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Living a Life of Faith | Ps Andrew Staggs · 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 that it helps you have more of a God
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  perspective for your day. Enjoy and.
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  If you just want to come and bring a message of faith.
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  To you this morning. So we've got a title tonight's
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  message. I hope most of you're going to
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  be taking notes this morning. It's encouraging us to live a
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  life of active faith, living a life of active faith.
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  And I've got a lot of material because I sort of teach and
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  preach. Can I trust you with my notes?
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  Like I'm not going to get through them all today.
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  But what you can do is I've made them available to you in Word
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  format so that you can click on the link and you can then
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  plagiarize. I mean, you can use them and,
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  and quote me as your source because I think we've got 16
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  students or something here from this church study at the School
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  of Ministries. I love this church with a big
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  focus on discipleship. Get you in the internship,
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  great, a great Monday night activity and then you then we
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  get you into the Upper Room Academy and get you full of the
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  Holy Spirit and power. And then you just want to go
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  change the world. And then it's time for you to do
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  a little bit more structured study with our academic
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  coaching. And then you're really literally
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  ready for ordination to be a man and woman of God to impact your
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  world in every sphere of life. So QR code's going to come up on
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  the screen there. Do you remember QR codes from
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  COVID? It was like the mark of the
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  beast, remember? Anyway, we won't even we won't
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  even go there, but it's a safe. Yeah.
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  My, my QR code's been vaccinated.
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  All right? It's it's So what you do is you
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  get a camera out. You're allowed to use your
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  iPhones in church as long as you're on air airplane mode, All
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  right? That way.
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  Because it's been a good week for Alex this week.
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  He's picked himself up a girlfriend.
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  So, so oh, so sorry. Anyway, it's family.
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  It's family here, isn't it? Anyway, hey God see, God's done
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  a good work in his life so that they're not going to be texting
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  each other in church, right? Like wow, you are a well
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  tabernacled spirit. Well, it's family time here.
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  It's in the lounge room. Focus, Andrew.
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  Focus, focus, focus, focus. There's a QR code here.
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  You get your camera out, put the camera and it should go to a
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  yellow link. Now, this is not an IQ test, but
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  you're having trouble with IT. We've always got Chris Collins
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  in the front row where he's good with technology.
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  He's got a beautiful wife too. Yours not working?
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  All right, we're going to Pastor Graham Polidanski or Rachel and
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  you should come up with something.
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  If you get the code, there's you got something that says like a
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  link tree or how bizarre. What's the very, very good top
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  of the school? What's what's the first thing it
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  says? First option, so there's a
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  course guide there, you see Upper Room Academy videos and
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  stuff. Go right to the bottom.
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  What's the very bottom entry at the bottom of the black?
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  That's my name. So you click on that.
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  This is where the propaganda starts.
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  Come into my little world, my greenhouse.
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  Start with your credit card details.
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  No, so there's podcasts on there, the Flourishing Life
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  podcast. I've got a great guest.
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  There's a great episode recently, Pastor Dave MacDonald
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  and Peter Earl talking about the power of prayer.
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  So you want to learn hardcore prayer.
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  It's a long episode because we have a prayer meeting on there.
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  It just goes hardcore and it literally broke my first seven
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  day record of people listening. But towards the top there, there
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  should be a Word document called preaching notes or whatever.
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  If you've got that fast, you've got an IQ of 120.
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  Click on that, it says open the browser and you should have the
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  notes. Once you notes, you want to yell
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  out got it, got it, got it, got it, got it.
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  Well, I don't have to preach today.
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  Now you've got all the notes, but I want us to talk.
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  I really am so impressed about next Saturday night because I
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  want, I want to talk to us about faith this morning.
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  I want to talk to you about your faith and how your faith can get
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  stronger and stronger. Talk to the Romans.
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  One if you read. It from the New King James
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  Version, the Apostle Paul encourages us to go from faith
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  to faith. It's like stand climbing up
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  steps in a staircase. We're going to go from faith to
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  faith and there's 5 levels of faith.
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  I want to encourage us about this morning because next week
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  there's going to be hurting people from our wonderful
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  community going to come forward. And then we're going to pray.
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  There's going to be an atmosphere of faith.
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  You've been praying and fasting. There's going to be a canopy of
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  faith. That's what I saw coming in when
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  I was coming in here this morning.
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  It's going to come under a canopy of faith.
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  And what happens is the minute people start even walking on the
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  property, all of a sudden people's doubts are going to
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  start to disappear because because you're people of faith.
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  But when we pray, we're just not going to just pray and lay hands
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  on people because this is what we do.
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  We're going to pray and I'm going to encourage you to pray
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  in faith because it's just not prayers.
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  They're going to bring healing and breakthrough.
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  It's prayers prayed in faith and a faith in God.
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  What I want to do is get you even to start your praying and
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  moving from praying to declaring and to decreeing.
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  And like we have tremendous power in our tongue to bring
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  literally heaven onto onto earth.
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  So the the writer of Hebrews, Hebrews 11 verse 6 says, and
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  without faith it is impossible to please God.
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  This is a family that wants to please God, that is pleasing
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  God. But I don't know about you, but
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  I I've walked with God a long time and I've had friends with
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  me on some part of the journey and some who don't, they've
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  fallen away side because they've lost faith or fallen out of
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  faith or they've jettisoned their faith.
