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Isaiah 6:1-8 - Turning Point · Living Waters of Grace / Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland Sunday Services

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What a legacy, huh? Living for something that's
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bigger than ourselves and understanding what a turning
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point is. A definition of a turning point
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in life is a significant event, decision, or experience that
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causes a major shift in a person's life trajectory,
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perspective, or direction. It's a moment after which things
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are never quite the same, fundamentally altering the
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future path. It involves A profound change in
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a person's circumstances, such as career, relationships,
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beliefs, or health. Once a turning point occurs,
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there's usually no going back to the way things were before.
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It often leads to a new path, a new set of priorities, and a new
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understanding of oneself in the world.
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While others might observe a change, the true impact is
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deeply personal and felt by the individual.
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Turning points, even those stemming from difficult
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situations like a crisis or a loss, often serve as catalysts
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for personal growth, resilience, or self discovery.
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I'm sure this event has impacted your lives.
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I know it's impacted mine. It's 74 years old.
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Most guys my age are thinking about retiring and shutting up
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pastors. We did our thing and we just
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fade into the sunset. But I feel as I do along with
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the rest of the leadership, this is a pivotal time for our church
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as well as our community, our county, our state, our country
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in the world. And so our Savior Jesus Christ
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in Matthew chapter 5 began a turning point when the greatest
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sermon that was ever preached in the world, the Beatitudes.
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So I'm going to read these verses and as I read them, think
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about them in your own heart. What do they mean to you?
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What does it cause you to think about?
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How might you be in the process of change, wanting to live these
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powerful truths out instead of reading them and just thinking
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about them? How can I be more like what
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Jesus is wanting us to be? Let's pray.
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Father God, we thank you this morning for your Holy Spirit
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who's with us, speaking to us, Lord, in the building online, on
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YouTube, Facebook, whatever other media that you allow us to
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use to get the word out. We ask you today, God, for your
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favor and your grace to speak to each of us as individuals and as
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a church, what it is you want us to do moving forward in the days
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ahead. That we would get the gospel out
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of the building and into the streets, into the marketplace,
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into the political arena, Lord, into the neighborhood and the
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communities we live in, into our workplaces.
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And that Lord, we would be salt and light as you tell us in the
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section of Scriptures. Lord, bless your people today.
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Encourage them. Encourage husbands and wives to
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have conversations with their children that they would have a
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biblical worldview that as they go into the public school that
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they would have the ability to have a turning point choice not
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to go this with the culture, but to go with your teachings.
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Lord, from your word. Change our lives, Lord, change
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our hearts, change our minds to make us like you.
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Jesus, we know that your will and we thank you in advance for
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what it is you're doing and will continually do in the days
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ahead. And we pray these things in
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Jesus name, Amen. And seeing the multitudes, he
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went up into a mountain, and when he was set, his disciples
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came unto him, and he opened his mouth and taught them, saying,
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Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of
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heaven. Blessed are they that mourn, for
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they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek, for they
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shall inherit the earth. Blessed are they which do hunger
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and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.
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Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.
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Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
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Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the
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children of God. Blessed are they which are
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persecuted for righteousness sake, for theirs is the Kingdom
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of heaven. Blessed are you when men shall
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revive you and persecute you, and shall say all men are of
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evil against you falsely for my sake rejoice and be exceedingly
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glad, for great is your reward in heaven for so persecuted they
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the prophets which were before you.
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You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt have lost its
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savour, wherewith shall it be salted.
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It is therefore good for nothing but to be cast out, and to be
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trodden under foot of men. You are the light of the world.
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A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid, neither do men
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Light a candle and put it under a bushel, but on a Candlestick,
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and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.
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Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good
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works and glorify your Father, which is in heaven.
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Amen. That's what we're called to do.
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It's Jesus and His gospel, the Good News and the focus today
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and every day that we gather at Calvary Chapel.
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Our worship gathering His, His Word and how His Word can change
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our lives. Many of our lives have been
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changed and are being changed because of the simple teaching
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of the Bible through the men and women in this church that
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faithfully teach the Bible weekly to the people that they
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love and care about. Salt and light.
