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#20240519 - The Number One Thing - Luke 10:38-42 · Calvary Church with Ed Taylor Podcast

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Welcome to the study of God's Word recorded live at Calvary
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Church in Aurora, Co. To learn more about the many
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dot Church or download our free Calvary Church.
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App. Now let's open our Bibles and
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study God's Word. Good to be back in Colorado when
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you live in Texas for 44 years, it's good to be back in
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Colorado. I I'm a Colorado boy, Rocky
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Mountain High. I'm not talking about drugs or
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alcohol. I'm talking about nature, the
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mountains, the trees, fishing, snow skiing, climbing, all that
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stuff. I did all that in high school.
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I'm, I'm from Denver. I'm from watch this Commerce
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City, Co. OK, I, I got to ask, is there
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anybody in the room from Commerce City, Co?
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Amen, brother, Amen. Kearney Junior High, Remember
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Kearney Junior High and Adam City High School.
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They tore our high school down for some reason.
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I don't know. But anyways, I, I come and some
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of my friends here today, I come from, you know what good can
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come out of Commerce City, Co because way back in the day,
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man, that was a bad, that was a bad place to grow up.
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Really bad. I was into motorcycles.
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I was only 14 when I got my first one, 1516, man, I was
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decked out at 16. I had a 350 Honda that I thought
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was bad. And on a Saturday morning in
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June 1972, me and Big Moose, that was the name of my best
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friend, we went riding at Welby Hill way back in the day.
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And I flipped that motorcycle at about 45 miles an hour.
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And underneath that motorcycle, I met Jesus, or should I say
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Jesus met me like close and personal.
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And you know that wrestling match that we all kind of go
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through sometimes with the Lord. I, I knew this is it.
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So I, I, uncle, I need to go to heaven.
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I don't have to go to hell. This saved my life.
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This all happened in milliseconds, you might say.
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He found me and I said yes. Well, what?
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I didn't know that would change the rest of my life.
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You know, I want to go to heaven.
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Just don't make me a preacher. Oh, he did.
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He did. I went to Bible college, met my
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wife. We got married 1980, graduated
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from Western Bible College that used to be up by Red Rocks,
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Today it's Colorado Christian University.
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Got a phone from Amarillo by morning.
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Went down there and I thought, you've got to be kidding.
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You've got to be kidding. So I'll do this for a couple of
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years. Lord, 44 years later, he was not
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kidding. Know everything I love about
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Colorado? We don't have it in Amarillo.
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We don't have trees, water, grass, mountains, you name it.
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You know the way I look at it, a wagon was going West.
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It broke down and they said just call it Amarillo, which means
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yellow. I come from yellow today.
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I love it. I didn't know in 1985 that God
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would have me at 29 to start a church in a gas station.
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I didn't know that 17 of us homeboys kind of thing and Bible
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study and we didn't know what we were doing.
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But I did know you got to give this book because God never
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promises to honor a man or a denomination.
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He promises to honor his word. So any crazy guy out of Commerce
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City, if you just give people God's word, he'll bless it.
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That was 39 years ago and 23 years ago.
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I mean, I wasn't Calvary when I first got started, but then
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Calvary's kind of found me. And then 23 years ago, I met
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this kid in California, sat down right next to me, Ed Taylor, and
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said, well, where are you going? He said Aurora, Co Aurora well
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after Commerce City. Well, that's where Cindy and I
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lived. We lived in Aurora.
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And my, my family, we're all police officers here in Aurora
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or worked for the Police Department, both.
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I mean, you're going to Aurora. I've got family there.
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Well, that was the beginning. And that young kid grew up.
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He's your pastor. I'm humbled by him.
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You know what makes him successful?
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The Word. The word, the word and the Holy
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Spirit. It's God's grace.
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It's God's goodness. So I'm just saying thank you.
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That's all I got for today. Have a nice day.
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I do want to say thank you for refresh.
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Amarillo's about 7 hours from here and you know your church
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and my church and staff to staff.
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We are tied together today. Ed Taylor is my pastor.
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Chuck Smith died. I need a pastor.
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I'm telling you he's anointed. I don't have to tell you that
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he's anointed. And today, and so my staff down
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there and refresh, we come up somewhere between 50-60 guys
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from my church come up here and we have a blast.