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  They haven't held on tightly, haven't held on tightly to the
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  harness of faith to hold on because this is how you're going
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  to go from season to season, from faith to faith, from step
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  to step to faith. Now I've been meditating on this
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  and this is something that I've found in my prayer journal
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  because there was a season in my life where I'd started right at
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  these declaration because I just realized how important my faith
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  is. Without faith, we know it's
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  impossible to please God, but without faith, it's impossible
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  to live the life I meant to live in relationship with Jesus
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  Christ under that dynamic life flow.
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  So this is what I put. Here's what a couple of
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  declarations. Jesus, my faith in you is
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  precious. My faith enables me to connect
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  with you and your power. My faith in you means that I
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  what I trust, I trust you. My faith in you means I believe
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  your word is true regardless of what the context and the
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  circumstances are, which could be completely the opposite to
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  what you were saying or have said to me.
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  My wife and I know what it's like to be childless.
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  For years, God gave us a promise her womb would be open and a
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  miracle child would come forward.
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  For years we wrestled with that and we had, she had to literally
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  walk a fight of faith to see the word of God, the seed of faith
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  come to full fruition. Wonderful.
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  When beautiful Katie Rose was born in December 1995, family of
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  four boys. Then I had a girl didn't know
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  what to do. It was awesome.
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  And she started choosing my clothes from the age of 18
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  months. Wonderful.
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  Daughter's about to turn 30 and I think she's just picked up a
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  boyfriend recently. All right, so he's just just
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  great. But then I always wanted a son.
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  And God, I really felt like God promised me my faith.
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  I want to give you a son. And at my last month of Bible
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  college, God just said it was prophesied.
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  I'm going to make up something that's very dear to your heart.
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  As a matter of fact, God's already answered your prayer.
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  My wife was pregnant. It's wonderful.
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  And it was Jethro's wedding on Thursday.
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  So like, I know it, like I'm preaching this stuff this
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  morning. That's why I've got grey hair.
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  This stuff can be a wrestle sometimes.
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  But but your faith friend is precious.
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  Turn your neighbor and say your faith is precious.
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  Your faith is important. Is that you, Steve?
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  Is that Steve? No, Alan.
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  Alan. Alan, Steve.
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  For those of you who know YouTube, No, sorry Alan, my
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  faith is precious. Faith is essential to prayer.
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  On social media this week, some left wing ideologue commentators
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  were mocking a Christian leader. They said.
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  Oh. He's just talking to his
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  imaginary friend Jesus, mocking, mocking the truth.
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  But when you know Jesus Christ, when you know him to be real,
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  you know him to be real. You have an active faith because
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  your faith is precious. Your faith is the bedrock of our
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  ongoing relationship with God all throughout the Bible,
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  especially the Apostle Paul's talking about this idea of
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  holding on to our faith. Do not throw away our
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  confidence. Do not throw away our hard
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  gained faith, our gift of faith from God because it is precious.
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  Even have a look. This is one of the first verses
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  I ever memorized as a young teenager.
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  It's Galatians 220. Have a look at the Passion
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  paraphrase. It's awesome wording.
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  He says it's my old identity because I'm a spiritual being
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  having a physical experience here on planet earth.
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  The trouble is the flesh gets in the way of my spirit man having
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  a relationship with God. So this is battle, but God gives
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  us keys in the relationship of Jesus.
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  My old identity has been what Co crucified which is death.
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  There has to be an active daily dying.
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  The apostle Paul says I die daily or I literally take off
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  the persona of the spiritual man, I mean the fleshly man with
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  all its desires and lusts and I focus and activate on the area
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  of the 4th dimension, the spirit realm, my spirit man which is
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  the realm of faith, which is the realm which pleases God.
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  It's been Co crucified with the Messiah and no longer lives for
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  the nails of his cross crucified me with him and now the essence
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  of this new life is no longer mine.
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  For the anointed One lives his life through me.
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  We live in union as one. My new life is empowered by what
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  the faith of the Son of God who loves me so much that he gave
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  himself for me and dispenses his life into mine.
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  Galatians 220 look at the CEVI have died, but Christ lives in
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  me and I now live what by faith in the Son of God who loved me
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  and gave his life for me. Here's an example where we see
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  our faith, our precious faith, transforming our old identity
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  and giving us a new life and deep connection with Jesus
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  Christ. Faith is essential to living
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  well with God. I remember this clearly when
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  when I was at Bible college, I was a youth worker and we worked
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  with troubled kids from diverse backgrounds in low socio
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  economic areas and we took them out to the Gregory Terrace
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  Outdoor Education Centre. And when you're dealing with
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  people with different education needs and learning challenges,
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  you have to communicate in different ways.
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  So we did this thing called adventure based counselling or
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  group dynamics challenge in the outdoors.
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  Things like high ropes courses, low ropes courses, soft
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  challenge, hard challenge and then group debriefing and
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  processing around a a campfire. It worked brilliantly.
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  So I would take all my young people on and we'd just go
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  weekends away. It's an amazing transforming
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  experience. We had about 8 or 9 challenges,
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  but the peace Dear resistance, the last one is a challenge
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  called the the Americans called the Pamper Pole.
