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#20220824 - The Joy of Paul - Philippians 1:6 · Calvary Church with Ed Taylor Podcast

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Welcome to the study of God's word recorded live at Calvary
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God's word. Amen.
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If you open your Bible, please go to Philippians. 1:6 going to
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be in one verse tonight. Only one verse and I'm going to
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be using the New Living Translation for all my verses,
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so just be aware of that. When I read the Bible, when I
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start reading the Bible, I hate trying to read the Bible like a
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child. I tried to read the Bible like a
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child and I say this because my wife and I we have a couple
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blankets along a granddaughter, she's two months old, and we
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have a grandson, he is almost two years old and we will visit
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him at his house. My grandson.
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I see him in my lap and he choose the books that he wants
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to read. Oh, he wants me to read for him
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and who he grabbed the books and he bring the books to me.
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And I said open one. He goes through the pages with a
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smile on his face and he's like, really anxious to see what's the
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next page is going to come out with, you know, he loves frocks.
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Yeah. Lot of trucks and he everything,
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the he look in the book, he's like, wow, and he clap and he's
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so excited when he's reading his books.
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So when we read the Bible like a child, we find confidence, as we
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read in the Bible, we read in the Bible believing what we
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lead, you know. And when we read I stories like
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like Samson. You know when we read this story
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about Samson in Spanish Sun Sun. So I think it's more strong
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rights and so on is like stronger, right?
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Samson, you know, and legendary Warrior who defeated many, many,
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many armies and he was so strong.
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And when I read about the life of Samson, I'm curious, you
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know, what is the stream come from?
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What did the string The Sounds may have?
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He comes from, what is the everything they sound?
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So was doing, you know, when I'm reading the Bible, I trying to
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get into it and it says, Lord, how, how is this possible?
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And when I go to verse in verses, and I go to this verse
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when it says, his dream was coming, no from his hair about
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from the Lord From The Lord who was giving me hinda strength.
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When I heard, you know, when I read stories about David, the
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King David, God called him a man after his own heart and I read
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him about his life and I want to learn when I'm reading, when I'm
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reading the Bible, I want to learn.
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I went to I went to grasp what it says, she's always let me be
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like David and sometimes I go like oh please Lord don't let me
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be like David you know and things that he dodged.
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And that's how I read the Bible and join it every single page,
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every single verse, every single book, you read it and you
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Enjoyed in the Lord, he starts talking to you heart, just like
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my grandson, here are so happy and excited about his coming to
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the next page. I want to be like David who
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honor God. I wouldn't be like, Debbie, who
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praise God after, you know, his own heart.
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So I wouldn't be like Samson, who wants to honor God after,
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even though he learned from his mistakes, because as long as I'm
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walking in this earth, I want to be a man just like that, just
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like that. I don't know about you, but I'm
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sure all of us have a favor favor book or a favorite verse
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in the Bible. I'm sure you.
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If I can ask, you know, everybody right here you guys
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will have. You know, this is my favorite.
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My favorite verse, this is my favorite book of the Bible.
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I do have a favorite book on the Bible and I have a favorite
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verse in the Bible and the book that we're going to read today
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or a letter that Paul wrote to the Philippians is one of my
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favorite books to read. Because not only is my favorite
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book because also contains my favorite verse.
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That's the one we're going to develop tonight and three points
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that I have but I want to give a little bit of context of this
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because Paul is one of the characters that I want to learn
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from him. Polaroid in Philippians. 4:4 is
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saying this, it says, always be full of joy in the Lord.
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I said it again. Rejoice.
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He wrote four chapters and Philippines only four chapters.
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But in these four chapters, that he wrote to the Philippians, he
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wrote this word, the Rejoice Rejoice, like 16 times. 16 times
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Paul is using this word, Joy rejoice and Paul, it wasn't, and
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in vacation somewhere in Hawaii. He was suffering when he was
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writing this letter to the Philippians.
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Actually, he was facing dead in those moments and he wrote this
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letter to them and that situation they are in Impulses
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Rejoice. Joy join Rejoice.
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He does the word he used for them.
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And let me ask you, we pray for this, pray for us tonight.
