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Maranatha Shabiba 2022 Conference Theme Introduction | Pastor Daniel Batarseh · Bible Study with Pr. Daniel Batarseh | Verse by Verse Series | Maranatha Bible Church - Chicago

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  All right, welcome, good to see you familiar faces.
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  I just, I can tell their new face but I'm like to see by a
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  show of hands. Who's here for the first time.
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  Wow, that's incredible. We just show up to Jesus.
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  I hope you got here. Safely, I hold very dry.
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  You have energy, squishing heart.
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  If you don't know me, my name is Daniel.
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  I have the privilege and honor to speak the word of God this
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  weekend, and I'm looking forward to it.
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  I really am. I'm not going to preach a sermon
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  tonight, but I do want to exhort Us in the word of God.
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  And so, if you do have a Bible in your hands, I encourage you
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  to turn with me to the Book of Romans in chapter 15 just for a
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  couple of verses that will hopefully help us be prepared
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  for what What God has in store this weekend, Romans 15.
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  Let's begin in verse 30. Romans 15:30, Paul says, through
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  the Roman Christians of this time, I appeal to you Brothers
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  by our Lord Jesus Christ. And by the love of the spirit to
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  strive together, with me, in your prayers, to God on my
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  behalf that I may be delivered from the unbelievers in Judea
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  that my service for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the same,
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  so that by God's will, I may come to you.
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  Enjoy and be refreshed in your company.
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  May the god of peace be with you all?
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  Amen. I want.
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  I want to draw your attention to the last few words.
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  In verse 32, notice what the Apostle Paul says and it's an
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  inside, that's not just on that this verse, but throughout the
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  New Testament, he says, here that by God's will which is
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  important because you believe anything that he experienced,
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  was my permission from heaven. He said by God's.
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  Well I want to come to you with joy but notice and be refreshed
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  in your company. The New Testament teaches
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  something quite amazing. And this is big that there is
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  something unique in the company of Believers and within that
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  company is reserved particular Supernatural refreshment.
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  That does something tangible in your soul.
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  Now, notice this is not speaking about Jesus.
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  This is speaking about those who are indwelled by Jesus.
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  And what's amazing here is that Paul is implying that bye.
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  In the presence of these Roman Christians.
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  There would be an injection of Supernatural strength, courage.
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  That would be enjoyable in the process of that Fellowship.
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  It would be dishonest for me to say that if you come into a room
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  filled with professing Christians, that this experience
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  of refreshment is automatic, I don't have to prove that to you,
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  but if you trust me to say this, if you go to First Corinthians
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  11, what you will see is that Paul actually told that church,
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  when you guys come together, it's actually worse.
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  It had become so carnal and fleshly and selfish that Wendy
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  came together. It was actually causing more
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  grief than it would refreshment, which is quite talented about
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  what we're capable of as Believers in Jesus.
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  But in this case, with the Roman Christians, Paul is convinced if
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  I made my way there, he's never met them before.
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  If I make my way into your presence, I know I will be
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  refreshed but that will require something.
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  Mutual And this is what I want to exhort you within a brief
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  message. Then if we are to know something
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  of refreshment, especially in the day, where you can feel it
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  in the air that there is, this will get to in this weekend.
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  But there's this sense of Despair, there's a sense of
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  things are not the same. There's a lack of peace, there's
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  a lack of true join Contender. There's a lack of clarity.
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  This is this is needed. That's why I'm convinced that
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  most of you here at least you believe that there is refreshing
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  here. But there is personal
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  responsibility on behalf of each of us that will make that know
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  the full potential of this refreshment is many things.
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  But can I just give you three things that I would like to
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  place into your hands that will? If you are willing to say yes
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  to, if you are willing to contribute to will make this an
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  electrifying weekend for your walk with the Lord, Let me tell
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  you three things, that's totally scriptural to be intentional
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  with for this weekend. All right.
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  Number one, be intentional to sing.
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  Be intentional to sing last year.
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  We received some comments, nothing - but just comments of
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  observation that we sing some songs that are not common in the
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  millennial. Demographic, not common and it's
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  mainly hymns. And there's some songs that
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  we're not used to doing this is not really in the charts.
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  This is not really popular as a Ministry.
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  We are intentional about the songs that we sang meaning, we
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  screen songs to the best of our ability, and we study them
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  before we sing them. And that's important because if
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  I were to just give you the Mindful and asked you to come
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  up, Geology of worship, praise. Just on the scripture.
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  I'm sure that you will come with a different conclusion than what
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  is popular today. Scripture is clear that when we
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  sing, we're actually teaching. We see that new testament.
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  Ephesians, 5:19, were told to address one another in Psalms,
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  and hymns, and spiritual songs. And so, I want to challenge you
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  with something Beyond this weekend, if your worship leader
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  of your part of the praise, mr. Your local church, not in a
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  rebellious way, but in your personal life, first I challenge
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  you, if you went to strip the music away from the songs that
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  you sing even in your personal life, when what you are saying,
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  be true. According to the word of God.
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  Is that what you would actually say?