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  Now pampering America means nappy.
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  So it's like it's the nappy pole.
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  It's it's, it's a real challenge what it is it's a very tall
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  Telegraph pole and you have to climb up.
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  They put a harness on you and then they connect a rope to you.
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  And I think, thank God, there's a safety rope on this thing.
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  So you get saddled up with a rope.
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  They get this carabiner and they connect it up to you and they.
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  Yeah, you've got the idea anyway.
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  They hook you up and you climb up this pole and there's this
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  little platform no bigger than the size of basically just two,
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  two feet. So you climb up there.
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  And so so I was ever up there going, you can do a breath.
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  You're awesome. You're a legend.
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  You know, you're breaking stuff in your life.
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  You're getting confidence. And my mate Rod said, hey,
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  Stagsy, you want to have a go? You want to get there.
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  Oh, no, it's all right. Let the young fellas have a bit
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  of a go. It's all right.
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  So anyway, after a while, mate, he goes, mate, I I reckon you
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  could nail that, mate. I mean, you just show these
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  young fellas what it's like. Oh, OK, mate.
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  Yeah. All right.
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  Next thing, I'm halfway up the pole and it's a long pole.
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  It's, oh, it's starting to sway. I finally get up.
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  It takes me about 20 minutes to get to the top and then stand on
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  this little platform. The idea, as you can see from
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  the picture here, you stand on this this platform and out the
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  out the front is a trapeze, a triangle.
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  And So what they do is they get a bit of rope and they work out
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  how far it is that you can jump out and you've got to grab the
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  trapeze. And So what happens is there's
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  no net underneath, but thank God there's a rope that which should
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  be shackled onto here to help saviour.
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  So what we did was we saw all morning guys, some miss and some
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  some achieve. So I'm, I'm up there and I'm on
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  this pole and I'm just thinking, and as I'm thinking, and then
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  I'm sort of lowering down thinking like a powerful thighs.
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  This is going to be awesome spring.
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  And they put the bar out there and the sun's sparkling down on
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  this stainless steel bar. And I'd say it's going to be
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  about probably 3 meters out in front of me.
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  So I start the spring and so I just start to test.
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  And as I start to do some fake springing, I see the sort of
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  pole begin to wobble. I think, oh, I'm going to have
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  to overcompensate for this anyway after.
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  A series of. 10 to 15 minutes. I remember just visualizing that
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  bar. I thought I got hope on a rope.
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  This is going to be awesome. And I just you, you should have
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  seen me. It was awesome then.
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  Like a tiger and I just remember in everything in slow motion and
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  then the next thing I know I grabbed the bar, seal the bar
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  and it's like whoo, you know, right from deep and he's like,
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  and then they lowered me down. Everyone's high fiving me and
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  stuff like that. I just remember it's the most
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  amazing experience. But literally, I had to put all
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  my faith, had to fight in a harness with the rope of hope
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  that it would save me. It was in.
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  The most amazing, exhilarating experience is that day I
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  overcame a series of obstacles that I didn't realise were
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  lurking around in my life, like I overcame ignorance.
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  That day there was a lack of knowledge about my ability.
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  I overcame an unbelief that day because I overcame a sense of a
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  lack of trust that was in my life for my abilities.
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  I remember I overcame doubt that day because I became aware of a
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  lack of certainty that was lurking around in the depths of
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  my soul. I remember that time I overcame
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  fear and anxiety and I overcame distance.
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  There was a sense of a distance between me and my ability to to,
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  to achieve epic things with an an adrenaline rush.
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  And I tell you this story to let you know this is a bit like what
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  our faith is. And sometimes faith is the gap
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  between where we are and where God is calling us to be.
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  And sometimes it just takes a giant, literally a leap of
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  faith, trusting in the abilities, God's deep work
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  within us and trusting in his power to get us to where he
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  wants to become. I began to realise I was just so
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  aware of the essential nature of my faith in Jesus Christ and my
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  faith is literally like a hope on a rope.
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  Some of us grew up with soap on a rope.
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  This is not soap on a rope, this is hope on a rope.
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  So this idea of faith and our launching pad, pardon the pun,
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  our launching pad is Hebrews 11 verse one which I mentioned
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  before. It says this now faith is what
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  being sure faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain
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  of what we do not see. I love the message.
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  It says this the fundamental act of existence is that this trust
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  in God, this faith is the what a firm foundation under everything
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  that makes life worth living. It's our what handle is this
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  great language. It's a handle.
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  It's a substance. It's being sure the amplified
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  says this now, faith is what the assurance it is, the
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  confirmation, it is the title deed.
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  You can own a house, you can be renting it out and bikies are
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  living there. They may be destroying your
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  house, but you're the owner of that because you have the title
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  deed. You may have a promise from God,
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  a gift of faith. It may look like there's bikies
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  or someone squatting on your promise, but God says you own
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  that and one day you will take full possession of it.
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  God is at work through the faith that He's placed within us.
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  It's of the things we hope for is the proof of things we do not
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  see and what the conviction of their reality.
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  Faith perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the
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  senses. NLT says this faith is the
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  confidence of what we hope for will actually happen.
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  It gives us assurance about things that we cannot see.
