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You are an Invitation | Ps TeeJay Davidson · Citipointe Church Caboolture

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  Hey, welcome to the City Point Church podcast.
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  Thanks for joining us. Every day is an opportunity to
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  take hold of. So we hope this message inspires
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  you and build your faith, but it helps you have more of a God
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  perspective for your day. Enjoy.
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  So I'm going to speak on today invitation.
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  We're going to go through a parable.
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  We're going to break that verse down and we're going to go
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  through what that means. So the title of my message today
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  is it's already up there. That's pretty good.
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  We've got some good servants at the back there.
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  You are an invitation. You are an invitation.
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  We're going to break that down and we're going to go through
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  Luke chapter 14 verse, sorry, Luke chapter 14, verses 15 to
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  24. And the NIV says this.
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  When one of those at the table with him heard this, he said to
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  Jesus, Blessed is the man who will eat at the feast in the
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  Kingdom of God. Jesus replied.
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  As Jesus always replies, A certain man was preparing a
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  great banquet and invited many guests.
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  At the time of the banquet he sent his servant to tell those
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  who had been invited come, for everything is now ready.
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  But they all alike began to make excuses.
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  The first set I have just brought a field and I must go
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  see it. Please excuse me.
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  Another set. I've just brought a yoke of oxen
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  and I'm on my way to try them out.
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  Please excuse me, I can't. That's #20 versus 20, says still
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  another set. I just got married, so I can't
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  come. 21 verses 21 says the servant came back and reported
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  this to his master. Then the owner of the house
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  became angry and ordered his servant go out quickly into the
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  streets and the alleys of the town and bring them in the pool,
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  the crippled, the blind in the lane.
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  So the servant said what you ordered has been done, but there
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  is still room. Then the master told his
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  servant, go out to the roads and country lanes and make them come
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  in, so that my house will be full.
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  I tell you, not one of those men who were invited will get a
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  taste of my banquet. You can see in there invitation
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  come up many times and we're going to go through that and
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  break it down. But I want to tell you a story
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  about invitation as my wife just brings up some water.
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  Oh, it's there. Thank you, love.
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  That's amazing. See, she already knew and the
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  invitation was there. Thank you, my darling.
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  That's so good. That's impressive.
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  I love that woman. Thank God.
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  Thank God for our wives, men in the House of God.
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  Thank God for them. Thank God for our children and
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  thank God for husbands and good godly marriage.
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  It's amazing. You know who I see do this
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  really well. I just want to honor you, Pastor
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  John and Pastor Rach. These two are incredible and
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  display what godly marriage looks like.
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  In actual fact, they invited us to our life group and taught us
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  all about godly wisdom around marriage.
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  It transformed our marriage. God used them to transform our
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  marriage and so was Sarah and Jack's.
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  God used them as well. But it's amazing about
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  invitation. See, they invited us to their
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  life group and something happened.
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  But also, something happened when me and my wife got invited
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  to church. I was a broken young man sent on
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  the path of recklessness, not on the path of righteousness.
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  On the same loop over and over again, in this loop of despair,
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  stuck in my sin. It was damaging me.
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  I was addicted to every sort of thing.
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  I was just broken and angry. And one day I was at the boxing
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  gym of all places. One man confidently said to me,
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  why don't you come to church and invited me.
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  And I was like, yeah, yeah, I'll come, I'll come next Sunday.
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  But in my heart I was like, you are right up there, man.
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  I don't, you know, this is a boxing gym.
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  You're inviting me to church. But that's how I thought back
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  then. And but what happened was weeks
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  went on and it burnt a hole in my soul.
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  It seared something in my soul, man.
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  I could feel the physical searing of it as weeks went on
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  and I didn't tell my wife, but man, it just kept going on and
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  on. I could feel it.
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  And one day I couldn't take it, man.
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  I was like, woke up that early in the morning.
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  I turned on my wife. I said, listen, we got to go to
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  church. We got to go there.
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  We went to church. I said get keep that car running
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  because I don't know what's inside.
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  So we went in. I said if one person just winks
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  at me wrong, I'm out. So that's exactly what I said.
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  And anyway, I come in. Weeks went on, my wife got saved
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  me. I held on to that old man for
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  weeks and weeks and weeks until I couldn't take it no more and
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  I'd give my life to Christ and it transformed my life from
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  there on. Only because of Him.
