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#20210919 - Nothing Can Separate Us - Romans 8:31-39 · Calvary Church with Ed Taylor Podcast

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Welcome to the study of God's word recorded live from Calvary
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all platforms. And now, let's open our Bibles
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and study God's word. Amen.
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Amen. So I'm going to share a little
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bit of my testimony with you. I think it's important you guys
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to testify of the great things that God has done not to be
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ashamed of the Lord Jesus Christ, right?
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Proclaim his name, give him glory to for the great things,
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he's done in your life. And so I'm going to touch on
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early years and we'll go from there.
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So first of all anybody here from Wisconsin?
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Like nobody. Anybody here ever been to
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Wisconsin? Yes.
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Okay. Now put Wisconsin aside for a
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moment. Anybody here from Minnesota?
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Yes. Yes.
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So was born in Ladysmith Wisconsin.
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My dad and mom moved us. The Moose Lake Minnesota when I
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was about six months old and that's where I grew up, small
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town, 1400 people, typical Midwest town.
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Everybody's nice Minnesota, nice.
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Sort of a very normal. I thought very normal
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upbringing, our family is known to be a good family stable
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church-going, my dad worked at the bank, my mom, they just, we
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were in sports, doing Athletics, all that kind of stuff, but
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Something happened. That was very traumatic.
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So we're in this small town growing up.
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When I was about 11 and a half years old something traumatic
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took place. Now my mom and dad, they seem to
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be good in their marriage. They, and they wouldn't show us
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kids. That anything was wrong in their
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marriage at all. We thought everything was
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perfect. We had rose-colored glasses on
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as we were growing up in Moose Lake.
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So fast forward a little bit. I'm 11 and a half years old.
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My mom told us kids are six of us kids ages 17 to 5.
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My mom said, hey I'm going to go and visit my brother in in
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Wisconsin for a couple of weeks. And in my mind at that age, I'm
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thinking, well, that's interesting, she's never done
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that before, but okay, whatever. So fast-forward two weeks, And
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it's a Friday, it's Friday evening, it's football night and
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Moose Lake Minnesota. And you know, it's just that
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small town thing and and art all of us kids are around the table.
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My dad is on the other side of the table from me.
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I was taking a bite of my food. I remember the food was
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scrambled eggs and I looked up and I said dad, you know, when
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is mom coming back? he looked up and said, In anger.
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And I never heard dad, get angry, but he said and declared
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she's never coming back. Just like that she's never
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coming back. Wow.
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The only way I can describe it is a hammer to a pane of glass.
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Everything shattered with one sentence, one reality.
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Didn't know to handle. It, didn't know how to process
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it as an 11 and a half year old mind.
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I felt What did I do? Was it my fault?
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What happened? Why would she leave us?
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And then we found out dad began to explain to us that she left
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with our families best friends for years.
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She left with him, she moved to California instead of her new
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life there. So here we are six kids, my dad.
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Now having to work, two jobs. Take care of us.
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Feed our mouths and we're struggling.
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I'm struggling. What in the world just happened.
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It just sent me off into this life of trying to figure out
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what in the world. Life is no stability.
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I'm just crazy, my friend in school and going to school on
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Monday. After that, whole thing was the
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most. I was so ashamed.
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I was so embarrassed, I didn't, I thought everybody in that
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school was looking at me. That is the kid of that family.
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That's, you know, got the divorce going on.
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And, and my friend asked, if I wanted to go out and drink some
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wine with them, You know and here now I'm we're just kind of
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drifting in life as a young kid and I said sure.
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So we went out and had some wine with my friend and man, when I
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tasted that wine, I was like, ahh. oh, This feels good.
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It really does. I don't have to feel what I was
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feeling you know the pain was so real and so deep anyway.
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So it started me off on a drifting life filled with
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alcohol. Just not knowing who I was
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looking for an identity looking to be accepted by anybody just
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insecure as the day is long. Not knowing who I was.
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Not knowing the Lord at the time.
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And I remember those days when it first happened and I look
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back and I think, man, I wish I wish somebody.
