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Five Instructions for Serious Servants of God | Pastor Daniel Batarseh (Gospel of Mark Bible Study Series) · Bible Study with Pr. Daniel Batarseh | Verse by Verse Series | Maranatha Bible Church - Chicago

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  Mimi and Mark chapter 6. What a mighty God we serve.
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  Mark, 6 together. Today.
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  Is an exciting session for many reasons.
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  And one of those reasons is that, as we come to the word of
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  God, and as you've been with us week after week after week, We
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  are now entering into a new era with the ministry of Jesus
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  Christ. We have spent many weeks and
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  months. exploring and beholding through handful of chapters,
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  Jesus Christ, preaching healing Delivering rescuing rebuking
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  with a variety of people before him and with a diversity of
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  scenarios and situations, but as we come to, what we're going to
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  read today, for the first time, we are going to witness, and we
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  are actually going to see the closest Disciples of Jesus
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  Christ. Being commissioned to multiply
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  and expand what exclusively belonged to Jesus for so long.
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  After being sorely rejected in Nazareth, the Lord now is ready
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  to delegate, his disciples to give him a portion of his power
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  and to send them out on a short-term Outreach to really
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  replicate the activity that you. And I have become so familiar
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  with And they are going to take what Christ was doing.
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  And reflect it in different parts within the boundaries of
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  Israel. Now you and I hearing that my
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  think to ourselves, okay, that's great and that might make up for
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  a great Bible study, but it's very difficult for that kind of
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  subject to hold applicable truths, right?
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  And I would say not, right because all scripture is
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  breathed out by God and it is profitable, all of it, including
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  Jesus giving Specific Instructions to his disciples as
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  they are prepared to head out on Mission.
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  For the first time in this way. And the only group who really
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  will not benefit from what is about to be set from this point
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  on is for those who do not have their life set on seriously
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  serving God. I'll tell you up front that this
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  will have no relevance to you. If you are a person who has not
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  prioritized playing your part in God's Grand drama of redemption
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  in our world. But if you are a person who has
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  this Burning Desire, who is orchestrated your life around
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  everything, serving the purpose of you serving God, then I can
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  assure you that as we draw from this, well of Truth, it will
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  enrich Each that Holy ambition, you will feel blessed because
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  what we're going to read in a moment is actually in some way
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  directions for us as much as they are, for the disciples.
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  And these directions are for those who seriously want to
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  serve God and I want to read it first and I want you to see it
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  first and then we're going to look at five, five of them five
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  things that you can apply to your life.
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  If you have this ambition to say, Lord with my life, I want
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  to be as effective as possible because these principles will be
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  applied and can be applied, no matter what you do for the Lord.
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  No matter where you go for the Lord, no matter what member you
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  are in his body. All these things are sufficient
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  and they're good and you will be blessed by them.
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  I'm sure, again for those who have no concern and have
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  different desires, this will be a dread to you, but I pray that
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  even if you are in this place and you are in that place,
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  something would touch your heart.
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  You know, we just pray but I really want to pray again and I
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  really want to pray because I believe in prayer.
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  And one of the things that a preacher fears is coming on the
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  pulpit, without the help of the Holy Spirit. some might be able
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  to depend upon their oratory skills or the charisma, not this
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  leadership. You know, I was Charles Spurgeon
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  when he would get up from the front Pew, to the pulpit who
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  would say to himself. While trembling inside, I
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  believe in the Holy Spirit, I believe in the Holy Spirit, I
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  believe in the Holy Spirit, Because he knew that he needed
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  the Holy Spirit and I want you to just join with me as I ask
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  God that just anoint this time in a special way.
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  Lord, we do ask in reverence That you would help us in this
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  time, lord. We believe in the Holy Spirit
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  and we believe that the Holy Spirit has been given for the
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  sake of demonstrating power and that the message heralded would
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  not be heralded void of that strength and that Grace Lord,
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  with everything in our hearts, please bless this delivery and
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  may the reception be equally blessed.
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  Lord help us see the beauty of Jesus, his wisdom, his glory,
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  and let it be something that will cause us to worship Lord.
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  We set aside any confidence in the flesh and we look to you now
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  in desperation in Jesus name we pray.
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  Amen. Mark 6.
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  Verse 7, here's what God's word says.
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  And he called the twelve and began to send them out, two by
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  two. And gave them authority over the
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  unclean spirits. He charged them not to take
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  nothing for their Journey except a staff, no bread, no bag no
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  money in their belts, but to wear sandals and not put on two
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  tunics and he said to them whenever you enter a house, stay
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  there until you depart from there.
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  And if any place will not receive you and they will not
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  listen to you when you leave shake off the dust that is on
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  your feet, as a testimony. Testimony against them.
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  So they went out and proclaimed that people should repent.
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  And they cast out many demons and Anointed with oil, many who
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  were sick and healed them. Five directions given by Jesus
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  Christ for the serious servant of God.
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  And the first observation that we have to make, is this?
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  And I'm going to organize it that Servants of God will do
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  number one, a serious servant of God will value.
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  And cherish Christian partnership will value and
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  cherish Christian partnership. We cannot Overlook the fact that
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  when Jesus sends out the 12, He organizes them in groups.
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  He did not send them out individually, he pairs them and
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  he releases them. As six different partners. now,
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  you would think Lord if you really want to reach more people
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  and cover more ground, send them out one by one and you can just
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  do so much more that way. But clearly by Jesus doing this
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  implies that, there is a foundational philosophy at work
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  here. If you and I want to be serious
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  about Kingdom work, and here it is.
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  Christian service. Must be performed with Christian
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  company. Christian service must be
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  performed with Christian company.
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  This is Christ idea, and that must be our conviction.
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  Listen carefully, there is no such thing as an effective
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  servant of God. Who dismisses the regular
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  companionship and the co laboring efforts of other
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  believers. And the primary means by which
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  God has given to Believers in order to know this Advantage is
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  through the local church, a body of Believers that someone can
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  connect and serve with that is his means of which you and I can
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  come as a home base and the from that home base Enjoy the
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  blessings that come by going to by 2 2 by 2 not just the number
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  two, but the idea of partnership you know, whenever I meet
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  somebody who is flimsy with their interaction and conviction
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  with the local church, it's indicative of many things.