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I don't know how many of you want to really enjoy what polish
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talking here in this letter. I want to ask you, don't you
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want to have the joyful heart light pole was especially in
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times where things are not going the right way, or my way or
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things are tough. Don't we want to experience the
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joy. They rejoice in our hearts from
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the Lord. That was that's this is what
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Paul Paul is 6. You can see right now, I am
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because I know most of us and in our walking and in the Lord's
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path, you know, I know most of us sometimes we are like all the
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way down to the floor for whatever we're facing.
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I've been there, we all been there when we cry and we don't
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know what you do, and we just crying to the Lord.
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But Paul he's finding Joy, even in those moments.
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And when I read this, Letter to the Philippians.
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I want it. I want to know, I want to learn.
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I want to find out how Paul find Joy, even in those moments that
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we going through sometimes with a lot of pain, a lot of Sorrow,
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a lot of questions and no answers.
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I want to find that Joy. Let's define the word first
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because Joy can be defined, you know, in a different ways like
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just last weekend, you know, I don't know how many it's like
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soccer, but I like soccer, you know, and I follow the Mexican
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League and one of my favorite teams and Mexico, beat another
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theme that I don't really follow.
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I don't like very much 70 like oh well I was really happy.
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No. My brother in Mexico who follow
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the other team, but I was really have a lot of good time, you
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know, just thinking about it. But these were Joe Boy, let me
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Define it for you. The dictionary says, joy is a
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feeling of great, pleasure, and happiness.
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Joy is a feeling of great, press, pleasure, and happiness.
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Let me get, let me give you, then I'm going to give you the
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biblical definition. The joy is a feeling of good
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pleasure and happiness, that is depending on who Jesus is rather
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than on who we are or what is happening around us.
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You catch that Joy is exactly how the bible define.
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This word is who Jesus is rather than who we are rather than
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whatever is happening around us. Whatever is going on in our
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lives, whatever is situation, whatever tribulation that we
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face in? That's what the joy.
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The is the one is Polish talking about Let's get.
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Let me give you a little bit more context about it.
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Paul was in Rome at this time, he with his being walking about
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30 years or so. You know, since he has Encounter
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With Jesus, And so he was in ROM and under home arrest and he was
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waiting to appear to sister but Paul wrote this and acts 28 31
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acts 28 31 it says like this. He says boldly boldly
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proclaiming the kingdom of God and teaching about the Lord
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Jesus Christ. And no one tries to stop him.
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Paul was in Rome. He was in a house arrest but he
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was boldly proclaiming the good news of Jesus even in that
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situation and he was so boldly. They no one can stop him.
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There was no one who can stop a guy who has that joy that that
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that strength comes from the Lord and He will just telling
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people about Jesus how much Jesus did for him and his life,
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it how much Jesus needs to be proclaimed in to those who are
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lost still He was there. In pain.
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In Tribulation and please, I want you don't misunderstand me,
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please. When I talking about pain
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because, you know, we know pain is real in our lives.
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We know that we suffer and we know that polls know that too.
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But even in that condition, even in that condition, Pollux he was
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experiencing The Joy, the peace of God in his life.
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Even in that condition. The Joy.
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They moved. The comes from the Lord.
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It was moving. Paul forward, proclaiming
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boldly. The gospel to those around him,
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who can stop a man like that. Who can stop a man, who knows,
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who knows that he was lost. And now he was found who could
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have stopped a man who has the top of joy.
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No one can stop. I mean, like that.
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Paul was one of them even though he was his condition, it wasn't
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pleasant, but he was ready. He was ready to to give the
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message away. When he wrote this letter, he
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says this to the Church of Philip Philip, I'd in
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Philippians chapter, 1 verses 12 to 14.
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It says like this. And I want you to know my dear
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brothers and sisters There's not everything that has happened to
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me. Here has helped to spread the
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good news for everyone here, including the whole Palace.
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Guard knows that I am in Chains because of Christ and because of
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my imprisonment, most of the Believers here, have gained
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confidence and boldly speed, God's messages without fear,
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See, even the joyful pole, it was visible.
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People see, Paul's Paul's joy and people with a contagious of
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that Joy, the ball has and he was boldly.
