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The Favor of Redemption · Wow God

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  I want to continue this part three, and I want to entitle this message today,
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  The Favor of Redemption.
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  The Favor of Redemption.
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  Grace, it changes everything, and we need the favor of redemption in our life.
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  Let me just start off with this story about the debt of someone else.
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  They got it paid off. I just want you to imagine receiving a letter informing
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  you that you owe debt so large
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  there is absolutely no way you can pay it off.
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  You check your bank account. There's not enough.
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  You consider everything you own and it's still not enough.
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  You could work for years and still never satisfy the debt.
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  Then one day you receive another letter.
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  This one simply says, paid in full.
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  Someone with the resources you didn't have stepped forward and paid the debt you couldn't pay.
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  You didn't earn it.
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  You couldn't afford it. You simply received what someone else provided.
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  Church, that's redemption.
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  See, when Ruth came to Boaz, she couldn't redeem herself.
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  She needed a kingsman. She needed a redeemer.
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  She needed someone qualified and willing to step in to her situation and change her future.
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  And that's exactly what Jesus did for us.
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  Sin created a debt we couldn't pay.
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  Religion couldn't pay it. Good works couldn't pay it.
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  Your own righteousness couldn't pay it.
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  But Jesus, come on somebody today, you're going to have to help me. I've been in revival.
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  Jesus stepped in.
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  Stepped forward right there on Calvary and declared, I'll pay it.
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  He didn't redeem us with silver or gold.
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  He redeemed us with his own blood, and that's why grace changes everything.
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  I come to tell somebody today that God wants to bring redemption to somebody today.
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  I don't know what you're up against. I don't know what you're facing.
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  I don't know what season you're stepping into right now. But the Lord says,
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  redemption is drawing nigh to you.
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  In Ruth chapter number three and verses number nine, the Bible says, who are you? He asked.
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  I am your servant, Ruth, she replied.
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  Spread the corner of your covering over me, for you are my family redeemer.
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  Also, I want you just to jump over to Ephesians chapter number one and verse
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  number seven, because the Bible says,
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  he is so rich in kindness and grace that he purchased our freedom with the blood
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  of his son and forgave our sins.
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  See, the greatest expression of favor is redemption.
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  It's redemption. See, today I'm talking about the favor of redemption in our lives.
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  And so it brings me to point number one today in this message.
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  Favor brings you to the Redeemer.
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  Each one of us have favor in our life, and God is pushing us closer and closer to him.
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  I hear the Lord saying, I'm nudging you today. I'm going to nudge you today.
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  I'm going to push you a little bit today.
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  You may be struggling right now, but the Lord's saying, just wait on my nudge.
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  Because today, God is nudging somebody today.
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  Because in Ruth chapter number three and verse number nine, it says, who are you? He asked.
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  I am your servant, Ruth.
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  She replied, spread the corner of your covering over me for you are my family redeemer.
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  Aren't you glad for the redeemer today? See, Boaz in this text represents Christ. Right?
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  Jesus, what he does is he covers all of our shame.
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  He covers all of our pain. He covers all of our debt.
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  He covers it all. I like whenever we're doing our Bible study and we're getting back to the basics.
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  One of Rick's quotes is whenever I ask a question, he says, well, Jesus does it all.
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  He covers it all. And I come to tell somebody today, I don't know what you're
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  going through today, but Jesus is about to cover it all.
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  He's about to cover it all. And when Jesus covers it, he heals it.
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  He delivers it. He redeems it.
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  Jesus covers all.
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  Redemption changes our identity.
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  Aren't you glad for that? We don't have to walk the way we used to walk.
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  There's a name change. There's something that begins to shift in the atmosphere, and he redeems us.
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  Redemption changes our identity. It changes our walk. It changes our talk.
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  It changes how we look at life. It really does.
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  You know, Scott, can I just put you on a spot for a moment come on up here.
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  I i know he wasn't ready for this but i i i want you just to share something,
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  you don't have to go into detail of what you talked about yesterday to me but,
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  yeah about thursday would you just share share just a little bit about that,
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  because i'm going somewhere with this.
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  Well, I'm a truck driver for Coca-Cola and I was headed to Fort Worth in south
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  of Oklahoma City going north.
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  They had a big accident and all I could see was,
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  And they were getting a blanket out and covering the body.
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  And, you know, we're so rushing about going here and going there,
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  and someone just lost their life on the highway.