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Anybody would have come up to me at that time after the divorce
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after the shattering and just put their arm around me and
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said, hey, It's going to be okay.
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Nobody did that. Not even my dad.
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And and I want to pause here in and share with you guys and
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encourage you. There may be somebody that, you
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know, that is really struggling in life right now and all they
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need is an arm to be put around them.
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And here, it's gonna be okay. It'll be alright.
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Fast-forward enter into University life.
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You know doing okay in life hanging in there doing a typical
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kids would do go to University. Play sports was sort of My
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Sanctuary at the time doing that University.
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Life was crazy party. I look forward to the parties.
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You know, the drinking became very, very, very deeply
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problematic. By the time Monday hit.
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Go to classes and stuff. I'm looking forward to to
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Thursday Now to start drinking and Fry whatever Amin while
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playing, sports trying to maintain a life anyway.
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Years go by end up. Moving to my mom was in
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California. I ended up moving to Mammoth
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Lakes, California Mammoth Mountain ski area.
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Have you heard of that California's Sierra Nevadas so
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moved. They're got a job at the ski
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area, migrate goal in life at that time.
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Was to be a ski bum. So he you know had the
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opportunity to move to Mammoth Lakes, California and eventually
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Mammoth Mountain ask my Brother, my younger brother, Greg who was
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just finishing high school at the time to come and join me
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there. So we he comes and joins me.
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We start a band and we're partying and living the good
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life but inside empty is all get outs, not knowing who I was,
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what I was doing, why I was doing.
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What's Just the residue of that traumatic experience, just kind
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of it hung on. Anyway, so life goes on in the
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with our band we thought, hey, let's move to California.
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And make it big in the world of music.
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You know, the pipe dream for a lots of musicians that we just
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get to Los Angeles and get one of those showcase gigs and
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somebody recognized as us. And once the sign us up, it
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would be just the most awesome thing.
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It would be amazing. So we move to kick out to
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Southern California and begin the life, their music party.
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So on Very, very interesting. The Lord's plan was different
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than what I thought the plan was for moving down to Southern
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California. There's no doubt.
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So my wife and I were married in 1983, okay.
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Christina wasn't Christina had an experience with the Lord
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previously but she wasn't walking with the Lord.
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I'm definitely don't know the Lord at all and it but we're
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trying to make you know, the music thing go on and all.
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So I'm going to fast-forward to the nights.
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Okay, 1984. February 19th. 8:00 at nights.
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Something amazing happens in my life.
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That night. My mom, who is now a Believer
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who started going to Calvary Chapel in Downey.
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She invited us to come to a prayer meeting at her house for
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our, my older brothers, who were really deep into alcohol, and
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struggling and so on. And I thought to myself, well,
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that's interesting a strange. I'm not a Christian.
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I don't know why she would ask me to come and to her prayer
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median and didn't make sense at all.
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Christina. And I came my sister was there.
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My sister came with her boyfriend, Sam to sashko and the
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moment I entered into Mom's house, she had this Christian
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music going and it just kind of Drew my attention my ear.
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And my heart. This is difference, these guys
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are singing about Jesus. And my heart began to soften in
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a way. And so later on that evening, my
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wife on one side of me, my sister and another side of me
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they looked at me and essentially said, Jeff would you
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like to receive Jesus Christ as your lord and savior?
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And I'm like in my mind going. What does that?
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Even what does that mean? What does that look like?
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What do I have to do? I mean, one of the thoughts was
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do I have to go to church? If I do this, I mean just
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strange thinking going on. but you guys, I tell you what
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happened, at that moment, this experience began to take place
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from the soles of my feet up through my whole being this,
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this gushing this, this moving within me, this stirring, within
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me and I said, yes, I do. I do.
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And so, I prayed, you know what, we call the sinner's prayer.
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I just, repented of my sin said, Lord, come into my life, come
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into my life and when I did that, cheers, the flood of tears
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came through my eyes just bursting.
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It was, it was sort of an admixture of joy and the sense
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of being forgiven of my sins. I think that was the most
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impressionable. Of that moment was knowing that
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I was forgiven of my sin. My literally ahead, this
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experience, my eyes were opened. I saw things knew, instantly
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ears opened, like I knew I had new life.