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So I'm saying thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank
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you. We'll be back If the Lord
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Terry's in October, if he doesn't, Terry, I hope you're
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not here, that you know Jesus, we're all going to heaven.
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Amen. So I'm an old guy, I'm an old
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guy. And you start thinking, OK,
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after 52 years with Jesus, 52 years, what's the one thing I
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would pass on? What's like, what's the one
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thing I've got? But what's the one thing?
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And so thank you for being gracious enough to be here.
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I want to share that with you today.
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If you have your Bible turn to Luke chapter 10.
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I want to talk about the one thing, the number one thing that
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we should all be so thankful that we have this opportunity.
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Luke chapter 10, verse 38, Don't trust a pastor.
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Make sure what I'm telling you is right out of the book.
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Keep track with me, I might trick you a little bit.
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Chapter 10, verse 38. Now it happened as they went
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that he, Jesus, entered a certain village that would be
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Bethany, and a certain woman named Martha welcomed him into
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her house. It's always good to welcome the
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Lord Jesus. He goes where He's welcomed.
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He chose you, but you need to choose Him back.
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She welcomed Him in her house. She had a sister called Mary who
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also along with Martha who also sat at Jesus feet and heard His
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word. Mary would sit at the feet of
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Jesus and she would hear. She would listen to His word.
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That's actually the position of a disciple with Jesus being her
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rabbi. That's where she wanted to be.
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That's the best place to be hanging out with Jesus,
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listening, obeying his word. But Martha.
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But Martha was distracted with much serving and she approached
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Jesus and said, Lord, Lord, do you not care that my sister has
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left me to serve alone? Therefore tell her to help me.
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Martha was so into serving the Lord.
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I don't know what the kitchen looked like, but she's getting
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it all decked out and she wants it all to be perfect.
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I mean, Jesus is in the house. She starts looking around.
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Where's my little sister? Oh, great.
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She's over there worshipping Jesus.
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Oh, great. I'm busy.
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Isn't that something that once you start serving the Lord, I
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mean, you did it because you love it.
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You love it, You jump in, and then before long you start
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looking around it. Well, I think I'm doing more
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than anybody else. I think nobody's helping me.
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Hey, Lord, Martha became crabby. Martha's out of joint.
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She's distracted even with serving the Lord.
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Be careful of distractions. We all have stuff we've got to
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get done, but don't let that stuff get in the way of the
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number one thing to sit at the feet of Jesus and hear Him, even
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if your older sister doesn't get it.
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Therefore, tell her to to help me.
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Jesus answered and gave Martha leprosy.
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Just check. And I told you I was going to
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check on you. He didn't give her leprosy.
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He gave her fleas. No, he didn't give her fleas
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either. Don't you love Jesus?
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I, I think Martha just needs a, a talking to.
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I think he needs a little bit of that evil eye.
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No, no, he, Jesus looked at Martha and he said to her,
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Martha, Martha, can you hear Jesus saying that?
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Martha, Martha, you're so worried and troubled about so
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many things that distract you. You're worried and trouble about
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so many things, but one thing. OK, now I interact.
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So when I say one thing, can I hear you say one thing?
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Would you say one thing? You kind of did it.
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Not everybody did. But I'll give you another chance
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later. What's the one thing Jesus is
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about to say? One thing.
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I'm glad He didn't say 10 things or even 5 things He said, but
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one thing is needed and Mary has chosen.
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It was her choice. Mary has chosen that good part
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which will not be taken from her.
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Oh, what's the one thing, Lord Jesus, to sit at His feet and
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hear His word? See, Mary chose to do that.
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We make lots of choices every day.
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I'm glad you made the choice to be here this morning.
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You made that choice. I'm glad you're about to hear
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the Word. I hope that you'll listen to the
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word, not me, of Jesus and what he wants to share with you and
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that you'll find time. You'll figure out a way that
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that number one thing should be a part of your life forever,
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somewhere to find a place. Sit down with Jesus and say,
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hey, would you talk to me? He's been doing that to me for
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52 years. It's not let me down.
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Amen. Father, thank you for your word.
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Thank you for your word. Thank you for your Holy Spirit.
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Thank you for Jesus. We welcome here him here today.
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We don't assume that just because we gathered that he
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shows up. No, no, we want to invite him in
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and new and afresh to our hearts.
