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2 Samuel 5 (Part 3) Bible Study | Pastor Daniel Batarseh · Bible Study with Pr. Daniel Batarseh | Verse by Verse Series | Maranatha Bible Church - Chicago

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We're doing something a little different tonight.
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I hope you're okay with it. We did this in the past where I
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was in so elevated and we'll see how this goes.
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If it's more distracting that I'm going to go back up there if
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it's more engaging than I'm going to stay right here.
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Okay. Meet me in the book of second.
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Samuel chapter five in your Bibles.
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Second, Samuel chapter five. I hope me coming down here.
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Doesn't mean more people going to move back.
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Because we already have that issue.
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So if you want to come forward, I won't bite.
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I might yell but I won't buy. There you go.
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Thank you one person did it actually.
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There you go. If you want that close I mean
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that's that's those are that's really close okay.
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Great second, Samuel chapter five, are you there?
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Let's pray one more time. My brother pray but I think it's
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worth praying one more time as we come to the text.
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Lord indeed, we thank you that we have this chance to be
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together in your house on a Friday night.
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We don't take it for granted. Hello, we know that when we come
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in the name of Jesus Christ, you were in the midst, you the Risen
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Christ are here with us and Lord, more than that, you are in
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us and we pray that you would illuminate these words and where
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that we would sense your voice. We would realize your
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fellowship, Your Love toward us in providing this portion of
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sacred scripture, but we ask for your anointing in the delivery
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of this word. We pray for your anointing as
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first John 2 and understanding this word.
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So that we can be centered in your will and that we can be
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elevated in our worship and our glorifying of you.
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We ask these things in the precious name of Jesus, who
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purchased who purchased our Salvation in Jesus name?
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We pray. Amen.
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This is different and I'm going to do something else.
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Different, here's what's going to happen.
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I'm going to read this tax, the part 3 of chapter 5 and then I'm
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going to ask you. I'm gonna ask everyone here to
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participate in, including your observations of this text.
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There's going to be a lot more teaching and interactive.
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And so, pay attention as I read, follow along in your Bibles, we
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are here in verse 17. This is our third installment in
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this chapter, And I'm just going to read it straight through.
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And then I'm going to ask what you see in the initial reading
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of this text first 17, when the Philistines heard that David had
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been anointed king over Israel, all the Philistines went up to
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search for David but David heard of it and went down to the
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stronghold. Now, the Philistines had come
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and spread out in the valley of rephaim.
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And David inquired of the Lord. Shall I go up against the
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Philistines? Will you give them into my hand?
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And the Lord said to David go up for I will, certainly give the
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Philistines it into your hand and David came to Baal perazim
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and David defeated them there. And he said, the Lord has broken
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through my enemies before me like a breaking flood.
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Therefore, the name of that place is called Baal perazim.
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And the Philistines left their Idols there and David and his
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men carried them away and the Philistines came up yet again
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and spread out in the valley of rephaim and David inquired of
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the Lord, he said You shall not go up go around to their rear
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and come against them opposite, the Boston trees.
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And when you hear the sound of Marching In the tops of the
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balsam trees, then Rouse yourself for then.
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The Lord has gone out before you to strike down the army of the
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Philistines, and David did As the Lord commanded him and
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struck down the Philistines from giba to his ear.
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Initial observations. Anything that stands out?
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Yes, he inquired of the Lord of what he should do.
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Good. Yes.
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The confirmation that this will. In fact come?
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Yes, John. Yeah, so all the Philistines so
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this is this is an important Mission.
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This is serious to the Philistines.
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Yes, very good. So we heard from John that he
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inquired of the Lord and Barrett observed.
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I'm sure you did as well that he inquired the Lord again about a
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matter that was so similar to the first time.
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Interesting. Yes.
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Yes, he followed, he obeyed. We're told in the last four as
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David did. What?
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The Lord commanded him? Yes.
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Amen. Yes.
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And the Lord has broken through my enemies.
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Absolutely Laurie. Sure.
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So he goes directly to the Lord. Now somewhat assume that the
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priest was there, but we're not told clearly.
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So we just gonna have to go with what we see hear and say from an
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initial observation, he's going directly to God.
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Very good David and his men carried away, the idols that
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significant will get to that. Yes, so the first thing is knew
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about David obviously so they had a close watch on David,
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very, very good. What prompted the Philistines to
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come up against David when they heard that he was anointed.
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So the timing of the attack is very very important as well.
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Very good, this is great. Any other observations Pastor
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Brown. Yeah.
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So David went down to the stronghold.
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That's an interesting observation as well.
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Where do we go? When we feel like we're
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overwhelmed, David Goes Down, Anything else?
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The Philistines were Relentless. So even though they experienced
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a crushing defeat, the first time they would again, come and
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attack its audacious. Okay.
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So in the, in the new King James, you said yeah, the new
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King James, it reads, that that God came through, like a, like a
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Breaking of water, like a flood and we'll get to that as well.
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That's a great detail. Yes, very good.
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So, the second time, the victory goes, even Beyond the Valley and
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extends. So, it was even, it was even
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more than what happened initially.
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Awesome, wonderful observations, anything else?
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Yes. Yes that was the sign.
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Once you hear the rustling of the leaves on the balsam trees
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that's the signal for you to go ahead significant.
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Very significant of course anything else.
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Marching. So who's marching?
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Well, it's an invisible Army. Surely yes.
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Any other observations, wonderful?
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The reason why I'm doing this and we'll do this from time to
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time, maybe we'll do it every week.
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I don't know, but the reason why I'm doing this is because I want
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us to be able to practice the tools that we should be
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implementing when we seek to excavate from God's word, right?
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And those tools are simply reflective questions that we
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should be engaging with the text.
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And so I want to offer you questions that I have whenever I
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read any portion of scripture, my first question always no
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matter what text I come to Leviticus or Romans.
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It doesn't matter. I'm always asking this, what is
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this teach me about? God, what is this?
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Say about God, his nature, his character his ways, right?
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Secondly, what does this tell me?
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And teach me about, man about me in Christ about men outside of
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Christ, man. Walking in obedience, man,
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walking in Disobedience. What is it?