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  And someone's family is going to get the most devastating news that they can
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  ever get, that someone's not coming back home again.
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  And it just kind of shook me because, you know, I'm wanting to get the taxes.
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  And then you see that and then, well, it's not so big of a deal now.
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  Yeah. You know, and, you know, all I want to know is, did they know Jesus?
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  Because at that point, it's too late. Yes.
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  And it just snapped me back into reality. You know, you kind of get caught up
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  in your own little world and just kind of doing your thing. And then the next
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  thing you know, you look over and they're getting the blanket out.
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  And it just, you know, I talked to pastor about it and I thought about it ever
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  since. It's been on my mind to just be ready because I know we talk about the second coming of Jesus.
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  But what happens if the day is the day you stand before the Lord? Yes.
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  Nobody knows the day or the hour when Jesus calls us home.
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  And just make sure that you're ready, because I would hate to be that person
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  that stands before Jesus and he tells you to go. Yes.
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  It just, it has just been in my mind. Yes.
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  Yeah. And just making sure that I'm right. Yes. Examining every part of my life
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  ever since then, just anything that's wrong, burn it out of me.
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  Anything that's not supposed to be here.
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  Take it. Yes. It's not worth losing your life over and spending a Christless eternity.
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  It's not—like pastor, I tell them, I want to be stretched. I don't want to be
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  in my comfort zone, because this is not my comfort zone up here,
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  okay? I'm telling you right now.
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  I'm getting more comfortable, but still, you know, still working some things out.
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  And so, sorry, Pastor, I don't mean to take care of your service.
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  And so, you know, I want to be challenged. I don't want to stay in a rut.
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  I don't want to stay in my comfort zone because then I don't want to move.
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  That's right. I don't want to grow. I don't want to expand.
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  I don't want to, when you stay in your comfort zone, Jesus really can't use
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  you to your full potential because I want to stay hungry.
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  I want to stay before the Lord. I want to just be there in the right moments.
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  Yes. The moments of life that count the most. Yes.
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  And just showing people what Christ is through your life.
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  Yeah. You know, I can get all the talk I wanted to break from work,
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  but what I want to know is how do you live in?
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  How's your servant's town? How are you serving other people?
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  How are you serving other people without serving yourself? That's what it's all about.
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  Yeah. Sorry, Pastor. No, no. I don't mean that. No. Give me the mic and I'm
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  going to start talking, you know, because I'm starting to get comfortable up here now.
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  Thank you, Scott. Thank you, sir. Thank you. God bless you. Let's give God praise. Amen.
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  Isn't that a powerful word? Redemption changes our identity.
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  See, grace, what grace begins to do is it begins to rewrite our story.
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  God is wanting to do some things in your life today. Your story's not over yet.
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  You may have come to a season of your life where there's a change that is happening,
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  but the Lord just told me to tell you today your story's still going on.
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  You're just changing the chapter.
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  You're going to the next chapter.
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  And I love the way God does things because when God's in the middle of your
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  book when God's in the middle of your story,
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  I remember Alicia said this one night on one of our fire studies that in our
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  home she said when we just think everything's over there's a plot twist,
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  in a chapter that changes our destiny.
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  It's when the promises of God begin to overflow into our life,
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  and it begins to change things.
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  The things that we had been praying for for years, all of a sudden in the chapter
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  that you're in right now,
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  it comes in like a rushing mighty wind, and the wind of the Holy Spirit begins
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  to blow in the blessings that He has promised for years and years and years,
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  and it happens all in a moment.
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  Why? Because grace, it rewrites your story, and the Redeemer never rejects.
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  Jesus never rejects. See, favor doesn't just change your circumstance.
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  It brings you into the presence of the one who can change your life.
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  So favor, it doesn't change everything around you.
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  It just comes to you and it changes your life. It changes you from the inside out.
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  See, when grace brings you to the Redeemer, your,
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  past may explain where you have been, but it can no longer determine where you're
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  going because God's saying, I'm taking you to the next level of favor in your life.
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  Just as he did it for Ruth, God's about to do it for somebody in this place today.
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  I feel God is about to even do it right here at Epicenter Church.
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  God's about to take this church to another level of favor in him to God be the glory and.
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  I reflect back to that prophetic word that you spoke, Sharon,
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  a couple weeks ago in Haggai, how the word of the Lord says,
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  silver and gold I hold. Jesus owns it all.