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Lord. So I thank you for these people.
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Would you bless us with your presence and your word and your
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spirit? Show us the value of what we
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need from you each and every day?
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It's in the sweet name of our Savior.
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And all of God's people would say, OK, Bill, so you're talking
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about DeVos, right? Yeah, I'm talking about DeVos.
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Your time with God, whether it's 10 minutes or an hour, whatever
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it is, you need to have some quiet time with the Lord.
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And you might say, well, why do I need to do that?
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I'm already saved. I'm going to heaven.
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I got all this other stuff. Well, you'll get encouraged,
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you'll find rest, you'll grow, you might get convicted, you'll
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get your life back in place. All of that's true.
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Plus, he's waiting for you. He is.
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He's actually excited when you come and spend time with him.
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Oh, plus you need the secret power to get through life.
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You see, hanging out with Jesus isn't just just rest or peace or
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growing over time there. There's a secret power He wants
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to give you so that you can get through your Monday when you're
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faced with all that stuff. So that you can get through this
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week when you already know what's coming.
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How you going to get through the week so that you can get through
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your marriage or your kids or school or dare I say, the
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elections? Oh, great.
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How are we going to get through that?
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Well, somebody better give me some power.
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Supernatural power. Oh, yes.
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It's enough for worship. It's enough to grow.
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It's enough to find peace. It's enough to find that little
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bit of rest. That is true.
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But you need to know there's more to this number one thing
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than just that list. Look at John Chapter 7, John
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Chapter 7. Real quick.
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Find verse 37. John Chapter 7, verse 37, one of
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the greatest paragraphs in the entire New Testament.
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Chapter 7, verse 37. On the last day, the great day
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of the feast, Jesus stood and started yelling, screaming.
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He cried out. That's very out of the character
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for Jesus. But on the last day of this
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great day feast, he stood and cried out, screaming.
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If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink.
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Now I got to pull a Greek on you a little bit.
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Just a little bit of Greek. That word that let him come to
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me and drink from me. That's in the imperative present
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tense. In other words, it's not a
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suggestion, it's a command, but it's a command in the present
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tense. Let him keep coming and keep
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drinking. If anyone thirsts, let him keep
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coming and keep drinking. He's yelling this on the last
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day of the great feast. If anyone thirsts, let him keep
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coming to me, keep drinking from me.
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He who believes in me, as the scripture said, out of his
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heart, his belly will flow rivers of living water.
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Jesus, what are you freaking out about?
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It's the last day of the great day of the feast.
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They had seven feasts that they would celebrate every year.
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The last feast at the end of the year was the Feast of
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Tabernacles. It was the most popular of all
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the feasts. The weather was usually good.
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The families would come. That's when they would set up
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tents and they would Tabernacle to remember the wilderness
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wanderings and the faithfulness of God.
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For seven days you would go camping with God.
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Oh, I'm in Jerusalem. You talk about a trip, it was a
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highlight, and they would remember all of those things
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that they learned from their Old Testament about the wanderings
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and the faithfulness of God. It was a celebration.
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And once a day they would go down to the Guillain Springs,
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they'd get a golden pitcher and they'd bring the water up on top
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of the Temple Mount and they would pour that water out to
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remember the water got it supplied for them miraculously
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from the rock. You guys remember that, right?
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The the water came out of the rock.
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You guys have been taught by. Yeah.
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That that rock was Christ that followed them through the
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Wilder. You remember that, right.
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So they're celebrating. They don't know it was Christ,
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not when they were there on that, but the last day of the
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great day of the feast. You see, when the last day
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comes, OK, the feast is over. We're packing up the tent, we're
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going back home. It's done.
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Matter of fact, the feasts are done.
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It was kind of a downer. Like, the feasts are over.
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Yeah, they're over. It'd be like the day after
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Christmas, you know, you look forward to Christmas, and all of
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a sudden it's Monday after Christmas.
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OK OK, Now what? Well, it was like that, only
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more so. But not only that, it was the
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last day of the great day of the feast.
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It was Jesus's last feast before the next one is Passover when he
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dies. So it was his last feast on the
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last day of his last feast on the Temple Mount.
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And he's been watching this for years.
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He's been watching this one for days.
