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#20221002 - Give Me My Mountain - Joshua 14:6-15 · 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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Visit us online at Calvary. Co dot church or download our
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God's word. Thank you so much for that.
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It's a joy to be here with you. I want to share with you God's
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word from Joshua chapter 14. If you have a Bible, please turn
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to Joshua chapter 14 and I've entitled this message.
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Give me my Mountain. Amen!
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Give me my Mountain. Let's pray and ask the Lord to
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bless his word. Will you join me please?
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Father, we thank you so much for your word this morning.
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We pray. Father, that you would bless
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you. Your word is life.
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It is true that his Spirit, we don't want information, we want
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transformation, and so Grant to us, Lord ears to hear and hearts
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to receive your word that we might bear fruit to your glory
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be magnified. We pray in Jesus name and
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everyone said, amen. Amen.
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I like to sing this little course before we get started and
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it's one of my favorite and it's real short.
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So I'm not gonna put on a concert.
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Amen. But you must some of you might
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know it. It's Heine.
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The I need thee every hour. I need me.
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Now, my savior. I come.
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Until I need thee. Oh, I need thee every hour.
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I need thee. Oh, bless me now.
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My savior. I come until the, you need him
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this morning. Amen.
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Praise His name in our text. We find what I call the
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testimony of Caleb. Who was Caleb.
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Caleb and Joshua were the only two of the 12 Spies that.
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The sent into the land of promise to spy out the land and
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they were the only two that come back with a good report.
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They said we could take the land yet that other 10 Spies of the
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12, that Moses sent into the land of Canaan to spy out the
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land. They doubt.
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It said we were like grasshoppers in their site.
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We cannot take the land. And as a result, as many of, you
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know, you're well, taught in the word of God, that the children
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of Israel because of their doubt doubting the word of God.
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Wandered in the wilderness for 40 years, that whole generation
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perished in the wilderness except for Joshua, and Caleb and
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Joshua, succeeded, Moses, as leader of the children of
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Israel, and Caleb was given a promise by Moses that actually
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came from God for him to have an inheritance in the land of
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promise. and, My prayer today in this message entitled, give me
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my mountain is that God will fill you with faith to say, give
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me Lord, my Mountain. What do I mean by mountains?
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And I'm speaking of the promises of God, the will of God, the
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purpose of God for your life. For every one of us here, God
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has a purpose. He has a will, his will for your
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life. And that is the Prosper.
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You Jeremiah 29:11. God's thoughts toward you
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continually are not thoughts of evil but of good to give you a
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future and a hope, the Bible says and God does have a plan
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for your life. Do you just say that all the
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time? And and when I came to Christ
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they would say God has a plan for your life and then sometimes
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over the years some kind of wondered hit oh lord, your plan
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is kind of gone awry. You know, there's so many trials
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and tribulations, I've gone through.
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But in reality you know, his plan is still a good plan and
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God is still a good God and I've watched God even through the
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difficult times. Be glorified and his plan for
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you is still in place. God has not forgotten you.
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I pray that you will leave here today filled with faith and
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trust and hope. And God saying God give me my
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Mountain. I want to live out your purpose
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and will for my life and this is what we see.
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Caleb declaring, this was his testimony Lord.
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Give me my Mountain as we will see here within the text.
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I think a Of times we, as Believers have become settlers.
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We settle for less than what God has ordained for us.
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We think, oh, that's for everybody else.
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That's for Pastor. Ed this for, you know, the
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people who know the word pastors, or what have you but
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not me. Oh yes, you I love what Paul,
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the Apostle said to the church in Corinth, when they were
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arguing about, you know, some belong to Paul and some belong
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to a policy and some bit long to cephas.
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That is Peter and Paul reminded them all things are yours.
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Do you believe that today? Day that God's promises to
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offer. You not just for some spiritual
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Elite or whatever, but all things belong to you and so I
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pray that God will embolden you today and you will say with
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Caleb, by the end of this message, God give me my
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Mountain. I want you to read along with me
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and Joshua, chapter 14 verses 6 to 15, it's a little long but it
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sets the stage for the message in verse 6.
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The Bible says Joshua 14. Then Children of Judah came to
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Joshua in gilgal and Caleb the son of jephunneh a and the kids
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are night, Ken has excuse me said to him.