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  The Lord owns it all. I mean, think about it in heaven. They're walking on streets of gold.
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  I mean, I love watching those gold miners i like all them discovery,
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  channel where all them them guys in alaska and they're digging for gold and
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  i mean and they're some of them struggle because of their equipment,
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  they struggle and struggle because of what they have but they keep pressing
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  for that prize they keep pressing because hey this might be the pile,
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  this this got the big load,
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  This might be that one. I mean, and they dig and they dig and dig.
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  And the Lord's saying, I have the silver.
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  We're walking on gold up here in heaven.
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  I mean, that's exactly what the Bible says. I mean, the potholes that they have
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  in heaven, they just cash in on some more gold.
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  Well, thank you, Gary. I bet they don't.
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  I hit a few potholes on the way here.
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  I'm telling you. But God wants to give somebody in your pothole and fill it up with some gold.
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  Because the favor of God wants to be released in your life. Because the favor
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  of redemption, the favor brings you to the Redeemer.
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  And when we get in the presence of the Almighty, I'm telling you,
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  every answer is right there.
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  It's right here in the Word of God. Whether it's a sickness in your body,
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  He says, I'm your Redeemer.
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  I can bring healing to you. All you got to do is trust me.
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  If it's a financial need, the Lord's saying, all you got to do is trust me.
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  Trust me and allow me to bless you.
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  All we've got to do is, the key thing is, is just ask.
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  The key thing is, is just ask. Point number two today, favor restores what was lost.
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  It will restore what was lost.
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  Ruth lost a lot.
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  She lost a lot, but then Boaz came into her life.
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  Come on, if she wouldn't have moved with Naomi, she wouldn't have got the blessing,
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  that she was in store for.
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  Sometimes we don't understand our moves. Ouch.
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  We don't understand the moves that we have, the moves that we have in life. We don't understand.
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  At the moment, we don't understand.
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  But if we wait patiently for the Lord, the Lord will begin to reveal.
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  See, for Ruth, it didn't make sense. It didn't make any sense what she was doing.
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  She was just doing what the Lord told her to do.
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  When's the last time you did what the Lord told you to do?
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  And when you do what the Lord tells you to do, you may not see the blessing right then and there.
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  Because the Lord says, you just got to trust the process.
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  You got to trust why I have moved you. You got to trust why the big move happened in your life.
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  Because when the big move happens, it may be a door that's been shut,
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  or it may be a door that's been opened.
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  The Lord says, the moment you make the move is the moment you activate.
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  Come on, somebody say activate.
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  You activate the blessing for God to come in and bless you see at the time Ruth it didn't make sense,
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  didn't make sense now you have me going to the fields and we talked about this
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  in point part one you had me go to the fields and pick up all the scraps God.
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  I did it by faith.
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  And then in Part 2.
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  The overflow blessings came to Ruth because Boaz, see, it didn't all happen at once.
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  It took a process. She first had to pick up the small grains,
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  and then the handfuls on purpose got delivered to her.
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  Because Boaz saw what she was doing. And Boaz said, I'm going to put a protection about him.
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  And see, as I said earlier, Boaz kind of represents Christ in our life.
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  See, the Lord's saying, you come and you've gone through the door and it doesn't
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  make sense. You've made the big move and it doesn't make sense.
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  And the Lord's saying, I'm just going to see if you're going to pick up the little scraps.
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  I'm going to see if you're willing to pick up the leftovers.
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  And then when you pick up the leftovers, then the Lord's going to say,
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  hey, hey, hey, hey, Bridget, she's picking up the leftovers.
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  Now, let's send her handfuls on purpose. Come on.
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  Jesus is saying that. Now, let me send forth the handfuls on purpose.
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  That's exactly what happened to Ruth as Boaz saw her in her situation.
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  And not only that, he put a protection about her.
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  And that's what the Lord wants to do for you today.
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  He's putting a protection about you. He's putting a protection about your health.
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  He's putting a protection about your finances. He's putting a protection about your family.
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  That's exactly what Boaz did for Ruth, is he put a protection because he told
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  all his men, you leave her alone.
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  Don't let any harm come to her. And the Lord's saying that to somebody today.
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  The enemy's not going to touch you because I'm putting a shield around you.
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  I'm putting my angels around you. No harm is going to come to you. Why?
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  Because no weapon formed against you shall prosper. And every tongue that runs
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  up against you in judgment shall be condemned.