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And he's watching all these people just go through the
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motions. They're they're keeping their
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Bibles. They're celebrating what they
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were never a part of. But they don't have the source.
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It's like a holy frustration, a religious frustration.
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It can even happen in a church. This church, you can come in and
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you watch all the others and they seem like they're
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celebrating, but somehow you're, you're missing something.
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That's why Jesus watching these people, he stood up and he cried
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out with a loud voice. Are you still thirsty?
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You see, even the Bible will not satisfy without Jesus.
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Religion will not satisfy without Jesus.
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And you can celebrate whatever, but if you don't have Jesus to
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where you keep coming and keep drinking from Jesus.
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I don't know if there's anybody old enough to remember Peggy Lee
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way back in 1969. Is that all there is?
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Is that all there is? If that's all there is, then
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let's keep dancing. Let's break out the booze and
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have a ball. If that's all there is, aren't
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you glad there's more to this than tradition ceremony?
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There is life in Jesus to when we keep drinking, we keep coming
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that somehow what did he say that if anyone, anyone is
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thirsty, keep coming to me. I let I love that it says
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anyone, any color, any background, any size, any shape,
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keep coming to me. Keep drinking from me and from
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your belly, from your heart, your belly, your innermost being
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will flow. This river of life, this river
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of living water. What are you talking about,
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Jesus? That somehow if I'm tapped into
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you, that somehow if I'm drinking from you, that there's
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going to be like what's coming out of me?
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Refreshment, living water. People will know you've been
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hanging with me. Well, what are you talking
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about? He's talking about the Holy
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Spirit. Notice, as he says in verse 39,
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but this he spoke concerning the Spirit whom those believing in
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Him would receive, for the Holy Spirit was not yet given because
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Jesus was not yet glorified. What are you saying?
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Keep coming, keep drinking. When that's all hooked up, man,
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you're going to have this river of life coming out of you.
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People will notice it's a river of living water.
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The Holy Spirit will be coming out of you.
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Where are you saying this? That Jesus on the holy mountain
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right in front of the temple. They, they, they finished
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pouring out the water to celebrate the rock.
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Don't we know? Don't we know that when you get
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to the new temple, which they will build in the near, near
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future, and don't you know that the end of the tribulation when
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Jesus comes and he takes his throne, do you remember where
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the water comes out? We know that the living water is
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going to come right out of that temple.
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It's going to come down to the Kindred Valley and go right out
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to the Dead Sea. It won't be a Dead Sea anymore.
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That's where we go fishing in the Kingdom and the tree of life
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grows up. You guys know this, right?
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Right. It starts with water.
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It ends with water coming out of Christ.
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And remember with me that today He sits on the throne of your
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heart, of your heart. And when we keep going to him
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and drinking from him, guess what?
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That water from Christ, the Holy Spirit is supposed to be coming
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out of you. Does that represent your life?
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I mean, in your marriage, with your kids at work, at school,
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Are you the source of refreshment, encouragement that
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somehow the Spirit of God's just working through your giftedness
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in a way you can't explain? And you figured out I got to
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keep going and keep drinking. Keep going and keep drinking.
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Oh, I'm telling you what? It's the number one thing.
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That's why in John chapter 20, same book, chapter 20, Jesus did
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go to the cross. He did celebrate Passover.
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He is the Passover lamb for us, Day of resurrection, first
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Easter ever. On that Sunday, He's in the
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upper room. They're locked up.
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Do you remember what Jesus said to those disciples in John
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chapter 20 verse 22? And when he had said this, he
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breathed on them and said to them, receive the Holy Spirit.
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What the resurrected Christ who had already paid for their sins,
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conquered their sins. The first thing he does, he
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breathed on them and said, receive the Holy Spirit.
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You talk about changing your life.
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They never had the Holy Spirit in them.
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They've never been sealed with the Spirit before.
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And it's like God's been waiting since the garden.
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Now that the price has been paid, you should be able to
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identify with with that. But it's like when I got saved
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in 1972, sixteen year old, I didn't, I didn't know nothing.
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But all of a sudden something's in me.
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Who's in me? Who is that?
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That's the Holy Spirit. I didn't know it was the Holy
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Spirit. I just knew.