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Proclaiming the gospel at the same time, just like Paul.
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I'm sure even the guards who were protected the pole,
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vaulting ran away. I'm sure even the guards heard
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the message of the gospel and I'm sure most of them probably
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even got saved. We got started.
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We got one story in Acts chapter 16 and I love this story.
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That was one of my first stories I read in the Bible when when I
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was learning about GI about God about the Bible and many of you
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guys, been many of you guys know, acts 16, when Paul, I
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almost say Silas, but it's Silas, right Silas.
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Bowling, sylas work in prison. you know, even Paul even born
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when he was with Silas and that prison They were like
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experiencing The Joy, from the Lord, even though they were
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like, suffering, may be bleeding.
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Be God, because they were like, they were punished them because
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they were poor living. Proclaiming the good news of
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Jesus. Maybe they were like bleeding,
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they were like suffering. But in that dark place in the
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prison, I just picture this thing.
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You know, I just picture this this in Paul be like, you know,
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his feet all you know, like I attached to something and
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Changed on his hands and I can just picture forces a situs.
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How you doing, buddy? You know, I can see it.
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How you doing, buddy? Oh, I'm okay.
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Hey, this worship Glory now? Let's worship.
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God, come on. And maybe they start, you don't
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clean their throws instead of praising God, and they start
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praising. The Lord for all the things that
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he has done in their lives. He searched singing hymns to
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him. And then everybody hear that.
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And then the guard, you know, that story, right?
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It's amazing. He heard the palsy singing.
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And if I was a soldier as a Roman guard, we like, well, how
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in the world? This man are singing and they're
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all beat up, you know, their crash.
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But there are seeing and steel to the Lord and they were, and
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you know, this story will happen many in that prison were free.
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Including Including the car who was watching Paul and Silas.
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That's amazing. That's the power of God when you
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have a joy from the Lord, when you have an experience that
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peace from God, the no one can understand.
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When you go through situations that there are their top, there
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there are harder painful but you still feel that joy in your
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heart. That's how Paul was That's how
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he was, Paul learn. The circuit, the secret of the
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attitude of contentment, and they joyed do not depend on
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external circumstances. That's what we need to learn as
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Believers. That's what we need to know as
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Believers that we need to note. We need to learn the secret.
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That Paul says right here, they contentment the containment in
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the joy, that don't they don't depends on external strength.
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Senses. I'm sorry about you going to
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learn new words in English tonight to, right?
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In a few in Spanish obviously. So he simply wrote this letter
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to the Philippians has. Thank you guys.
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Thank you. Yes, I am in Chains.
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Yes, I am suffering. Yes, I'm about to be killed.
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Let me guess. Let me tell you something.
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Rejoice rejoice. Find joy in the Lord, in Paul
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says, this in Philippians 4, 10 and that's how he spreads his
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heart. He says this in Philippians 4
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10, he says how I praise the Lord that you are concerned
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about me again. I know you have always been
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concerned for me but you didn't have the chance to help me.
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So Paul says, thank you. Thank you very much for your
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help. There is like a few people and
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Phillipi, they were helping Paul.
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Personally, with money, sending money to him, for, for his
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journeys, for, whatever. He was, needed it and he's just
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thank you. Thank you, for your generosity,
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Paul, prays the congregation and for everything, they did for
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him. Even though he was suffering,
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even though he wasn't with them and he's finishing this letter
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to them saying, like this in Philippians 4, verses 11 to 13
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Philippians 4:11 to 13. It says like this, not that I
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was ever in Need for I have learned how to be content with
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whatever I have. I know how to live on almost
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nothing or with everything. I have learned the secret of
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living in every situation. Whether is with a full stomach
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or empty with plenty or little verse 13 for.
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I can do everything through Christ who gives me strength,
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even so you have done well to share with me in my present
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difficulty. Apostle Paul and the Apostle,
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Pablo, I want to meet him, you know, and I will meet him one
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day. in the verse that I gave you earlier for leapings 16, I
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can see three points. They are so important for us.
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Believers. And non-believers need to not
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this but this is so important. Philippians 1:6 says like this
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and I am certain they God who began the good work within.