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And he speaking I'll Caleb is speaking to Joshua, the leader
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of Israel, the land the land, indeed.
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A leader of the children of Israel.
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The land Canaan, the promised land has been subdued.
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They have defeated their enemies.
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And so now Caleb comes to Joshua his homeboy, if you will.
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All right. And he says, you know, know the
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word, which the Lord said to Moses, the man of God,
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concerning you and me and caters barnea verse 7.
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He says, I was 40 years old, when Moses the servant of the
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Lord sent me from Kadesh barnea to spy out the land.
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And I brought back word to him as it was in my heart.
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Nevertheless, my brethren, who went with me May the heart of
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the people melt but I Caleb said, holy follow.
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The Lord my God. So Moses swore on that day
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saying, surely the land were your foot has trodden shall be
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your inheritance and your children's forever.
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Because you have there it is again wholly.
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Followed the Lord. My God, verse 10.
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And now behold, the Lord has kept me alive.
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Caleb said, as he said these 45 years ever since the Lord spoke
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his words, Word. This word rather to Moses while
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Israel wandered in the wilderness and now here I am
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this day, 85 years, young right, 85 years old as yet I am as
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strong this day as on the day that Moses sent me just as the
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strength was my strength. Was then, so now is my strength
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for war, both for going out. And for coming in now,
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therefore, give Me this mountains.
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No mountain. In other words, give me my
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inheritance of which the Lord spoke in that day for you heard
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in that day, how the anakim were there.
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And that the cities were great and fortified, it may be that
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the Lord will be with me and I shall be able to drive them out.
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As the Lord said verse 13 and Joshua be blessed him and gave
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Hebron to Uh, Caleb, the son of jephunneh, as an inheritance in
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Hebron, therefore, became the inheritance of Caleb, the son of
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jephunneh the Kina site to this day because he here it is again.
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Holy follow the lord, god of Israel and the name of Heaven
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formerly was Curtis care. Just arba Ann Arbor was the
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greatest man among the anakim then Land had rest from war,
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amen. Caleb his name in Hebrew means
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dog, interesting? And you know, young people run
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around the day. Sometimes I'm Deke eyes, think
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they're hip and, you know, or what have you and nobody even
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says hip anymore, but they think they're cool and they're calling
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each other, dog. Yo, dawg.
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What's going on, dog? Was Donald dog, and they think
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that it originated with them. No, it originated with Caleb.
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Amen. I'm a Joshua probably said yo
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dawg what's up? You know to Caleb and his name
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means dog but I thought what a fitting name because dogs are
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determined creatures. Tenacious, determine creatures.
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I heard a story once about a dog that was accidentally left at a
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rest, stop Ida family and that poor little dog found his way
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home. 40 miles away some 26 days later.
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They are tenacious animals and Caleb here when you think about
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it possessed, A dog is what I call a dog dish.
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Tenacious Faith, a faith, determine to receive all that
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God had promised them. Do you have that sort of Faith
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are tenacious way? I believe we today, the time, in
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which we live, you need to have a tenacious faith, not a
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lukewarm Faith, Jesus said be hot or cold or I was little.
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If you're lukewarm, I'll spit you out of my mouth and we need
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a tenacious Faith, which the Lord?
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I'm determined to follow you, the faith of job.
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Whose wife told him after he lost everything?
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Why don't you just Curse God and die?
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Then sometimes you don't want to take your wife's advice.
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But job said yet though, he may slay me.
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I will serve him that's spiritual tenacity.
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He had faith in God. I think since we were on this
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theme of Caleb, Dina, you know, his name, meaning, dog.
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I think. And some of us have faith, that
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is maybe really small. That's okay, because as a
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mustard seed of faith, that can move a mountain, Jesus said,
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amen. So you don't need to need to be
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some big monstrous animals on big monsters, dog, or whatever,
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just a little dog, but with a lot of faith, hey, men, and you
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can, you can move mountains, With just a little bit of faith
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and I thought, well, you know, we should probably all be
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spiritual Chihuahuas. Amen.