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  Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence
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  of things not seen. ESV says it's the assurance of
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  things hoped for and it's a conviction.
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  You get the idea. A little further, on the Hebrews
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  Chapter 11, we see almost 40 verses where people in the Old
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  Testament are commended for their faith.
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  Their faith is doesn't actually see the full fruition in their
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  lifetime. Like Abraham is known as the
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  father of faith and you and I are an example of the outworking
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  of the promise that was given to him so many, many thousands of
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  years ago. It's an amazing thing.
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  Your faith is precious because God is deep at work within you.
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  Faith is being sure, it is being certain.
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  We have this absolute assurance that is within us.
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  I remember my daughter in a very dark period of her life, which
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  is, I only recently found out the full implication of what
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  was. Driving the pain and I almost
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  lost it twice in a month. It was a very dark time for our
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  family, but God gave me a promise out of Isaiah 61.
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  Your children, the nations will see that your children are
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  blessed of the Lord. And I just.
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  Remember holding on to that, doing a 40 day fast, believing,
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  just basically depriving myself of food as an act of faith,
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  standing in the gap for my daughter now to see her you, you
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  wouldn't even like she's been in an emotional head on smash and
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  she's been panel beater. You wouldn't even know there'd
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  been any work that that that that had ever been done, any
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  tragedy in her life. It's an amazing thing.
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  This is the depth of the assurance and the conviction
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  that God has got us. It says this, that we have faith
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  not in ourselves or in karma or in good coffee.
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  We have faith in God. faith in God who saves, God who gives
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  life, God who speaks destiny and purpose in our life.
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  Faith must begin with the fact that God is and nothing can be
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  known of God unless a person first believes that God is.
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  God is faith. Faith is essential because when
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  God speaks to you. Faith comes because it is the
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  spoken word of God. Quickly in your notes I put
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  here, why is your faith important?
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  Faith is vital because it enables us to connect with God
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  in God's power. Without faith, I I cannot know
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  that God is real and I cannot feel a connection and a life
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  flow coming in with that. My faith enables me to receive
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  guidance from the Holy Spirit. I can trust His guidance and His
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  wisdom. It doesn't happen magically.
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  It happens when I open up a channel of faith and say, God, I
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  believe you. I don't see it, but I'm trusting
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  you to speak in the building of my life #3 my faith helps me to
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  have victory over sin. Living Christ Jesus within me
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  gives me the power to overcome temptation and to live in sin
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  and to draw down His righteousness.
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  When your body and your life and your spirit is wracked with
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  guilt and shame, you know nothing, no matter what you do,
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  can eradicate that unless by faith you accept God's free gift
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  of salvation and He can cleanse you.
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  What can wash away my sin? Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
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  Now you think what's blood like once you get the symbolic and
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  there's a sacrifice or whatever. But I know if you're here this
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  morning, I believe Holy Spirit right now if you are not walking
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  in relationship with God. God is an act of faith.
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  He's given us all the measure of faith.
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  Some of you are resonating right now.
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  That's me. I don't understand the blood or
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  whatever, but I can feel and sense that there's hope that the
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  God is wanting to and has the ability to reach into my heart
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  and mind right now. And by faith I can access that
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  free gift and I can be clean and I can behold and my life can be
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  free from guilt and shame in Jesus name.
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  My faith helps me experience God's peace in challenging
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  circumstances, trusting that he is control that God's got this
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  is I can only access that by faith and and the fifth thing is
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  praying. My faith is essential for
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  effective prayer, believing that God hears and God answers
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  prayers. The Bible says in Psalms that
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  even a sigh when you don't even have words.
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  A sigh is considered a prayer. God bottles up our tears as
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  expressions of faith and he answers them.
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  Another version I think is Isaiah 32 that says God answers
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  speedily. There's another version, a Bible
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  verse that says that God even answers our prayers.
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  Before we pray them. That's awesome.
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  What about the prayers that God still hasn't answered yet?
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  Well, I'll come to that in a minute moment.
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  God is at work within our life and we activate His presence
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  through faith. Mark 1124 says therefore Jesus
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  says wherever I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer,
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  believe that you have received it and it will be yours quickly.
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  A couple of laws of faith on the screen.
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  Your faith is a spiritual force. No wonder the devil is trying to
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  steal it. Somebody said if the garage was
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  having it, if the devil was having a garage sale and getting
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  rid of all these tools, the only tool that he would not sell is
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  the tool of doubt. He knows as long as there's
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  doubt there, it will start like cancer.
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  It will just nobble away at your faith because he now realises
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  your, your faith is precious and your faith is a spiritual force.
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  So next weekend, the people in this community who don't know
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  anything about this, they're going to be leveraging off your
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  faith. Your faith is a spiritual force.
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  It's going to break chains. Generational bondages are going
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  to break. Next week a chain reaction is
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  going to start because your faith is a spiritual force #2
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  faith. I love this.
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  Faith is God giving you the ability to see what He can do?
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  Wish I was holding a microphone now I could drop it.
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  Doctor Elmer Towns look at this for definition of faith.
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  It's a positive, correct response to God's revelation.
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  We're going to go through the names of God and the team, the
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  worship team. We've already started to go
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  through them today. Well done, Matt.
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  Matt. Matt where?
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  Are you studying you you studying Bible college?