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I can't, it's hard for me to explain but it was so real.
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So amazing. changed life from that moment on I'll never forget
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it. Whenever I have doubts about in
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my walk with the Lord and who I am and what he's doing, I can I
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always go back to that moment in my life.
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February 19th, 8:00 1984. It's beautiful beautiful.
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So the other part of this my brother Greg who is a pastor at
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Lighthouse Christian Fellowship in Twin Falls Idaho, my brother
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was in another room in our mom's house, giving his life to Jesus.
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Through my sister's boyfriend. Sam who is leading him to the
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Lord? Same time.
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Different room. We were both born again.
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So the kicker on this My brother's girlfriend, Pam, he
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had a girlfriend named pam, pam and Greg were going to meet that
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night at a hotel to make up. They you know had a very worldly
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relationship and they were going to make up that night.
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Greg drives that hotel. Meets pam.
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Pam has their Greg says to Pim Pam.
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I can't do this. I'm born again.
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I can't, he brings Pam back to my mom's house.
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Pam gets saved that night in that house.
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They were married a year and a half later and doing great in
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their ministering, you know, unto the Lord since then.
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Awesome night. And I'm going to stop here just
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for a moment. Have have you met the Lord?
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Have you truly met him? Have you had a collision with
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Jesus? I'm sure some of you have and
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you can relate to being born again.
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Maybe others. Not so much.
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Maybe you've got to church life's been good.
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It's okay. Just consider if you haven't
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really met Jesus. Do that today.
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He's waiting for you. He'd love to give you a hug.
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He'd love for you to know him. And I'll tell you what, you love
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for him will be so intense once you meet him.
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Anyway. so we end up starting to go to Calvary Chapel in in
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Downey. And this is, this is with such a
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beautiful thing. And the first time I ever went
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to a church such as Calvary Chapel and now we're born again,
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our eyes are opened. We're hungry.
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We walk into that, that big Hall that nights.
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And it was so interesting to me, from my background, I grew up as
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a Catholic, which, you know, I praise God for that upbringing,
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and some of that Foundation. But as we walked into this
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storefront building and and see all of these people, All such as
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yourself sitting in the pews and raising their hands and worship
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and just loving the Lord. It was like, what is this, you
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know, and who are these people? And all I remember is I didn't
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know anybody in that Hall, but I sure love them now, you know,
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it's just a different way of viewing things.
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And so we've been begin to get plugged in to the church there
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and and loved it for sure. Again, my eyes were opened that
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experience changed my life forever.
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So let's start with 2nd Corinthians chapter 5, in the
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scripture here, and I want to remind us, and I know that
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you'll know these scriptures, but may they be new to your ears
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today. Truly, so second Corinthians in
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chapter five, Starting with verse 14.
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For the Love of Christ, compels us because we judged us.
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That if one died for all then, all died.
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And he died for all that those who live should no longer live
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for themselves. But for him who died for them
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and rose again. So Paul is talking about that
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new life, that changes the way. We think we have a desire to
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live for the one that died for us.
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Rose again for us. Verse 15 says and he died for
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all that those who live should no longer live for themselves.
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We're being set free. Verse 16 says therefore from now
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on, WE regard no one according to the flesh even though we have
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known Christ according to the flesh yet, now we know him thus
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no longer. So Paul is describing his new
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life, his new lens through which she sees people sees Christ.
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Doesn't look at people according to the flesh doesn't see Christ.
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According to the flesh. You know that crucified
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Carpenter guy. but the Risen Lord verse 17 Church, therefore
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If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation old thing is old.
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Things have passed away. Behold, all things have become
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new question. Are you in Christ today?
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Raise your hand if you are, are you in Christ?
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Okay. Some of you may be hesitating a
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little bit. That's all right.
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If you are in Christ, you are a new creation.
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You're not a remade old creation person.
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You're a brand new creation. You're filled with the Holy
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Spirit. The kingdom of God has come in,
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you. Jesus said, the kingdom of God
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will be within you. And the Holy Spirit brings that
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to life in you. It's New Creation.