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I have been convicted since this event happened that how much
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salt is coming out of my life and how much light is being
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manifest from my life and the questions I asked myself and I
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asked you today. Are we salt and light outside
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this particular building in this ministry, in this church?
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Do we look for opportunities in our conversations with people to
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be salt and light? Or are we intimidated and
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fearful or feel unable to express our convictions?
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That's one of the big challenges I think we have as Christians.
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If you turn to Isaiah 6, if you have a Bible, turn there.
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If you don't, that's OK. Isaiah had a turning point and a
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vision. In this chapter.
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Isaiah is believed that he was somewhere between the ages of 18
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and 21. It's interesting how God chooses
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to work with young people. Young people impact old people
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and old people are to impact young people.
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It works both ways. But Isaiah, he had this vision.
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The king had died. He was a good king.
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He stood for moral convictions and right type of leadership and
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government and his reign as one of the good kings in Israel at
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the time. And he died and it says in the
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first verse of chapter 6, in the year the king Uzziah died, I saw
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the Lord sitting upon a throne high and lifted up and his train
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filled the temple. The anytime you have a personal
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encounter with Jesus, you and him one-on-one could be praying,
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it could be in a church environment, it could be
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anywhere where God, this begins to move in your life in a way
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that you've never experienced him before.
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When that happens, it's intimidating because we always
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usually look at ourselves among ourselves and say why I'm just
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as good as this person or I'm not as bad as that person.
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So I'm cool, everything's good with me and God, right until you
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have this kind of encounter. And you'll see now as we begin
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to get into this, what happened to Isaiah is he had this
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experience, tremendous vision, seeing heaven as it was in the
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next dimension. Above it stood the seraphims.
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Each had six wings. With two he covered his face,
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with two he covered his feet. And with two he did fly.
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Boy, what a wild vision, huh? Can you imagine seeing something
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like that? And one cried unto another and
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said, holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts.
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The whole earth is full of his glory.
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That's what's going on in heaven right now.
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This worship and this tremendous chorus of angels always singing
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before the throne of the Most High God.
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Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of host.
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And the post of the door moved at the voice of him that cried,
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and the house was filled with smoke.
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There was this atmosphere of God's glory that was so
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overwhelming for Isaiah that he didn't know how to respond other
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than what he said in verse 5. He said then said, I woe is me,
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for I am undone because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell
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in the midst of a people of unclean lips.
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For my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.
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When you are before this great throne of God as an individual
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human being, you begin to see yourself as you really are.
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You think you're clean and righteous and you got it all
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together. And all of a sudden you realize,
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man, I am messed up. And God's grace and His mercy is
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so kind and so patient and so good.
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And he, he allows us to see ourselves as we are, not to
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depress us or destroy us, but to help us to see that there's so
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much he wants to do in our lives to make us more like Jesus.
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And that's a one-on-one thing. Whenever you begin to see
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yourself this way, you want God to cleanse you, you want to
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repent, you want to make amends, you want to be reconciled to God
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at times and to others and family and people.
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You may be offended in your life, whatever all of a sudden
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like your life is before you. And you say, I wish I wouldn't
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have done that. I wish I wouldn't have said
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that. I wish I wouldn't have acted
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that way. I wish I wish I would have been
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more open to what God wanted for me instead of being too busy for
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what it was that God was telling me He created me for.
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We all are the same. And I encourage you to ask God
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to give you an encounter with Him if you haven't had one like
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that yet. Because first of all, when you
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do, it'll cause you to believe that you need a Savior, you're a
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Sinner, and you need someone to help you out of the problem that
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you're in because of what your sin has done to you and to
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others. God Forgives sin.
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He cleanses us as we come and ask Him for forgiveness.
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And if you're a believer and you've gotten cold maybe or
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lukewarm. And that happens to all of us,
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including pastors. You can just say, Lord, this is
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a fresh start. This is a new turning point.
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I see things from a different vantage point now.
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And because of that, what I'm living for and how I'm living is
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going to be changed dramatically.