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  And the Lord's saying today, get ready. Because that protection, that shield.
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  I don't know if you're getting this today. Maybe I'm preaching to myself.
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  That protection is coming all around us.
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  And the handfuls on purpose are being delivered.
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  Get ready for the handfuls on purpose. And then this is what the Lord did for Ruth.
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  Favor began to restore what was lost.
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  Not only the handfuls on purpose, but Naomi. See, Naomi lost everything.
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  But God restores everything, and restoration is God's specialties.
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  That's why you're here today, because his specialties are about to be downloaded in your life.
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  And God redeems broken stories.
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  First, someone needs to hear this today. Nothing is wasted.
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  He restores your story.
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  There's a rebuilding that is happening right now in your midst.
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  Man, I feel this is for epicenter too. There's a rebuilding that is happening
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  right here in this church and through his people.
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  He is building up the kingdom of God.
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  Where people will get saved, where people will get delivered,
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  where people will be healed through the power of his resurrection.
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  He is here to redeem your story today.
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  See, redemption means God can take what looked permanently lost and give it a purpose again.
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  As I quote that today, I just hear the Lord blowing on your situation and breathing
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  new life back into your situation, breathing hope back into your situation.
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  God wants to restore each and every one of his people.
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  God doesn't need your story to be perfect to redeem it.
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  He only needs you to place the broken pieces in his hands so he can mold you,
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  so that he can shape you into the image that he wants you to be.
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  See, the favor of redemption. Favor brings you to the Redeemer.
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  Point number two, favor restores what is lost.
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  And point number three today, favor gives you a new future.
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  Somebody needs to hear that today because that's for somebody here.
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  Favor is about to give you a new future.
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  The favor of God is about to give you a new future in your life.
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  Why? Because Jeremiah 29, 11 says, I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord.
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  Plans not to harm you, but plans to give you a hope.
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  Come on, somebody needs to hear the word hope today because the Lord's about
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  to release some hope into somebody today.
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  Because right now, it seems like your world is crumbled and the Lord's saying,
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  I'm just rebuilding it. Just give me the crumbs.
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  That's what he's saying today. Just give me the crumbs. Allow me to take those
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  crumbs and allow me to take the crumbs and mold them back together.
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  He's the glue that will glue it all back together. He's that glue that will
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  glue it all back together.
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  Ruth became a part of history.
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  And God's favor changed everything.
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  Generations because of Ruth. He changed generations. See, your future is bigger than your past.
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  The only reason why your past looks so big is because you allow it to look big.
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  The failures of your past, you allow those failures to become bigger than what your future is.
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  But the Lord's saying today, if you could only see what I see,
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  if you could only hear what I hear, I hear the sound of abundance coming your direction.
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  I hear it. That's exactly what Elijah said. He said, God, this is what I hear.
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  I hear the sound of abundance and it's coming my direction.
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  Yes, Lord, I know I've been in a three and a half year drought,
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  but God, this is what you placed inside of me.
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  And I'm speaking it over somebody today.
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  I hear the sound of abundance and it's coming your direction.
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  There's an abundance of rain and it's coming your direction.
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  I hear the sound. As your pastor today, I just want you to know I hear it.
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  I hear it over Epicenter.
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  I hear it over Oklahoma City. I hear the sound of abundance of rain and it's
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  coming your direction. What does rain do?
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  Rain produces blessings.
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  It produces the blessings of God. When Iris and I, we were driving back on Friday.
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  We're driving back from Colorado.
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  And we hit a small little town in Kansas.
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  I just want to show you how things can shift so quickly.
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  On the north side of that little town, we were watching how hot it was on our thermometer in our car.
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  And it said it was 96 degrees.
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  And you know what we saw? We saw rain was coming. And when we got in the middle
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  of the town, the rain hit.
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  And when we got on the other side of that little town, I mean,
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  we're talking just a little bump in the road.
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  Wasn't much of a town. When we got on the other side of the road,
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  the temperature went from 96 to 81.
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  It shifted that quick.
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  Why am I telling you that? Because I hear the Lord saying, I hear a sound,
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  the sound of a mighty rain.
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  And it's coming our direction. And it's about to change the temperature in your situation.
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  Woo! It's about to change the... Your temperature may be high right now,
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  but the Lord says all you got to do is go through the town.
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  Woo! All you got to do is go through the town, and when you go through the town
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  on the other side, he's going to cool all things down.