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  I didn't do it. It was him.
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  I didn't even know who who I was.
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  I kept saying to my wife, I've changed so much, I don't even
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  know who I am anymore. But that's the beauty of
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  invitation. If that man didn't invite me,
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  man, that wouldn't have happened.
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  But I've seen that man weeks on after that.
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  And I said to him, I seen him at McDonald's and I told him, I'm
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  like, bro, how many people have you invited?
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  Because what happened to me isn't a miracle.
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  Like it changed my life. I just, I feel this changing me.
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  I'm not doing this anymore. I'm not doing that anymore.
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  And he looked at me and he wept. And he said, TJI never thought
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  that I'd ever see a miracle in my life.
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  You're the first miracle I've ever seen in my life.
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  And then he told me he's never invited anyone to church before.
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  And I thought that was incredible.
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  The power of invitation, the power of invitation.
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  Let me tell you, beloved, you are an invitation.
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  You don't know who is on the other end of that invitation to
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  stand up here. I never thought I would ever
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  stand up here, but all's I did is say yes to that invitation,
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  yes to the call of God. And there's a yes and an
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  invitation over your life for you.
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  Next. There's an invitation to Jesus
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  today who got me started preaching.
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  I got to, I got to go to verses 15 to settle down a bit.
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  The only way to settle me down is yeah, Amen, brother, Amen.
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  That's the only way. Praise God.
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  Verses 15 says when one of those at the table with him heard
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  this, he said that Jesus blessed is the one who will eat at the
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  feast in the Kingdom of God. What that we hear in the
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  previous verses is Jesus telling though he was at a prominent
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  Pharisees house and he was telling him he says don't, don't
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  go to a, you know, the wedding, don't go to a wedding or a
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  banquet and take the place of honour in the seat.
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  Otherwise somewhat some person more honourable than you might
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  take your seat and the Master would say, come on down.
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  And that would be a thing of shame, not shame I'm talking
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  about, but you would be embarrassed to go.
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  Man, I thought I was higher. But Jesus saying no, no, no,
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  take the take the lowly place and wait for the Master to say,
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  what are you doing down there? Come on up, come on up, take the
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  humble place. So he's he's he's talking about
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  that in response. Now Jesus replies in Jesus
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  replying way, he's like, yeah, a certain man was preparing a
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  great banquet and invited many guests.
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  Now this banquet he's talking about is the Kingdom of God that
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  represents the Kingdom of God and the blessing of salvation
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  and the invitation into the family of God.
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  There's a reference to revelation.
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  Yes, we use reference to revelation in this church in
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  verses 19, nine where it talks about the wedding of the Lamb.
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  So here is this great feast. They're talking about the
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  Kingdom of God that one day who is going to be a great feast, a
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  great party BBQ out the back with snags and sausages and
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  onions and bread. That's that's an Aussie banquet,
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  by the way. But verses 16 as we sing, as we
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  go on, Sorry to verses 17. And at the time of the banquet,
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  he sent his servant to tell those who had been invited come,
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  for everything is now ready. How amazing is that, that it's
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  not our invitation. Let's take the pressure off.
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  It's God's invitation that we extend.
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  See, we the servants have been sent by God to invite people.
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  There's a great harvest out there, you know.
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  There's a scripture that says the harvest is plenty, but the
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  labourers are few. Let me tell you, Church, we are
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  the labourers. But who's going to go forth?
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  Then? Who will go forth?
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  It's so easy to put the onus on evangelists.
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  Let the evangelists do it, servant.
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  That doesn't say evangelists in there, does it?
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  We always put these a notion, Oh no, that's the evangelist.
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  Job at the time, verses 17 says the banquet.
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  He sent his servant who's a servant in the House of God
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  today, who's a sent servant in the House of God today to tell
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  them, hey, you've been invited. Come for everything is now
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  ready. We're living in a time where
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  everything is now ready. We have a beautiful House of God
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  with beautiful people that have life groups in it that had
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  everything. We got the word.
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  This. Now is the most wonderful time.
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  We have so much information but not enough revelation in this
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  place. This is where you'll get the
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  revelation from that invitation that you have extended.
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  Christ is real, my friend. Christ died for your sins.
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  Christ is the only way, the invitation, the power of it.
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  It's not just on the evangelist, it's on you.