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You don't chihuahuas are those little bitty dogs, but they're
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just a meanest thing. Sometimes you remember that dog
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in your neighborhood? Every time you go riding your
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bike by that house and that he comes, I guess it's biting at
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you and you're kicking at it. And it's just two, Natures are
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just trying to build bite you in all this and all that kind of
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stuff. And I thought, you know, they
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know that's the kind of faith. We need a tenacious Faith, you
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know, in that Chihuahua, kind of faith.
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I really Think they'll cha was there so irritating.
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Sometimes I think Chihuahuas. I think chihuahuas are going to
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hell for sure. I just I just don't.
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Now, don't get mad at me. I mean, some of you probably.
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Don't you also hate show homeless.
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He hates Fifi. No, I'm not, I'm not against
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Chihuahuas, but, you know, and of course you don't want him to
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go to hell because if they did go to hell, they'd be hot dogs.
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Anyway. Anyway, so social wasps but we
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need to wahwah Faith, man. Tenacious, just chasing as I
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spy, I'm going to go on. Laughter, never quitting.
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That's the kind of faith. I believe.
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We've got to have to tell you, so maybe we should get little
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t-shirts and say Chihuahua Faith.
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Amen. And then people, you could
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explain what that means. I'm tenacious about following
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Jesus. We're letting this and following
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the Lord. And Paul said, I may be down but
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I'm not out because I'm tenacious about following
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Christ. In this passage, we find
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Components of Caleb's, tenacious attitude.
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His tenacious faith. Evidence pointing to the fact
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that he wholly followed the Lord.
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Anybody can boast about holy following the Lord, but here's
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the deal. Where's the fruit?
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Where's the evidence? We find evidence in Caleb's life
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and it's evidence that we should note within our own lives.
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Verse 8 says that he holy follow the lord and elsewhere within
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our text. As this says that he holy follow
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the lord. And we have evidence of that
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here within this message that I want to share with you.
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The word holy is interesting. Says, he wholly, followed the
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Lord because in Hebrew is the word Mala.
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It means to be fool or armed. God wants you armed and
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extremely dangerous against the kingdom of darkness.
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And the only way you can be armed and extremely dangerous
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against the kingdom of darkness is to be wholly, committed and
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surrender to the Lord. That's why he wants all of our
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heart not just 99.9% but all our heart and if you will seek me,
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the Lord says with all of your heart you will find me.
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That's what the Lord says. Holy surrendered to the Lord.
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So the opposite is true too. If we're not wholly, surrendered
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to the Lord, then we are disarmed and the devil laughs at
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your faith because he knows you're not completely committed
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to the Lord and if you're not commit completely committed to
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the Lord, you can be bought and believe you mean the devil
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knows? Every one of us have a price.
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We're why we're willing to capitulate in our faith.
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So with important for us to be holy following in holy syringe
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to the Lord to be armed and extremely dangerous toward the
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kingdom of darkness less, we walk and live, rather as victims
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rather than Victor's in Christ. The Bible tells us in Romans
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8:37. You know what?
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Well, yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through
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him who loved us more than conquerors through him who loved
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us, that means that the war has been won.
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Double in the life of the believer has been defeated.
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But though the wars won, there's still many battles to be fought.
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And some of you may be fighting in a battle, even this morning,
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it has like in the during World War Two and the Germany
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surrendered in the South Pacific, that the Japanese
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surrendered Empire of Japan, surrendered at that time and
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all. But there are still pockets of
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resistance and every one of us, within our flesh have little
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pockets of resistance. You belong to the Lord.
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The war is over. You have Victory in Jesus more
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than a conqueror in him, but they're still battled.
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Here's the good news. The Battle Is Not Yours, its the
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Lords, the Lord fights for you. Amen.
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Praise His holy name. And so, we have here.
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The very fact that we are more than conquerors in the Lord.
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We have victory in him. And I Victory comes from the
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fact that we should be wholly committed to him.
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As Caleb was, and we have here to evidence three evidences,
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again, of Caleb's commitment to the Lord.
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Again, it's not just lip service.
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It's a part of his characters, apart of his life.
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First thing that I find here, evidence that he is wholly
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surrendered to the Lord is that Caleb.
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Trusted in the Lord's timing. This is a hard one for me in
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full disclosure. As people say, it's a hard one
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for me. Verse 7.