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  Why? Because he's in control. He's in control because I hear a sound today. I hear a sound today.
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  See, God writes better endings in our life.
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  And we just got to go through the motions. We got to go through the town.
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  If we want to see things cooled off, if we want to see the blessings hit,
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  see that the blessing is in the rain.
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  If it wasn't because of that rain, that was a cold rain.
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  And when that rain hit, it cooled things off. Things begin to shift. Things begin to change.
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  And God says he knows the ending.
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  He knows the ending. See, legacy begins today.
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  Redemption doesn't erase the chapters you've lived.
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  It gives God the pen to write a different ending.
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  God wants to write a different ending. Right now, things may not look the way
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  you want it to look, but the Lord's saying, just trust me.
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  Because I'm not just going to let you just pick up the small seeds.
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  I'm not just going to let you have an abundance
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  of handfuls on purpose, but I'm getting ready to give you the desires of your
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  heart because the Bible says in Psalms, If you delight in me,
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  I will give you the desires of your heart.
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  See, God's favor can take one surrendered life and turn it into a blessing that
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  reaches generations that you will never meet.
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  See, Ruth started the story as a widow.
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  She started the story as a foreigner.
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  She started the story poor. She started the story gleaning leftovers.
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  But she didn't finish where she started.
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  She became the wife of Boaz.
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  She became the mother of Obed.
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  Obed became the father of Jesse. Jesse became the father of David.
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  And ultimately, Ruth's name appeared in the genealogies of Jesus Christ.
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  Why? Somebody today, you're about to change the future.
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  You're about to change the future of things that you'll never see.
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  See, Ruth never seen it, but she was part of the genealogies of Jesus Christ.
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  That's redemption, church.
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  See, God took a woman who was gathering leftovers and placed her in the lineage
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  of the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.
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  Oh, thanks be to God today.
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  Thanks be to God for Ruth today, because one shift, one change can change history. Hmm.
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  It can change Oklahoma City. You can be that one. It can change Oklahoma City.
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  You can be that one to change Epicenter Church.
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  That's what I love about the passion that's inside of Scott.
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  I mean, he's like, I just want to serve.
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  Pastor, I just want to serve. I have a servant's heart.
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  And when you serve for the kingdom of God. I'm telling you, it changes everything.
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  It can be that Ruth that changed history where she was in the genealogies of Jesus Christ.
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  You could be that one that can change the life of somebody.
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  Maybe it's a child that's being raised up in this church.
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  That could be the next Billy Graham.
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  The legacies that take place. I don't know.
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  Let me just close with this story today. Imagine someone going through a difficult season,
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  and taking something precious that they have and taking it to a pawn shop.
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  Maybe it's a family heirloom, a watch that belongs to their father.
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  They desperately need money, so they surrender the watch to receive a ticket.
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  But that ticket represents something important.
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  The watch can be redeemed with that ticket.
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  For a period of time, it may be sitting in someone else's possession.
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  It may look lost. It may look forgotten.
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  But if someone comes with the required price, that watch can be bought back.
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  Now imagine the person doesn't have enough money to redeem it.
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  The deadline is approaching.
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  They're about to lose something precious forever.
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  Then someone who loves them walks into the pawn shop, places the full price
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  on the counter, takes the watch back, and says,
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  this belongs in the family.
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  Bring it home.
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  They bring it home. That's what redemption says, church.
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  The enemy may have told you you have lost too much.
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  Grace says redeemed.
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  Your past may say disqualified. Jesus says you're redeemed.
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  Your failure may say it's finished. But Jesus says you're redeemed today.
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  See, Ruth thought she had lost her husband.
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  She thought she lost her security. And she thought she lost her future.
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  But the Redeemer, come on somebody today. The Redeemer stepped in.
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  And when the Redeemer steps in, oh.
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  Everything changes. And church, that's our story.
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  Jesus came looking for what belongs to him. He's looking for each and every one of us.
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  What belongs to him?
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  He paid the price. He went into the pawn shop for you today.
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  Oh, I hope somebody can get something out of this. He brought us home today.
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  He brought forth life today.
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  And today he is that redeemer for us today to take us from where we was.
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  Come on, picking up little seeds, to the handfuls on purpose.
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  To being redeemed with the king.
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  Ruth was redeemed with the king, with old Boaz.
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  Boaz owned a lot of land. I mean, her life turned upside down in a moment of time.