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You're going to begin to be the priority of my life and not
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everything else that I allow to become the priority of my life.
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And God is so good. He's so patient, so merciful.
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So he has this experience. Then God in his mercy in verse
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6, then flew one of the seraphim's under me, having a
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live coal in his hand, which he had taken off from the tongs of
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the altar. He laid it on my mouth and said,
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lo, this has touched your lips and your iniquity is taken away
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and your sin is purged. So I don't know about you, but
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like I am so at times like why am I?
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Why am I up here today like, Lord, why are you allowing me to
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do what it is you are allowing me to do, to talk to these
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wonderful people that you've created, that you love so much,
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knowing what I am and where I've come from?
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But the good news is, is that God isn't looking for perfect
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people. Charlie Kirk wasn't perfect for
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sure. We know our president isn't
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perfect. I know I'm not perfect.
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But God uses imperfect people to perfect his will and his
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Kingdom. And So what happened was he's
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purified, he's refined, he's cleansed.
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So he's at one point like, man, I can't do anything, certainly
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can't be used by you God, because I'm such a a
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knucklehead. And then all the sudden he has
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this revival in his heart. He knows he's OK with God now
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and he hears this voice of the Lord saying, whom shall I send
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and who will go for us? Question mark for all of us
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today. And we had this last week a
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little bit we talked about it. Here am I Lord send me.
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And he said, go and tell this people here and indeed, but they
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probably won't understand much and see indeed, but they won't
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perceive. So that's a challenge we have as
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believers. We are in a culture war.
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We're in a environment where most people have a worldview
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that's anti God against God, Pagan, ungodly.
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And they really don't have a lot of patience for us, nor do they
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like us. We have to understand that
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that's a reality. So how do we go into the world
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to preach the gospel with grace and with love and care about
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people that really don't like us and don't have the time of day
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for us? Now, if we're going out there
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thinking we're better than everyone else, and that's the
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wrong, don't even start right. But if you go out and you
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realize like these people were like you at one time, they can't
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see, they don't understand, they're lost.
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They need to hear the good news in order to believe the good
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news. And who's going to tell them the
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good news? So as you think about this, in
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lieu of what Isaiah said, here am I, send me.
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Maybe today you're going to say, Lord, here am I send me.
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First of all, how do you share your faith in love, not
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judgement, planting seeds and giving people things to
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consider. Charlie was a master at having
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conversations with people and dialogue to get him to think a
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little bit differently. And because of that work of the
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Holy Spirit through that man's life many times liberal college
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students, high school students, people like us that maybe saw
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the podcast that didn't know the Lord maybe at one time all the
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sudden said I never thought about life that way.
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That makes sense and send our views begin to change and then
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eventually our hearts become open to hearing the gospel.
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And so our job is to help hurting people and invite them
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to a a relationship with Jesus Christ, invite them to church
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and they might say no, but don't ever give up asking people to
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come and hear the gospel and hear the word of God.
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Encourage these high school club America leaders, which we'll
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have one speaking here in a few moments.
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Morgan from Latrobe High School, she's out there with a table
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with a lot of cool buttons and pens where you can get involved
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and find out more about what she's doing by the power of God
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on the high school campus. Along with students at Norwin,
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Penn Trafford, Hempfield, Ligonier, Greensburg, Salem,
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many, many high schools and more and more are signing up to have
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Club America's in. It's amazing what God's doing
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through these young people. We want to meet and pray and
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encourage Morgan today. She's here as well as others to
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use the resources that we provide through Calvary Chapel
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and Grace FM 91.7 that we can interview them, that we can have
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them tell their story and invite their constituents and people
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that go to school with them to get involved in their wonderful
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camps and groups and things that they do in their high school
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campuses. We need to vote.
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As Kerry said, we need to know the platform of the candidates
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and we have the voter registration guides so you can
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vote biblical platforms that are for the truths of the Word of
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God in regard to pro-life and other issues that are very, very
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important to the Lord and to what the Word of God teaches us.
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We need to know who's running and why we're going to vote.
