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Kason's Testimony · Living Waters of Grace / Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland Sunday Services

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  Thank you Gina. Thank you praise and worship
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  team. Every every Sunday I just I walk
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  out of here more encouraged and thanks to you guys.
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  So thank you. So it's my last day here in the
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  United States for a little bit. Tomorrow morning I head back
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  overseas to Ireland for my 4th, 3rd, 3rd year playing.
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  Well third full year playing professional basketball
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  overseas. Obviously, you know all the
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  glory goes to my Lord Savior, Jesus Christ.
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  I mean three years. I mean it's it's been it's been
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  a journey, but he's been with me every step of the way in the
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  good times and in the bad times. And there's been, there's been
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  some rough times being away from my parents, obviously being away
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  from you guys, it's hard. But he, he keeps me encouraged
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  and he keeps me grounded in him, so definitely makes it easier.
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  So today I wanted to do a rap from my new album that I dropped
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  in July, which again, all thanks to glory and to Jesus Christ for
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  that, because I did not think I would ever drop one.
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  It's I've been rapping since I was in 9th grade and I just
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  thought it'll just be something I can just do on the side, like
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  something that I can just send out to people like whatever.
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  And God blessed me to meet a beat maker that actually trained
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  for basketball. I didn't even know he did beats
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  until like this past year and he helped me, you know, make this
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  album. So the song that I'm doing today
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  is called Real Love. And what the song talks about
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  primarily is just not chasing after acceptance or chasing
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  after love from the world and looking for acceptance and
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  satisfaction from people. That's something I've had to
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  learn a lot over the last year. Lot of ups and downs with that.
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  Just finding myself struggling with, you know, not having a lot
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  of friends, you know, not being in a relationship, just like
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  always. Just like God.
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  Like, why? Like, why?
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  You know, why not. And basically the what he told
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  me was because you're making that your priority instead of
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  me. And that's something that hit me
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  really hard is like, Dang, like I really been putting all this
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  stuff before my relationship with Christ.
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  And when you do that, you never get full satisfaction.
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  You never get full happiness. And to be honest, there's no
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  greater sign of love than what he did for us.
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  I mean, he died for us. And I'll have a decent amount of
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  friends. None of them can ever say that
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  they did that for me. A lot of people that I know,
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  none of them can say they can do that for me.
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  Jesus died for me, to save me in my mess and my struggles.
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  And not just me, but everyone in here, everyone in the world.
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  And that's love. So why would I waste my time
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  trying to please other people who haven't even done anything
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  close to that, you know? So this song pretty much just
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  tells me pretty much just says like, I'm done chasing after the
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  world's acceptance, I'm done chasing after the world's love,
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  because real love was already shown to me 2000 years ago.
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  So that's that's this song and I hope you guys are blessed by it.
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  They say they love you when they always down, but when your backs
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  against the wall tell me how come they don't come around.
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  Say they always going to be a friend, but when you reach out
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  when you hurt and all your messages get left on red only
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  hit you when they ask a favor and only care about you if it
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  means that cater, they call me friend while I call a fake.
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  And they say that I'm a dog with everyone a snake.
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  Hard to trust anyone because people play with hearts who's
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  real and who's fake. It's hard to tell apart.
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  So you can miss me with the lies.
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  Keep that world love cuz real love was shown to me from my God
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  above. Check it.
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  Who won't? You know what sin is only son to
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  die in place of a bunch of sinners to be spitting in his
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  face die on a cross and rise up in three days And not for
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  salvation. Cuz he knows we need grace die
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  for the ones who chose to kill him.
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  Tell me when the? Last time a hero died for a
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  villain, huh? Wasn't forced to, but he was
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  willing so that I could be free and can be forgiven.
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  That's a real love. No one can talk.
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  That chasing love from the world.
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  Yeah, I'm off that because that left me broken.
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  But in Christ, I made whole. Even in the land of the Snakes.
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  Jay Cole. The world takes souls, But Jesus
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  saves souls. The world abandoned.
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  Jesus brings you to his table. The world to break your heart.
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  Jesus, he can mend it. The world of fake friends.
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  That shows you what a true friend is.
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  Proverbs 1824 shows us how God is always going to be there for
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  sure. You can have a lot of friends
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  that's fake under the covers, but got a friend of 6 closer to
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  was then a brother. So be careful.
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  Love the people you let call your friend because 99% of them
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  and nothing but pretend. And don't be chasing after no
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  one. God is calling you.
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  He got a real love he wants to share with all of you.
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  A slave to the world. Acceptance.
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  I was shackled without was chained.
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  I was chasing enough to fame one of.
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  And know my name till I felt the love of Christ.
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  Now with Jesus that I claimed call me weird, call me lame, to
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  live is Christ and to die his game.
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  Don't you wish we did more of that while he was here?
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  Yeah, Pretty cool stuff. So we're grateful.
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  What's that? What's that?
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  Yeah, yeah, whatever that means. I don't know.
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  Be careful what you. Yeah, yeah, right.
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  I got to watch that. But anyway, you know, Kason has
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  shared his testimony, his life, he's, he's been a huge impact in
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  this place and in our own lives personally.
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  And I know Louis and Terry are excited, but they're also heavy
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  hearted because hey, that's that could be a wrap.
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  I know they're excited, but they are heavy hearted.
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  I got a future. Put me on your next album,
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  Carlon to say no way, No way. But anyway, we want to pray for
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  Case, and Lewis asked me to pray because it's too, too tough for
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  too emotional for him right now. But but anyway, come on over to
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  Lou, Father God, we're just so grateful.
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  For how we've been blessed by this young man, his life, how
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  he's impacted all of us and continually impacts us.
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  And father, I thought of that verse this morning.
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  For Cason and to him who was able to do exceedingly
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  abundantly above all that he could ask or think according to
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  the power that works in him. Oh Lord, you have such a
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  wonderful journey ahead for this young man.
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  Not any on the courts, but Lord in the city of Dublin.
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  As he meets and interacts with the community, the public, the
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  coaches, the players, I know his real vision is to play well and
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  excel, but also Lord, to be able to reach into people's hearts
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  and share the gospel where people could come to know you
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  and be born again and get saved. So Lord, we just commit him to
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  you. Lord safe travels as he goes,
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  Good health, an excellent year. We'll be following him, Lord,
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  and watching him and. Participating in his journey and
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  Lord, we pray one day you bring them back safely to us again.
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  The ministry here strengthen Terry and Louis.
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  In this time let them just sense your presence in such a powerful
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  way that they'll feel like he's not even gone, but that that all
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  three of them are still together by the power of your Holy
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  Spirit. And so Lord, again we just thank
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  you for the blessing today and we pray all these things in
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  Jesus name and all God's people said Amen.