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I tried to cuss like I was cussing the day before and
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something, something was kicking me inside like you have to stop
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talking that way. Well, I need to go to church and
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take a ten step course on how to stop cussing.
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No, the Holy Spirit said stop that.
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So you got that one down. No, he's still working on my
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speech. There's I mean, there's all
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these other steps. He never don't you, you guys
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remember, remember I remember when I was 16, I I tried going
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out here on Colfax again. I say out here, way over there,
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I lived right off of Colfax and stuff I should have never been
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doing. I got out there with the Holy
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Spirit inside of me, sealing me tell the day of redemption.
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And all of a sudden he kicked hard.
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I remember I got so sick I thought, I can never do this
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again. I haven't done it since.
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You know what that is? That's the Holy Spirit.
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Then the Holy Spirit comes along and encourages you in challenge
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you, and then you find you have a gift in this you never have
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never had before. And then he wants to flow
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through you. But you have to understand you
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are sealed with the Holy Spirit. If you don't have the Spirit of
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Christ, if you don't have the Spirit, Romans chapter 8, you're
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not saved. But if you're saved, you've got
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the Holy Spirit. He's got you.
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Can I hear it? Amen.
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Calvary Aurora. But did you know there's more
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than that? There's power.
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Oh, they got the spirit in John chapter 20.
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But forty days later, look at Acts chapter one.
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Same guys, 40 days later he had all kinds of questions about the
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Kingdom and Jesus said, no, you need to stay here.
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Verse eight, chapter one, verse 8, Acts chapter one, verse 8.
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But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon
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you, and you shall be witnesses to me in Jerusalem and all of
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Judea, Samaria and to the end of the earth.
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Amarilla by morning is the end of the earth.
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Now wait, wait, wait. We got those.
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I know you got the Holy Spirit, but you have another aspect of
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the Holy Spirit. You'll receive power.
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I like the word power. I, I want to know what that word
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power really means. Matter of fact, in the Greek
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it's dunamis. That's where we get the word
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dynamite. If you're from Amarillo, we have
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this place called Pantex. That's where they use all the
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plutonium and nuclear. Can I hear you say?
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Now give humor me a little bit. I'm going to ask you to say
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power, but I want you to say it powerfully.
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Power. Can I hear you say power?
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Is that what you have in your marriage?
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Do you have that with your kids? Do you have a supernatural power
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to get the job done? That's what he's talking about.
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Because you see, the Holy Spirit's going to come upon
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these disciples, fishermen, tax collectors, with such power,
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they will be witnesses. How does that happen?
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It's going to flow out of them. It's going to flow out of them.
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Well, now I'm confused. I lived a lot of my life
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confused. Now what?
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What is this aspect with the Holy Spirit?
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He was with me. He's in me.
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He's in me. I'm sealed.
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And now you're saying a power thing.
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Well, Chuck Smith was the first one to point this out to me.
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His book Living Water is down in your bookstore, the best book
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I've ever read on the Holy Spirit, Living Water by Chuck
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Smith. But he pointed out in the
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prepositions, in the Greek prepositions, you got to
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understand there's 33 distinct prepositions.
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There's the word with para in the Greek, the Holy Spirit with
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you. There's the the the Greek
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preposition in EN is in in the grief.
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That's the Holy Spirit in you. But what he used right here was
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the preposition EPI. EPI is a pond.
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That's a whole aspect different than with and in the water is
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with me. Para boy, it tasted good.
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The water now is in me. Greek preposition in.
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Do you really want me to demonstrate the difference with
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the water upon me? Different aspect of the same
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Holy Spirit. Oh, trust me, In my church I've
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done this at least a dozen times.
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I lost a really good wireless mic doing it one time.
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I used way too much water. If you want to volunteer, I'd be
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happy to do the illustration on you afterwards.
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But see, there is a difference and the Holy Spirit upon you.
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People notice this Holy Spirit coming forth from your belly
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that Jesus taught people notice and they might not say it's the
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Holy Spirit, but they'll notice. Man, you, you're juiced with
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something, you're smoking something you're high on, it's
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the Lord, it's the Lord. Well, don't equate that to being
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high. What?
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Well, don't equate it to being drunk.
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What doesn't our Bibles tell us to equate it that way?
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They do. Look at Ephesians chapter 5.