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I don't have to tell you who to vote for and you don't have to
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tell me who to vote for. You should know who you should
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vote for based upon knowing what their platform is and what they
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believe and what their convictions are.
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I was told at the meeting that I spoke at over at the Hempfield
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Park by some of the leaders of Turning Point, the 30% of
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Christians didn't vote in the last election and 20% of gun
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owners didn't vote. That's shocking, isn't it?
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Can you imagine if you get those folks voting for moral causes
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and values that the Lord has given us through His word, how
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different our society could be and would be?
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Maybe you need to run for office.
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Maybe you need to be active in your local school boards.
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Maybe you need to show up at the meetings and pray and encourage
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those who are there that are on the same page as the Lords word
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of Word of God and then pray individually as a community and
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nationally. Fred Warnbrock's going to help
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do some training in regard to our meeting and I'll talk about
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that. Our first turning point meeting
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to to study our Constitution and understand our rights as
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citizens and how we can be salt and light.
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How we can get into conversations with people and
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engage them to think about their need of a Savior.
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We will have prayer guides on platforms of Pennsylvania and we
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will have prayer guides for every other state in America.
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So you will know what other states are dealing with in
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regard to liberal ideologies that are circumventing the truth
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of the Word of God and know how to pray for these other States
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and leaders. As family and parents, it's
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important to teach your children the truths of the Word of God
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and to help them maneuver a culture that is going to try to
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teach them and train them to rebel against the Word of God
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and learn to be humble, turning from what you know needs to
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change in your own life. There's things since all this
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has happened that the Lord has tapped me in the shoulder, say,
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Clark, this area needs to go in your life.
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This needs to be thought about differently.
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These judgments need to be put down.
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These love and these opportunities to be a better
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husband, a better father, a better grandfather, a better
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son-in-law, a better brother-in-law, all these better
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son, all these different hats I wear, a better employee for the
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companies that I work for, a better pastor.
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To you guys, these are things that the Lord is causing me to
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wrestle after. So the benefits of being
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involved as a collaborative partner with Turning Point Faith
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is churches like ours. Many Calvary chapels are already
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involved, many more signing up as we speak.
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I have communication with Jack Hibbs at Chino Hills to get some
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direction and help as we maneuver this a little
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differently than we have in the past.
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We want to teach one another how to stand for biblical truth, how
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to combat cultural compromises, and pray for a God centered
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revival on our nation. There'll be citizenship classes,
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national faith tours, faith leadership summits, and a lot of
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other things that we can be involved in to live out the
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Great Commission. The Lord wants us to go into all
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the world and preach the gospel to every living creature.
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One of the problems of where we are in our country as a culture
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that has unfortunately been not as focused upon in in many of
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our lives as Christians. And now's the time to be
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involved. Not tomorrow, next week, next
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month, maybe next year, but today is the day to be involved.
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The harvest is plenty old, plentiful, Jesus says, but the
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laborers are few. Lewis has been so eloquently
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teaching us the importance of being doers of the word and not
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hearers only in the book of James.
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You ever notice like how you can say Amen and listen to sermons
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and and then go out the door and nothing changes next week that
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happens. We're human, right?
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But like the Lord, show us how to apply these things in real
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life circumstances and situations.
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All of us. And that's what our training
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will be involved in. We need to understand that
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there's a lot of people that don't know Jesus.
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We need to understand that the LBGTQ agenda is very well
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organized and very focused on accomplishing their agenda.
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We need to know how to counter that in love in a biblical way.
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There's people that are homeless that need help, there's sex
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trafficking happening in our country and our own communities.
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There's people that are worshipping Satan, and there's
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people that think the church now is irrelevant and so they don't
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attend anymore. And that's one of the worst
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things that can be happening right now.
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We want to be a church that is relevant so when people come not
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only they hear truth but they learn how to apply the truth and
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live it out in everyday life. We need to do this to protect
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our children and our grandchildren.
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As I said, we need to know how to to vote biblically.
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So who can be involved in this? Anybody that is attending here
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or listening online or curious or interested, you can get
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involved in this small group. One part of our ministry, we
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have many ministries at Calvary Chapel.