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  And one of the things that it's synced signals that is that this
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  person is not serious about serving God.
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  This person is clearly not serious about serving God.
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  And you might say, well, no, because there are some people
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  who really made great efforts to serve God, who are not
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  consistent with their fellowship and accountability with other
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  believers. And I would say that might be
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  true. But no matter who, that person
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  is how gifted they are, how intelligent they are, that
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  person's labor will be limited. It will be limited.
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  The Holy Spirit tells us in the Book of Ecclesiastes, Two Is
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  Better Than One. Two Is Better Than One.
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  And when he says that statement through Solomon's writings, he
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  follows that statement with the Glorious advantages that come.
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  When a person trust in God's wisdom that doing anything solo
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  is, always lesser than doing it. With the way God intended you to
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  do things, including how you serve him.
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  And so, I want you to turn there.
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  Quickly, Ecclesiastes. Chapter 4.
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  And I want you to see how Two Is Better Than One.
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  The serious servant of God will cherish and value, Christian
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  partnership. Cliches 4:9.
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  Two are better than one. And here's the first reason,
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  because they have a good reward for their toil.
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  The first thing that partnership promises is greater fruit in
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  your labor, greater fruit in your labor.
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  And I think for those who are members of this church, that one
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  of the strongest examples of that is understanding how the
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  mechanics operate here. It is absolutely impossible for
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  the things that are occurring here to function without the
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  participation of every single one of you.
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  Everybody knows that including the Declaration of God's word.
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  So many things need to happen in the background for this to
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  happen more than once a week but more than the obvious
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  practicality of Helping Hands being present, when you choose
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  to be a part of a body of Believers, you not only have
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  access to that, you have access to wisdom and support And
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  Council and encouragement and so many other things resources and
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  creativity that will only sharpen you in what you do for
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  God, and who God called you to be as a man or a woman of God.
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  And so as iron sharpens iron, right?
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  When we come into this place consistently and we meet with
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  one, another consistently, there is a polishing that occurs that
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  cannot be known if you do this solo.
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  And I can expand on these things so much more, but I want to just
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  go from one to the next. Look at the second thing.
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  The holy spirit says in verse 10, for if they fall one, will
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  lift up his fellow but woe to him.
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  Who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up.
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  Here's the second gift that partnership assures us that when
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  and if we do fall, we will be helped. now, the way this
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  argument is made is brilliant, because it shows that the only
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  way you and I can expect Swift assistance from other people who
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  have Christ like convictions is that if you fall in their
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  presence, If you tumble in close proximity because it's possible
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  to be alone and fall and there are some people unfortunately
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  who deliberately distance themselves from other believers
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  for whatever reason that are unjustifiable.
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  And such people have no right to expect Brothers, our sisters
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  coming to their aid. If they do fall, because they
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  made the decision long ago to be distant, this blessing is only
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  secured when you have a firm conviction, that you will stay
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  close to the fold. And what a secure thing.
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  It is to know that what I inherit when I go to buy two,
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  when I lock arms with other Saints, is that when I am
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  overcome in any way, emotionally physically, physically, I praise
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  God, for the moments, where people here throughout the past
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  few months, I've had surgeries or different things, and they
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  were able to come here with Believers and Believers are able
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  to help them in practical ways. This is what a speaking of
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  physically, emotionally spiritually.
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  When you have this two-by-two mentality, you will know this
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  blessing. I mean, I know we're in
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  Ecclesiastes but just come with me quickly to acts and put your
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  hand there and Ecclesiastes for, but go to the other side of your
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  Bible and acts for. I want you to see something.
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  So wonderful. So precious to me.
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  In Acts 4. the church was being introduced to persecution very
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  early on in there is in its Inception and here we see That
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  Peter and John were before the council they were arrested and
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  they were warned, they were warned by the religious Elite,
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  not to go out and to preach in this name anymore.
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  So after being arrested, look what they do.
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  In verse 23 of chapter 4, when they were released, they went to
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  their friends. They went to their friends and
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  reported what the chief priests and the elders had said to them.
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  Isn't it incredible? These Mighty Apostles after
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  being in a very hostile environment.
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  New as a reflex, we must go to the Brethren and we must share
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  what had happened to us. We must open our hearts and
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  declared the threats that are looming over us and the dangers
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  that await us, Apostles did this my friend, do you have friends?
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  Do you have a group of believers?
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  That you can come to when there is war against you.
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  When there are trials that are overcoming you and to spill your
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  soul and say this is what's happening in my life.
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  Well I think I'm okay. Oh really you're better than the
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  apostles you're stronger than Peter and John obviously.
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  No. They came to their friends and
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  they open their hearts and I want you to see what their
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  friends did and verse 24. And when they heard it, they
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  lifted their voices together to God.
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  Peter and John come in. This is what the Pharisees are
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  saying, this is what the Sanhedrin are planning were in
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  trouble. And here's what true friends do.
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  Here's what to buy, two promises.
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  All right. All right, let's pray, let's
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  pray. Let's seek God.
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  And they lifted their voices to God and the Holy Spirit came and
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  shook that place. And they were emboldened.
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  They were emboldened to continue to speak the word of God.
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  Do you have that believer? Do you have?
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  This is this true in your life? We come back to Ecclesiastes and
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  we see a third blessing that partnership opens up for us and
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  Ecclesiastes 411 again, if to lie together, they keep warm.
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  But how can one keep warm alone? Here's the third blessing that
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  partnership offers it promises comfort and Company. when you
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  have the presence of other like-minded, Christ, filled
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  people, it keeps us from emotional mental and spiritual
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  hypothermia. It's very difficult for you to
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  feel your Zeal crystallizing or being overcome by the chill of
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  discouragement. When you are constantly around
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  those whose hearts are alive in Christ, when you have the active
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  presence of people in your life, you will know warmth a warmth
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  that will cause your heart to be softened.