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What does it teach me? What is this text teach me about
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about that? What do they teach me about and
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then you can get their sub questions?
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What does this teach me about worship?
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What is this? Teach me about my engagement
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with the world. So as men and the horizontal
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level, what is this? Teach me and even my vertical
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relationship with God. Another question is beyond that,
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what do I know from the surrounding context?
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That will help me understand the flow of this text.
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So I'm always looking just prior to what I'm reading in my daily
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reading. I'm looking at what I read
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before this. And then from there, I'll say,
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well, the wider context. So the book now, what is it?
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What's the themes of the book, your house, the flow of thought?
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How is this happening? And what are these things
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connected bring about? In terms of a greater
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Revelation, then I'm going Beyond.
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I'm saying, okay, I'm looking at this text again.
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And the way I visualize reading over the sink tax.
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It's as though you're digging deeper and deeper, right?
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So you read again, and then you read again and it seems like
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you're just getting any. You find one nugget here and you
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could keep digging, you find another Jewel here.
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That's how you should look at it.
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So then after that, I'll ask something along and it's not
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even in this particular order, but I'll ask, do I see any
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repetitions? Do I see any emphasis in this
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text? Do I see any names?
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Or places. That might help me understand a
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deeper meaning, like we read here of a couple places but I'll
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pair azim rephaim, what are those names mean?
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And when you go, when you go the extra mile, it's always worth it
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because you will indeed find something of worth in that
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Pursuit. And then I might continue to
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read and say, what new testament.
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I always do this and you're the only way you can, you can
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consistently and carefully. Apply the Old Testament is, if,
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you know, the new, which I don't think we struggle with.
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But the way I go about engaging with the oldest, What new
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testament principles or truths? Do I see Illustrated, especially
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in the narratives of the old? So, I look, we look David
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inquired of the Lord. So there's lessons there about
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prayer. Do I see anything in the New
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Testament that I can see being exemplified in real life here in
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the story, very simple tools. But if you, if you just, if you
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go beyond just, oh, I read my text.
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Okay, I paid my dues. That's where you're going to get
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Revelation. That's where your Bible.
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The Bible gets exciting, and when you come to a new text or a
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new book, whenever I come to a new book, like what, I just
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finished acts, right? And I actually Romans and now
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I'm coming in to First Corinthians and now I've First
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because I've lost count, how many times I've read it.
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But as I come to First Corinthians with those tools in
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mind at all, what am I going to see?
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Now, what am I going to see this time?
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Because, you know, over the years I've dug, I've dug, but
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here's the thing with the word of God, it's endless, it's
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endless so you keep digging it. Does you don't like Kink and you
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don't come to a place where the, okay.
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I think I figured it out. It's endless and so have that
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Faith as you approach the word of God.
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So here we are in second, Samuel chapter 5, and what's happening
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here in the context is David as we heard was anointed king of
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Israel. And we know here that a familiar
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foe to the Israelites have now they arose.
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And now their attention is up. There are learn about what's
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happening in this shift, in Israel's political Arena.
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And so they are ready now to attack, and David here is not
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unfamiliar with the Philistines, his own personal history, he's
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dealt with them before, he's gone to war with them.
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He has ransacked and he's defeated them more than that.
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Remember when David was back slidden.
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A little bit over a year, he was with who these guys.
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And so I'm sure David was a smart individual.
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He gathered Intel and he understood how they thought and
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he probably heard conversations and so he was even more equipped
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at this point and understanding how to deal with the Enemy.
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But what's interesting here is that David and choirs of the
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Lord and he does it again and with his General, contextual
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frame of I now we're going to dig in and see exactly what it
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is. That the Holy Spirit has
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prepared the meeting details in these verses.
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I'm telling you I was on verse 14.
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So long, I was scared we were going to finish with you apart
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for. So I had to force myself a
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little bit, not that I want to, but in order to cover the
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context, look at verse 17, when the Philistines heard that David
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had been anointed king over Israel, all the Philistines went
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up to search for David, okay, the timing of the attack, the
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timing of the attack personally reading this, I took three
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lessons out of you. Just at the timing.
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When the Philistines came, what do you see there in the timing
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of the Philistines that you can draw principles from in our own
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lives? Yeah, very good point.
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So it is often the strategy of Satan that when there is
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progression in the will of God advancement in the will of God,
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a graduation in godliness that he will fight and he will gather
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his troops. He would gather his schemes and
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he will launch them towards you need, because he is very
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Vigilant of the spirits activity.
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He's very aware and he is observant and he's calculated.
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And he knows something is gaining traction, then he is on
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alert and he preemptively seeks to bring a halt less something,
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whether it's individually, or corporally, advances further.
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And so that is that is something that we should understand less.
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We become discouraged for no reason.
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If we understand that, this is how the enemy works, then we
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will be prepared in those transitional moments and those
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times where you put your mind to do something or when you're set
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on putting your hand to the plow and a particular Ministry, or a
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habit, or a conviction know that the enemy is right there, ready
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to put it to a stop as early as possible.
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And I wonder if because of the lack of this, understand, you
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have so many people who don't grow or who is easily just fall
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back into where they started from.
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Because they don't realize that if I'm really going to do
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something for God in God's name, the enemy is not just going to
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sit back and that includes so many things.
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So many things, I was reading this.
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And I thought of a simple visit that Paul wanted to make to the
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Thessalonians. And first Thessalonians chapter
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2, I just want to read the student.
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Notice what Paul. Says to the church.
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He says in verse 18 because we wanted to come to you, that's
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the desire. We we wanted to come to you.
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I Paul again and again but Satan hindered us.
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So he was fully aware, we're trying to get to you physically
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and Satan is putting one obstacle before us after the
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next. And what was it?
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What was the plan just to come to them?
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And that's important because that shows just how much Satan
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hates you coming here with the people of God.
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Sunday morning. Okay, Friday night.
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You got to be kidding me and he'll do anything to make sure
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because there's a special Grace, a special protection from Satan
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himself. You read that in First
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Corinthians 5. I was in my reading today.
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There's a special protection from Satan.
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That's why excommunication is terminal eyes.
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As what being given over to who Satan.