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  Where? Where are you studying?
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  CHC? Oh, CHC.
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  There's a there's a free product placement going through the
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  names of God because that's God's revelation of himself.
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  There's 85 different names of God, which I've counted up 85
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  facets. If he's wondering the way that
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  he can express his power, one of them is he's.
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  A God who heals. So faith is a what?
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  A positive, correct response to God's revelation.
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  God says I'm a healing guy. He's demonstrated it.
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  Yet. There'll be some people in our
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  community next week who come and go.
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  Yeah. Nah.
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  Yeah, Nah. There's some versions of church
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  going on today in this city which will go.
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  Yeah. Nah, stop.
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  Stopped at Acts 28. Yeah.
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  Nah. Where are people of faith?
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  Where are people of an active faith?
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  My guess is there may be people who come in here next Saturday
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  night. Yeah, Nah.
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  But when they get in here in this room under a canopy of
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  faith, all their objections will disappear and they're going to
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  go. I don't know what's happened.
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  Because faith, friends, is not a logical thing.
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  It's an act of the Spirit. It's an act of the will.
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  When we part and with God #4 faith is not measured by your
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  intellect, emotion, or will, or how much you know.
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  It is not how deeply you feel or how decisively you act.
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  Faith is measured by God and His ability to do what you ask.
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  Faith is dependent on the integrity of God.
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  Because it says that God honors his word above his name.
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  God says I am the God who heals you.
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  I am the God who forgives your sin.
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  It says in one John 3, Even if our heart condemns us, God is
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  greater than our heart. Regardless of what we think #5
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  I'm to grow and live from faith to faith, which is Romans 117.
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  I mentioned that before. And when I live by faith, I live
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  by the principles of the word of God.
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  So you get the idea. Faith is essential.
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  So this morning there's five refractions.
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  And somebody gave me this. They saw me preach and they
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  prophesied and said. Andrew, you're like a prism and
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  you refract the light of God and they they spend a lot of money.
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  It comes all wrapped in velvet. Anyway, I'm here to show you to
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  say that I'm going to talk about the refractions of faith.
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  Can some of you see that If it goes through the light properly,
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  we should see all the colours of the rainbow.
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  If you're lucky, you might even see some unicorns while you're
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  there. We might find a pot of gold at
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  the end. But basically there's a number
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  of colours on the spectrum. It's the same light, but it's
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  reflect refracted through a prism.
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  And it's the same with our faith.
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  Our faith has a series of refractions or different
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  expressions or different elements of the same light
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  expressing or manifesting itself in different way.
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  So there's five refractions of faith I want to quickly mention
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  today. The first one is it's saving
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  faith. Step one in our journey is a
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  staircase of faith is saving faith.
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  And this is believing in Jesus for salvation based on God's
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  gracious. Gift to us.
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  It's God-given, it's an act of faith, for salvation means that
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  we then obtain a spiritual life. We obtain salvation by faith.
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  At that moment. It says we are justified, which
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  really means it's just as if I'd never sinned before.
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  We are made right when we activate saving faith and when
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  we say yes to Jesus. A note to our old life and you
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  actually say I'm under new Management Today.
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  Jesus is the Lord of my life. At that moment you get a deposit
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  of Holy Spirit living within you and.
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  Basically, it's a it's a down payment.
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  It's a guarantee that when time stops and eternity kicks in, you
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  will go to heaven to be with Him.
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  It's a wonderful thought. So we have Jesus and Holy Spirit
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  living within us. We have a deposit of his Spirit
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  and it's that's when we obtain spiritual blessings and favour.
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  It says in John one that is many of us who've called on his name.
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  It gives us the right to become the children of God.
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  This is level 1. This is refraction #1 it's
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  called saving faith. And that's a great place.
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  For us to start. And I'd say before I finish,
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  I'm. Going to give you an
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  opportunity. To say, oh, I want a bit of
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  that. I want to pull the lever.
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  I want to, I want to go to the first step.
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  I want to activate and move into the dimension of saving faith
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  and accept God's free gift to salvation.
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  The second refraction is this. It's the fruit of faith or
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  faithfulness. This is the fruit of faith.
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  This is evidence that we've received saving.
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  Faith. We have a new life, a new
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  nature, and over time we will have a changing character.
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  This is the process of transformation.
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  It's beautiful. What you start to see is the
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  character qualities of a new nature.
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  The nature of Jesus are articulated in a couple of
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  verses where Paul writes about what he calls the 9 fruit of the
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  spirit. There is there is a
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  manifestations or fruit. You know someone who's been a
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  Christian a long time, they just smell good, don't they?
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  They just, if you known someone who in their old life, you see
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  them now, they're often kinder, more patient, more sweeter, like
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  it's just a beautiful thing watching the transformation.
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  Like I remember my brother, 323 of my brothers a long, long way
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  away from God when they said yes to Jesus, activate saving faith.
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  You look at them 10 years out, they are completely different
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  people. That's what it says in Two
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  Corinthians 517. Anyone who is in Christ becomes
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  a new creation. They've been transformed.
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  This is what I'm talking about here, the evidence of
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  faithfulness. So one of the one of the one of
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  the 9 through the Spirit is this faithfulness.