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  That will give you hope for tomorrow that will assure you
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  that you are loved and cared for That cannot be realized if you
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  are sporadic. That cannot be realized.
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  If this is not a discipline that cannot be realized unless you
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  are consistent. And this is what we were
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  promised. If you look at the early
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  churches practice, constant Fellowship was was the thing.
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  When you study the book of Acts and you see how people went out
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  to minister and to different parts of their Known World,
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  there was partnership, there was constant visiting homes and
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  local churches. It was just that was the nothing
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  was done individually. At least as a standard.
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  And so you have to understand something that there is warmth
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  there is warmth. And you know what happens in the
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  most simplest of ways. Can I tell you how it happens to
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  me? I can walk through those doors.
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  Come into this place on a Wednesday or Friday night and
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  just the presence of believers. It's enough to awaken my faith
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  and to bless me is that not true?
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  Is that not true? Thank you for agreeing with me.
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  Isn't it true that you just the sight of you in this place here
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  at walk to now 2:00 on on a Sunday.
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  It just rejuvenates. Me it blesses me.
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  And then add on top of that when you sing and out on top of that
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  when this place fills up with the voices of Fellowship.
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  Oh, You can't get that on Instagram.
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  You'll never get it. Because warmth comes from close
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  proximity. Thinking that you can warm
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  yourself on a fire on a screen that you project from your
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  phone. No matter how realistic it is,
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  we'll never be able to deliver the same way that when you come
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  and you put locks together in light that thing of flame.
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  Same goes with church, watch on the screen, all you want, it can
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  be real, it can be HD. And now with this goggles, that
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  you'll be able to put on and be an avatar and show up to service
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  God help us There's a fourth blessing.
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  You think I'm done? Look at verse 12 of Ecclesiastes
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  for, and though, a man might Prevail against one who is alone
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  to will withstand him. A three-fold cord, is not
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  quickly broken. Here's the final, but not
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  limited to this blessing, mention pertaining to
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  partnership. There is a greater resistance
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  and warfare You know, I know criminals out there in our city
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  are becoming more and more bold and Reckless, but I think some
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  of them still have sense that if they were to choose the option
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  between attacking a crowd or attacking somebody who's walking
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  alone in the night, they're going to go with the ladder and
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  we think about spiritual warfare.
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  The scriptures prescribes the principles to tell us that it's
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  up to us how we experience Warfare.
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  And one of the ways in which you can ensure greater strength is
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  when you do this thing with fellow soldiers, Your mind is
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  less vulnerable, your emotions are less accessible when you are
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  constantly surrounded by eyes and hands and hearts who will go
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  to war with you when they know that you are out in the field.
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  and when you are in a trench and bullets are whizzing by your
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  head, who's in your Foxhole, the serious servant of God will
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  value and cherish Christian partnership, but we come back to
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  Mark and we realize Point number two, instruction number two.
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  Principle number two. Found in verse 8, He charged
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  them not to take nothing. For their Journey, except a
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  staff, no bread, no bag no money in their ballots, but to wear
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  sandals and not put on two tunics.
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  The serious servant of God. We'll learn how to continually
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  depend on God. Undoubtedly, this particular
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  charges unique to the disciples in this instance because of the
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  uniqueness of the mission and the brevity of the mission there
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  is, there was no time to prepare.
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  There is no time to make provisions and extra Provisions.
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  But that doesn't mean that there is not a Timeless.
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  Truth tucked in here for us. Why would Jesus specifically
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  order them not to look back and not to reach anywhere to add
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  anything to their inventory? But to Simply, Wow out
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  immediately. The answer is simple because
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  they were to learn absolute confidence in God to provide for
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  them as they committed to serving his son.
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  They would learn absolute confidence in God, as they have
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  absolutely determined to serve the Glorious, Son of God.
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  And that is what the Lord wants to teach him as you prioritize.
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  My kingdom, I'm going to show you how I'm going to provide for
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  you along the way. Now, listen, when you make it
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  your ambition, to live for the glory of God, especially for
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  those who are in full-time Ministry, that endeavor can be,
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  very daunting for many reasons. And the main obvious General
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  reason, is that serving God will entail for you.
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  To wait on God and to look to God day by day, there are
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  certain seasons in serving God where you will be pressed.
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  And this is not just for the full-time preacher.
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  As for any servant of God, you will be pressed and tempted to
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  turn your attention, your resources, your time away from
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  God, and on something else for the sake of self-preservation.
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  And in those moments where you are worried about the
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  necessities of life, even here's my charge to you based on this
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  principle and 100 different promises.
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  God will honor you. As you honor him, God will honor
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  you as you honor him and it is quite amazing how he finds a way
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  to not just keep you afloat, but cover every need that you have.
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  And if you don't think that, this is what Jesus means, then
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  turn quickly to Luke 22 and look at verse 35.
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  This is at the end of Jesus ministry, and he's giving final
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  instructions and preparation for his departure.
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  And when he looks at his disciples after hinting, and
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  clearly preparing them for this transition in their own lives.
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  Look what he says in Luke 22, 35.
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  And he said to them when I send you out with no money bag or
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  knapsack or sandals, did you lack anything?
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  They said, nothing. Nothing.
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  And then he goes on to tell him. Well now I'm telling you to
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  actually equip yourself, write the following verse gives him
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  new sets of instructions, which which informs us that his
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  initial set of instructions is not just permanent Universal,
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  rule that you and I as Christians need a pledge
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  ourselves to self-induce suffering or lack, Right.
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  There's context here. This was a teaching moment and
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  this is what he wanted to teach them when I sent you out and
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  deliberately told you not to accompany yourself with any
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  other Advantage. Practically speaking did you
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  lack nothing? And here's what I want to tell
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  you, your confession will be the same if you serve God long
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  enough, Serve him long enough and be willing at any moment for
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  him to send you where he would want to send your keep you where
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  he would want to keep you and you will have this glad
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  confession when you look back lord, I lacked nothing.