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You will continue his work until his finally finish on the day.
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When Christ Jesus returned, And this is my first point.
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Who began the good work. Who began the good work in
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Paul's life. This is so important.
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Yeah, we'll know who Paul was just like many of us.
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Many of us. I don't know about your story,
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but many of us, we have just our religion before we had a
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religion somehow, but we don't have a relationship.
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And religion star the work in our hearts long time ago.
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But impose life says who began the good work, who began the
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good work. In Paul's life, we're going to
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read one verse and you, you will know who began the good work in
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Paul's heart. We had a religion on the past,
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just like Pole. Paul chasing the church hurting
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hurting the church. Persecuting the church.
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He was thinking he was doing the right thing for God.
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He was thinking he was walking, he was walking to the right
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path. He's like many of us when we had
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a religion, but Paul has an encounter with Jesus and acts 9,
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verse 3, to 8, That's what changed Paul's life.
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Acts 9 verses 3. To 8 says, like this as he was
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approaching Damascus on this Mission alive from a heaven.
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Suddenly Stone. Shut down around him.
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He fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him.
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SOL SOL, why are you persecuting me?
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Who are you? Lord Soul asked and the boys
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reply I am Jesus the one you are.
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Now get up and go into the City and you will be told what you
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must do. The man with soul stood
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speechless for they heard the sound of someone's voice.
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But so no one, so pick up himself up off the ground by
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when he opened his eyes, he was blind.
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So his companions, let him by the hand to Damascus.
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Paul has his Encounter With Jesus, so Jesus begin it.
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Work in Paul's heart, he is the one who started working Paul's
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heart. Now, Jesus is, is his religion.
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If you want to put it in those words, Jesus has an encounter
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with both personally and ask him those questions.
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You know, we can be in a place like this.
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We can be in a congregation like this.
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And you can, you can even put your put your trust, your, your,
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your Phaeton, and a congregation like this.
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You can even put your trust on our pastor, Pastor it, you know,
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and our pastor always says, always remind us.
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We need to put our eyes on Jesus Christ.
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He always says, don't put your eyes on this church, don't put
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your eyes on him because Jesus is the only one who can begin a
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good work in our hearts. He's the only one there is no
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one else. Who only him, you know, I've
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been here, ten years, you know, and II, like I said, I love, I
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love this congregation. I love past, raise his family,
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the staff that work here, that work here.
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You know, they serve here, you know, I know they're not
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perfect. I know they're not but I know
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this church is not perfect, but you know what?
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They are and we are pursuing a perfect God.
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Who is the one who started the work in our hearts, who is the
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guy who can start working in? You heart and begin Something,
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Beautiful, Something Beautiful. Jesus.
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Did the work in Paul's heart. He's the only one who can do it.
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He's the only one who can do something real.
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He's the only one who can really change somebody's life.
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Jesus is and and let me tell you the second point, if Jesus begin
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the good work and you are guess what's going to be?
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Next Jesus will continue his work in your heart.
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That's what it says right here on Philippians 1:6.
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He began to go to work with and you will continue his work.
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Also, Jesus is, he will continue working in your life and my
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life. Definitely, we can read on the
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Bible and we can see how Jesus was working in Paul's Ministry
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and post life. It was God no more religion in
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no more somebody else he was God himself.
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Jesus was walking right next to Paul and his life and every
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tribulation and every hardship God was working in Paul's heart,
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whole was not alone. He had that confidence.
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He had that confidence. Yes.
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When you read the Bible, when you read the Bible like that you
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gotta companies. Do you really screw Soros Paul.
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In Acts 23. Verse 12 to 14 is just like this
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the next morning. And one of the poles persecution
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persecutions the next morning, a group of Jews got together and
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bound themselves. With a note, not to eat or drink
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until they have killed Paul. They were more than 40 of them
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and they conspiracy. They went to the leadership
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priests and elders and told them we have bound ourselves with a
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note to eat nothing until we have kill Pole.
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You know, Paul just like many of us, we Face a lot of situation
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that we don't understand. We're doing a good thing just
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like Paul doing a good thing. Are you facing situations like
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like just like Paul and this case Paul's life wasn't you know
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wasn't lying these people hate people.