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  And I, servants of God, go and help people to respond to God's
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  invitation. I understand inviting can be
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  scary. Before I knew I had the gift of
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  evangelism, I was out there inviting everyone I could.
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  I first started with my family, man.
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  I said, Auntie, have I got a story for you?
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  I'm over there and people like what is going on with him?
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  Cousins, aunties, uncles, they started flooding in.
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  Me and my brother worked together.
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  I said brother, we got to get him in, get him in, invite them
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  all, invite them all. Next minute, aunties started
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  getting saved, uncles started getting saved.
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  Attitudes started losing their power.
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  Next minute though, the the power of shame started coming
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  off my family. The power of guilt started
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  coming off. Oh, forgiveness started running
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  rife in the family. Are you kidding me?
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  How does, how do I do that? I can't.
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  It's all by Jesus, man. He can't help himself but get in
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  here by his Holy Spirit and transform you.
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  Every day there's this transformation, the washing of
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  the word. And you know what?
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  Most of them are still in church today.
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  Oh man, most of them are. They're spread out everywhere.
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  I don't no longer talk about to my family how you know this and
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  that and gossip about that family member.
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  We're talking about. Jesus, man, We ain't got no time
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  to talk about that sort of stuff anymore.
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  But I understand how scary it can be.
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  But this is it. We've been given the Holy
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  Spirit. We've been given everything.
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  You know, there's a key to this. You know that Scripture perfect
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  love cuts our fear. Well, here's the key.
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  When you're on the same frequency as God and you catch
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  his heart and you have a revelation of the love that He
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  has for humanity, your love for that person will overcome the
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  fear that comes against. Let me say this again because
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  there's anointing on that. Your love for that person, your
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  love that God has put in you. When you have that revelation of
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  how much God loves people, how valuable God's people, your love
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  that God has put in you, that love of God would say No Fear,
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  get behind me. I need to invite this person
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  today. No Fear, it's cut, you've been
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  casted out. But the perfect love of God, I
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  need to invite a neighbor. Oh come on, Lord, I need to
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  invite God Almighty. I need your love, God Almighty
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  that casts out fear. Father God, your perfect love,
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  oh God Almighty, I'm an invitation, God, I'm an
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  invitation. I'm an invitation.
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  And you keep speaking that over your life.
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  But in the verses it gives us a picture of sometimes why we
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  don't invite and what happens in the robbery that goes on.
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  Have a look at verses 18. These are three great excuses.
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  Verses 18 says, but they all alike began to make excuses.
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  I can't come. But you notice in that it says
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  they all alike. There was something going on
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  there. They were in unity with
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  something. Instead of being in unity with
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  Christ, they were in unity with excuses.
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  Some of us need to divorce excuses, man, we're married to
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  excuse of mass. Some of us need to say, oh
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  Shakayana, get all Pentecostal in your room.
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  Maybe if you don't even know how to speak in tongues, just say
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  whatever, Lord, fill my mouth. Oh Shakayana, see, oh Lord, I've
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  divorced excuses a long time ago.
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  God, I'm not even a man that even takes on excuses.
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  I'm not even a woman that that that takes on the heat of
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  excuses. Oh God, shake that off in Jesus
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  name. Oh man, the first said I have
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  just brought a field and I must go and see it.
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  Please excuse me. Here's a business tip for all
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  the business people in the house.
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  Don't go into business with people who buy fields and don't
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  see it first. Faria, what an excuse.
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  Come to my banquet. I'll give you a three out of 10.
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  That's a three out of a 10 excuse.
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  But man, that rock, that guy's getting robbed.
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  Truthfully, that guy's getting robbed.
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  He's gone. My fields more important than
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  that feast. I'm not going there.
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  I remember old marks over there. I remember what he said to me
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  last year. You know I'm not going over
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  there. Listen now, mate, over there.
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  Listen. When you're a Christian, you
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  can't wait to get around those people and speak life into them,
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  man. It's like almost I come over
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  here, I need life spoken over me.
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  I look for those people, man. You, you go and do that sort of
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  stuff in there. I can't wait to go to those sort
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  of places and go, you know what? That person's gonna get a cup
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  full of life because out of the mouth speaks life and death and
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  I ain't gonna talk in death over that person.
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  They need life. They need Christ in their in
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  their life excuse #2 versus 19 Another said I've just brought 5
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  yoke of oxen and I'm on my way to try them out.