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  Absolutely nothing. I'm telling you, when you serve
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  God, there will be many. Who will discourage you, you can
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  make more money. You're more gifted.
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  You can go into this Avenue, you can go into this kind of field.
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  But I have to tell you. There is no greater Adventure
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  than serving the lord Jesus. It's an adventure, it is not
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  stale. It is not predictable.
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  It is not routine. You can make it that way.
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  But oh, when you daily say, Lord, just let me let me be used
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  by you. What a joy it is to see how he
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  authors your life, what a joy it is when he brings like-minded
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  people with you, what a joy, it is when he provides a work for
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  you. Do you know how I know that he
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  will give you a work if you're desperate to serve him because
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  he told us that the laborers are few the Harvest is great.
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  It's right. The laborers are few.
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  And so we see here that there was a call to trust and as we
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  are about to look here, one of the means, if not the main means
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  by, which God does come through is through people is through
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  other people directly and indirectly.
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  Look here at verse 10 and he said to them wherever you enter
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  a house, stay there until you depart from there whenever you
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  enter a house, stay there until you depart from there.
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  This may seem like a strange command but it is a beautiful
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  hint at the humility and the careful wisdom of the master.
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  And it brings us to our third point, the serious servant of
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  God. Will value and cherish Christian
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  partnership. The serious servant of God will
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  learn how to live dependently on God.
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  Three, the serious servant of God will pursue contentment.
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  Will pursue contentment. Here's a lord, essentially
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  saying, the following whatever lodging Providence, leads you
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  to, as you go out and serve me and my name, Ensure yourself
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  that you will remain there and refused to seek another place.
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  No matter how much more appealing or luxurious other
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  options, Maybe this may seem like a petty thing but it's very
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  important as a principle because it holds two purposes one for
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  the messenger and two for the message that such Behavior would
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  convey. And when we think about the
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  first Purpose By staying still, you know what would happen for
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  the disciples, they would learn contentment and not get caught
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  up in the pursuit of things that would ultimately distract them
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  from their main focus which was to preach the word of God. you
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  know, naturally when these guys would have the authority of
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  Christ on them, casting out devils and Healing The Sick,
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  they would attract people and they might even attract host and
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  invitations to something that is more Prosperous.
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  Something that is more honorable somebody that is more beneficial
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  materially speaking and what the Lord is saying.
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  No, wherever you go, wherever Providence leads, you park there
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  and stay there and don't get caught up looking for the next
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  best thing wherever you go learn to be content and learn to
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  focus. Your efforts on Ministry Above
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  All Else. And though this is specific
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  again zoom out, understand the principle serving God.
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  Without contentment being satisfied with your lot, as
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  god-ordained is an extremely difficult and disorienting
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  thing. You rob yourself of joy.
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  You you cut your Effectiveness and so many pieces and so many
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  limitations and there are other problems that come with that.
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  The Lord wanted these people his disciples to be single-minded
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  single died, focused. And listen, contentment is not
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  her natural disposition you and I know that.
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  That is why Paul says, I can do all things through him.
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  Who strengthens me? Do you know what that means in
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  context? It's not, it's not meaning that
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  you can bench a certain amount of weight Or that you can, you
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  know, make a certain amount of money in your business.
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  God will help you. He will bless you in all things.
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  But the context, there is Paul, just finished saying I have
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  learned the secret of being and facing plenty and hunger,
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  abundance and need. I can do all things through him.
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  Who strengthens me. Because of my inner restlessness
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  to continually covet and to organize my life, to be driven
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  by comfort and pleasure. It requires the power of Jesus,
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  in me to be satisfied in all seasons.
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  To actually tangibly feel a bleed be content.
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  And that is really a secret to effective service to God.
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  Because even the most faithful of God's servants can be driven
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  off course, when they allow discontentment to take the
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  driver's seat. And to determine their decisions
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  and their planning and what they do with their time, be careful.
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  If you were easily distracted by toys, Or by experiences.
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  If you are ultimately motivated by upgrades and all these
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  trivial things, I have to tell you boldly, you will be of
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  little use for God's work. You will not be cut out for the
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  maximum potential of God's work. It is not to say that we can
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  enjoy things, that is not what Jesus is trying to convey.
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  It's a more about distraction than anything else and you, and
• 31:50
  I cannot profess a desperation for God to use us in any way
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  that he would want to use this. If we're not ready to go, where
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  you want us to go or stay, where you want us to stay, or give up
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  what he would want us to give up.
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  And sometimes Jesus will tell you to travel light and
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  sometimes like in Luke 22, he'll say, be wise and prepared and
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  save up. And be careful how you go about
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  this. It's all about, being sensitive
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  to his holy spirit. But pursue contentment, but
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  there's something else to this command.
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  In verse 10. This charge communicates
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  something. About the manner in which the
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  servant of God must conduct himself.
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  Think about it this way. Imagine going to somebody's
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  home. You enter into a village, you
• 32:34
  greet it, right? Matthew 10 says you greet them
• 32:37
  and you stay there, if they are worthy and if they are worthy,
• 32:39
  you remain there until you depart from that town, what
• 32:42
  would it look like if after being invited and hosted by
• 32:45
  somebody who is worthy to get up and leave when you get an
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  invitation to go elsewhere? It's offensive.
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  It's rude. And more than that, if you stay
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  in that Community long enough and you have this habit of
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  bouncing one place to the next. And dismissing people's
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  hospitality and their care for you.
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  You risk, muddying. Your testimony and planting in
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  people's minds that you might have different motives.
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  You might be doing this for something else.
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  And so Jesus, here is brilliant. Jesus Lord, we love you.
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  This is amazing because the Lord here, cares about social
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  etiquette, He actually cares about how you interact with
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  people in different context. How you enter into a place?
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  How you exit a place? All these little intricacies are
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  important to the Holy Spirit especially for the person who
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  cares about their testimony for the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
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  The true servant of God does not limit their witness to the depth
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  of their Doctrine. Or their theology.