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We're praying that somehow we'll be able to connect with the
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prisoners at the West Morning County Prison.
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All the listeners on Grace FM, this goes out live right now on
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the air as we're preaching the word.
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And so when are we going to get together?
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The first meeting will be Tuesday, November 4th at 7:00 in
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the social hall, fellowship hall, and we'll probably be
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doing that once a month, the first Tuesday of the month if
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everybody agrees on that being a good time to get together.
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Some people say, well, what am I signing up for?
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What do I have to do? All you have to do is follow
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Jesus. That's all you got to do.
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And so there's not more work or you know where you expect you to
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do this or do that. Just live out your life and be
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salt and light. That's all you got to do, right?
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And share ideas and share ways that we can be more effective in
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our community. Get engaged.
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What's exciting about this is, is that last week 22 people
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signed up to get involved in this as a as a, as a group.
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And the four specific people that I already see as dynamic
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leaders that'll help us understand how to do this in the
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culture. Kerry's been involved in the
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political arena for a long time. She's very passionate.
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She kept trying to drag me into this stuff the last five years.
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And I said, well, I'm busy. I can't, you know, we can't go
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at all. Kind of flimsy excuses.
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But she loved me anyway and prayed and didn't leave the
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church state here. And, and, and she, I know she's
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want to jump in out of her skin now.
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She never dreamed this would be happening.
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Amy Kirkland, you know, I can see passion in her life.
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All the people that signed up, Fred, he's a retired Lieutenant
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Colonel from the Air Force. This guy's no joke, and we're
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fortunate to have him here. He's also an intercessor with
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Calvary here on Thursday nights. But also him and Mary Ellen are
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intercessors for everything that's happening all across the
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country in the world. So he'll be able to give us
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information and how to pray so we know what to pray for.
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So the next steps are, as you think about this today, pray
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about your possible desire to be involved somehow.
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You can ask us questions, whatever.
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There's sign up sheets in the lobbies you leave down by the
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offering and same thing in the back.
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And Fred will be at one door, I'll be at the other along with
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some of the other leaders and pastors.
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Pray for a boldness that will not be intimidated, that we'll
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be able to to share the good news with people without
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compromise. That's really, really important
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be praying about how you can mobilize others and other
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churches in in the community that need to be involved in this
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for such a time as this. The the beautiful thing about
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the work of the Holy Spirit is that none of us are beyond God
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using right? All of us are able to be used.
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I guess the challenge for all of us, though, is that are we
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afraid? Are we concerned about people
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not liking us? Are we afraid of persecution or
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or whatever? Erica said something about
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Charlie, which impressed me, something I got to pray and work
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on. I like people to like me.
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I like you guys to be happy. Is everybody happy here?
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Well, probably maybe 80% are happy at 20%.
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What's that guy talking about up there?
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But I can't worry about like what you think of me or, you
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know, this prayer, You pray for me.
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I'm not here for a popularity contest.
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I'm here to be faithful to God, right?
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So Erica said Charlie had a lot of good friends and when he
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began to get engaged in the culture wars and speak out
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against it, he he lost a lot of friends.
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But she said it never bothered him.
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He just kept doing what he knew God told him to do.
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Now there's there's contrary or conflict comments about Charlie
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and some of the ways he communicated.
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At times it offended some people.
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Some people thought he was a racist.
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Well, he wasn't a racist, but maybe the way he answered a
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question once in a while, maybe it sounded like he was, but he
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wasn't. He had African Americans in his
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team. And Vodi Bakkam, one of the
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great preachers of the word of God, good reform guy, died
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recently. He is in the training on how to
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deal with this issue of racism and white and black and all this
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baloney stuff that's separating and dividing people because of
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woke culture right. So that that was not true or
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thinking women were subservient to men.
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There's no way all the women that are involved in turning
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point Morgan here today, Erica running the organization and I
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would listen to her last couple lectures at the at the Missouri
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University of Missouri. She spoke and Vance spoke.
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He tried to answer questions like CC did a good job and she
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shared the reason why we're doing what we're doing.
