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If they listen to Jesus, they will listen to you/Powerful word from Apostle Al Simmons · Jesus Chosen Apostle Al

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  How do you know without a doubt in your mind that the Word of God is true?
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  Today, you got all these different versions of the Word, but how do you know?
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  Well, let's test it.
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  See,'cause you, you can test the Word and then know that it's true In the Book of John 15:20 is a very powerful scripture that if you really grab ahold of how powerful it really is, it'll make you rethink this thing about this word of God about life.
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  He says,"Remember my word." Now, remember, Jesus is trying to give us an example.
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  "Remember the word that I said to you.
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  A slave is not greater than his master.
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  If they persecuted me, they will persecute you as well.
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  If they followed my word, they will follow yours also." The word for the day, they will follow you if you follow the word of God.
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  In the world, they will follow the world if they are of the word, of the world.
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  Now, here's why this is powerful.
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  I have no doubt in my mind I live a life that most people can only dream about living, but that's because of God.
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  It's got nothing to do with me.
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  When I brag, I brag about him, because he has transformed me.
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  And why am I telling you this?
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  Well, a lot of people know where I'm at, but they won't come here.
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  A lot of people won't follow my word because they don't follow Jesus' word, but there are people that does, like my wife.
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  My wife, y- you know, I, I say wife all the time, but of course she's Brenda, but she's an unbelievable woman.
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  She listens to what I say.
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  She does what I say.
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  But I also understand the principle behind it.
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  If they listen to me, they will listen to you.
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  Now, a lot of people says,"Well, I'm not of God and my wife listens to me." Yeah, because of the world listens to their own.
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  The principle works for God, it'll also work against God.
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  So if you're not of God, yeah, the world will listen to you.
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  If you of God, the world won't listen to you, but the people who are of God will.
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  Why am I telling you this?
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  There are people that know and believe that I am who I say I am.
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  The problem is they can't listen to me.
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  Why?
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  'Cause the scripture cannot be broken.
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  Yes, I...
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  Will they listen to a message here and there?
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  Yeah.
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  Will they listen to me?
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  No.
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  Why?
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  They can't.
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  You know, that's why I tell Dexter all the time, I said,"Man, listen, you keep doing you.
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  Now, you gonna go through persecution, why?
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  You have to." I tell my wife,"You gonna go through persecution, why?
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  You have to." I have to go through persecution, why?
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  Because of the word.
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  The word can't fail.
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  But I also ain't gonna let you get away with things.
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  When you do wrong, I have to expose it.
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  Now, it may, you may say,"Well, it's gonna make me look bad." Yeah, it will.
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  It will.
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  And what?
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  Peter denied Jesus three times.
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  He wept bitterly, but Jesus forgave him, and he had more joy because sometime the things that you don't get away with is the thing that makes you stronger.
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  If they persecute me, they will persecute you.
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  If they follow my word, they will follow your word.
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  These are simple principles that work.
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  If I tell somebody something, they don't even need to know that I'm a man of God, but most people see where I'm at.
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  A, a lady told me yesterday, she says,"I have never, I have never met a man like you." I got it, and you probably won't.
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  Again, not in this world.
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  Why am I saying this?
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  Because this calls for a radical mind transformation.
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  This calls for a principle to be solid as the word of God is solid.
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  This is not complicated.
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  See, people, they know of the disciples of Jesus, but they never see how this really trans-- how Jesus choose them and they become disciples and he's teaching them.
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  And then once he have gotten them to a spiritual level, he stopped calling them disciples, and then he called them apostles.
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  They're no longer learning at that level.
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  They're now proclaiming the way, the truth, and about the light.
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  And then if you notice, then when they messed up, he didn't refer to them as apostle again.
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  He said,"Little children," because you have regret Now, not that he removed the title.
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  He says,"Right now you're not operating in who I called you to be.
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  I need you to get back in that right frame of mind." So when Jesus died on the cross, or killed, or crucified, he says,"I'll meet you in Jerusalem." He was trying to get them to understand,"Yes, I'm going, but I'm coming back.
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  But I need to give you the comforter, and the only way you can be really solid is you must have the Holy Spirit." And this is where most people miss Judas.
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  Judas was not at Pentecost.
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  He was already dead.
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  So he didn't get the Spirit of God in him.
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  Oh, we talking real stuff now.
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  So he had no clue about the promise.
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  He just saw the Word, which was Jesus, and now we understand.
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  And that's why the title is,"They Follow Me, They Will Follow You." They don't follow me, they won't follow you.
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  This is simple.
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  Follow the Lord, and that's why Paul says,"You follow me as I follow Jesus Christ the Lord." That is the word for today.