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He says that he trusts in God he says you know, that he was
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called or was a spy sent out as a spy back in Numbers Chapter
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13, you know when he was 40 years old, he's now 85 45 years.
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Ears waiting for God's promise. And not only that seen people in
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this generation dropping like flies, and you can imagine a
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double come in and saying, oh, you're as you're next and yet he
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continued to trust God, despite how old he was getting and all
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the years that passed, how about you, can you trust God that lot
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45 years? I mean, I give God something as
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a lord. I just pray I just place it in
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your hands. I'm all spiritual place.
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It in your hands. Lord, two weeks go by and said
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God. Where are you two weeks?
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I want God to fix it in two weeks and six months in a year.
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45 years waiting on God's timing.
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God gave me a lesson, reminded me of this lesson waiting on
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him, even last night. and I thought, man, Lord, you know
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this My wife surgery taking place last night and and I'm
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calling her up for this surgery and the Lord is this can't be a
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worse time you know. But as I began to think about is
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that isn't a like God because last week I was in st.
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George Utah. At a men's conference is
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speaking at a church there, Calvary Chapel St.
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George awesome fellowship. And I could have been in Saint
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George but I'm here. I happen to be in Denver, I had
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No idea that I would be in Denver in the Lord would be
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bringing my wife to Denver for the surgery.
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Yesterday, I had no idea that God was orchestrating putting
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this all together and I had planned, you know, months ago to
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have someone be in my pool bit speaking for me this particular
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weekend, it's just look at the Lord, just organic that's and I
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stop complaining. So I going Lord, your timing is
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perfect. Somebody said he doesn't come
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when you want him, but he's always right on time.
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Amen. Thank God for his faithfulness.
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But I'm one of these people I hate waiting.
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I don't like waiting you know. And then I heard have I had to
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learn to wait you know on my wife you know that song we used
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to sing around Calvary Chapel you know you must wait wait wait
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on the Lord learn your lessons well and in his timing he will
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tell you what to do where to go. You know what to say?
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Well that's tough, I apply to my wife.
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You must wait, wait, wait on Norma.
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You must wait, wait wait on our my learn your lessons.
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Well, in in her timing, she will tell you what to do, where to go
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and what to say he look, I joke about that, you know, it's not
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good because I just I'm always anxious and and when she's like
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taking her time getting ready and I want to get there on time
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and I'm, you know, just don't we got to get there on time.
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And so, you know, guys, so those of you who are married, you
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know, we thought for a while that if you got dressed first
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Got in the car and blew the horn.
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She would magically appear in the sea.
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Just Matt just magical you know and then you know what it is and
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you women are you don't you don't you know how you are.
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When you hear us blowing the horn what do you do?
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You just go a little slower so he can learn his lesson will
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amen. But did we catch the clue when
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we're getting those of you who are married?
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When you standing at the altar waiting for her?
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Amen. You are waiting then interested
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somebody should tap you on the shoulder that dude get used to
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it. You'll be doing it, a rest of
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your life and we should wait on our wives.
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They should serve them. Amen.
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But I don't like, I don't like waiting, but what does the Bible
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say about waiting Ecclesiastes? 3 311 that he has made
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everything beautiful in its time.
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And it's time. God has made everything
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beautiful in his time and spiritually speaking.
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When we wait, that's when we actually gained strength, I
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don't like that, but it's just a spiritual principle and it's
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true as we wait upon the Lord. We gain strength.
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Isaiah 40, verse 31, but those who wait on the Lord shall renew
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their strength. They shall Mount up with wings
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like eagles, they shall run and not be weary.
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They shall walk and not fade. Amen, we know that.
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We quoted all the time but we still grow weary sometimes wanky
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but there's power to strength and waiting see the devil wants.
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You anxious, He Wants You Restless, he wants you to give
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up because when you're anxious in your restless, we make
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foolish decisions. And we give on phone trusting
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God and waiting on God. And we started to rely upon
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ourselves. The devil wants you to be
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anxious for the Bible says be anxious for nothing.
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But in all things, pray. God is not in a hurry.
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Did you know that? God has perfect timing and SO
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waiting on the Lord. The Caleb.
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He waited upon the Lord. And notice as he waited upon the
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Lord, he thrived in the Lord, he did not just survive in the
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Lord. So important.