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  To God be there, your life is about to change in a moment of a time because
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  the Lord's saying today, he has redeemed you from your past,
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  from the past season that you're in right now.
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  The Lord's saying, I'm taking you from where you're at to where I want to take you.
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  How many are ready for that shift in your life today?
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  Hallelujah. Come on, let's give God praise. And would you stand to your feet this morning?
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  To God be the glory. Before we leave today, I believe that there's people in
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  this room who need to experience.
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  Favor of redemption. Maybe you've walked in carrying something from your past.
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  Maybe that thing that you carried in today is regret.
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  Maybe it's failure. Maybe it's shame today.
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  Maybe today it's a broken relationship. Or maybe it's a season where you feel
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  like you've lost years, and you feel like you're never going to get them back.
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  Maybe you're like Naomi saying, I came back empty.
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  Or maybe you're like Ruth wondering, what could my future possibly look like,
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  I've come to tell you, your story isn't over because your Redeemer,
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  today has stepped in to your story today.
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  Just as what was written in the book of Joel, I'm to prophesy this to you today.
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  The years that the canker worm and the poma worm and all them other worms has stowed from you.
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  This is what the Lord is about to do for you.
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  He is about to restore back to you.
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  Come on, somebody get ready to receive today. He's about to restore it back to you a hundred fold.
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  That's what the word says that's what the that's what joe prophesied that a
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  hundredfold is coming back,
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  you know what that means you need to multiply everything that the enemy stole
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  from you and multiply it by a hundred because somebody's about to move into a mansion.
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  Oh, man, only a couple of you got that one. I'm not talking about the glory
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  mansion that were promised.
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  I'm talking about an earthly mansion because God's about to,
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  if you, you have history and history and history of what the enemy has stole from you.
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  Not only is he going to give it back to you financially, but he's going to give
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  you back time that the enemy has stole from you.
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  Time with loved ones, time with family members, time with friends,
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  time for yourself. God is going to restore back to you the time.
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  To God be the glory. There is a shift that is happening in this place today.
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  And the Lord says, my blessings, my favor is about to chase you down.
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  I don't know what the enemy stole from you I don't know what he's done in your
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  life In your past But God says God's about to rewrite some things There's a
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  recalibration that's about to happen,
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  If you want that recalibration back in your life, if you want what I just prophesied out of Joel.
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  What the pommel worm and all them other worms that stole from you,
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  if you're ready for that to be restored, if you're ready for yourself,
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  I hear the Lord saying, I'm nudging you today.
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  I'm nudging you today.
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  I'm nudging you today, Bridget. I'm nudging you today because what the enemy
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  has stole from you in the past.
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  He says, I'm pushing you right now. I'm pushing you right into the favor.
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  I'm pushing you right into the favor that is in store for you now.
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  You're about to walk into it. You're about to walk into it. He's nudging you
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  right now. He's nudging you right now. I just see him. He's pushing you right now.
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  See, when he hits you, he's going to push you enough. that you're going to even
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  hit your daughter, and your daughter's going to get blessed just like you're being blessed.
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  The Lord says, I'm about to restore back to you everything that the enemy has
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  stole, and he's nudging you right now.
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  To God be the glory. Church, let him nudge you right now. Let him nudge you
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  right now, because something's happening right now.
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  Let him nudge you to the front right now, and may the favor of God chase you down.
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  May his favor, as it did for Ruth and Naomi, may it happen to you. So if that's you today.
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  Listen to the nudge, because he's nudging you right now.
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  If that's you, just step out from where you're at. Just let him nudge you right
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  now and just come down here to the front, because the Spirit of God is in this
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  place, and he's about to restore some things.
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  He's about to restore some things.
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  Mindy, he's about to restore some things. It's going to be powerful.
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  The things that the Lord is about to do is going to be powerful. full.
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  Hi, I'm Jamie Crawford, lead pastor of Epicenter Church in Oklahoma City,
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  worldwide evangelist with Breakthrough Ministries, and lead host of Wow God Podcast.
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  Our ministries are actively reaching lives across all 50 states in every region
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  of the world with the transformative power of the gospel.
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  You're invited to worship with us this Sunday at 1035 a.m.
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  At Epicenter Church 11122 North Rockwell Avenue, Suite No. 17,
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  Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
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  That's Epicenter Church 11122 North Rockwell Avenue, Suite No.
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  17, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
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