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I'm so glad that the Lord got a hold of me and brought me into
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that place of being a new creation in him.
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Do I struggle? Yeah.
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Are there trials difficulties of course, but that new creation
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does not stop. Now all things are of God and
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this is all about his grace, everything is from God.
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This is verse 16. All things are of God, we love
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him because he what he first loved us he's the one that
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initiated his Salvage plan through his love for us.
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All things are of God who has reconciled us to himself through
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Jesus Christ, that amazing reconciliation.
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We were not his we were dead in our trespasses and sin.
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He did the reconciling by sending his son.
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We didn't initiate it. Verse 19.
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That is that God was in Christ. Reconciling the world to
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himself. I this scripture these thoughts.
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These words are so deep. You know, we hear often that,
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you know, Christ on the cross, cried out, my God, my God.
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Why have you forsaken me, right? We get that.
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But here listen God was in Christ.
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Reconciling the world to himself.
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So it wasn't in a sense, God, the father being aloof from what
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was happening on the cross. He was right there with Jesus At
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The Cross reconciling the world to himself through Christ.
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It blows my mind. I don't totally understand it.
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It's a mystery. God was in Christ, reconciling
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the world to himself, not imputing their trespasses to
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them and has committed to us Church to the Believers.
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The word of reconciliation. We're called to go out and be
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reconcile errs, bringing the message of reconciliation to
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people who need to hear the gospel.
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And then taking on that heart of reconciliation if you're at odds
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with somebody around your in your family, be that messenger
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of reconciliation takes steps to be reconciled Life's Too Short
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you guys to hold onto grudges and bitterness and all of that.
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Let the Lord work in you and through you.
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Walk in humility. Walk in the grace of God.
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Love that person. Next you Ministry guys if you
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know we heard an announcement about getting involved in
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Ministry and so on in the church and all that I want to I want to
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encourage you today, I want to encourage myself today Ministry
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is that person in front of you? That's what it is.
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Ministry is the person in front of you.
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Person in front of you. That, you know, praying for
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somebody eliciting. The story from somebody that
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you're you're you're talking to hey, tell me your story.
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What's going on? So many people want to share
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their story. But are afraid that nobody will
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listen. So you just keep it to yourself.
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Engage engage Ministries, the person in front of you.
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Verse 21 for. He made him, who knew no sin to
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be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God
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in him. It's beautiful.
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I pray that your knowing these truths that you are born again,
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you have that relationship. You're secure in that.
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So moving on the as we began to grow in the Lord, the idea of
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being ambassadors, the idea of sharing the gospel preaching,
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the gospel became very real to us.
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Scriptures started jumping out at us, you know, go therefore
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and Make Disciples of all the nations and and teaching them
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and so on. And so that began to deeply seep
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into our hearts. And, and really was centered a
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lot around the music Ministry that At God, formed for us, this
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band called The Etta fires out of Calvary, Chapel Downey.
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Now, how many of you have heard of the other fires?
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That's shocking. Shocking.
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You've no. Are you kidding me?
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We like we like to joke as a band like were the greatest band
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that nobody knows. We but here's here's a another
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little tidbit for you. We did two albums, you know,
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Outreach you know, christ-centered albums.
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I was a bass player by the way, which is fun and good.
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Did two albums and they both went aluminum.
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They did, we sold a couple of copies.
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That was the heart, we enjoyed doing the music.
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The heart of it was not to gain fame or fortune or anything.
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It was, we took the attitude God, put in our hearts, we are
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gospel preachers and we get to take some instruments and sing
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some songs as an Avenue to do that tool to do that and it was
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just a great great time of our life.
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At one point, we took a class at Calvary Chapel Downey called
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perspectives on world missions, that began to grip.
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Heart. There's some of the teaching
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missionaries that have been experienced would be the
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teachers of it. Don Richardson who wrote the
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piece child and others that we're just gripped by this idea
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of going and being ambassadors for Christ.
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One remember, one young missionary couple during that
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class they spoke they were speaking about their experience.