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  No people who care about their witness are also disciplined and
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  educated and how to interact with people.
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  They are not unnecessarily offensive.
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  They are not people who are just powerful orders.
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  Know, they actually they think about how they communicate what
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  to say, what not to say. And sometimes you meet some
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  people who are extremely insightful, spiritually, they
• 34:27
  seem to have a colossal intellect but they stink with
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  pride. And they have a sense of
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  superiority. And what happens with all that
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  knowledge, what happens with all that Vigor, what happens with
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  all that, amazing ability to present something, it just
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  dissipates. So, the true servant of God will
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  avoid the appearance of evil. They will they will ensure that
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  their steps are led by God's wisdom has provided here.
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  And I challenge you to read the Bible and to look deeper into
• 34:58
  see that God does. In fact care about what I'm
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  seeing. What I'm saying he does So there
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  is a pursuit of contentment, if you want God to take you far, if
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  you want God to keep you long, then there needs to be this
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  settled learning. Lord and all things.
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  Help me believe that I have a beautiful inheritance and helped
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  me more than that to trust that there's nothing that will
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  satisfy me more than doing the will of the father.
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  You will go far for God's kingdom.
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  If that is something that you apply, but it's not just
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  contentment. Nor is it just conduct that the
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  Christian will exercise, if they are serious servant of God?
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  No, Jesus instructions here. Require the disciples to apply
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  something else look here in verse 11.
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  And if any place will not receive you and they will not
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  listen to you, when you leave shake off the dust that is on
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  your feet, as a testimony against them.
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  The serious servant of God, will not just pursue contentment and
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  all places at all times, they will also apply and exercise
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  discernment. Discernment.
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  This is what Jesus is saying, when you come to a place, you
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  need to be able to identify who is receptive.
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  And you need to be able to identify who is not receptive.
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  And this kind of awareness would determine many things.
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  It would determine whom they would serve, where they would
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  stay. And when it was time to move on,
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  they were to expect rejection, right?
• 36:36
  We learned last week that they witnessed with their own eyes,
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  Jesus is Hometown, kick him out. And Jesus.
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  He was preparing them that you too will know, resistance, you
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  too. Will know obstacles.
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  You will know opposition be prepared for that and by
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  informing them about that in advance.
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  They needed to be trained about how not to throw their Pearls
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  Before Swine. And the Lord listened, he
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  amplifies this principle in Matthew chapter 10.
• 37:05
  When he says the following in verse 11 and 12 and whatever
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  town, or Village you enter Matthew 10, 11, find out who is
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  worthy in it and stay there until you depart, as you enter
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  the house greet it? And if the house is worthy, let
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  your peace come upon it. But if it is not worthy, let
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  your peace return to you. So they're discernment had to be
• 37:29
  Beyond just Their audience. Their discernment.
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  Also need to be applied about their Association and Jesus
• 37:36
  says, you need to be able to develop A screening.
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  So that when you come into a place, you can determine who is
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  worthy to host you and who is not worthy to host you.
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  Now, what does that mean, worthy?
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  Like, if they give enough of an honorarium if they have social
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  status, absolutely not the worthiness here.
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  That Jesus teaching on is simply this receptivity, Receptivity to
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  the message of the Gospel receptivity, to the truth that
• 38:04
  you want to declare receptivity to you.
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  As a representative of Jesus Christ, you need to be able to
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  see. Is this person a person of peace
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  and if they are a person of Peace then stay there and more
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  than that are they worthy in terms of Integrity?
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  What is their life? Like because you being in their
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  home can again send a message to others by your simple
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  association with them. Do you agree with their life?
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  Do you agree with what? What they do.
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  Do you agree with how they conduct themselves?
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  You needed all to say, you need to be able to discern people.
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  And this again, reinforces that true servant of God.
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  Servants of God are selective and discriminating.
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  I know discrimination is a bad word but if you understand his
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  definition is simply to decipher discriminating.
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  Yes, we're supposed to be very careful with our associations
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  unless we put ourselves in compromising situations or
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  positions that will weaken our witness.
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  Now listen it's much easier to know. it's much easier to know
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  when to move on when you deal with a non-believer who is
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  either cursing you or saying all these derogatory things to you
• 39:15
  or simply just walk away from me that doesn't require much right
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  but there are people who still tempted to and I've seen it with
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  my own eyes just continue to Hound on people that want
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  nothing to do with the gospel, and they had a endangering
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  themselves in one way or another.
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  All that to say that our call to discernment is beyond our
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  Evangelistic efforts are called to discernment is even within
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  the household of God. Because as much as this is about
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  going out there, you know this very well, people will come in
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  here. They will come in here and when
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  they come in here we have to be equally careful.
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  To be able to determine who is worthy and who is not worthy.
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  Everybody is worthy. No, I'm not saying it like that.
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  who will be receptive and who in fact might be a danger You might
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  not believe this, you might think that is Harsh.
• 40:06
  Because there are some people who even in Christian circles
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  and I believe they're saying this from a pure heart
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  innocently, even out of a place of love and care.
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  Brother, we can't give up on him brother.
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  We can't give up on her and yes that's true.
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  There is a there is a persistence in our love and
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  service. But that is not totally true.
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  Because the same holy spirit that tells us to love and serve
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  and reach out and, to be patient as the same.
• 40:34
  Holy Spirit, who says that there are sometimes where enough is
• 40:37
  enough and you need to move on. Let me prove that to you Titus
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  Chapter 3. And Titus Chapter 3 Verse 10.
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  Look at these simple instructions, one of many Paul
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  says, as for a person who stirs up the vision after warning him
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  once, and then twice have nothing more to do with him.
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  We're not talking about the world here, we're talking about
• 41:01
  the church. We're not talking about the
• 41:04
  streets, were talking about the assembly.
• 41:08
  Have nothing more to do with them knowing that such a person
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  is Warped and sinful he is self-condemned.