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  The Greek word is translated faithful, trustworthy, reliable
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  or dependable. If you take some old or old or
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  fashioned versions of the Bible, it says we use the word
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  fidelity. It means to be loyal and
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  trustworthy in one's dealings with others.
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  It's a beautiful thought. Imagine this community, they
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  say. Oh, the people who've been
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  around City Point North for a while.
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  They are a faithful group of people.
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  They have gone the distance they do the time as a fruit of the
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  Spirit. Faithfulness is the character
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  quality produced by the Spirit of complete reliability.
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  This means that you and I will be faithful in our service.
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  Our word can unreservedly be accepted.
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  They are loyal and trustworthy in their relationships or
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  dealing with others they are unswervingly faithful to.
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  Jesus to friends, if we had say we have faith in God.
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  Then it must over time be displayed by the character
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  quality of faithfulness, a supernatural fruit of the new
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  nature produced by the spirits work in our lives.
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  A colleague in my network died this week, Alan Lucas.
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  He ran real estate businesses in the Redlands.
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  He was a man you should see in the eulogy.
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  He was known as a man. You could trust his word.
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  We all know that real estate agents have different
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  reputations just like car used car salesman do.
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  Alan said this three strikes, three lies and you no longer
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  work for me because he believed in the through the spirit of
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  faith, there are faithfulness and that we should be true to
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  our word. The third reflection of faith is
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  the gift of faith in One Corinthians 12 Paul.
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  This what we Spirit filled Pentecostals call the 9 gifts of
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  the Holy Spirit. And these are 9 divine
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  enablements of the Spirit for supernatural ministry which can
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  operate either in the public gatherings of Christians or
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  through Christians involved in gospel ministry through 7 days
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  of the week. In verse 9 we read that one of
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  these gifts is faith by the same Spirit.
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  So some would say this is a manifestation, an expression of
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  the Spirit is known as the gift of faith.
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  I love this dimension. This is the third refraction.
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  Refraction. And this is the gift that we're
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  going to need next Saturday night and next Sunday night.
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  It's a supernatural faith. It's a special faith.
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  It's a faith given by the Holy Spirit.
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  It's a gift or manifestation from the Spirit so we can ask
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  God for it. It's an enablement of faith from
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  the Holy Spirit. It's a supernatural endowment of
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  faith from the Spirit at a specific time for a specific
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  person, but for a particular purpose.
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  It's just not faith in God, but it is faith from God, or it is
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  the faith of God. It's a divine endowment of faith
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  to know, to do, or to receive the will of God.
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  Friends, there is a difference between the prayer of faith and
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  the. Exercise of faith and the gift
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  of faith. Faith is this gift of faith
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  manifests itself like this in the next 7 days.
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  Some of you may be praying and believing sex Saturday night.
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  Next Sunday night you're going to see someone row 3 fur one
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  back. There'd be someone wearing a red
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  jacket with a red jacket with a with a purple shirt with dots on
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  it. God will give you a picture of
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  it and then all of a sudden you like you don't make this stuff
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  up. God on his supernatural ability
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  will put an impression on us and you'll know God says I want to
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  work in that person in their right arm.
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  They've got a tumor there. They've got surgery next week.
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  I want to shrivel that thing up. That's that's literally when you
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  you don't actually. Have to make.
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  That up, you don't actually have to conjure up any faith.
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  All you got to do is pray because at that moment you then
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  have the faith of God. You know what God wants to do in
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  that particular person. And I just think that's awesome.
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  So I'm trying as much in my life and I pray this God moved me to
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  the dimension of this gift of faith.
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  Where it's like I'm not having to prime the pump, I'm just
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  channeling and coming the frequency and coming alongside
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  you. So I'm saying, God, you want to
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  do that in that body, I'll come and I'll pray in partnership
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  with that. And I believe and I know that
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  God wants to heal. I know that God's good.
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  I know that the House of God is the House of miracles.
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  And nothing's impossible for God in this place.
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  Come on, let's do it. Some of you want to get The Time
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  Machine. Go hurry up and let's have next
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  Saturday night right now. So I'd encourage you this week
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  start to believe and pray, especially for people you
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  invite. You wouldn't be surprised.
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  Something going to get coffee this week and someone's going to
• 35:36
  say oh. I'm having a bad day.
• 35:39
  My mum's just been diagnosed with something and and you're
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  going to have to work out what comes out of your mouth next.
• 35:44
  You've got a brochure ready in your hand or whatever.
• 35:47
  Can I just say that I don't want to sound freaky, but.
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  I, I I. We're, we're praying for things
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  like that and we believe God could do something good.
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  So you've got to be ready to do your bit because even right now,
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  God's already got he, he knows what he's doing next week with
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  it, with the full expression of what he wants to do depends or
• 36:04
  not whether we're on the frequency and we're moving to
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  this refraction of faith, which is the gift of faith.
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  I, I love this, this area of interventional faith.
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  This is the level of faith where one of my mentors, Mike, his son
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  Paul, had a brain tumour and at the time the top neurosurgeon at
• 36:24
  the PA hospital was Doctor Lee Atkinson and they had a series
• 36:28
  of consultations. That morning.
• 36:30
  Mike and Wendy got up to pray and Mike was reading the
• 36:34
  scriptures and got a verse that says my son will be healed, he's
• 36:39
  going to behold and saw a picture of Paul married with a
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  couple of kids. Amazing.