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I don't remember anything else, they said.
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But they said you know, most everybody is going to stay
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unless they feel or sense the call to go.
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We didn't take that Avenue. We said we're going to go unless
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the Lord calls us to stay and that really like whoa.
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It's crazy. And that class we learned about
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God's heart for the world Genesis 12:1, bookend in you
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Abraham, all the families of the earth will be blessed and of
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course that Seed of Abraham would be Jesus, who would be the
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blessing to all the families of? There's all the ethne, all the
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ethnic groups, all the 18,000 tribes and tongues and Nations,
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everybody would be blessed through Abraham's seed, Jesus
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Christ. Begin to grip our hearts man.
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I wonder if the Lord would send us.
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And so we began to surrender to that possibility of 1992.
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We are getting ready to go to Missouri to start a Ministry
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with Bruce Nelson and his wife, Debbie Bruce Nelson.
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By the way, was our sound man in the end of fires whom built your
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sound system in this church building We were going to go do
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ministry. Misery misery misery.
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And whatever that would look like find a church, do you that
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Outreach whatever we sense the call to go?
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And this seemed to be like the Avenue that the Lord was putting
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us on so that we were turning the corner into 92 as going to
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get done teaching as school. We had school at Calvary Chapel
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Downey, I was teacher, it's going to get done with that year
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in 92. Then we're going to pack our
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bags, head to Missouri, and that would be it.
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So, in the meantime, on the way to Missouri, Our church starts a
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work in Russia, Soviet system had collapsed, there was an idea
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from Calvary Chapel down to go in and start a work plan to
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church whatever. And I'm thinking, you know,
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that's awesome. I'm teaching my class getting
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ready to go to Missouri. We're actually packed in boxes,
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ready to go to Missouri and you know we heard that the family
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that do need chosen a family to go into the long-term work.
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And and that was great were applauding, we're praying.
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I'm praying praying with my kids in the class about the Russia
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thing. The family couldn't go for one
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reason, or the other. And I hear that not like well,
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okay, whatever, keep praying for this new ministry of Downey and
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Russia, they chose another family.
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I thought great. Family know this family man.
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They're awesome. They'll do great.
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God bless them. Pray for them. found out that
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they weren't going to go because The wife was pregnant at the
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time so they didn't want her to go to Russia.
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Being pregnant. So I'm walking down the corridor
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of our church. We're offices.
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Were Pastor, Glenn kravik? Love that man.
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Stopped me and we talked for just a few minutes, he was
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talking about the Russian Ministry.
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He looked at me and said, hey, what would you think about going
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to Russia? You guys, I can't explain to you
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the piercing arrow in my hearts of God's Whisper.
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You're going to be the family to go to Russia.
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It was so clear, so unmistakable.
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So now you can imagine we're all packed and ready to go to
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Missouri. My wife is Missouri.
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Bound in her mind and her Hearts.
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We have three small children seven, five and three.
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And I come home that day and say to her sweetie.
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How would you like to go to? Russia.
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You remember, she's like what? What?
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So I knew I knew, right then and there I there's no way I'm going
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to take my wife and my kids kicking and screaming halfway
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around the globe. That the Lord would have to
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speak to her about a week later and I'll never forget it.
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Coming home from work. Start walking, you know, into
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the kitchen. And I could peek through the
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kitchen and on to the bedroom where the door was cracked a
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little bit. And of course, I saw my wife,
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she was on her knees. And as her husband I'm always
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thinking, okay? She's on her knees, what's
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wrong? I could go find out what's wrong
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and the Lord stopped me in my tracks, so don't go in there.
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Christina comes out just a few minutes later and says, I'm
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ready to go to Russia. Yeah.
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Amen. Amen.
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It was like this moments. That was so powerful.
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So you guys this was in early April 92.
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We were living in Russia. June 6th 1992.
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We had no time. We had no time to really
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consider what we were doing. You know, which was good.
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Anyway, we pack our bags, we lived there.
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Didn't know the language, didn't know anything about Russia.