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What did he say? He says right here, he said in
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verse 13. You know what I've been waiting
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on the Lord Of This Tall this time he says, but I have much
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vitamin Vitality in my life as much Vitality is.
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When I was 40 years old, I'm 85. Now I feel like I'm 40 Now you
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want to know what he's drinking, right?
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40 years old. And then he says, I'm ready for
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not the nursing home. I'm not ready for assisted
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living. I'm Ready for War on my.
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Wow, this whole dude, is something else.
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And some of us feel like man I'm 50 and it's over my best years
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are behind me no God is still writing your chapter.
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God is still in control of your life.
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Amen. Oh give him.
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Praise and glory. He's not finished with you yet.
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He's not finished with you yet. He's still writing your story
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and Caleb said and he knew that God was still writing a story
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because he continued to believe in God.
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He said the Lord kept me alive. All these years.
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I love that. Don't overlook that verse 10.
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The Lord kept me alive. If God has kept you alive, he
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has a purpose for your life. I know we sit and complains
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about know, why am I here? You know, what's my purpose?
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If you're drawing a breath right now and I know you.
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Are you watching online, your breathing God has a purpose for
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your life. He's kept you alive for certain
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from there's some of us sitting here today and watching online
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maybe that you know in your own mind you should be dead.
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But God kept your life and if you kept you alive, he kept your
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life for his Divine Purpose and his Divine Glory.
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He still writing your story. Praise His holy name, Caleb,
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believe that. And God kept Caleb alive for
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promise. What was the promise?
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Or attacked in our text. The promise was Hebron a place
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called heaven. Heaven means in Hebrew, it means
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Community. It means Alliance.
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And I thought about that heaven, what metaphorically for the
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church God has called us to Hebron if you will, God has
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given us a promise of Hebron within the church.
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What is that promise? A promise of community and
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Alliance that is unity. And when the church has devoured
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itself and there's division in the house of the Lord didn't 41.
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We are refuting the very prayer request of Jesus.
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What prayer request was their father, make them one.
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As we are one that the world may believe that you sent the Sun
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and when the church is divided in devouring each other, we're
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not Hebron. It's hell.
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And it's a poor witness to the Lord.
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God has called us to have community and have Unity, not
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just within the church, but also in our marriages, within our
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families, it's called heaven. So metaphorically you say this,
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God has called all of us as Believers to live in Heparin and
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community. In unity.
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It's as we wait upon him that we find this harmony is as we trust
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in him that we find Harmony in our relationships rather than
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putting unrealistic demands upon one another.
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We're expecting people to live at a standard that we can't live
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at ourselves. Put the allow the grace of God
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in us to be administered to other people around us that we
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might experience Hebron community in unity and Christ.
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Despite the passage of time. Therefore and his age, Caleb
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received the promise of God, he received Hebron, he believed
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God, he was determined to wait on the Lord on God's timing that
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he might possess all that God had promised.
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The second evidence that I find in Caleb's life that he wholly
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followed. The Lord is not just talk but
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who is a part of his life? And that is he had a heart of
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devotion. I love what it says in verse 7
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is Caleb is sharing how he went in spite of the land and it was
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in his heart. That God had placed within his
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heart that that they could possess the land.
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It wasn't just a good idea. It was a god idea.
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It was an idea of possessing the land, the promised land would 45
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years before when he spied out the lid, it was in his heart
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because it was based on the promise of God.
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In other words, God had given Caleb.
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His word and Caleb took it to heart.
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In other words, Caleb was transform.
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His faith and bold and because of God's word, he believed what
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God Said. And sometimes we come to church
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and we had we hear the word of God in our heads, but it's not
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in a heart. Caleb said, I took it to heart,
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it was in my heart because God had given me his word.
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Galatians 6:9 says, and let us not grow weary while doing good
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for, in due time due season, we shall reap.
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If we do not lose what heart, it's about the heart, is it not?
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And God looks at the heart out of the heart.
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Jesus said, comes the issues of life.
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If God is concerned about our heart and he wants to know if
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our heart is completely devoted to him.
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Caleb Hart was completely devoted to the Lord based on
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what God has said. He knew he could trust God, if
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God said we can take the land, man, we're able to take it
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because the Lord Is With Us, Caleb believed God's word,
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because he knew God's reputation.