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So we have to understand that there's there's something
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special that this the enemy hates.
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So even when bosses we want to come to you cause I don't know
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how I'm going to put up a fight. And when you set yourself to do
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something for the little one and Ministry, seeks to be gospel
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centered and to go out and Mission.
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The enemy will show up, the enemy will show up and he'll do
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it as early as possible. One of the ways I've seen is the
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most in my personal life, pre Ministry during Ministry when
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people decide to get baptized. When people make the decision
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that they're going to make that Monumental step and actually get
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in the water die to self. Right?
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As a symbol. But as an act of obedience to
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the Lord, Jesus Christ and that ordinance.
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It never fails. It never fails to see spiritual
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warfare, come like a flood and so now it's come to the point
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where it's so common. When somebody comes up to me and
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they're serious about getting baptized one of the first things
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I say to them is, hey, watch the opposition.
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It's coming your way and the enemies creative.
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So be extra vigilant, be extra prayed up.
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Don't give yourself to the Flesh.
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And warfare, blows up at home, things happen in their own
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minds. I've had people call me the
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night before. True Born Again.
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Spirit-filled people call me brother.
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I can't do this. There's no way.
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I don't know why. Whoa, what's going on?
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I don't know, I just, I can't imagine myself, relax, and it
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happens all the time, because Satan does not want you to walk
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in obedience and it does not want you to glorify God in any
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way. And so this is the first thing
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anything else from the the timing of the attack.
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I was kind of like to mention this but when I see when I see
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David and the Philistines reminds me of Ukraine and
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Russia, okay. And one
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the Ukraine now and the Ukraine people Taking all the weaponry
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and the reclaiming, the land again.
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It's almost like what he is. Yeah.
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So I see what you're saying and I think I want to do something
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else with this text. Now you want to look at the
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principle. So we saw the very obvious
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interpretation of it, but look at the principle of it even
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though this is the devil, you know, it's revealing his tactics
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towards the children of God. There's something here about a
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strategy that we should apply as the people of God, concerning
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Warfare on our end. And here's what I want to say.
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It's our Warfare concerning sin, So the same way that Satan came
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as early as possible to put a halt to this advancement of
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God's Will, and God's purpose and God's Kingdom on the earth.
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You and I should look at sin as a threat as early as possible
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and do everything that we can to extinguish its influence in our
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lives, okay? And this is why it's important
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because many strongholds that people are trying to pull down
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today, could have been dealt with much earlier when they were
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just but seed All right, so much of the struggles that people
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have in their lives today is because they refuse to see the
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Hazardous danger of sin when it was just a thought pattern. when
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when they saw their emotions begin to Cloud their judgment
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and they began to be reactionary and they begin to be in the
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flesh towards things towards people towards situations when
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they failed to realize that words will eventually lead to
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actions, And so in the same way, the Philistines came to David
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Wright when he was anointed right when when he was beginning
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to gain strength you and I should have the exact same
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approach and attitude when we see sin.
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Not just not just in full force, but sin and its seed form in its
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in its embryo state. So I have to do something about
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this. Now right here right now let's
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this become something that will be overwhelming.
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It's like extinguishing a spark, you don't wait for the bushel to
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burn up. You don't wait for a tree to
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combust in Flames it requires much more energy and much more
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counseling and much more conversation if you had just
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dealt with it. When it was there in the
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beginning, things could change. And here's the thing, if you and
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I want Avoid dealing with sin and its destructive stage.
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Then you and I by the wisdom of God in the pursuit of true
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Holiness deal with sin and its desire phase, don't wait till
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its destructive deal with it, even when it's a desire.
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And so, where do I get that idea from?
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Well, James tells us, James tells us the sequence of sin
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developing its strength in our lives.
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If you don't know the passages in James chapter 1 and James
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chapter 1, we read in verse 14, but each person is tempted, when
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he is Lord and enticed by what his own desire eyes are looking
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up. So I'm assuming is behind me
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yes. By his own desire.
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Then desire when it has conceived, it gives birth to sin
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and sin when it is fully grown, what brings forth death, here's
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the thing that I want to say that if you and I just deal with
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sin while it's a desire, We don't have to wait for death to
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come. And and what I want to help you
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see, is that unchecked desires will eventually and can lead to
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Untold devastation. So look at the wisdom here.
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James is telling us you don't have to wait for sin to
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conceive. You don't have to wait till
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Decay comes in when it is just a desire, then you can go to war
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with it. And so here's what I want to
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say. Just give me one moment.
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Just here's what I want to say. When you look at something like
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this, go to God with your imaginations, when you see them
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going in the wrong direction, don't wait till they manifest
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into Deeds. The moment you begin to see it
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become a pattern and an Unholy highlight reel.
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Do something about it then don't wait for that.
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Friction to turn it to faction when you know that there's
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something off with a brother or sister and you don't understand
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what it is. Communicate early on, don't wait
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until divisions happen deal with it right there.
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As early as you can. Bring that brother.
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Bring your wife. Bring your husband.
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Bring your children. Bring your parents before you
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and communicate. If you think about it, even in
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different ways ways that you don't even perhaps perceive when
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your heart begins to feel the chill.
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Of worldliness cooling off your Zeal for God don't wait until
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it's completely crystallized. Go to God right away.
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Say Lord, this frost on my heart.
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I can't be like I don't want to stay like I see where this is
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going. Would you do something with my
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heart now? Would you rekindle a fire and me
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now? And so if there's anything to
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learn from the enemy, if there's anything to relate to our own
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lives is go at it as soon as you can go at it in its early form.
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Don't wait till it matures. Don't wait till takes root.
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Squeeze the life out of it while it's still a seed.
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I want to give you a third one. So there's two right there.
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There's a third one. When the Philistines in verse
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17, heard that David had been anointed king over Israel.
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And here's the thing, what happened to Israel when David
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was anointed king? Very good.
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Unity prior to this, you had David's Kingdom in Hebron and
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you had the kingdom of ishka Chef the son of Saul.
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And there was division for how long seven years, right?
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During those seven years, there wasn't a single interference by
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the Philistines. Not one.