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Our answer isn't in Washington and it isn't in politics.
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Very clearly stated. It's in the Lord.
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We need the Word of God. We need the Lord as front and
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Center for everything we do. Keep that in mind.
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Keep that as your focus and and the noise.
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Don't listen to the noise. I mean, some of these scandalous
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things that are being said to to try to destroy turning point is
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is ridiculous. You know, on YouTube Annette,
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just turn off the noise. Keep your eyes on Jesus and do
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what you know he tells you to do from his word.
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Amen. Morgan, if you could come up
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that's welcome. Morgan from Lake Trout of high
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school, he's going to share some things.
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How she got involved, why she got involved.
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Tell us what the push backs are, all that stuff you know.
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Hi everyone, happy Sunday. I'm Morgan Glessner and I'm 16
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years old. I'm vice president of Turning
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Point Westmoreland. My jersey to my journey to Jesus
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started from a very young age. I have everyone in my family to
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thank for that. Every Sunday I would go to
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church not far from here and as a young girl I sometimes didn't
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understand at all. As I got younger through COVID,
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honestly my faith kind of fell off.
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I started my own faith journey to better my relationship with
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God by reading my Bible, watching online church, and
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praying. I would like to call my
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relationship to God my coming back and my coming back my
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turning point. Turning Point has very true that
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he brought me across the closer to God.
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I started with Turning Point USA because I enjoy discussing with
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people about what is happening in our country and I strongly
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encourage anyone who is in high school or college to take a
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current issues class. That's where I started.
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The best way I like to describe Turning Point is people with
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conservative religious values. I do not agree with people
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hating someone on the other side.
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I encourage the opposition because I enjoy others opinions
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as long as we are with God. In my chapter at Latrobe, I
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helped run the chapter with my best friend Mateo.
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We first thought about creating a chapter towards the end of
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last school year. We got approved in July this
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summer. We currently only have 25
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students even though we just started, which is fantastic.
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I have friends who have opposite opinions and they don't agree
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with it, but I continue with how I am and many of the people in
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the club have very full schedules.
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I do my best to go to as many events as I can.
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People my age will be the newest ones to vote in this next
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election. Please everyone vote on Tuesday.
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As Pastor Clark and Kerry said already, I encourage that anyone
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my age educate yourself on how the world works and enjoy
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enjoying Turning Point. We are not one for just
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political for just one political party.
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If you are interested in joining, please come talk to me.
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Even if you were just wanting to know what we're about going to
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the Turning Point website and have amazing resources about
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anything government. I can also talk to anyone if you
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need help. If you're willing to learn about
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what's happening in the world, this is for you because we're
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not just for one. I know I dragged on, but I'm
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extremely excited for Calvary to join the Turning Point faith
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community. This, this organization does
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amazing things and it has done many things for me, brought me
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amazing opportunities and opinions and people for me to
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talk to and things for me to talk talk to people about other
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opinions. If anyone has any questions I'll
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be out in the lobby with collectibles from Turning Point
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and I have a bunch of pamphlets and I want to thank everyone for
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letting me talk and talk about what I'm interested in.
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Morgan, come on over here for a second.
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Thank you for your boldness and what you're doing for Jesus.
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Your labor is not in vain in the Lord Father God, we're inspired
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by this young woman's life, her wisdom at a young age, her
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insights, and what she understands to be true because
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of you, Jesus living in her heart.
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I pray you would bless her and use her mightily.
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In Latrobe High School. We have grandkids that go there.
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I pray, Lord, that I know they've already checked the
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meeting out. I pray they would get involved.
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Lord, God, this this do a revival in Latrobe and all these
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other high schools. Lord, we're looking forward to
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meeting some of the other leaders from some of the other
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schools and colleges as well to form a partnership and a unity
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together for the same purpose of being salt and light.
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And so Lord use her and thank thank you for bringing her
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today. Bless her and her family, her
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father, her mother, everybody, her grandparents that belong to
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Calvary. Lord, just thank you for what
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you're doing. And we're just excited to be a
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part of what she's doing. And we pray all these things in
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Jesus name and all God's people said Amen.