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The same people who poster before now, those people hate
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pole because now he has an encounter, he had an encounter
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with Jesus, But Jesus was with Paul.
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And when Jesus there's something, let me tell you, then
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he knows what he's doing. He knows what he's doing even
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though we don't know what's going on.
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Even though, we don't know why this, why that he knows, he
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knows he knows what he's doing. And he's always working in our
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lives, in Paul's life, his nephew and verse 16 on the same,
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chapter 23 and access. But Paul's nephew.
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His sister's son, her of their plan and went to the Fortress
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Fortress and told Paul always always why I always got his
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they're always God is there and every Circumstance the Pull
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face. He was building his life because
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he was the one who began the good work in, Paul's heart, he
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was continuing to working, and we can read also about what
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happened, you know, after this scene and acts 23, verses 23 to
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24, when he says, then the commander called to of the his
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officers, and order them, get 200 soldiers, ready to leave for
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caesarea and 9:00 tonight. Also, take 200 experiment and 70
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Mountain troops. Four white horses for Paul to
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ride and get him safely to Governor Felix.
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Listen if you're going through something right now.
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That is horse is coming your way.
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If you call, if you right now, there is something going on in
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your life, whatever it is, whatever, circumstance you're
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facing right now. Yes, just remember who begin
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that work in your heart. If it was Jesus, he's continuing
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working in your life. He's continuing working in my
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life for her own sake for his plan.
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He's there. He's the one who begin.
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He's the one who will continue. And guess what?
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As Philippians 1:6 finished. He's the one who will finish his
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good work. He began.
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He continued, and he will finish his work.
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That's why we can see the joy of Paul.
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He was joyful. If you, if you can, if you can
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let me express myself in Spanish man.
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You see how joyful? Yeah, man.
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I can spread that in English. I don't know why. but, There is
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joy in my heart even though, sometimes we go through a lot of
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things because I know who begin the work, work in my heart.
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And I know who is working in my life.
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It continued working in my life and so is it is Jesus.
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I didn't encounter a religion again, I didn't encounter the
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church or a congregation, or a pastoral.
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Somebody know, my encounter way, just like Paul's encounter, I
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encounter you encountered. If you believe in Jesus Christ,
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as your lord and savior, you encounter the Lord himself.
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Who is beginning whose continued in?
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He will finish his work. And your life.
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Let me finish with this. You're going to go home early
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today. You might finish dinner tonight,
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right? Are you certain?
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Hopefully, I said is right. Are you certain that?
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God is the one who begun the work and your life has that
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question right now? Are you a certain day?
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It is Jesus, who begin that. Good work in your heart right
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now if you listen on the radio, I ask you the same question.
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If you watching this online I'm ask you the same question.
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Are you certain? The God is the one who began the
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work in here. Life.
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This is important. This is so important to
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experience the joy and the rejoice and and situation that
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we don't know. We need to know this.
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We have to make sure that it is Jesus who begin something in our
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lives. because if not, we need to surrender Our Lives to him.
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We need to give him at all. We to given our lives to him and
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says, Lord, please begin this work in my life.
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And if we do that, he will continue working and your life
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and my life. And when we face in this
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circumstance and we don't understand, we will find joy.
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And that P is the no one can understand.
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I don't know about you, but like you say, I'm I I work for the
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Douglas County schools in. People always ask me why you
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always smiling, man? Why you always like, he's like,
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you got like, like Red Bull, you know, like every morning or
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something like that. It's just, I don't, I don't even
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like that, drink much, you know, I don't know.
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What are you talking about? You know, I'm right now.
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I am training somebody and he's a young kid 21 years old.
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You know, oh my God, he think that he thinks he knows the
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world you know. He think he knows everything.
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You know I just listened to him very patiently because they want
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him to know the Lord. You know.
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That's my first goal. I know my friend goes to be
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training him but my first goal is to not him to know the Lord,
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right? That's my first goal.
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I said, and I've been patient with him a lot and today he was
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telling me I got to go doing this but I can go, I can now go
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to church today because I invite him to come over tonight.