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We don't see the Philistines Gathering their troops in their
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armies. To come against David why
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they're fighting themselves. There's internal strife right
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there. Let them just go out as long as
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possible of anything. What was happening for seven
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years? Were serving the purposes of the
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enemy? What a horrific illustration?
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For what happens when Believers turn on one another.
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If you need any motivation, if you have any sense of the fear
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of God in you, if you if it shouldn't be the greatest moment
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as you. But if you need any motivation
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realize that in those moments, when you fail to forgive, when
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you fail to reconcile, when you fail to communicate, if somebody
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is offended, you, if you're offended, somebody else the way
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Jesus that you are an ally in the eyes of Satan, And I'll lie,
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they're just killing themselves, they're biting each other, we
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don't deal with them. And we'll go on to the next
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church that has a little bit more wisdom in the things of
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God. So imagine that the Philistines
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did not interfere, but the moment that David becomes king,
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and all the tribes are now unified.
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This is trouble, this is now there's something serious here
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and so the Philistines now come against David, they seek to do
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something. Before becomes too strong for
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them to even handle how much more for the Church of Jesus
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Christ. Unity is such a like it's such a
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it's again it's in the christianese language, but we
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don't understand how important Unity is one.
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Many people do understand what true Unity is.
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So the unify just because people use the name Jesus, they have a
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cross in front of their building.
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That's dangerous. We don't unify with those who
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have false Doctrine. Do they claim a Christ?
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That's not right Unity. But true.
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Unity among Believers is absolutely.
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If you just look at the Bible and study Unity New Testament,
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presents to us, how Unity is absolutely foundational to
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effective gospel. Witness It is.
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What did Jesus say in John 17:21 that they may be what one just
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as you father and I are in me and I in you rather that they
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also may be in us so that the world may believe that you have
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sent me. Let me let me just repeat this
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one more time, pay attention. I'm going to ask you a question
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that they may all be one just as you father are in me and I in
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you that they also may be in us so that the world may believe
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that you have sent Meet John 17:21.
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Here's my question. What is the relationship between
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unity in the church and the world?
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Realizing Jesus was sent by the father and to the world we had
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asked questions, what's the relationship there?
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Because according to the prayer Jesus, in this text, there is an
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effective witness, a gospel witness to a watching,
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cold-hearted divisive unforgiving world that when they
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behold how Believers treat one another, it will actually direct
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them to the gospel. Any ideas?
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It's not very complicated. Yes, corgis Okay.
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Amen. You need apart from Christ is
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impossible. Some people unify for evil
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things. And a lot of those times they
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eat each other eventually. They devour one another but true
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Unity of course is not possible apart from Christ but what else
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how it is. Believers becoming one lead
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people to the conclusion. Jesus was sent by the father.
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He must have been sent by the father The tangible evidence of
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Christ's redeeming power, which also includes the indwelling.
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Holy Spirit. Is that you and I from different
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tribes, different tongues, different, cultures different
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backgrounds, different sin. Histories can actually come
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Together live together. Get along.
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And such a way that a watching world would say how is it that
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you have Chinese and you have Arabs and Assyrians and you have
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you have Romanians and you have African-Americans and you have
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Mexicans all coming together. How is it that you have 85 year
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olds and 15 year olds, 20 year olds and six-year-old all coming
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together, consistently loving each other, embracing one,
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another serving one, another upholding one.
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Another, what's the secret? And then they would realize
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That's the power of the Gospel. That's the power of the Gospel.
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So we're saying, let's be missional, okay?
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You want to be missional, forgive You want to be
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missional, listen to Jesus when he says, if a brother offends,
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you deal with it. And Paul gets very, very
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specific with these instructions and Paul understood the prayer
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of Jesus when he spoke to the Corinthian Church because news
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comes to Paul, that one Corinthian is taking another to
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court. They're actually going before
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unbelievers and suing one. Another.
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And I love what Paul says because I Revisited today,
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listen to what he says just hear the language and First
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Corinthians 6 verse 6, but brother goes to law against
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brother. And that before unbelievers,
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then he goes on to say in verse 7 to have lawsuits at all with
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one. Another is already a defeat for
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you. I love Paul.
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It was the fact that you're even the suggestion that you're going
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to take your brother to court, you already lost.
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Like you already lost your testimony is gone.
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Look what he says, why not rather suffer wrong?
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Why not rather be defrauded? Here's what he's saying, so a
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Believer wants to take you to court.
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Why not? For the sake of your testimony?
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Just give the guy what he wants, if he wants to be in the flesh,
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give him what he wants. Why don't you suffer Rock for
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what sake, for the sake of the testimony of Christ?
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For the sake of the Gospel. See you want to be a serious
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Christian, huh? This is what it means to die to
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self because everything in you would say you want to take me to
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court. I'll hire a better lawyer.
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You want to do this? Let's fight.
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You want to go for it. Let's go for it.
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Paul saying, why don't you just lose just loose?
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Why? Because you're going to
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ultimately lose if you go before the world and show, what Jesus
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said that he would want from us, there's something greater here
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than your house, your car, more money, your business
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flourishing, there's something more and here's the I read this
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in a came to this conclusion, that people who continually
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strive, who can't forgive, who don't want to have conversation
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to, don't want to seek reconciliation, those people do
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not care about the lost. Have you ever thought of it like
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that? We always think that they're
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just in the flesh that they're selfish, that they're proud.
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No. No.
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According to what Paul is saying, here, they don't
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actually care about winning those who are perishing Because
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what Paul is using here, as a motivation to bring matters to
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an end to settle things. Is, there is a world that is
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perishing and desperately needs to see the power of the Gospel
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at work. So, for Christ's name, and for
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his message, sake, would you not die?
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And people who can't people, who remain in the flesh, in terms of
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relationship, with other people, those people don't have a sense
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of the Gospel. That's what I take out of it.
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Any of us claim to be serious about winning people to Christ,
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then you and I will be serious about dealing with our offenses.
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And seeking to put things in total Clarity and even willing
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to do what Paul says I'm willing to actually suffer wrong.
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So people always criticize, the gospel is not the solution to
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everything. Well, read the New Testament.
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The gospel is the motivation for a lot of things.
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Even in your marriage, what does Paul uses a motivation?