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  You know what, that teaches me that I by the grace of God in
• 41:20
  his word and through his holy spirit need to be Discerning it
• 41:23
  of to look at a person and to evaluate their life.
• 41:27
  Long enough to determine this person is so warped and so
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  sinful to the degree that they are no longer worthy to pursue
• 41:36
  at this time, I know that might sound shocking but it is true
• 41:42
  because here the danger is by tolerating such a person by
• 41:45
  ignoring such a person. You put the rest of the
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  congregation at risk of being hurt by such a person. and so
• 41:54
  again not just the preacher but the church as a whole must be
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  able to understand what is being said here because if we're not
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  careful, Our limited time are limited efforts are limited
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  energy. Can, in fact be wasted by
• 42:12
  somebody or some people who have no issue devouring all that you
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  are with no intention to change. So he says have nothing more to
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  do with this person. Have nothing more to do with
• 42:29
  this person. This is a call to scripture
• 42:32
  saturated and holy spirit. Prompted wisdom to know when to
• 42:36
  shake the dust, off your feet and to leave people in God's
• 42:40
  hands. Leave people in God's hands at
• 42:43
  the give ourselves to those who are worthy.
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  To those who will receive to, those who are more open.
• 42:52
  And I've seen in many ways where people.
• 42:55
  Don't know how to just stop and Trust in the sovereignty of God
• 42:59
  because they think that they can actually do something to change
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  somebody. You can't, you can't and the
• 43:04
  discernment part is, when do you stop and when do you move on
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  that? Will make for an effective
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  servant of God? And we come to the last point.
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  The last point is pretty It's pretty obvious.
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  But before we get there, depending on your translation
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  you might have seen something in verse 11 that I didn't read.
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  In verse 11, you'll find this more in the King James or the
• 43:30
  new King James, it's added assuredly, I say to you, it will
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  be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment
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  than for that City whose who has that in their translation.
• 43:42
  It's a manuscript difference. But when you go to Matthew,
• 43:46
  you'll see that this very same truth, is added in the account
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  that Matthew gives about the same instructions that Jesus
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  gives to his disciples. So it's not completely omitted,
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  but I think it's worth pausing. I think about that.
• 43:59
  Sodom. And Gomorrah is an example
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  throughout the Bible. Of an example of judgment that
• 44:05
  will come upon evil and perversion.
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  I mean think about the Judgment that Sodom and Gomorrah received
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  and yet Jesus can say that for the person or the town or the
• 44:17
  city that is exposed to the truth that is powerfully
• 44:21
  presented and yet rejects it. Their judgment will be more
• 44:24
  severe than that of Sodom and gomorrah's.
• 44:31
  How can that be? It just goes to show what great
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  of a crime. It is to hear the gospel and to
• 44:39
  witness the power of the gospel and to still decline it in the
• 44:44
  eyes of God. This is a severe violation.
• 44:49
  And in this specific dispensation, you had the
• 44:51
  Apostle who that unusual authority over demons and
• 44:54
  unusual authority over sickness which made this penalty.
• 44:58
  Even more profound But he's an even says that at the final day
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  of judgement, there will be degrees of punishment in the
• 45:04
  same way that there will be degrees of reward for the
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  Believers. It will be more tolerable for
• 45:10
  Sodom and Gomorrah. I don't think people understand
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  just how serious the transaction of truth is.
• 45:20
  We look at a vessel of clay and we see probably his weaknesses
• 45:23
  is stumbling of words, whatever the case may be, but understand
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  that the gospel is the most precious thing.
• 45:30
  And it cost the blood of Jesus Christ and to be able to hear
• 45:34
  that, and then to turn your back on that.
• 45:38
  Oh, God says, Sodom and Gomorrah their judgment.
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  Will be tolerable more than that person's judgment.
• 45:50
  The servant of God will exercise discernment will know that they
• 45:54
  are limited in many ways. And that people have different
• 45:57
  heart, postures and conditions. So they know where to go, where
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  to stay who to deal with and when not to.
• 46:04
  But lastly they will remain. They will remain
• 46:06
  compassionately, truthful and verse 12.
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  Jesus says, Or is told of what happened to the disciples after
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  Jesus said. So they went out and Proclaim
• 46:17
  that people should repent, and they cast out many demons and
• 46:21
  Anointed with oil, many who were sick and healed them.
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  So, after all these practical instructions, Jesus now says go
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  and they go and the priority of their mission was a message.
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  The priority of their mission was a message.
• 46:36
  Right, the disciples were not to get caught up in community
• 46:39
  service. They were not to get overly
• 46:42
  involved with alleviating suffering or to providing
• 46:46
  practical material needs. Now, there's no doubt.
• 46:50
  They were to be practical. They were, they were casting out
• 46:53
  demons, they were Healing The Sick, they were actually
• 46:56
  administrating help in that way. But never at the expense of
• 47:01
  eliminating, the presentation of the truth.
• 47:04
  That Rings. True Redemption.
• 47:06
  And I think that's important for many Ministries today.
• 47:10
  Who have much more emphasis on practicality than the profession
• 47:14
  of faith that we have. We have to be very careful.
• 47:17
  They went out with a message and everything that they did was to
• 47:20
  point to that message. And the message of hope, the
• 47:24
  message of saving, the message of redemption and salvation was
• 47:28
  a word that you don't hear a lot today.
• 47:31
  Repent. Repentance change the way you
• 47:37
  think about God, change the way you think about Sin, change the
• 47:41
  way you think about eternity change the way you think about
• 47:44
  life. Change the way you think about.
• 47:46
  In fact, just give everything up and come to God's word and say I
• 47:49
  agree with this. That's repentance that's
• 47:52
  repentance. So, the disciples didn't just go
• 47:58
  into town and tell people about the love of Jesus.
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  No, they went into town to, they told him about this Jesus.
• 48:05
  And yes about his unusual. Kindness mercy and Grace.