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He was there when the Red Sea was split and into was divided
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and the children of Israel walked across on dry land and
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the Sea came in, on Pharaoh's, Army and drown Pharaohs Army.
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He was there in the wilderness when he saw water coming out of
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a rock, you know, to quench The Thirst of the Israelites he was
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there. When Manna fell from heaven.
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That God fittest people. He saw the pillar of cloud by
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day that led them in a pillar of Fire by night.
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That led them. He was there when the Jordan
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River It was parted and they crossed over on dry land.
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He was there, when the walls of Jericho fell down, he knew God's
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reputation. He knew that his God could be
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trusted. Amen.
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And what a great lesson for us all, give him praise and glory.
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Amen. It's okay, it's a great reminder
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for us because some of you are sitting here right now, and
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you're doubting God to Downing God, I dare you to look back on
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his reputation in your life. You would not be here, but for
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the grace of God, It's his faithfulness in your life and
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Paul said, even when we are faithless, here's a faithful
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saying, even when we are faithless, he remains faithful
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for, he cannot deny himself. Amen.
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And so Caleb understood. Oh, it's in my heart.
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God is faithful. I've seen God do all these
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things. God, did not bring me this far
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to let me down now. God has I brought you this far
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to abandon you now. He is a God.
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Who is faithful even when we have been faithless?
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He remains faithful, aren't you glad about it?
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So the next time the enemy comes in and starts casting doubt on
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God's word This Promise in your life you said well y'all hold
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on. Amen.
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Just back up chump. Amen.
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Because let me tell you about my gosh reputation.
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He's been this faithful to me now.
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And brought me this far. He's not going to let me down
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now. He's not going to abandon me
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now. That's all I from the pit of
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Hell. He says that I'm with you and I
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will never leave you and I will never forsake.
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You, that's the promise of God. And I'm here to testify that the
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promise is true. Amen.
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Give him praise and glory. He deserves it?
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Thank God. God.
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Caleb was devoted to the Lord. I love what it says in Hebrews
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10:23. Let us hold fast.
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The confession of Our Hope, without wavering for he, who
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promised is faithful. That's the reputation of our
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God. That's the reputation of the god
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of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that sort of reputation of our
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god of our Saviour, he who promised is faithful.
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And So based on God's Reputation.
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Caleb holy was wholly devoted. To the Lord, the third evidence
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that I want to share with you that is evidence of Caleb, be
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wholly following the Lord has to do with the fact that there was
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personal resolved in Caleb's life, personal resolve I call
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it. And I see that here in verse 12,
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we read along with me here in Joshua 14, it says verse 12.
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Now, therefore Caleb said, give me this mountain of which the
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Lord spoke in that day for you. Heard in that day how the anakim
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were there and that the cities were great and fortify it, may
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be that the Lord will be with me and I shall be able to drive
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them out. As the Lord said, I'm able to
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dry them out as the Lord said as the Lord promised.
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Amen. He had personal resolved.
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He said, why do you say personal resolve?
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Because Caleb's Mountain was not an easy Mountain.
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He said the a nekima there who are the anakim?
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They were giants. Goliath was the descended of
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anak of the Ana King they were giants.
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Stout men big men as the other ten spies said we were like
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grasshoppers on their site. And then he said they were down
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on the Giants on my Mountain, but they're also fortified
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places on my Mountain, the atoll and the spiritually speaking.
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It represents the things that we face in our own lives.
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You have faced Giants on your Mountain as a lot of Believers
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is that they want to follow the Lord but when they encounter a
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giant they want to go the other way.
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A lot of Blues. I want to follow the Lord but
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wouldn't hit that fortified place with a double says your
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mama was this way. Your daddy was his way you're
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going to be this way. You'll You never overcome this
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in your life. That's what the enemy is
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selling, is a fortified place. It's in your DNA.
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You just you're hopeless. That's a lie because we can do
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all things through Christ. Who strengthens us.
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Amen. But it's a fortified place that
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obstacle. I just can't quit.
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I just can't stop doing it as a fortified place.
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But you Caleb said with the Lord's help, I'm able to try the
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amount because God is there with me and God is my strength.