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The gospel go to court. What's the motivation?
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The gospel witness, the message of Christianity, our faith.
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And so the deeper understanding that you have a gospel, the
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moral impact your practical day-to-day life.
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And so, if you see anybody acting out and one specific way
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or another, you can know one thing.
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The fundamental issue there is that there is not understanding
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of the depth of the love of Jesus Christ and the witness
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that we should have out in the world.
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So notice once Unity came. Then the Philistines came,
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we're, I don't know how we're going to finish this tonight.
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We're still half of verse 17 can.
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Now, let's come down to verse 18.
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Now, the Philistines had come and spread out in the valley of
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rephaim and David inquired. Of the Lord.
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Shall I go up against the Philistines?
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Will you give them into my hand? And the Lord said to David go up
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for I will certainly give the Philistines into your hand.
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Here's what makes us so special and so exciting.
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David wasn't an expert at War David understood how to war
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against the Philistines. Especially, and for many, when
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it comes to prayer, it's usually engage with when they enter into
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the unknown. Or when they feel like there is
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no other option, there's no other Solutions.
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And so might as well just pray because we're desperate and
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there's there seems to be nothing that I can do or anybody
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else they can do for me. But here's the thing, true
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prayer, as David demonstrates. Is that even though you think,
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you know what to do, even though you may have strategy, you may
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have gifting, you may have knowledge.
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You still want to invite God's intervention into the matter.
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That's true. That's like true prayer.
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People say if you pray your humble.
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Yeah. But if you really want to pray,
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you pray like this man who in essence is confessing Lord.
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This may seem right. I may seem to know what to do,
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but you see what? I don't see.
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You know what, I don't know. You understand what?
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I Can't comprehend and totality. And so I'm asking you Lord that
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you would bring about the best possible outcome and that you
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would protect me from the worst because I live for your name, I
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represent your name and I want to glorify you in all that I do
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I want all that you can offer in this.
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I'm not going to presume. I'm not going to assume.
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Yes, I have a history defeating these people.
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Yes, I am Fearless. Yes I'm educated.
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But Lord, I come before you and I say, would you would you Would
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you be with me in this? That's true prayer and the
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principle behind David's prayer here.
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Although we may not receive verbal step-by-step instruction
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like he gets, we get to experience what he experienced
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and what he experienced was, ultimately confidence, he was
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looking for answers. Yes, but the core of it, he was
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looking for courage to get confirmation from God and he
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received that courage. And here's the thing, you and I
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whenever we pray, we can expect the same thing.
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That's your inheritance in mind because here's the thing,
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whenever you bring Matter before God, there is absolutely no
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reason to fear the outcome, no matter what it is.
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Because you've done your part and you brought it before the
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Lord. And so the outcome is favorable
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in the moment or not. You can rest assured.
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I've done my part, I've brought it before the Lord and God
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understands that I want his will so God will honor that.
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So you may not get an audible voice.
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That will tell you, go here go there.
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But the scriptures are absolutely filled with promises
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about what you get when you do one simple thing.
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Dang, can I read you one promise?
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Psalm 91, precious song verse 15.
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I want you to notice, if you want to turn that you can about
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all the, I Wills that God declares as a result of one
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decision that you. And I make one simple posture
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will open a world of divine, I Wills for you.
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And I Psalm 91 verse 15 when he calls to me.
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So as a result of that, when he calls to me, look at all the I
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Wills, I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble.
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I will rescue him and honor him with long life.
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I will satisfy him and show him. My steadfast love.
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I will answer him. I will be with them.
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I will rescue him, I will honor him, I will satisfy him.
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I will show him. Direction.
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Presence. Deliverance and even in some
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cases promotion, I will honor him.
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Here's the point, in David's case he had all those things
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happen in this situation, And here's the guarantee for you and
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I when you call to him, he will is a simple as that he will do
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something with that prayer every single time.
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That's what makes prayer so exciting.
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That's what gets me giddy even when a situation comes my way
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and it does not seem possible. By any human means to solve, oh,
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I'm going to bring you before a God, who can, who will?
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And I want to see what he's going to do with this.
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A prayer of this person has no hope they have no guarantee you
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have every reason to fear you have every reason to run around
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and waste your energy. If you do not take the time to
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pray, just one simple thing, it's amazing.
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It didn't say you will, you will you will.
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And I will do. He goes, you do?
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And I will not, I will not. I will not.
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I will not. I will.
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What more how much easier do you want it to be?
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It would make sense as Mortals and creatures.
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You do you do you do fill out Step 1.
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When you're done with that form, go to form a b and then fill
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that one out and then I will do. Maybe if I feel like it.
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No no you do I will, I will, I will.
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I will You can't find the motivation, the pray, yo, mama.
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So you praise. Now look what happens in verse
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20. And David came to Baal perazim
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and David defeated them there. And he said, the Lord has broken
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through my enemies before me like a breaking flood.
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Therefore, the name of that place is called mph azim.
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So something happened with this. David has seen victories in his
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life but something spectacular happened at this moment in such
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a way where he wanted to memorialize it and he want to
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have a testimony for generations to come Come to recall an aspect
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of God's faithfulness that is unique to this text.
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That it's a title that you and I have not really heard often
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about who God is and what he's able to do.
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So what was it here? That impressed David so much.
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I mean, read verse 20, there was something that he saw God, do
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that marked him for life and our brother read it earlier.
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It's the way in which God came How did he come like a what?
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Breaking flood. If you want a visual, it's like
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the tsunami that crashes through a crack.
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Damn without notice with David observed in God's dealing with
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his enemies is that he overwhelmingly.
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And without without any ability to stop it was Unstoppable swept
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up the Enemy Within the blink of an eye.
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That's what he saw before him and goes.
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But I'll pair azim. I mean if you have an advanced
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Bible you will see that the definition, there's in the
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bottom of the page. What does Baal perazim mean?
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What was it? Okay.
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There's by all means what? Anybody understand what by all
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means. Not God.
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Lord or master. A azim is generally translated
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as breakings fourth or break through even.
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So when you can read, this is the Lord of breakthrough.