• 48:11
  But that, that would change you. And this is what they preach and
• 48:15
  this is what they did, and that part should bless us, you know,
• 48:18
  why? Because despite being warned by
• 48:20
  Jesus, right before this, that you will come against hostility,
• 48:25
  you will come against resistance.
• 48:27
  They still, they still dug their heels and they said we're still
• 48:30
  going to obey you. And we're still going to preach
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  this message. How much more today?
• 48:37
  How much more today regardless of what the seculars are saying
• 48:41
  that, you know, we're living in a post Christian world And what
• 48:46
  people need, what people really need is messages on
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  self-healing. Inner healing.
• 48:57
  And self-esteem. Because there is now this this
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  wave of propagating mental health and Trauma.
• 49:06
  And I'm not saying that those things are not true to some
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  degree, but it's come to the point where salvation is
• 49:11
  apparently reflecting on your past and confronting things that
• 49:16
  had happened and to acknowledge it.
• 49:18
  And to realize that you were a victim in one way or another,
• 49:20
  that's not the gospel. That's not the gospel.
• 49:24
  This is what they preached repent.
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  No matter what happened to you, no matter what you did, you need
• 49:31
  to repent and you need to come to Jesus Christ.
• 49:34
  Will forgive you. Once you realize is that your
• 49:35
  repentance is genuine and true, and these men were not
• 49:39
  intimidated. Obviously, they could not, that
• 49:43
  could not even think about the threats or whatever was coming
• 49:46
  about their way. And we shouldn't be concerned
• 49:47
  about the trends in the threats that they hold.
• 49:49
  Anyway, our message is not bound to a certain time.
• 49:54
  It's not limited to this culture.
• 49:56
  It's not any point open to be adjusted for any reason. the
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  serious servant of God will hold firm to that for the time is
• 50:09
  coming when men will not endure sound teaching They will not
• 50:13
  endure it, but they will accumulate for themselves
• 50:16
  teachers right to satisfy their itching ears.
• 50:20
  What a way of phrasing that they will not endure sound teaching,
• 50:25
  meaning, perhaps, at one point, they could have tolerated it.
• 50:29
  But now, at this point, there are no longer able to tolerate
• 50:31
  it. This is to offencive it's too.
• 50:35
  It's too controversial enough and maybe even for some this is
• 50:38
  getting boring. The Bible boring to you.
• 50:42
  Can you endure it? They cannot endure sound
• 50:48
  teaching and so they accumulate for themselves teachers to
• 50:52
  scratch their itching ears. And what's our motivation?
• 50:57
  The same motivation as these disciples.
• 50:59
  Whatever is before me, whatever is happening around me.
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  I'm going to just do what Jesus called me to do.
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  If he said go and preach repentance, I'm going to preach
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  repentance. That's it.
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  It's very simple to serve God. We have made it complicated.
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  And here's the conclusion that we can make notice verse 13.
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  And they cast out many demons and Anointed with oil, many who
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  were sick and healed. But you got to connect that with
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  verse 7. Again, and he called the twelve
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  and began to send them out, two by two, and gave them Authority.
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  Gave them Authority on the short-term Mission, they needed
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  a special dose of authority to fulfill this particular part in
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  Christ plan and when it came to the Great Commission he says
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  don't you dare go out until the gift of the father has bestowed
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  upon you. Wait upon the holy spirit which
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  tells me that any point in Ministry.
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  I and you are continually in need of God's grace, to
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  strengthen us to equip us to do what he needs to do in us before
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  we even do anything for him, Authority power, a touch from
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  God. Not just human Ingenuity, not
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  just my own efforts, but something that God grants from
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  his own hand. And that tells me with all the
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  things that I just heard and all the things Beyond those five
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  directions, I will know a help from God, I will know some kind
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  of Grace that will lift me up and take me where I can't go in
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  my own flesh. And so what a way to cap off all
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  of this, we need the authority of God, we need his help.
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  We need something beyond the natural and this is something
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  that he is willing to provide my friend this afternoon.
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  Are you a serious servant of God?
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  I hope you are. If not I hope you'll be inspired
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  to be because there's no other way to live our dear brother and
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  Pastor just mentioned that he has come to give us life and
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  life abundantly. And if you are a Sears servant
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  of God, you will cherish and value Christian partnership.
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  You will you will understand that there is a contentment to
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  be learned and understood. You also realize that there's a
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  discernment to be applied. You also know that there is a
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  Timeless truth that must be compassionately conveyed.
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  And finally, you also realize that there is something to be
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  known in the place of Reliance on God, In All Seasons at all
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  times. This is my message to you may,
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  God help us follow him and honor him, especially in these final
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  days. Let's pray.
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  And worship team. I know you have songs ready, but
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  if we can sing at some point that classic, I have decided to
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  follow Jesus. No turning back after a message
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  like this and even hearing those statistics early on, I think,
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  It's worth declaring to God. Again I will follow you, no
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  turning back so keep that in mind as we prepare to sing in a
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  moment, but our hearts are bowed.
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  In the presence of God Almighty who has reminded us of our
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  mission and purpose on Earth and it was given us all that.
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  We need to be effective though. We do, pray in this place that
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  you would renew that ambition and that you would help us
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  indeed, wherever we are to apply the things that we heard.
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  Lord, we ask for a fresh touch from the Holy Spirit.
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  Fresh touch from the Holy Spirit.
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  Lord, we do not dare think that this ministry will go anywhere
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  apart from his help. We will be succumb to so much
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  mess. Fears doubts.
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  Fleshly conflict. Unless your word.
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  Is embedded in our hearts, and your power is energized.
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  In our being Lord help us. Help us value this community.
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  Help us care about who we are in every place that we find
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  ourselves in not just in this church.
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  But when we go to the restaurant for lunch, and we deal with
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  waiters and waitresses, when we go and see her extended family,
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  when we go to work, Lord, help us.
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  Help us really know who to find that is worthy and went to move
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  on. When we need to move on, Lord,
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  determine our every step and let it be effortless.
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  Let it be a Grace because your yoke is indeed easy.