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God bless you, honey. So in, in conclusion, Tuesday
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night 7:00 fellowship, Paul will have the, the beginning of the
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training and teaching of, of how to be more active in the, in the
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culture with the gospel. We also want to make everyone
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aware that this is not something we expect you to do.
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You have to be led by the Holy Spirit and desire to do this and
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God calling you to it, right? There's all kind of ministries
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you can be involved here at, at Calvary.
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I I'm, I'm on board because this is like making me come alive
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again in my faith in Jesus. I'm thinking too about the, you
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know, the opportunity that this church has because of Grace FM.
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So what I would ask you to do, and many of you have come
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because of other people inviting you today.
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Tell people to go to the Calvary Chapel Westmoreland County
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YouTube station and watch the service today.
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OK, it's it's going to be archives, it'll be there.
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Social media, you can get it out there through using Twitter and
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Instagram and Facebook and all these other things.
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We have several people here today that are specialists to
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help us get it out. Do some reels so that they can
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see a short overview of what we had captured today, what was
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important in the service. So let it go viral.
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Seriously, what you can do, your first step involved, even if
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you're not going to be at the meeting, there's a Christian.
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Let people hear about what we said today.
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Let him see the video. Let him hear Morgan's testimony.
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You have grandkids and kids in high school and junior high,
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Tell them to watch the service completely OK and ask him for
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feedback. So that's my story, and I'm
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sticking to it. And I wanted to thank the Echo
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Burgers for bringing my dear mother here.
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Sheila's with us today. No, you're, you're what, 100
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years old now? Is that what?
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You're 100, 92 now, right? We're praying you make it to
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100. And same with Alice.
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My, my, my mother-in-law back there with Cindy.
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She's here today. So just thank you for coming
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today. We love you guys.
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We'll be around if you have any questions.
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And Gina, if you can come up and close us and the service, that'd
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be great with the worship teams. Oh, yeah, yeah.
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Got too many things going on in my head.
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OK, this is really important our communion because this is where
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we become one every week in body, soul, mind and spirit as
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we remember Christ's sacrifice for us, his shed blood that
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forgave us of our sins and his body was given for us on the
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tree. So let's let's do this together.
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It's interesting, I think about that night he he did do this
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supper and he knew he was going to die for what he believed and
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what he was teaching. And he also knew that his
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closest followers that were with him were mostly going to end
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their lives the same way. I'm so thankful that I'm not in
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Nigeria where they're martyring Christians and killing people of
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any kind of religious faith. And President Trump is getting
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the Pentagon to get involved and get involved in that country
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because this shouldn't be happening anywhere in the world,
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that people can't have freedom of religion, right?
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And so we pray for these dear sisters and brothers in Nigeria
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this morning, as well as ourselves.
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And thank God that we are in a country that we still have the
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freedom to do what we're doing today.
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That's not normal in most places in the world, right?
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Father, we are thankful today and for all that you're teaching
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us what you're doing in US, and we are so grateful that we can
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be representing you on this planet for such a time as this.
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We ask for God that you would be glorified in everything that
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we're endeavoring to do for you and your Kingdom for sake of one
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another and our country. We pray, Lord, as we take the
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supper today, that maybe there's a little deeper meaning because
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we see things maybe a little bit clearer as to what is being
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required of us as your people, that we would sacrifice
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ourselves and meaning that we would surrender our will to your
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will so that your will would be done in our lives instead of our
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own. And we praise you and we thank
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you for what you've done for us, Lord.
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And the night that Jesus was betrayed, he took the bread in
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his hands. He broke it.
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He gave thanks. He said, take, eat, this is My
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body which is given for you. Eat this in remembrance of me.
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In the same manner, in that evening he took the cup and he
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said this cup is a new covenant in My blood which was shed for
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the forgiveness of sins of many. Drink this in remembrance of me.
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As often as we eat this spread together and we drink this cup,
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we show forth the Lord's death till he comes again.
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Amen. God bless you guys.
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I also wanted to shoot.