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  Please excuse me. I can only try them out during
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  the banquet. These ox they're very acting
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  very strange. Could be sheep in ox clothing.
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  Could be. I've got a sneaky suspicion they
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  ain't going to do what oxes do, so I need to go find out, and
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  it's only during this banquet that I've got to go try them
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  out. Maybe, just maybe, they are a
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  wolf in ox clothing versus 19. No, sorry, 20 excuse #3 this guy
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  still another said I just got married so I can't come.
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  He didn't even say please excuse me.
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  OK, That guy's got an attitude. That guy needs Jesus.
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  So he's thinking, man, like I've got one year of like smooth
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  sailing. I need every moment with this
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  woman. But let me tell you, marriage is
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  beautiful. I'm not saying that, but these
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  are the excuses that we make. I make excuses.
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  They rob you. Excuses rob you.
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  But you know what? You know?
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  You know the biggest robbery that happens?
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  Excuses are lies. Thank you, Pastor Rach.
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  Excuses are lies. Devil is a liar and the truth is
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  in his word, and the truth is here today being spoken.
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  They don't only rob you, but they rob others.
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  They rob others when you become an invitation and you've got
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  excuses. You know what?
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  Oh, I can't, I can't. That person.
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  What if they say no? I'm not bold, I'm not
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  courageous. I don't have the gift of
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  evangelism. I can't invite.
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  But they rob other people of the opportunity to be in the House
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  of God. They rob other people from that
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  invitation to receive salvation. They rob you of the calling of
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  God. They rob you of what God has in
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  store for you. And you're next.
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  Oh God I can't go to CHC. I'm working too much.
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  I can't go to Bible college. But yet God's saying so, right?
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  I'm going to strengthen you. I'm going to look after you in
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  finance. I'm going to provide for you.
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  I'm Jehovah Jireh. The joy is must.
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  The joy of the Lord is our strength.
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  I'm going to strengthen you. It's OK, but I understand it
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  excuses Rob and Rob and Rob and the enemy behind it is a liar,
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  as Pastor Rach says. Now I just pulled out a few
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  excuses out of the the Bible that's been used.
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  There's some famous ones here. Here.
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  Adam, the woman you gave me made me do it is blame that goes
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  along with it. Eve says this.
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  The snake made me do it. Moses, I don't speak good.
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  Jeremiah. I'm too young.
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  This is the best one. Ready.
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  Aaron. Who knows?
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  Aaron in the house? Moses, brother.
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  I threw the gold in the fire and out came a golden calf.
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  Are you kidding me? Wish that happened today.
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  I wouldn't worship it. I'd melt it down and give it to
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  the church as as worship as my old friend to God.
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  Excuses. Excuses.
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  Excuses this. Excuses Rob you that I can't
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  invite people because you are an invitation.
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  I can't do this. Oh God, what if it's those
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  things? I know I come against it
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  sometimes, but that perfect love casts out fear, right?
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  This is it. Some of us.
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  Here's a real key today we've been speaking.
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  I'm not this, I'm not that, but what's God been speaking over
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  your life? He says that He's given us His
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  Holy Spirit to help us. It's OK, It's not on ourselves.
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  We've been strengthened, Him and his joy.
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  Let me tell you something, there's something inside you
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  very powerful, and we need to get a great revelation of it.
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  We need to understand that the Holy Ghost that He's put in US
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  is the one that helps us in power and in mind to go out and
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  bring an invitation and to go out there for.
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  Let me tell you, sometimes we got to have the power to speak
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  that over our life. Man, if you don't feel bold, you
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  do Got to just get out some oil. I do this everyday.
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  Put it on your forehead and say God, TJ is a bold man.
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  I'll say it again, God, I anoint my head with oil.
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  I walk with boldness. TJ is a man of authority.
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  TJ is anointed to speak. I am an invitation.
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  Oh God Almighty, I can come boldly before the very throne
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  room. God, I am loved today and I will
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  act in love and I will respond in your love, God, to represent
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  you so people can glorify your name, Your name.
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  That's how we speak over herself.
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  Not I'm not bold. I can't because that person's
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  eyes twitching at me, He looked at me once and now I'm thrown
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  off. Man, the Holy Spirit is more
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  powerful than that. Maybe they're looking at you
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  because you've got something inside of you that there's
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  spirit years, something inside of you.