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We've got our kids but the Lord, and this is what I want to share
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with you guys about that. We spent 13 years in Russia,
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ultimately, learn language, planted.
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Some churches that are still going on today, God is doing a
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great work. In the thing that that blew me
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away was, how faithful God is. There were times when we just
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all we can do is cry out to the Lord.
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Lord help Lord, help. Lord, help.
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Lord, help. Don't know the system.
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Don't know anything about this culture, don't know.
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But Lord help. And he was there, always
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faithful as the day is long. So we came back 2004 took over
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Calvary Chapel in Pocatello different type of ministry and
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so on. But we also are looking to go
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back on the mission fields and do ministry overseas some way,
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or another, some capacity, having a Ministry of
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encouragement. And so on First, Peter chapter
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1, let's go there, I've got a Speed up a little bit.
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I have a tendency to go over time but I don't want to do
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that. So 1st, Peter and chapter one.
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To the pilgrims verse 1. Peter, an apostle of Jesus
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Christ to the pilgrims of the dispersion in pontus, galatia
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Cappadocia Asia, and bithynia elect.
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And this is the encouragement of Peter towards those who are
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going through difficulties and trials and to remind them of who
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they are. And my prayer for you today is
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that you reminded of who you are and what you have in Christ who
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you are and what you have elect verse 2.
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According to the foreknowledge of God, the Father In
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sanctification of the spirit for obedience and sprinkling of the
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blood of Jesus Christ. And Peter goes on blessed, be
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the God. And father of our Lord, Jesus
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Christ who according to His, abundant Mercy, has begotten us
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again. There it is again.
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Second Corinthians. Five Born Again, New Creation
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here. Peter begotten us again, to a
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living hope, you know, he sang that song this morning, Christ,
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Our Living Hope. The Living Hope through the
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resurrection of Jesus Christ. From the dead to an inheritance
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Incorruptible. It can never be corrupted.
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It's undefiled will never be sullied will never be dirtied by
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anything. It's not going to fade away.
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Never lose its luster. Reserved in heaven Church listen
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for you For you. It's reserved your name is on
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it. That place is secure for you in
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heaven and guess who's going to bring you there?
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Guess who's going to keep you until that day?
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Peter goes on to say to that inheritance verse 5 who are kept
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by the power of God through faith for a Salvation, ready to
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be revealed in the last time in this, you greatly Rejoice.
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Are you rejoicing today? Or is life?
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Is life, is hard, right? There's trials, there's
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difficulties, there's pain, there's death, there's sorrow,
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there's tears, sicknesses, In this, you greatly Rejoice,
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though, now for a little while, if need be you have been grieved
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by various trials. And maybe today you are here and
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you are grieved. You're grieving.
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Various trials, trials. In the world, you will have
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tribulation, but be of good cheer.
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I have overcome the world Jesus say.
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The genuineness of your faith verse 5 over 7, being much more
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precious than gold, that perishes though it is tested.
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By the by fire may be found in the praise and honor and Glory
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at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
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Those trials, those testings do a work in our lives.
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And during those trials in those testings we can cry out God,
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where are you? Where are you in this?
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And I want to encourage you today right now, right here,
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right, where you're at, he is in the pain, he is in the sorrow.
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He is right there with you. God never steps aside.
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And looks at you goes. Yeah, yeah, you're going through
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a trial. I'm really not there with you
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but you know you'll come out of it now.
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Pull you out. He is with you.
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In the suffering, you don't think our savior new suffering
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or no suffering he does. And so you look to him that and
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know that he is with you in that pain and sorrow.
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Let him minister to you. And those, those trials test,
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things are doing a great work in your life and they're going to
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be to the praise and honor and Glory at the revelation of Jesus
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Christ. Let's move over.
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Romans 8, we're going to stop here.
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I wish I could go on. I'm sorry.
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It's like yeah, I know that. Yeah.
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We need to. To wrap this up.
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Romans chapter 8 and just hope that the holy spirit will
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impress this into your heart. Verse 31.
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What then shall we say to these things?
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If God is for us, churches, God for us.
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Okay, if God is for us, who can be against us?
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Is there anybody greater than God stronger than God?