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I cannot go because I got to do this and I am busy but man you
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don't let me tell you something. I want what you have I don't
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know what it is, but I want what you have.
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Isn't it? Isn't it?
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Amazing with somebody asked you that question.
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See, that's why. When Paul was preaching, when he
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was in prison, people are around him.
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They were doing the same thing. They were boldly preaching.
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The gospel at the same time because they see that in Paul's
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life. They were like, man, this guy,
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he got something, I don't know, what has he got something?
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I want that too, you know. So I was blessed, when he said
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that to me, this we was today He's I don't know, man in what I
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like about you. You don't force me to go to your
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church, but I really want to go to see what's going on.
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You know, Isis, man. I don't want you to go.
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I want you to believe in, Jesus Christ as your lord and savior,
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man. He's the one who came begin,
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something beautiful in your life and believe me, he did it to me
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many years ago and Men. I'm not regret it man.
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He is the real deal, man. If you surrender your life to
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Jesus, you'll see Manulife change you.
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Everything changed. You're going to see something
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that it was ugly, maybe for you and one point in your life, if
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you want to see that thing, beautiful, because you might
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think in like that, hey man. So tonight I just want to ask
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you interview with this, if it is God if it is Jesus, who began
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the good work in your heart, praise the Lord.
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You just hang in there, he's still working in your life,
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whatever it is, you're going through hang in there, he's
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there he's walking with you, he's gonna get you through
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whatever it is because you know what, he's faithful, and even
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when we were Unfaithful, he's there.
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He's going to be there and he will finish his work.
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He starred in your life and my life.
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But if you're not, what are you waiting for?
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What are you waiting for, to surrender your life to Jesus,
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the creator of Heaven and Earth, he's waiting for you, and that's
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my prayer for you, that you let Jesus begin something, beautiful
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in your life, and then your life will change.
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Not just here in this Earth, but for eternity and forever.
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Amen. So let's pray.
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Father, we just thank you, so, So much.
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Thank you for. Give me the opportunity. if you
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know, Lord that You know, my heart.
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You know. I am so thankful for.
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For many things or bad, more thankful that you.
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You start something in my heart long time ago.
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Can you change my direction? And now I know my, I know what
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I'm heading to lure. I know when they are going to
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see you face to face. But my pray to my Lord is for
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those who yet did not. They don't know you yet. for
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those who are hesitating to surrender their lives to you,
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Lord For those who still have a hard heart, they don't let you
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Lord to start something beautiful in their lives.
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You can start the work in their lives.
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You can begin something in their hearts, I pray for those hearts
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Lord. I pray for those Souls.
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For the ones that are here for the ones are watching for the
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ones, whatever they are Lord. I just pray for that.
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Because that's what we need. We need let you come in in our
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lives. You want to do the you're ready
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for that? And I just pray for that.
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Lord, that you can open the heart.
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If you open the Heart, Lord. You know, and I learned
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something here in this church from Fast red.
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You know, we always give you the invitation, you know, you know
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why? Because maybe this is my last
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chance to give it that invitation, if there's anybody
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here, or anybody who haven't give your life to Jesus Christ.
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Can you please raise your hand? If there's anybody here,
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anybody? Anybody This is what you need to
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do. God wants to work in your heart,
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he wants to begin something beautiful, in your life.
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If you haven't are, never given your life to Jesus, if it isn't
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here and the century, maybe downstairs, maybe on the radio,
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maybe you're watching, this is what you need to do, believe me.
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This is why you need to do, give you hard to Jesus.
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And he'll start something beautiful in your life.
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All you got to say just Jesus. I'm sorry.
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I know I'm a sinner. I'm a sinner and I need you come
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to my heart, come to my life. I'll give you permission to
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begin something in my life. Thank you for going to the
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cross. Thank you for die and live for
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me. Thank you for resurrected from
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the from the tomb and I know you are a life and I want to please
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you the rest of my days. Thank you a simple prayer.
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He changed Direction here in this earth.
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And also its Unity. God bless you guys.
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Love you guys and I just wanted to thank you pass rate for
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everything. God bless you guys.
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