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  They're not just looking at you and go, oh, you know that person
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  wants to. No, they're looking at you
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  because we're different. You know, God, man, he's put his
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  spirit in US. He's holy.
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  He's set apart. There's no God liking.
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  There's no other God. He is the one true God that
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  people are looking at you directly and they are yearning
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  and they are thirsting and you have the living water in you.
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  The scripture says out of you, out of your belly will flow in
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  your innermost being. Rivers of living water, livers
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  of living water, man. People come to drink, but not
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  it's not of you. It's the drinking of Christ
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  that's in you, that's in you. Excuses, man, rob you from
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  becoming an invitation. You are an invitation.
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  And Charles Spurgeon said this. Excuses are made.
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  They are fashioned for convenience and are clung to in
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  desperation. Hope doesn't begin until excuses
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  end. Excuses are curses, and when you
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  have no excuses left, there will be hope for you.
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  At the end of excuses, There you find hope.
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  At the end of excuses, there you find your next step.
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  At the end of excuses. There you move into your
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  calling. Let me tell you, beloved,
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  please, with all everything that's in you, get rid of
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  excuses. Out of your life, get rid of
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  excuses. Here's my question to you.
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  What is excuses stopping you today?
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  What excuses are stopping you today that is hindering what God
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  is inviting you into your next? What is it or who are you
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  robbing of an opportunity to receive salvation in this House
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  of God by not inviting them, not trying to slap you around today
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  to extinguish the excuses. By the power of God, by the
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  power of God. That's why we need His power.
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  You are an invitation, beloved. Come on, let's say it together.
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  I am an invitation. Now let's say it as we're saying
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  it to this community and calling them in.
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  Are you ready? I am an invitation.
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  You are invited. Do you believe that beloved?
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  Let's go out and invite people. Verses 21 as we get the band up,
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  please. And the servant came back and
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  reported this to his master. Then the the owner of the house
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  became angry and ordered his servant.
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  See the word servant again. He says go out quickly into the
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  streets and alleys of the town and bring in the poor, the
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  cripple, the blind and the lame. You know how amazing that is,
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  how incredible that is that those people who have been
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  invited make excuses about not coming to church.
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  OK, but there's still an invitation for them.
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  But this invitation goes against the culture.
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  It went against the culture back then.
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  Usually the poor, the crippled, the blind in the lane, they're
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  not turning up to these banquets.
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  But this is the heart of the Father.
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  This is the goodness of God. He doesn't exclude anyone.
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  An actual fact. His heart is for these people,
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  the poor, the crippled, the blind in the lane.
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  You know why we are an invitation, and I'll tell you
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  this. Here's the reality of it.
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  People are stuck in their sin, like once we were and Christ
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  freed us from the power of sin and eternal death.
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  And now we see our brothers and sisters out there who are poor
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  in spirit, absolutely poor, when now we are rich in our spirit.
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  Man, my spirit's never been so richer in all my life.
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  People are crippled with sin, crippled with the blindness that
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  sin comes over there, makes them blind and and lame.
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  But you, beloved, have an answer inside of you, and his name's
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  Jesus. You have an invitation to extend
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  to people to say, you know what brother, I once was poor in my
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  spirit and I've never been so rich.
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  Would you come with me and get rich?
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  Would you come with me and experience the riches of heaven
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  that God has poured out? Did you know you're in his
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  inheritance? But even that, if, if we at a
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  minimum, we should just invite. I'm not saying that we all go
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  out there and get a box and, you know, start saying, you know,
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  turn away hell, hell, hell, turn away hell.
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  But I'm saying that you're an invitation.
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  We've been preaching. I'm not going to go there.
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  We preach the good news. It's not the bad news.
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  I'm not compelled by bad news. I never would have been.
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  I was compelled by good news and you'll see this, but this is our
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  God. I just pulled it out of Isaiah
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  118 and the NLT says this. The Lord says now the Lord says
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  now what a word the Lord says now let's settle the matter.
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  You were stained red with sin, but I will wash you as as clean
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  as snow. Although your stains are deep
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  red, you will be as white as wool.
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  You know if if, if you don't know Christ and you feel dirty,
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  you feel unclean and you've been stuck in that loop.
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  Let me tell you, there's nothing that you can do to get out of
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  that. But there is an answer and I
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  will give an invitation shortly, but I pray the Holy Spirit would
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  deliver this invitation into your heart.
