Pause. Here, the prodigal had been outside the
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  Speaker 1: house and was now inside, feasting. The elder brother had
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  Speaker 1: always been inside and now stood outside fuming. This is
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  Speaker 1: no longer a story about rebellion. It's a revelation about religion.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus was speaking directly to the Pharisees in this parable,
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  Speaker 1: the ones who watched him eat with sinners and couldn't
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  Speaker 1: understand it. The ones who were offended by grace because
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  Speaker 1: they had grown addicted to comparison. The elder Brother is
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  Speaker 1: not a secondary character. He's a prophetic mirror, and some
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  Speaker 1: watching this right now might see themselves in it, because
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  Speaker 1: pride can wear holiness like a mask. Spiritual arrogance hides
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  Speaker 1: beneath routines. You fast, you serve, you tithe, you read.
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  Speaker 1: But when God blesses someone who just got saved. When
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  Speaker 1: favor falls on the broken and not the perfect, something
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  Speaker 1: in you recoils. That is the elder brother rising. He
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  Speaker 1: said to his father, I have served you all these years,
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  Speaker 1: and you never gave me a goat? Do you hear
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  Speaker 1: the entitlement the transaction? He didn't serve from love, He
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  Speaker 1: served for reward. He didn't see the father as a father.
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  Speaker 1: He saw him as a boss. And now that grace
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  Speaker 1: disrupted the system, he couldn't handle it. How many believers
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  Speaker 1: to day serve like employees, not sons. How many measure
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  Speaker 1: God's love by answered prayers, open doors, ministry, success, And
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  Speaker 1: when God pours mercy on someone who didn't earn it,
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  Speaker 1: they get offended. Why Because elder brothers don't understand the kingdom.
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  Speaker 1: They don't understand that mercy is not earned, it's given.
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  Speaker 1: And if you can't celebrate someone else's restoration, you've never
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  Speaker 1: really understood your own. The father's response is heart breaking.
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  Speaker 1: He comes outside, not to scold, but to invite son.
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  Speaker 1: All that I have is yours. But it was right
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  Speaker 1: to celebrate because your brother was dead and is alive again.
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  Speaker 1: He wasn't just defending the prodigal. He was correcting the pride.
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  Speaker 1: He was saying, you could have had a feast any day,
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  Speaker 1: but you were too busy earning what was already yours.
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  Speaker 1: That's the tragedy of the elder brother. He lived in
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  Speaker 1: the house but never tasted the joy. He obeyed the
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  Speaker 1: rules but missed the relationship, and when revival broke out,
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  Speaker 1: he resented it. This is the ninth mystery. Spiritual pride
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  Speaker 1: can keep you close to God's presence, but far from
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  Speaker 1: his heart. You can know the songs, the structure, the language,
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  Speaker 1: and still be blood to grace. You can be in
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  Speaker 1: the building but outside the celebration, because the kingdom isn't
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  Speaker 1: accessed through effort, It's access through humility. And here's the
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  Speaker 1: piercing truth. Jesus never finishes the parable. He never tells
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  Speaker 1: us if the elder brother went in because he was
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  Speaker 1: leaving the ending to us. Will you stay outside, clutching
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  Speaker 1: your record of obedience, or will you humble yourself and
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  Speaker 1: enter the joy of the Father. Some of you have
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  Speaker 1: been walking with God for years, but joy has vanished.
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  Speaker 1: Worship feels hollow, prayer feels like duty. And the reason
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  Speaker 1: might not be burnout. It might be bitterness, pride, the
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  Speaker 1: slow corrosion of comparison. But today the Father is coming
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  Speaker 1: out to meet you, not with rebuke, but with invitation.
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  Speaker 1: Come in, celebrate, be healed, be free. If that's your
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  Speaker 1: cry to day, type in the comments I'm coming in.
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  Speaker 1: Let it be a prophetic act, a turning, a surrender.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have to stay outside, you don't have to
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  Speaker 1: prove your worth. You just have to lay down your pride.
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  Speaker 1: The final mystery awaits, and it's not a parable, it's
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  Speaker 1: a pattern, a thread woven through every one of these stories,
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  Speaker 1: a warning and a promise, and in section ten will
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  Speaker 1: uncover it. But more than that, we'll pray for eyes
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  Speaker 1: to see, ears to hear, and hearts to burn again
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  Speaker 1: with the revelation of Jesus, what if the greatest truths
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  Speaker 1: in scripture are not on the surface, but beneath it.