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He had personal resolve to trust in the Lord despite the Giants.
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In the Fortified places that he would face again, the mountain,
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kinda is a metaphor for our life.
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Our lot in life, you could say or where God has us in our life.
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Some of you seen your, your family, your family is that
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mountain or what have you or your own personal life or
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challenges or whatever it is. You can apply it to anything but
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it's your mountain. In other words, it's your
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situation. We always want to be on somebody
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else's Mountain knowing Look at it.
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I want to have a look like that person.
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I'm gonna look like that person. I want that mountain.
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That looks like Maui. Amen.
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It's got the waterfalls and it's got the lush green, you know,
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vegetation and all that all and it's always warm and is always
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nice and and it's just their own is a little Beach Little Beach
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to don't forget that and you go down there.
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Any dip in the water and you come back.
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Oh, I want Batman. Give me Lord, give me that
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mount. I want her Mountain.
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I want his Mountain, always one with someone else has but God is
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giving you You your mouth? But you got some challenges on
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your Mountain, don't you? Caleb has some challenges on
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this mountain but he it didn't deter him.
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He continued to say, give me this one.
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God promise me this, I don't care what opposition the devil
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brings up. God gave me a promise and God's
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promise is always greater than the devil's resistance.
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Give me my mountain. You are who you are.
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You may not like your Mountain. When you're mounting you, maybe
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wish you had more hair, Amen, on your Mountain, you may be
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wishing, you had a truer waster or whatever it might be.
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Well, I always want to be something else but you are
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uniquely created in the sight of God.
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You are uniquely who you are. It is only through who you are.
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The God can magnify his life in a certain manner.
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He can only do it through you. So be who you are, it's your
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Mountain, embrace, your Mountain.
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Your lot in life and say, God your promises, you've given me
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your promises. Give me my Mountain, give me
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victory over whatever I might be facing Don't turn and run the
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other direction. God wants you to have victory
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over here. Giants victory over the
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Fortified places in your life. Caleb believe that Caleb was
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determined. He had resolved to say, give me
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my mouth and I think it's sometimes we as Believers we
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don't have resolved because we're not looking for resolved,
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we don't have spiritual resolve but we think that Christianity
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is somehow about Recreation the sun.
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Nothing wrong with Recreation, nothing wrong with enjoying life
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and all. Yeah, I'm not talking about that
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but sometimes we just think that it should all be the mountain of
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Maui. It should all be easy.
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It should all be just just smooth all the time.
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I'm but his old song of my mama used to say old folks, saying
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back in the day, I'm Going Up On The Rough Side of the Mountain.
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If the mountain wasn't rough, you couldn't climb it.
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You can get closer to the Lord. You began to thank God, as I
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look back on my life for the Rough Side, because the Rough
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Side makes you who you are. Today.
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The Rough Side enables you to embrace the promises of God, The
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Rough Side you can even my wife and I walk it through this right
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now. It brings you place.
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It almost forces you to believe God's word when you've got
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nothing else. But God, you're hanging on the
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God, with all you've gone. I'm going up, I'm not going back
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on the Rough Side of the Mountain because you can't, you
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can't climb glass, amen. But you can climb on the Rough
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Side. So you may be going through a
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rough path. God has made it that way that
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you might draw closer to him, but as your Mountain, But you
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need holy resolve Romans 8:31 says What then shall we say to
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these things? What things.
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Whatever. Thang you might be dealing with
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right now. Amen.
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Whatever saying, you may be going through right now.
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What do you say to these things? If God, whoo, I love that if God
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is for us, who can be against us?
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Name me somebody in other words, Paul is saying name me somebody
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who can be against us. No weapon formed against us.
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Isaiah says will prosper and every voice said, raises up
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against you speaks out against you.
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God will condemn it. That's the heritage of the
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saints of God. Aren't you?
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Glad about that? Praise His holy name.
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God has for you, he's not against you.
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And if God is for you, no one can be against you and God will
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make sure as you are climbing your Mountain but he's not going
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to ask you about your wife's a mountain.
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Hey, how's Norman climbing? I don't know.
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She's a little lazy. What are you know is that?
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No he's not going to ask normal house.
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House thousand mountain climbing going on?
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Well I don't know he's you know he's sitting down on the job.