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  Now that God will wash you as clean as snow, who wants to be
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  as clean as snow? And who is as clean as snow?
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  Come on, as white as wool. You know that feeling?
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  I never experienced it before Christ.
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  But in Christ, man, do I feel clean?
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  Do I feel washed? Do I feel?
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  But also no, I feel, and I know, man, I'm washed and there's
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  nothing that I can do about it. But just Christ's righteousness,
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  His blood that was shed for my life has washed me clean.
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  And there's people out there now, our brothers and our
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  sisters, right? Let's get that revelation of the
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  love that God has for His people out there, that love that's
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  greater than fear. We know there's a miracle
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  service coming up. We know that you are an
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  invitation. Let's invite.
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  You don't know who's next. You don't know what God is going
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  to do in their life, what miracle that God has in store
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  for them. But first we need to give them
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  the opportunity. We can pray and pray and pray
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  and call them in all day long, but faith without works is dead.
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  We are an invitation. You are an invitation.
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  If you're in a workplace and you're the only Christian there,
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  let me tell you something that is the most powerful thing that
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  God could ever do is put you in there.
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  But you need to voice your invitation.
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  Hey, I know that you're going through hard times, but why
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  don't you come to church with me?
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  I'll I'll be waiting there with you.
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  We've got coffee out there. You don't have to sit there and
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  give them the A-Z in the Bible. Just an invitation, an
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  opportunity, the miracle service, but also church.
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  Who's coming to church next Sunday and who you bringing?
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  Who you bringing you are an invitation.
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  You're ready. Verses 2223.
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  So the servant said what you ordered has been done, but there
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  is still room, man. That's the heart that we carry.
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  There is still room. Have a look around.
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  There's still rumors in their beloved.
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  There's still room. There is still room, man, we got
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  chairs, we got open doors that we can open up and put chairs
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  out there if need be. But let me tell you, there is
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  still room in the House of God today.
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  There's still room. There's still people that
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  invite. There is still room for people
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  to come to know Jesus. And verse 23 says this.
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  Then the master told his servant go out to the roads and country
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  lanes and compel and compel, not force.
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  I know this Scripture is being taken out of context in history,
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  but compel them to come in so that my house may be full, will
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  be full. Our heart aligns with God is
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  that his house will be full. His house might be full.
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  You're an invitation. It doesn't just happen by
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  itself. Let's align with God's heart,
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  that is that this house would be full.
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  You have a compelling invitation.
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  You have a compelling testimony. Some of you here today have gone
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  through the most horrific thing, but then God has restored you.
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  God has given you the hope to share, and God has given you a
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  story to say, Hey, brother and sister, there is hope for you.
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  Because once I was this way and now I am here only because of
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  the name of Jesus and because of City Point north of the church
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  that I'm in. Let me invite you in, brother
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  and sister, There's hope for you now.
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  Our heart is that God's house may be full.
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  Come on. I sometimes I'm so unset or I'll
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  just be honest with you in my heart to know that there's
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  people out there that are struggling, single moms, single
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  dads, people that are broken and and stuck in there.
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  Who's who's going to invite them?
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  Come on. Who's going to invite him?
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  Beloved, have I got a Here I am. Send me moment.
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  Is there any bold people in the house today?
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  We got one there. Come on.
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  Who's going to invite him? Yes, brother.
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  Who's going to invite him? Come on, Josh.
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  Come on. Come on.
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  We are an invitation. You are an invitation, an
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  invitation of Jesus's hope, an invitation of salvation, an
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  invitation to freedom, an invitation to love.
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  Because beloved, let me tell you, he loves you so much I
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  can't even fathom his love. Verses 24 As we finish with this
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  verse, he says, I tell you, not one of those who were invited
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  will get a taste of my banquet. This is a sad reality of of the
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  world that we live in and the sad reality of people not
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  accepting that invitation of the father's call to his children.
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  That invitation that God is saying, come on home, I've got
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  more for you. That invitation where yes, we
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  see the prodigal son, but also we were protocols from the
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  start. We the ones that cut ourselves
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  off from God, but God saying get the finest robe, come on home
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  and the ring. He has that in store for you
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  today and he has that in store for our community restoration,
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  full restoration, transformation that would transform our
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  generations on.