• 36:45
  So he, he, he. That morning in the wood had
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  literally believed he had something from God.
• 36:50
  He was moving in the the the area, the dimension, the third
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  level of the gift of faith, the intervention faith, Doctor Lee
• 36:59
  Atkinson said. Mike and Wendy, I'm a good
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  surgeon. In fact, I'm a great surgeon.
• 37:05
  But I think you need to prepare yourself for the worst.
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  Yeah, Mike said. Level 3 noted but not accepted.
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  Noted, but not accepted. This is why we need to have a
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  living, active faith, friends, because otherwise you're going
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  to be sideswiped by the pressures of everyday life.
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  And it can. Hammer us from time to time,
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  can't it? We just need to know.
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  We need to move at this level. The 4th level is the era of
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  trusting faith. This is more than simply
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  believing. It also incorporates this
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  element of trust, the appropriate responsive, active
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  right responsive. And expecting, believing should
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  be trust. In Scripture, to trust can mean
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  the following. To wholeheartedly depend, to
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  lean on, to take refuge in, to hope, to have confidence in.
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  Faith is based. On our relationship of trust and
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  as a result of knowing the person of Jesus Christ.
• 38:08
  Proverbs 3 five verse 5 says there's trust in the Lord with
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  all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.
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  Verse 6 in all your ways acknowledge him and he will make
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  your path straight. Trusting God is the heart and
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  soul of the faith that centres on our Lord Jesus Christ.
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  This is the tough area of faith. I love the ZAP and the bells and
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  the whistles. This is what I would call even
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  call the grind of faith. This is the fight of faith.
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  This relationship of trust says it's irrespective of what has
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  happened, is happening, or will happen.
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  God cannot be inconsistent with His nature, His character, His
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  promises, or His word on the basis of the blood that was shed
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  by Jesus and his resurrection with the dead.
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  I am now, He is, and He is mine. He lives in me and I in Him.
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  And because he is love completely faithful and true, I
• 39:05
  declare God. You are a good God who has my
• 39:09
  ultimate good in mind and I trust in you, friend.
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  This is the the faith of the dark night of the soul.
• 39:19
  This is the faith of Job, who under extreme pressure, I've got
• 39:24
  to admit Job's a pretty sad book.
• 39:26
  I remember the season God said, I want you to read the book of
• 39:28
  Job. I said I don't think we want to
• 39:29
  do that. You when you realize it, it's
• 39:34
  just two bad years in a life of 120 years, it's 22 bad years, 2
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  very bad years, bad, bad years. But there comes to a moment
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  where the pressure is so great and even his Christian or
• 39:46
  believer friends around him are giving him advice and it's a bit
• 39:50
  rough. But this is what happens.
• 39:53
  Just him and him and God and Job goes this level of trusting
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  faith. God, even if you slay me.
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  Yeah, well, I trust you. This is the faith of Jesus in
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  Gethsemane. Not my will, but yours.
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  This is the faith where you know God.
• 40:12
  This is the faith where sometimes it takes years or
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  decades for something to come to pass that God has promised.
• 40:18
  This is the faith where we hold on, friend.
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  Now this is the dimension where when this service is closed and
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  we always close with a big woo Hoo, but some of you are
• 40:28
  carrying heavy burdens today. And after the service is closed,
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  I'm happy to stay down the front and, and I'll pray with you if
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  you're carrying something and you just need a bit of a push.
• 40:38
  I just know this. There are many people who I've
• 40:41
  leaned on from time to time and I'm saying, look, I'm not strong
• 40:44
  enough in this area. Can I, can I rent?
• 40:46
  Can I rent or borrow some of your faith right now?
• 40:49
  Because this is what the family of God does.
• 40:52
  We stand with each other. And for some of you, you may
• 40:54
  need myself or some of the team to come and do that and I'd be
• 40:56
  happy to do that. Level 5 quickly is the life of
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  the lifestyle of faith. And this, the New Testament
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  teaches that our whole Christian walk should be characterized by
• 41:06
  faith in Two Corinthians 5 or 7 pulpits that we live by faith
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  and not by sight. So as believers, we must move
• 41:15
  from small faith to great faith, from weak faith to strong faith,
• 41:20
  from acts of faith to a life of faith.
• 41:23
  I remember the first time God said, I want you to leave this
• 41:27
  job. I was first one from my family,
• 41:30
  educated, first one to go from university.
• 41:32
  I'm studying to be an accountant.
• 41:34
  I'm a trained accountant. I'm in good jobs.
• 41:36
  God says to me, Andrew, I want you to give that up and I want
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  you to work part time and I want you to go set up a youth group
• 41:42
  and plant a church like it takes me four months.
• 41:46
  I need to have dinner with 10 mentors, fast for 30 days, get
• 41:51
  100 scriptures. That all.
• 41:52
  Line up, get my bank balance organised Excel spreadsheet.
• 41:56
  And then I think tippy toe, I might just take a little tippy
• 42:00
  toe of faith. Like like that's what happens
• 42:02
  when you first start off now, like we're talking harness of
• 42:06
  faith type stuff. I'm on the edge.
• 42:08
  God says jump and you go like that.