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The Lord of breaking forth, breakings forth and that is what
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he's on the visual. There again is like, it's just
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like a flood that comes out of nowhere without without notice
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without any update, just suddenly happens and this is how
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David renames the region. He goes this area for will be
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known to our people as Baal perazim.
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And when you put all the pieces together with the context, what
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you see here is that David comes to this conclusion that he is,
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he is able to Suddenly shift a situation.
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Despite the obstacles that would make such a dramatic change in
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possible in the natural. Here's my question to you, Bible
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study Friday night Have you ever viewed?
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God is the god of breakthrough. Have you ever heard him referred
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to in such a way? I've heard, I've heard him
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referred to as the god of breakthrough but in a very
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shallow way. But when you see the context,
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when you understand that, this is actually a Biblical title, I
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wonder how many of us perceive the Lord in such a way.
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Because the way David Psalm was God has the ability to
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miraculously change the course of action in a moment.
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So, what does that look like in our context?
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Because we're not going to war with Philistines?
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What that can look like is? You have an enemy one day, who
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threatens? You may be friends you to go to
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court the next day, they just disappear.
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Where do they go? It looks like not having
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groceries and not having food to eat and not knowing where you're
41:40
going to get your next meal and all for a sudden grocery show up
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at your front step enough to feed you.
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For the next three weeks, it looks like not having a church
41:50
building. And before your next meeting a
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church building shows up, that's what it looks like.
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Baba, a Azeem, the Lord of breakthrough all for sudden.
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God just did it. And there's no way to explain in
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human terminology or human explanation.
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This was God himself and although God doesn't always work
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that way he does. And he's able to work in this
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way and you and I should have that faith and you and I should
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trust God to be able to do that. And do you know how you can open
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your life for Baal perazim to make his way in your life?
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Do what David did? He pray.
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He brought it before, God, he sought the Lord.
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The only way of Baal perazim was be able to manifest himself was
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because of a man who humble themselves before this kind of
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God, I don't know how this is going to happen.
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Lord, and God said just watch. Watch How I will break through.
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That excites me, but I would caution you to not ask for that.
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If you're not ready for what it will require, you want you want
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to see the Lord break through? You want to see the Lord do that
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and create memorials in your life, then expect to be placed
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in positions that will make you extremely uncomfortable.
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Sometimes in oftentimes for a season grueling testing,
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pressing X that will leave you in a place where you have
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literally, no, hope unless Heaven comes to your help.
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So, people ask for this, they want this, they want the
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testimonies they don't. Just they do, they don't want
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the test for the testimonies though they begin to squeal.
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Where is god? Well.
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You wanted to see him do what he can only do.
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Yes, and hold on. Keep praying stay before the
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Lord seek him. He was here's what's amazing,
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the beauty of that. Is that God will do something
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and he's able to do something to such a degree that you will
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never forget it. What was this?
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What was this Valley called? Because he renames it.
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Valley of what somebody said that Ruffian, does anybody know
43:57
she again here's the tool belt. What is r?
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Fa e mean because that's not in my English vocabulary so you do
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a little bit of research and you realize that Refugee means while
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Giants. Valley of giants.
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So put the pieces together. Now, your morning, devotions are
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getting exciting now, you're not even concerned about your cup of
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coffee. Now you're in it and now you're
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engaged, hold on the Lord of breakthroughs comes into the
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valley of giants. And the understanding is so
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simple without over spiritualizing, it is that God
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is able to suddenly remove the most fierce and intimidating
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enemies in my life. The most overwhelming as I stand
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in the shadow of things that would easily swallow me up.
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If I didn't have God on my side and God can do something about
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it. Not in stages, he can do it
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suddenly suddenly you and I should see God in such a way,
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because then you don't fear any man, no matter what kind of a
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giant he is physically political Giants, giant businessmen, Giant
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gangs gang leaders, gang Lords. You're dealing with the God who
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looks at Giants like grasshoppers.
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And in a moment, he can come and deal with you.
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I'm glad to be on his side but I also see secondary thing here.
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The Philistines were defeated and our brother brought it up to
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us earlier verse 21 and the Philistines left their Idols.
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There And David and his men carried them away.
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So why do you think the Philistines brought their Idols
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to the battle? Oh yeah.
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There are God's going to deliver us.
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You're always in trouble. If you can carry your God and
45:56
your pocket, all right, if you can put your little got on a
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cart and bring them, along with you, and put some fruit in front
46:03
of him, because it's going to whatever you're probably in
46:06
trouble, all right? And so the these guys, they
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bring their gods and then all four sudden they realize in a
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very dramatic way. Our God's failed us.
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And they were so disappointed that it was such a rude.
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Awakening that they did even, they didn't care to bring their
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gods, under the backpacks, and their shoulders and run back.
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They just left them on the field useless.
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And I read this and I thought to myself because I know some
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Prosperity people who love to use the Lord of breakthroughs.
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And what they mean by that is sudden prosperity.
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That banking I'll give you filled, just give us a seed.
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You want the psalm 91 blessing sow a seed of $91 and watch how
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the Lord of breakthrough will come in that sound nice.
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What a load of breakthrough suddenly will bring recovery to
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your body. All you have to do is buy our
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anointing oil by my handkerchief, the Paul go around
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selling his handkerchief. And they stop there.
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Why don't you honor the context and understand what the lord of
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breakthrough did if there's any suddenly that God will and is
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able to bring its to tear down idols and render them powerless?
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I See You gospel truth here, maybe you don't, I do here's the
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gospel truth that when God by the power of His holy spirit
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enters into a life, he brings Idols down He brings sin down
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and the law of Grace brings about dominion over that, which
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the flesh could not see victory in. and so if there's anything
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that got can do suddenly in believe it is that when he truly
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enters into your life, in the power of the regenerating work
47:46
of the Holy Spirit, he can bring about your Idols to be as
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nothing. And that's the gospel I believe
47:56
in. I don't believe in the gospel
47:58
that saves you but doesn't save you from the power of sin.
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That's not the gospel of the Bible.