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What he needs to do more. We were you know he's not going
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to ask you about someone else's Mountain.
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Not the person sitting next to you, he's going to ask you how
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you climb in your mouth. How are you climbing your
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Mountain? Here's what the Bible says.
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I love this in Psalm 81 verse 10 says, I am the Lord your God who
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brought you out of the land of Egypt, open your mouth wide and
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I will fill it. I think sometimes we come to
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church and as a pastor, something to look out at people
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and almost see people doing this, you know, like you're
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trying to feed a child and they don't want to eat the food.
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I see people spiritually doing this.
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Mmm-hmm, you're trying to get the food in the child's, not
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mmmm. And I believe some of the Holy
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Spirit. Trying to minister something to
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somebody. Mmm-hmm it can't happen for me.
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It's not possible for me. I've given up online.
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God, you let me down. You're done with me.
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You've given up on me, Lord. And God is ministering to you
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his word and your mmmm. No, open your mouth wide.
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Open him out. What?
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Dare to trust God, dare to open your mouth and say God, feel me.
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Feel me. Amen.
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Open your mouth wide and he will fill it.
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He will fill your heart, he will fill your life with joy with
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peace. He's not given us a spirit of
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fear, but the Bible says that of power and of love and a sound
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mind. But you got open your mouth why
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and you can't just purse your mouth.
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You can't just, you know, over there.
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Ah open it. Why?
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What is open and why me Faith, I believe that God will fill it.
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Amen. God wants you to be full.
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To be filled with his promises filled with his goodness, in
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conclusion with a heart. Holy hilted to the Lord like
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that of Caleb. Heart resting in God's timing.
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Heart devoted to the Lord heart. That is resolute.
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That's continues to trust him. Believe God.
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You yourself in your own life will possess your Mountain.
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You'll be able to possess all that God has ordained for you.
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Psalm 84 verse 11 and 12 says that.
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No good thing, no good thing. There's a lot of things that I
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want but God knows the good things and the bad things, he
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knows what's best for me and he says, no good thing.
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Will he withhold from those who walk uprightly?
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Oh, lord of hosts blessed is the man or the woman.
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Who trust in you? Trust in the Lord, with all your
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heart scripture, says lean not unto your own understanding, in
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all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will direct you, your
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path on your Mountain. Align yourself with this
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pleasure, my friend, and you will find your purpose.
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God will show you and direct you and he will add to your life.
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The things that he has promised to you.
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Jesus said it. Well, seek first, the kingdom of
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God, and his righteousness, and all these other things will be
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added to you. But seek God first, God will
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lead you. God will grant you your
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Mountain. His promises.
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Maybe somebody here today that you do not know Jesus Christ as
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your lord and savior, you've come to church, but you don't
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know for certain if you were to die today, that you go to
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heaven, I want to know the Bible says that these things are
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written, the word of God is written that you might know that
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you have everlasting life. You could Amos Lee, go through
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this life trying to conquer your own mountain and through success
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and riches and all these things. But Jesus said, what does it
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profit a man? The gain the whole world and
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lose his soul or what could a man give in exchange for sold
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answers nothing. The only way that we can truly
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experience Abundant Life in him. Experience our pleasure or our
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purpose is through pleasing God because you were created to know
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him. Jesus is the only path that
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leads to True Life. You say, well Pastor, I want to
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know that path. I've been trying to climb this
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mountain. I've been trying to manipulate
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folks, and do all these things and trying to get ahead and all
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this in My Own Strength. But I don't have that assurance
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that, that I'm, that I am on my way to heaven.
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I do my don't know where my path is leading me today.
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You can know by surrendering your life to Christ.
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You can borrow Your head right now.
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Where you're seated right now? And it from your heart because
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God's look into your heart and repeat this prayer after me,
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open your heart to God. So that you can know his purpose
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for your life, and you can know that your sins are forgiven and
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that you're on your way to heaven.
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By simply praying this prayer. Say Lord Jesus right there,
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where you're seated. Lord Jesus, I believe you are
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the son of God. I believe you died for my sins
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and I believe you are risen from the dead.
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Forgive me. Come into my life.
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I receive you this day as my Lord and as my savior.
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In Jesus name. Amen.
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