• 42:12
  Like this is what grey hair does.
• 42:14
  It just you learn to make bigger decisions quicker.
• 42:19
  I love grey hair. Some of the young guys say, oh
• 42:20
  bastard, Andrew, you're a bit old man.
• 42:22
  No, I just can make, I can make the big decisions.
• 42:25
  He's quicker than you. You got three months of fasting,
• 42:28
  man. I just say, Yep, let's go with
• 42:30
  that. That's what that's what.
• 42:32
  And you move towards a lifestyle of faith.
• 42:34
  You can move on a big thing. So I can believe God for all
• 42:36
  sorts of stuff. Now, Jacket, Pastor Graham and
• 42:39
  Mel can believe God for buildings and property.
• 42:41
  How many times this place being flooded and blown up, whatever.
• 42:44
  Yeah, that's nothing. That's a walk in the park.
• 42:45
  We overcome that. Let's take on another campus.
• 42:48
  All of a sudden, Bribie Island pops up.
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  See the flood? The flood was just getting you
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  ready to take on more campuses. All right, you look back right,
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  probably now and go what was I worried about it.
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  I was a source of our masters in faith.
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  Now just get yourself a. Bigger harness mate, that's what
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  you need to do. So here we are, saving faith,
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  the fruit of faith and faith on us, Gift of faith, trusting
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  faith or lifestyle of faith. Hey, we better stand up.
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  We better land the plane you're looking forward to next week.
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  I just feel like I'm John the Baptist coming along, just
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  providing a bit of support, getting you ready.
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  Jesus is going to come. He's the seven names of God,
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  Jehovah Jireh. He's going to provide Rafa.
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  He's God who heals. Jehovah Nisi.
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  Is it Jehovah Kia or Toyota? Jehovah Nissan?
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  No. Jehovah Nisi.
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  He's the Lord our banner. He's our peace, Raha.
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  He's the Lord our shepherd. I love this one Tiskindu.
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  He is the Lord our righteousness.
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  I love this Shema. The Lord is present.
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  He is here, but as well as long as there's oil in the house,
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  nothing is impossible with God. So knowing the name of God, I
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  got story. I was supposed to tell you 10
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  stories about how this has worked in my life.
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  Anyway, you got the idea. Let me just close with a couple
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  of faith defaults. All right, like I, I.
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  See, next week, some of you, you're going to be in groups of
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  four bringing needy people. You don't have to RIP a hole in
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  the roof next week, all right, Just bring them through the barn
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  door. But, but this week God's going
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  to get your people to bring along and, and, and, and other
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  people are going to lean on your faith.
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  And hopefully today some of you think, you know, I need to go to
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  Level 3, the, the Level 3 refraction of the prism.
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  I need to move to the, you know, the gift, the gift of faith.
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  I want to have the faith of God to see what's going to God wants
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  to do and break chains in people's lives.
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  For some of you, you've just decided I just need to move from
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  head faith. I've got good doctrine faith,
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  but I need to move to an active faith today.
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  You know, I got to give myself a giddy up.
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  I've got to, I've got to believe.
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  For some of you, you just might want to add to your prayer list.
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  God, give me interventional faith, the faith of God.
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  And that's going to be your focus in this next season as you
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  walk the walk of faith. Some of you just think, I just
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  need prayer at the end because I just, I'm, I'm, I'm in the gap
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  between where I was and, and where God wants me to be.
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  So I've got a series of faith defaults.
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  And this is just five of them, but I want to give them to you.
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  And this is really going to help some people to just land this,
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  this teaching today. Here's my faith defaults or my
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  reflex actions. The number one, God is good and
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  only ever does good, and he always does good.
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  All right, you look back things that you thought were going to
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  crush you, you realise God was good.
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  He's, he's the trapeze net, He's the hope on a rope.
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  He's holding, he's holding you there all right.
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  He's the rock underneath the cloud you're standing on #2 The
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  Word of God is true, is the only foundation of our faith.
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  As you read the Word, you say God.
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  Here I am. As a prospect.
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  They're looking for another nugget of wisdom and hope today
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  and gold to some of you. We'll need to ramp up your
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  reading of the Word. You worry about your faith.
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  Your faith will be strong as you read more of the Word and
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  meditate on more of the Word. And I won't even sell you a
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  Bible college course that will teach you how to read the Word
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  of God. You got good discipleship here
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  locally #3 I love this one. The steps of a good man are
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  ordered by the Lord. Even if you or I trip up stuff
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  up, inflict trouble on ourselves, we will not be
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  utterly cast down. I'll be restored to a place of
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  blessing and favour. God looks after US #4 God will
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  make all things work together for my good and make me more
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  Christ life. I love this.
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  God always restores the righteous with double for your
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  trouble. There are two things that God
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  hates, shame and pain deals with these and promises us a double
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  bonus. Except for some of your paydays
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  coming, you're going to get reward for your grief wage as it
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  says in the message in Jeremiah. I've just chronicled my life the
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  last 40 years, my relationship with Jesus and I've proven this
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  time and time again. God shows me something in a
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  challenge and he creates something new in me and He's
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  just strengthens my faith. I have loss, I have pain, and
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  I'm restored to a stronger position than I ever have been
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  before. I bet you that's your story too.