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Ephesians chapter 50, by the way, when they received the Holy
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Spirit in Acts chapter 2 verse four, it actually says and they
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were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other
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tongues languages as the Spirit gave them utterance.
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Peter preaches a sermon 3000 people get saved.
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It's amazing what happens when the power shows up, but then go
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to Ephesians chapter 5. My last reference for this
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sermon today, Ephesians chapter 5 verse fifteen.
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There we see Paul writing to the church.
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This is direct application to Calvary, Aurora, Ephesians 515.
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It says. See then, that you walk
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circumspectly, carefully, not as fools, but as wise, redeeming
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the time, because the days are evil.
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Therefore, do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the
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Lord is. In the chapter he talked about
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walking in love. In the chapter he talked about
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walking in light. Now he talks about walking in
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wisdom. The days are evil.
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You better be wise how you walk, and you'd better walk according
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to the will of the Lord. Now when the Bible throws that
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down like it does right there, you've got to understand what
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the will of the Lord is that they're for covering most of
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that chapter. Therefore, you need to know what
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the will of the Lord is. Can I hear you say the will of
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the Lord whenever you see this is the will of God.
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What I'm about to read is an imperative.
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It's also in the present tense. It's not a suggestion, it's the
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will of God and do not get drunk with wine and which is
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dissipation, but be filled. There's the keyword X24, but be
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filled with the Spirit. It is the will of God for you
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not to be drunk with wine. I got one Amen from the back of
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the room. It is the will of God for you
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not to get drunk there. It is black and white.
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I would say it's the will of God for you not to get high.
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It's the will of God for you not to snort it up your nostril.
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Don't shoot it in your vein. It is the will of God not to be
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drunk with wine. I have a question.
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Why is he throwing that down there?
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I mean, it seems like a little bit out of place.
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He's walking about walking in love, walking in truth, walking
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in wisdom. He's the will of God not to get
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drunk. It's dissipation debauchery that
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is the will of God. But it seems disjointed a little
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bit to me. But he says in in contrast, but
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be filled with the spirit. Am I making this up?
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Is this you know it's the will of God that be drunk but
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contrast be filled with the spirit.
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Oh whoa, whoa, maybe This is why God did it.
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This is brilliant Lord, because everybody knows how to get
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drunk. Do you guys know how to get
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drunk? Did you know to get drunk you
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have to drink Jesus said keep coming keep drinking for me and
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it's the will of God for you not to be drunk with wine it's the
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will of God for you to be filled with the spirit.
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Do you see in the same sentence? Because.
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OK, I want to ask you, how many of you ever been drunk?
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You don't have to raise your hands, but I'll bet there's a
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few in this room that you've been drunk.
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Hey, stop it. It's the will of God for you not
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to be drunk. But how many of us would then
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know to be filled with the spirit?
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I I you're not tracking with me. I know.
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See. To get drunk, you got to have
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some booze. To get drunk, you got to have
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booze. You won't get drunk unless you
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drink it. So you can't drink it unless you
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got it right. Jesus said keep coming, keep
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drinking from me. What do you want me to do, Lord?
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I want you to drink from me so that you'll be filled if I said
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it this way. Don't miss out to be high on the
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Holy Spirit. But you got to drink.
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Well, I'm just waiting for it just to happen.
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Well, it ain't going to just happen.
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Even if you got it, even if you got it, it doesn't just happen.
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You got to drink it, guys. You got to open it up.
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No, I got it stuck away. Listen, you got to drink it.
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By the way, this is the real deal.
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I bought it from the liquor store right across the street.
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Well, that was interesting. I had Pastor Roy with me.
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By the way, your pastor knows that I've got it.
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I got permission for an illustration.
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You can know about it, agree about it, but if you don't drink
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it, you won't get drunk. You can agree with the sermon,
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agree with Jesus. You can do that.
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But if you don't drink, you won't get filled.
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You have to drink it. Oh, no, no.
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Why? I think I'll just memorize the
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label. That's what I'll do.
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That's got to be good, right? Jack Daniels, old #7 brand,
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Tennessee sour Mash Whiskey. I memorized the label.
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Well, great. I'm glad you memorized
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Scripture, but that won't get you filled well.
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Whoa. It really smells good.
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I know, I know, I know. I'll be.
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I'll be a sniffer for Jesus. I don't want to be, you know,
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full blown Pentecostal or Charismatic.