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  To God and is that what you would actually say to teach
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  somebody else about guy? I think, if we use that filter
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  alone, a lot of the songs that we've seen that, we think sound
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  good. It might be with talented
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  musicians, and they might be popular, would not be our top
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  choices of what we would say. And so here's, here's what's
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  important. According to the New Testament,
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  singing has always primary role of glorifying and exalting God
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  himself, but very close to that. There is a mutual teachability.
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  Leti, that requires the entire corporate presence to
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  participate. So worship is not a band
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  performing. It's not, it's not, that's not
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  lined up with the word of God. In fact, I'll take it even
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  further if this overpowers the voices of the people we're not
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  doing worship Ray. I know it's really challenging
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  because when you didn't go to the New Testament, what you see
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  is that every person that comes into the door for an official
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  meeting, When we come in the name of Jesus, every person is
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  coming with a voice with their personal voice.
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  And so here's what will happen if we actually take that
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  seriously and it's really powerful actually, if we
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  individually make a willful decision to sing, then we will
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  know the full potential of the sanctifying effects that God has
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  intended for praise and worship, which means something else.
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  Because the first step of making sure we're saying the right
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  things to God and to other people about God is only the
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  first step is if you finish infusions 5:19, what will you
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  see that? To sink.
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  Yes, address one, another. But also he says to the Lord
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  with a Melody, with your heart, with your heart, - volume.
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  That's what he's saying. It the singing is not a dull
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  experience, it should not be at least and here's what will
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  happen. If you train yourself in this,
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  what will begin to happen is, you're not going to get that
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  tingly tingly, he's when the bridge comes.
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  You're not going to get it when somebody does something tricky
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  or sweet or clever with the instruments.
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  What will happen is once you read those lyrics, on the screen
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  on a sheet around reviewing them, the truth will stare your
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  heart and you will you will explode based on the truth that
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  you're rehearsing over yourself and over others.
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  I want to tell you some of the most healing moments in my
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  personal walk with the Lord, being meetings for years for
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  almost 11 years now has been in the singing not to diminish.
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  Screeching, we'll get to that moment but this singing it's a,
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  it's amazing, how you can walk in with so much weight and so
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  much thoughts in mind. Not because the preacher says
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  something that has a role in the meeting.
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  But when the people with their booming, voices, Cascade and
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  declare, the goodness of God, there is something so powerful
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  in that, and we robbed all of us of that experience.
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  When we leave it to a few people to sing over us.
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  And So be intentional about singing be intent on.
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  I get it's difficult, I've been there.
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  I look at a song comes up. I've never sang it.
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  Have never heard it and it's difficult to participate.
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  At the same, time to go out with that, just jump in when you feel
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  like you're comfortable and try to get in there as quickly as
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  possible. So, when I see something in the
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  course happens once or twice, I think I got it.
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  And next time, I'm going to get in there.
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  But let me say this, if you doing all this, why?
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  I reserve your voice, why? Hold back.
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  There might be many reasons for that.
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  We'll get to that this weekend is well-being, tension.
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  While singing second, be intentional about hearing the
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  word, god. About hearing the word of God
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  here. Here's what's been one of my
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  personal joys of this particular conference.
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  I've been to different conferences and the experience
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  of the word of God being proclaimed has different in
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  those conferences. One of the joys of Maranatha.
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  Every year, is that I mean, people who want to be here for
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  the word of God, and that's a testament because you don't have
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  to be your grown adults, most significant, right?
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  And we don't have rules and we don't play tricks for you to get
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  in here. We don't have any prizes and
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  stuff. That's for a different thing,
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  but not for you to get to the work that we have no incentive
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  other than this is God's voice and I should be the greatest
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  incentive along. And so I'm not saying this
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  because in years past, we've had to struggle getting people in
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  here or people wander off and then tens is not as strong as it
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  should be. Actually, it's the opposite.
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  We hear people come just for the meetings and they drive very,
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  very far. That's very, very encouraging.
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  But nonetheless, you never know every year is different.
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  The enemy would love to hinder you in this weekend to receive
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  God's work. He doesn't give up just because
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  this ministry has a reputation of people would love to hear the
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  word of God, especially in these.
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  Last days, I wouldn't be surprised if the obstacles would
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  be very strong. And so be aware of that and be
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  mindful of that. Who cares?
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  If your friends don't want to come come and receive God's
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  work? They want to sleep in, let them
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  sleep in, come to receive God's work, but let me take it for, I
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  love this and I just finished three gone to turn there, but in
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  Exodus 3, we read when Moses is there in the wilderness.
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  And the angel of the Lord appears in the bush and becomes
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  a manifestation, a strange kind of position of a bush that's
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  burning but not consumed. And if you read verse 3 and 4
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  carefully, what you see is that very, very specifically, the
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  voice of God knew that bush. There's not amplify until
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  something happens actually moving into point and actually
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  is chapter 3. If you want to see you in your
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  Bibles, you can turn there with me because this has been a
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  life-changing principle in my life.
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  We see an exodus three. And Moses said, I will turn
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  aside to see this great sight. Why the bush is not burned.