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Of course not. And the proof.
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That God has for us, he who did not spare his son, but delivered
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him up for us all. How shall he not with him
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freely? Give us all things.
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Who shall bring a charge against God's elect, You Know, The Enemy
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tries to do that all the time. Bring a charge against us to
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condemn us. You ever felt condemned before
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in your own mind guilty. Of course, we go through that.
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We struggle with that. But who can bring a charge
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against us? We are God's elect.
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We are chosen. We are bound for heaven because
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of what greatest crisis done and Christ, who is even at the right
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hand of God who also makes intercession for us.
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Who shall separate us from the love of Christ.
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Who Who's going to do that? Who can do that?
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Nobody can do that. Not even your nothing can do it.
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Tribulation? Can't do that hard times.
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Yes, but they can't separate us from the love of God, which is
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in Christ Jesus. Famine nakedness distress.
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As it is written, he for your sake.
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We are killed all day long. We are accounted as sheep for
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the slaughter. Yet in all these things we are
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more than conquerors Church. Brother says, you're more than a
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conqueror in Christ. Who conquered all for you on
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your behalf. You're a Victor in him.
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And verse 38, Paul says, and I love this for, I am persuaded.
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Brother sister, are you persuaded do you stand on this
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side of the line? Convinced are you persuaded that
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neither death nor life nor angels, nor principalities nor
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powers nor things present nor things to come, neither Heights?
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You know, the great times, we have these, exuberant times the
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low times in the depth. Are you persuaded that that love
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of Christ will never be taken away from you?
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You'll never be separated from it.
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Nor height nor depth nor any other created thing, shall be
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able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ
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Jesus our lord, nothing, no one, no circumstance in the
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situation. No tragedy.
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No trial can separate us their security there.
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You Church. Marinate on these truths in your
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life, in your heart, in your mind, let the word of God set.
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You free free to serve free to love because you know who you
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are. You know what Christ has done,
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you know, where you're going. There's so much Freedom there.
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Freedom of Love free to serve. I know, I am secure in that.
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Love, I'm persuaded. Let's pray.
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Lord. Oh, oh man.
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Thank you for. Who we are in you, what we have
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in you, thank you for the work you've done in our lives.
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And you who have begun a good work, will complete it until the
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day of Jesus Christ. We are kept by your power Lord.
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There is nothing, no trial, no situation.
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That can separate us. From your love, I pray for each
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person in this room that they would sense.
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The deep deep love. That you have for each one of
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them. Lord, I pray that you administer
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to those who are hurting today, minister to those, that are
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struggling minister to those that are in pain.
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Minister to those who have been traumatized by different events
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in their life and struggle with the hood.
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Maybe there's just dissonance in life.
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There's not a congruent e. Lord.
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Still wondering who they are. Lord!
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I pray that your Holy Spirit would do a deep deep deep
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freeing work and their lives today.
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This moments, Lord, I pray for those who have never truly met
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you. Had that collision with you and
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your love. That aren't Born Again by the
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spirit of the Living God made today.
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Be that day made today be that moments for those that have
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maybe hesitated kind of had that that compulsion to know that
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that they should make that choice to follow you.
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But are resisting May today. Be that day of Freedom.
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May they trust, you be born again by the spirit of the
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Living. God Or thank you.
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Thank you, Lord, for the work you're doing right now and
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people's lives. Touch Lord, Heal restore renew
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revive solidify, their security that they have in you.
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Thank you, Lord. Thank you for this.
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Couldn't stand you guys and we're going to close in a song.
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As we close the service, please feel free to come forward.
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They'll be pastors up, fronts, talk with you and courage.
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You pray with. You don't, sometimes we get
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those impulses. We want to, we want to come
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forward, we want to do this or that the other thing in somehow
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we kind of resist and we don't we turn around walk out those
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doors, don't do that. The Lord invites you to come.
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So let's sing and then afterwards, please come forward
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with whatever they need. Maybe in and the the staff will
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pray for you. God bless you.
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We pray that you've been encouraged by this Bible.
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be blessed as you worship Jesus this week.