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I'll just be a sniffer, a whiffer.
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Well, you can, but guess what? That won't get you drunk.
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Well, maybe if I just taste it or sip it, that's it.
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We'll be sippers for Jesus. The only way to get drunk on
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this, to be filled with this, is I got to drink it.
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And some of you know far more than I.
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My daddy was an alcoholic. I literally probably only had
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what's in this cap of alcohol my entire life, even before I got
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saved. I never did alcohol.
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Too many demons, too much stuff. But I do know the illustration,
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you have to drink from Jesus to be high, to be filled, to have
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that river of life coming from you.
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And I really believe that's why in Ephesians it says that
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contrast, not to be drunk with wine, but to be filled with the
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Spirit. You know what would happen if I
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drank this? Nothing in the 1st 30 seconds, 3
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minutes, half hour later, probably you'd never have me
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back. See, it takes a while, a while
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for it to hit. But look at what the Bible says
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about the results here. The results.
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Don't be drunk with wine, that is dissipation, but be filled
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with the Spirit speaking to one another in psalms, hymns,
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spiritual songs. Oh, your conversation changes,
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singing, making melody with your heart to the Lord.
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Oh, your song changes, giving thanks always for all things to
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God the Father, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Oh, your Thanksgiving changes, submitting to one another in the
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fear of God. Oh, your submission, your
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helpfulness changes. Just like the guys at the bar on
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Friday night and they've been working all week.
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They finally get to the bar and what happens?
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They start drinking cores, Michelob, whatever it is.
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And before I know, their conversation, their talk changes
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toward what they're drinking. When you're full of the Holy
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Spirit, psalms, hymns, spiritual songs, say it just comes out of
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your mouth. It just does.
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Singing, making melody in your heart in the bar, those same
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guys that would never be caught dead singing on the job.
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Now they're doing the jig and dances around with each other
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like what happened? The hooch is taking over, by the
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way. When you're filled with the
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Spirit, you'll catch yourself humming.
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When you didn't tell yourself to hum, it just catches up with
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you. Thankfulness for all things you
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say. I can't be thankful for all
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things I know you can't. No one can.
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That's why they shoot drugs or get drunk or snort it.
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They're trying to find some relief from the stuff God says.
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You can be thankful Him. All things work together.
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Forgive to those that love the Lord when you're filled with the
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Spirit submitting one to another in the fear of Christ.
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Hank's got a flat on his truck. Friday night.
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He comes, I'm flat on my truck. And they all say, we'll help
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you, Hank. And they walk out there and they
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pick up the truck and they just put it back together.
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Where'd that come from? Oh, they want to help everybody.
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See, that's what the hooch does to people and what the Holy
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Spirit should be doing with you. What's the number one thing I
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need to hang out with Jesus? What's the number one thing I
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need to get a drink from Jesus? What's the number one thing I
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need the power of the Holy Spirit towards?
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Like a river living water coming out of here.
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You guys are smart Bible students, right?
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Let me say that again. Are you guys smart?
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You know your Bibles, right? Did I just walk through
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Scripture according to what Jesus said?
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Here it is. Let me prove where you need the
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power. 518 is key to the end of the book of Ephesians.
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Don't be drunk with wine, which is dissipation.
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Be filled with the Spirit and then all of a sudden verse 22,
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it says, wives, submit to your own husbands as to the Lord.
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You need another drink from Jesus wives, husbands, verse 25,
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love your wives as Christ also loved the church.
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Well, if you only knew who I was married to.
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You need another drink husbands chapter 6 verse one children,
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obey your parents in the Lord. Now you know, I've had three
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kids and I've got 10 grandkids and mine just automatically
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listened to everything I told them.
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I just lied to you. My children need a drink from
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Jesus bond servants employees be obedient to those who are your
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masters, your bosses Wow do you ever need a drink for that one
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verse nine and you masters do the same to your employees.
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Hey bosses, you need a drink. Finally put on the whole armor
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of God. You better drink from Jesus
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before you do that. I'm just sharing with you when
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you walk through all of Ephesians.
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If you understand why that. It was said in such a way that
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fulfilled the words that Jesus said in John Chapter 7.
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That's why it's the most important thing.