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  When the Lord saw that, he turned aside to see God called
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  him out of the Bush, Moses Moses and he said, here, I am.
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  I read this and it dawned on me, one particular, night years ago,
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  in my own personal reading, and it shot out like a narrow and
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  pierced my heart because this is what I take out of this.
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  The wording is so strategic imply that God did not choose to
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  speak to Moses until he knew. He had Moses attention.
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  God chose not to speak to Moses until he first learned at saw
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  that Moses turned around and gave his full attention to the
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  manifestation of God. I think, the reason why most
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  meetings don't hit our hearts and most times in our personal
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  meaning, we don't get anything is because of this very reason
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  we're very distracted punch. We're very distracted people,
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  and God like this. Waits for us to give the honor
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  of our attention to before he will make anything personal from
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  his word to us. So I encourage your be intention
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  of coming in here and limiting and removing all the
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  distractions. Can I tell you what I do, when I
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  come to me this mean, maybe you don't, you don't have to take
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  it. I'm not there to sit beside my
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  friends. Like this is not about friends
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  and I'm not there. I will talk afterwards.
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  We have a whole day after the meeting to be able to hang out.
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  But in this moment right here, I need to hear from the Lord.
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  I want to hear from the Lord is a wonderful feature.
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  Its, if I think it's an every iPhone, I'm not sure.
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  It's called silent mode. Its glorious, it's wonderful.
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  It's probably the best feature of every phone.
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  Try. It will help a lot that promise,
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  the intentional to hear God's work.
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  These messages and these meetings have been prayed over
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  with great intensity because we believe that we're living in
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  unprecedented times, this isn't the meetings are not a secondary
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  perk to this very reason why we're doing this weekend so that
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  you would know something of the Special Touch from the Lord
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  through his word being proclaimed.
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  In some Lastly, be intentional about True Fellowship.
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  We also organize this weekend so that you would know, True
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  Fellowship. We know people even people at
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  their wives here people that their husbands here, people have
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  met lifelong friends here. That's awesome.
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  That's wonderful. I mean when people say that
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  they're almost like, they say it as a negative thing, that is not
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  a negative thing. Where else would you want to
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  find a spouse? Other than someone who came for
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  a weekend to hear God's word? Amen.
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  That's wonderful friends. Amen.
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  But here's the thing, when Paul Row two.
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  The Romans, he was not writing to a group of preachers and
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  evangelists. He was, he was writing to a
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  group of Christians that if you just go to the next chapters,
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  you get an idea of who they were woman men, young and old.
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  And to this group of people, he was saying, I can't wait to be
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  in your midst because through your company.
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  I the great Apostle, Paul, and greatly refreshed.
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  Take advantage of this weekend where you're outside of your
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  normal schedule and curriculum and you're with a bunch of
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  people, also chose to be your, I hope for Sanctified reasons.
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  Come to the prayer meetings, we have prayer meetings, joined the
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  activities. Let people sit at your table at
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  lunch and dinner that are not the people that you hang out
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  with. When you go back home, be open,
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  be sensitive. There are some people here as
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  you saw for the first time that are stepping foot on this
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  grounds, they took a plane, they flew Alone.
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  They're staying at a hotel there here, without knowing anybody,
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  that can be daunting, and let me say this, if that's you, please,
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  I want to meet you come up. After one of these meetings, I
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  would love to shake your hand. I would love to, at least, say
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  hello and get to know your name, but for everybody else, let your
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  heart be open to other people. You know what that means?
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  It means it's okay to approach somebody and say, hi.
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  It's okay when somebody says, hi to you to ask some questions
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  about who they are and where they're from, you'd be amazed to
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  know how you can be blessed by them and how they can be blessed
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  by you. There's something special that
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  God has reserved for this weekend, based on the simple
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  principle of what we just read in Romans.
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  But it will require some intentionality and so strive for
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  that and you will leave here, knowing knowing this
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  refreshment, I can guarantee you that.
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  So as we close, let's just pray and ask God to help us, shall
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  we? And let's Implement what?
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  These words have offered us. Lord.
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  We really thank you from the bottom of our hearts.
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  For what you have planned for each of us as Paul believed that
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  it was, the will of God Alone, that would give him the grace to
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  be with the Roman Believers. We believe it is by your will
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  that every person is here for this weekend, we have no doubt
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  about it. Father, we ask that you would
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  truly make this a time of refreshing.
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  We confess that true refreshment is not in vacations.
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  It's not in experiences that we can purchase with money or true.
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  Freshman is in the Redeemer and thank you.
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  That that truth expands into those that you and well, we ask
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  Lord no matter how we came in this weekend, we ask Lord that
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  you would truly refresh as we are in need of it.
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  We want to drink deeply from The Well of your wisdom and Truth
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  and Love and so Lord may you push back.
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  All schemes of Satan, would you cancel all the things that we
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  try to disrupt? What you plan to do in our
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  hearts and Lord may we leave here?
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  Glorifying you, realizing that you have truly filled as a fresh
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  with the Holy Spirit. This is our desire in our crime
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  in Jesus name, amen. Can we stand?
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  I believe we have few more songs.