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  Speaker 1: What if God has always hidden his treasures in mystery,
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  Speaker 1: not to tease the curious, but to reward the hungry.
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  Speaker 1: As we've walked through these seven parables, it becomes clear
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  Speaker 1: Jesus didn't teach like a philosopher. He taught like a
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  Speaker 1: king with secrets, and those secrets were never meant for
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  Speaker 1: the crowd. They were meant for disciples, for those who
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  Speaker 1: pressed in when the stories ended, for those who are
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  Speaker 1: asked when others walked away. Every parable was a blade
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  Speaker 1: cutting two directions. The sour separated hearts. The wheat and
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  Speaker 1: tears revealed that not all growth is godly. The mustard,
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  Speaker 1: seed and leaven exposed how the Kingdom starts small but
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  Speaker 1: spreads like fire. The treasure and Pearl demanded surrender of
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  Speaker 1: everything for the sake of one thing. The dragnet unveiled judgment,
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  Speaker 1: and the householder challenged the faithful to steward both ancient
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  Speaker 1: roots and present revelation. And then came the elder brother,
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  Speaker 1: still standing outside, missing the feast while clinging to performance.
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  Speaker 1: But beneath all of these was one unifying thread. The
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  Speaker 1: Kingdom of Heaven is not casual. It is not cheap.
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  Speaker 1: It is not a sermon you hear once and move
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  Speaker 1: on from. It is a realm of glory that demands
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  Speaker 1: your full allegiance. Jesus didn't die to make us religious.
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  Speaker 1: He died to make us new. And then when he
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  Speaker 1: left us parables not just to study, but to enter
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  Speaker 1: the mystery of the kingdom is not that it's hidden
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  Speaker 1: from us. It's that it's hidden for us. And the
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  Speaker 1: access code is surrender, not brilliance, not background, not influence,
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  Speaker 1: just brokenness, just hunger, just fear of the Lord and
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  Speaker 1: love for the truth. And if you've made it this far,
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  Speaker 1: you are not in the crowd any more. You're in
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  Speaker 1: the room where Jesus explains the parables. You've been invited
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  Speaker 1: behind the veil. The only question left is will you
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  Speaker 1: obey what you now see? Maybe this series has awakened something.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe the word feels weightier now, maybe your heart has burned,
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  Speaker 1: not with excitement, but with holy fear, the sense that
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  Speaker 1: these stories were never just stories. They were tests, mirrors, warnings, invitations.
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  Speaker 1: And now the Father is asking you not to admire
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  Speaker 1: the kingdom, but to enter it. If that's your cry,
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  Speaker 1: type this in the comments right now, let me carry
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  Speaker 1: the mysteries. Make it your banner, your vow, your declaration
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  Speaker 1: that you will not stay surface level, that you will
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  Speaker 1: not live in casual Christianity, that you want to steward
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  Speaker 1: the fire, not just watch it burn in some one else.
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  Speaker 1: And now let's pray, not a soft prayer, not a
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  Speaker 1: comfortable one, but a dangerous one, a prayer, for revelation,
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  Speaker 1: for repentance, for realignment with heaven. Father, in Heaven, you
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  Speaker 1: are the revealer of mysteries, the one who speaks in
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  Speaker 1: fire and whispers in thunder and parables. We come to
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  Speaker 1: you not as experts, but as dust, kneading you, hungering
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  Speaker 1: for you, desperate to see what only a spirit can show.
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  Speaker 1: Tear down every veil in our hearts, Expose the pride
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  Speaker 1: that stays outside the celebration, break the casualness that treats
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  Speaker 1: truth like trivia. Open our ears to your voice, our
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  Speaker 1: eyes to your movement, our minds to your word. Let
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  Speaker 1: us not just study the kingdom, Let us carry it.
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  Speaker 1: Birth in us a holy trembling, a fear that leads
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  Speaker 1: to obedience, a love that leads to surrender, and a
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  Speaker 1: hunger that never fades. We don't want information, we want impartation.
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  Speaker 1: Make us disciples of the mysteries in Jesus name, Amen.
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  Speaker 1: If this series has changed the way you read scripture,
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  Speaker 1: we invite you to stay connected, like and share this
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  Speaker 1: would you like us to uncor cover next? What mystery
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  Speaker 1: and scripture do you long to understand? Tell us in
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  Speaker 1: the comments. Your hunger helps guide what we release next.
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  Speaker 1: This is deep Bible stories where the word is not
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  Speaker 1: just explained, it is encountered. Stay close, stay broken, stay hungry,
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  Speaker 1: stay blessed.