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It'll make a difference in your marriage with your kids this
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week, in the world in which we live, because you will have a
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river of life coming out of your innermost being.
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Some somehow they'll people a sense you're all wet.
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You're something something. Your giftedness will have stuff
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to it, it's just, well, you'll make a difference.
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That's why God left you here. Not for you to come up with it,
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not for you to just survive, but for you to thrive.
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Keep coming to me, keep drinking from me, keep coming to me, keep
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drinking from me. And from your belly a river of
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life will flow. Did you have a week like that
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last week? Did you have a yesterday like
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that was your yesterday one to where you hung out with Jesus
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and you said Lord, I just need another drink.
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I do, I do, I do. I come into church this morning.
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Did you have a a Sunday morning like that?
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Sunday's not over. You still have time for a drink
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from the Lord Jesus. Isn't that good news?
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That's the way I want to spend the rest of my life.
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The number one thing, keep coming to Jesus.
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Keep drinking from Jesus. Keep being filled with the Holy
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Spirit. Amen.
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I love you guys. Enjoy your next drink with
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Jesus. Father, thank you for your word
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today. Thank you that you figured this
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out for us, Lord, before anything was.
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And I thank you that most in the room, we know what it is to get
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saved. We know what it is when the Holy
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Spirit invades our life. And we do know what it is when
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we're filled with the Spirit. I think most of us know that.
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Remind us, Lord, keep sitting at your feet and hearing your word
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and drinking from you or else we're going to end up crabby
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like Martha. Remind us, Lord, there really is
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another dynamic with the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit upon us.
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And I pray, Lord, I just would pray.
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Lord Jesus, would you bless my friends right now in this room
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and the ones listening, the ones on YouTube?
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Would you bless us, Lord, with your Holy Spirit and that from
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our innermost being that Lord, a fresh drink with you that that
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Lord we would be controlled and filled by the Holy Spirit.
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The things we'll face later today and whatever restaurant,
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whatever gathering back to work tomorrow.
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Lord, we need your power. We do thank you.
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Could be you're here today and somehow you just know that you
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need to say yes to Jesus. It's like he's knocking on the
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door of your your heart. He's chosen you, but you have to
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choose him back. You have to receive him.
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This could be the day of salvation for you.
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Or maybe that was true for you when years gone by, but it's
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been so long and so far you're not even sure anymore.
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Well, then I would just encourage you to open the door
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again, have a fresh connection with the living Lord Jesus.
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Or it might be you're in the room and you have been
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struggling. You've been struggling and
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there's an addiction. There is a part of this sermon
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that it's got you wrapped up tight.
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It could be alcohol, it could be drugs, it could be a dozen other
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things, but you know, and Jesus wants to free you of that with
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the power of his Spirit. So as we close this, I'm just
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going to man, if God's talking to you for salvation,
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rededication, or he wants to anoint you in a special way, I'm
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just going to ask you to stand. Let's pray together for the
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power of God to save us, the power of God to refresh us, the
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power of God to get through another crazy week.
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But we don't have to be crazy with them.
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If that's you, I'm going to ask you to stand.
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Anybody in the room that wants to join me in that kind of
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prayer? Thank you, brother.
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Is there anybody else? Thank you, brother.
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Thank you, brother. Thank you, brother.
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Thank you, sister. Thank you back there.
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Thank you, guys. Thank you.
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You're not satisfied somehow. It's not working.
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Thank you, sister. Thank you, guys back here.
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And Jesus, you're saying hey, it's the last day.
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He's at yelling come to me, drink for me, come to me, drink
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for me. Thank you, brother.
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Anybody else before we close, Thank you sister, thank you.
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Thank you sister. Thank you Father.
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I thank you for all these that would be standing right now and
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you know why they're standing for some, I'm sure, salvation.
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Others, Lord, they, they want to know they're connected and
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others that that thing, that evil thing needs to go.
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Would you bless them, Lord, with the power of the Holy Spirit
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upon them for salvation and for victory?
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That Lord together, Calvary Aurora would be the kind of
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place we drink deep from Jesus the Holy Spirit empowers us for
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things we would have never imagined.
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And in these last days, Lord, that you would have all the
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glory, you would receive the praise.
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You're the only one that's worthy.
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Save us, Lord, I ask, for the glory of Jesus, and all God's
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