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  Your burden is indeed light. And so Lord, if there is any
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  sense in which somebody feels overwhelmed by these
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  instructions, Lord, let them know that your powers behind
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  every command, ready to be dispensed and provided.
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  And so we rejoice in you and we want to honor.
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  You may you be blessed. Lord.
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  May you be blessed by our response.
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  Now as we sing together with one voice in Jesus name, we pray.
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  Amen. Let's stand church.
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  I have this too far. I decided to follow Jesus.
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  No, not yet. I sincerely ask this, I'm not
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  trying to be corny. I'm not trying to feed off of
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  what was just song to play on your emotions but I'm sincerely
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  asking you as soberly as possible in this place.
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  Have you really decided to follow Jesus?
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  Sincerely genuinely. Can you recall a time where you
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  made a choice? I want to follow Jesus.
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  Now, you might be about person who says, I don't remember the
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  time where I made a decision. Well, that's fine.
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  Are you now following Jesus? That's more important than
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  anything else. But for the person who is not
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  concerned, the person who may not even thought about that
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  question and how it applies to their life.
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  Listen, everything is at stake with that question.
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  Being answered in one way or the other.
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  Have you made a Conscience decision to say, this Jesus who
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  came into this world, 2,000 years ago and who died on the
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  cross was, not an empty performance, was not something
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  that held no purpose or significance to me.
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  I now realize that he died for me that he was buried and rose
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  again for me and that he beckons, and he calls me to
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  himself. And now, I will decide to follow
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  Jesus. This is how you follow.
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  You heard what was just preach you repent.
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  You make a decision today that you will now.
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  Realize he is Lord. He is savior, this is sin.
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  What I have been doing, how I've been living, I turned from that
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  and I turned to God and I want to follow him and I want to live
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  for him and I want to enjoy him and I want to see him and be
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  with him for all of eternity. I'm telling you today, make that
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  decision to follow Jesus. I'm calling you today because
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  tomorrow is not promised And you don't know, if you'll have
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  another chance to receive this invitation.
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  I'm telling you this today, because the days in which we are
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  living have been predicted by the prophets and the Apostles of
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  old we are in the final seconds of human history.
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  I don't know the date and nobody has a right to give a date, but
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  I have been instructed in you have as well to look at the
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  signs of the times. And when you understand that
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  these signs line up with the truths of the Bible, to lift
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  your head up because your Redemption is nigh, but that
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  Redemption is only for those who are redeemed.
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  You cannot look up with confidence and expect Christ to
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  come back in your favor. If anything you have every
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  reason to be terrified. Because he is a righteous judge
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  and he has been good to this world for thousands of years in
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  this time of Grace, this window of opportunity for the worst and
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  the most filthy of Sinners to come and to be washed and to
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  have everything that was held against him, be eradicated by
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  one moment of confession that time is dwindling down and when
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  it comes to a finality the mission of Christ will be
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  changed and the change will be this you will be judged for
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  rejecting my grace. And so I call you today to flee
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  from the Wrath to come. I call you today to understand
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  that you have any mortal part of who you are, you will live for
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  eternity and you will either live in the presence of God's
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  pleasure or you will be under God's Wrath Without End.
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  And the way in which you can transfer one status to the next
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  is upon one thing and that is you acknowledging Christ as Lord
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  and you acknowledging that, if you come before him now and
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  repent and believe on his name that you will be closed.
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  In his righteousness, you will be forgiven of everything, the
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  Unspeakable things, the private things, the perverse things will
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  in one moment be dealt with and you will be justified in the
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  sight of God. And so today is the day of
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  salvation, listen, hear me clearly.
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  This is not the time to play Church in America.
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  Our nation is crumbling. Souls are being sealed in their
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  faith of Disobedience and Rebellion with the culture in
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  The Narrative of our time. And so even if you are in this
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  place and you are a minister or you're planning to be a minister
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  here, my heart from a fellow brother be bold, be Unapologetic
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  Chic this Authority from heaven and let God clothes you with
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  power so that when you go out into this world you will not be
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  able to easily ignored men and women.
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  See, this is a man who has met with something or someone apart
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  from this life and yes, we have met with someone who has created
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  life and creating This world and created you and created me.
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  His name is Jesus and he wants to save you.
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  He wants to deliver you. I pray to God that you are
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  unable to come into this place week after week and not even be
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  slightly convicted. May God have mercy on your soul.
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  If that is the case we want to do everything that we can to
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  make sure that in these. I just was so stirred by those
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  statistics, that's why I'm keeping you here longer than I
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  usually do. It's just the times that we're
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  living in are unbelievable and then we can still find it in
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  ourselves to to minimize our church services to fast as
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  possible. TED Talks, it's just not going
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  to work. It's not going to cut it for
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  this generation. We do need a Revival and that
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  Revival has to come first from the preacher, who has been
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  baptized with power from on high.
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  And a knows, the word of God who loves the word of God, and loves
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  the people that he sees week after week and loves the
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  visitor. Who comes in and loves the
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  neighbor, and loves the persons who was on the streets, it's out
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  of my system. Give your life to Christ.
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  Give your life to Jesus Christ. Stop playing the fool with God.
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  He cares for you and he wants you, and he has a purpose for
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  you, but more than anything else, it's for God himself.
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  He wants you in his bosom forever and ever Lord, I pray
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  with all of my heart and my with my brothers and sisters who have
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  been a menning, everything that was said, Lord pour out your
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  Holy Spirit, pour out your Holy Spirit, not just here, but in
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  every church, every Pulpit Lord in this crisis.
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  Our oh God. We pray that you would raise up
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  profits that you would raise up men and women who would take the
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  call of God. Seriously, and who would take
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  the partnership of the ministry? Seriously and say, oh God, I
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  will do what I need to do to play the 2 by 2 and to serve my
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  brother. And to be encouraged by my
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  brother for the sake of the greater, cause help us.
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  Lord, help us what we looked, and we thank you for this
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  glorious time in this place in Jesus name, we pray.
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  Amen, and amen. Be blessed.
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  See you