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And so you have to understand here that this is a wonderful
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picture of these Idols submitting to the Lord who can
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come and suddenly change how Idols operate, how Idols worked
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in your life. The power that they might have
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had in your life and some might object and say, well, brother, I
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believe in the gospel, but I am honest with you, I can't seem to
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shake off. What Idols do in my life, what
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sin does in my life? It seems to just have total
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control over my will and then, I would answer in this way as much
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as God can and will and purchase the ability for you to know
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victory over sin, you have a role to play in it.
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I hope that didn't sound blasphemous. because here again,
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we see, and if you want another question to put in your tool
48:50
belt, is there a paralleling passage to this text?
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And if there is what other details Does it include, that is
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not here. We see here that the Philistines
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left their Idols, there and David and his men carried him
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away to do what with them, put them in their homes.
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Somebody said it, what how do you know?
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Close. Yes.
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What John know Deuteronomy is a passage though.
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You're right Deuteronomy. Chapter 7.
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So I'm not discrediting you because God told him to cleanse
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the land from Idols. But in the exact same passage
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and a paralleling text we have exactly what it is that they did
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with these items. You want to see it first
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Chronicles chapter 14, verse 12. And they left their gods, their
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and David gave command. And they did what and they were
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burnt. Yes.
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So these Idols felt powerless before God who intervened and
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now they were able to carry these Idols in their hands.
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And let me tell you in the gospel, God puts the weapon of
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Grace in your hands but you have a choice in what you're going to
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do with that Idol. That's what.
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Yeah. Unfortunately for some people
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they just they're still infatuated with certain sins.
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They still love certain says they still can't let go of
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certain since they can't let go of the pleasure or the benefit
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or whatever it is that a certain sin offer so they can't fully
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get rid of it. Well, God did what he can.
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Now you got to do your part and your part is to burn it.
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Your part is to willingly say, I want to see this turn to Ash, I
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never want to see it. Resurrected ever again in my
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life? That's the kind of hard posture
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that she's complete victory over sin and so if you really want to
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see it, it's not God's fault. He did all that he can on
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Calvary. It's now with the grace that
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he's purchased play, sitting in your hand, so that you can now.
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Look at those things that in the law, you could not do to say.
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Now I will put you to Extinction.
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I do not tell you about sinless perfectionism because look what
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happens. Next verse 22 and the
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Philistines came up yet again. And spread out in the valley of
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rephaim. Our brother said, it sin is
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Relentless. The flesh is ambitious.
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Satan is a fighter. And so let us encourage the
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people of God who go to war with her sin who want to grow in the
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will of God. No, this you are not going to
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see total relief until the resurrection.
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Okay, you're not going to seek. It's not going to ever.
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I promise you be a vacation in this life.
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That's awaiting us, when were clothed with white robes.
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And we're In our minds and our bodies in every way possible.
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Why do I bring that up? Don't be weary.
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Don't, don't be discouraged. If Satan's going to do anything.
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He might remove himself for a season but not for very long.
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Unless you're not doing anything to advance.
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The will of God. He will come again, he will show
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up. He is again very, very
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ambitious. so the Philistines show up and look what David does
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in verse 23 and when David inquired of the Lord, What a
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wonderful example. I mean, God put this story here
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for us for a reason, David inquired of the Lord and here's
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what's so special. He does not implement the same
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strategy. Although the situation is the
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same, the same guys, in the same Valley.
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Okay, let's just do what we did the first time.
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And he doesn't do that. He pauses again.
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And he comes before the Lord and He inquires?
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What a reflex, what an attitude? What humility?
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Can I encourage you to do something, please believer.
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Talk to God about everything. Talk to the Lord about
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everything, bring it all before him, just just let your humility
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shine before him. As you say, oh God I need you
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again. There's trouble in my marriage
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again, I need you again, right? And I think there's a lesson you
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learn is that just don't give up seeking the Lord.
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Oftentimes it is the testimony. Many Believers were prayer was
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so fervent in those beginning phases and you really saw God do
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things and if for some reason maybe because we get jaded or
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you come familiar or we just feel like we could figure things
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out and maybe we've tried things without prayer and it seemed to
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be okay. So we just remove ourselves from
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that place. No stay there.
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Stay there. He inquires of the Lord, he
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seeks the Lord again. And here's what's so incredible?
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God's going to answer differently.
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Here's what I take out of this. What you shouldn't take out of
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this is maybe we should explore unbiblical methods to deal with
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certain situations because maybe the Bible, doesn't prescribe to
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every dilemma wrong wrong, know what you do?
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See out of this is that we must learn how to be dependent upon
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the Lord, even in the application of the wisdom and
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precepts that he has provided us.
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So with the truths that we have, we should be, we should still be
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able to say. Lord, how do I go about this?
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How do I implement this truth? How do I how do I deal with
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this, with what you have given me?
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Let me give you an example. Let's say, for example, a dear
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servant of God approaches you and or they call you in this a
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brother. I'm so sad.
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I'm my mind is so cloudy. I'm even.
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I'm even entertaining. Thoughts that?
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I never thought I would, I want to just give up.
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I'm going to pull away. I think I'm done with this.
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I'm just going to. I don't know what to do with
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myself anymore. I'm just overwhelmed.
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I almost feel like I just want to go to heaven now.
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Okay. Now stop don't answer out loud.
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I know it's tempting to but just think about it.
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How would you prescribe a remedy to that person?
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Can I give you the general, answer it read and pray, the
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read the Bible and pray, right? Read the Bible and pray now that
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is wonderful and that is that is a core action to everything.
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But Elijah had that problem. What did God do?
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Did he say read your Bible and pray?
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That he know the man was suicidal.
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You know what? God did eat drink.
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Take a nap. This is how very spiritual
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that's it. It was God wakes up.
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Okay here eat again during a go back to sleep.
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What's the Great Commission? Go into all the world and preach
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the gospel right Make Disciples of all Nations, baptizing them,
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and teaching them everything that I've taught you.
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Pulsar to preach the gospel when he, when he wants to go to free
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gun. When he went to go to galatian
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acts 16 and we're told in Acts 16 that the Holy Spirit forbade
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him. Okay.
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So what does he do? He thinks.
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Okay, maybe I'll go to my jie. So he goes up north and it says,
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the spirit of Jesus did not allow him.
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Well, I thought the Great Commission was go out to all the
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world and preach the Gospel. Holy Spirit says, not here wants
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to go that not there. So he goes south and he comes
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down to troas and there he receives a vision of a
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Macedonian man says come here and help us but it was also
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there when he met dr. Luke Because if you read acts
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carefully, the narrative changes from an outsider writing to, now
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the word we being introduced and Luke wrote the Gospel out so
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must have been there at that location where Luke joined the
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missionary team, so God didn't want to go there.
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Got there, want to go there. God wanted to go where he would
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meet dr. Luke And in dr.
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Luke would join the team and what a blessing dr.
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Luke was. So you see, even though things
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are clear and they're black and white in the scripture and there
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are things that people say I'm praying about, it's like, you
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don't have to pray about forgiving your brother.
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Okay, you know how to fasten ask people to help you you forgive,
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but there are some things that require timing and action and
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and even just just the way you do, things that we must seek the
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Lord for Lord help me. I don't know what to do with
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this. I know what I'm supposed to do
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to certain degree but I need your grace and and doing it in
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your absolute wisdom. I hope that makes sense.
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But here's the thing I believe, and we're closing in a moment
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that these two battles were put side by side to teach us.
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Thing about a balanced view of the ways of God in our lives.
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Because we see here that when David sought the Lord, the first
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time, it was extraordinary, it was like credible.
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And then when you see him coming to this same situation, look how
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the Lord answers him. He says in verse 23, you shall
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not go up, go around to their rear and come against some
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opposite. The balsam trees the first time.
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He said, go up What Davidson, what do I do?
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Are you gonna give it to my hand?
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So you can just go up right now. It's time to move forward when
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you seek some again, he says don't move.
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Until you get this sign. So we just heard about the Lord
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of breakthrough who can suddenly do things and then the same
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passage, we have the Lord who makes you wait.
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The Lord will makes you wait. And here's here's where we have
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to be careful, especially because we can Harbor
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discouragement and we can invite even bitterness. when we look at
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how God is moving in, somebody else's life in the same area of
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your life and it's not the same If we're not careful, look, this
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is the same situation and two different approaches
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orchestrated by God. And if you just widen that
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application to our lives, facing a same situation or enduring a
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similar season and then you look around and you see how God's
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doing it for brother so-and-so or sister.
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So, and so, and it does, it's very sudden, it's very glorious.
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It can go viral, they do the testimony on YouTube.
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You can get discouraged easily. and God was no less glorified in
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the second way that he answered that he was in the first And so
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you have people who discouraged in Ministry, they don't see
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that, they're they're years our ranking up and they're not
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accelerating at, they're not seeing the numbers that they
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thought they would. And, I mean, I would say this to
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ministers, especially, but you can apply in any way.
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You have people in relationships, we're looking for
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a relationship. They look at people, their age
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range, and they say they're getting married.
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And why didn't happen to me so quickly, and why is my story?
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So Bland, it's not as exciting and riveting.
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Well, hold on, it's the same God, Here's a different script
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for each of our sanctification. It's not going to be the same
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script. So don't envy don't be worried
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the same God who answered David and two different ways for the
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same situation will very likely do the same in your life as you
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contrast it to the. Next person's all you need to do
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is seek Him and trust them as David did.
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So be encouraged timing is much different, no less glorified and
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David saw victory. When you hear the sound of
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Marching In the tops of the balsam trees, then Rouse
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yourself for then. The Lord has gone out before you
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to strike down the army of the Philistines.
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Oh, I wonder what that was like for them to wait and all for a
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sudden. They may be heard a wind or
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maybe they heard something in the distance, but there was it
1:00:29
was obvious that these trees were moving and God went out
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before them and that was their confidence and really that's
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what prayer. Is it not?
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It's inviting God's intervention in the matter.
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God go before me God do this. I don't want to do it without
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you. I just call upon your name and
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let me know that you are indeed in this.
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Let me know. Your hand is out of want to do
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this. If your hand is not in it, I
1:00:55
don't want to pursue this any further.
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If you're not going to go before me, that's what it looks like.
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That's what it looks like. Moses had that same cry.
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If your presence does not go with me.
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I don't want the land. I don't want the angel that you
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promised. I don't.
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Victory over the enemies. I want your presence. and if you
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really want to know true joy in this life, it's when you know
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that God goes before you That's where you will know true,
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sincere satisfaction. And all we can say so much more,
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can we not? But I trust that.
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As you have these tools, maybe you can say something about this
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passage, maybe we could talk about it over Fellowship.
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Let's pray. Lori.
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Tell you from the bottom of our hearts.
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What? A mighty God.
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We serve You are indeed the Lord of breakthrough.
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You can come crashing in. You can come and deal with it
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within the blink of an eye. And Lord by faith.
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We ask that if there is a need in this house, That you would
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break through. And it would heal.
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You would provide, you would bring an answer, you would
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subdue. The enemy who seeks to devour
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our faith. But Lord, you're also The God
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Who says wait. It's a lord teach us to wait and
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teach us that if you do not come suddenly you were still in
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control and you know exactly what you're doing with our
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lives. You know exactly what kind of
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testimony you are preparing for your namesake through us as your
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vessels. Lord, we pray that if there
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would be any suddenly, he's in our lives, it would be the
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gospel work of sanctification. That would shatter the work of
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sin that has eroded and destroyed us prior to coming and
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knowing you destroy it. Lord, we believe you.
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Not just for our justification, we place our faith in you.
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Sanctifying us that the holy spirit in US.
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Can resurrect and bring to life Holiness and strength to soar
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above that, which seeks to have dominion over us.
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Lord, we pray that we would be so serious.
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About gospel, work and gospel witness that we would nurture
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and protect the unity of this ministry and that Lord, we would
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trust in the words that you said that in our Unity, the world
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would say surely the father has sent Jesus into this world to
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die for Sinners. Look at that church.
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They are unified and it has to be a supernatural source.
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Lord may we with our short lives.
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Glorify you in such a way we bless you for this study.
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We bless you for the interaction.
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We pray that our hearts would be edified and Lord, we just give
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you. Thanks and song tonight in Jesus
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name. Amen.
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Let's stand and Worship the Lord.