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RE-DEFINING-THE-BLESSING-OF-ABRAHAM · Apostle Joshua Selman

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  Speaker 1: I give Jesus a big, big, big, big hand.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. Praise the name of the Lord. Wow, it's good
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  Speaker 2: to see everyone.
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  Speaker 1: And the Bible says, unto the Lord shall the gathering
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  Speaker 1: of his people be.
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  Speaker 2: Pastor Daly, thank you. We honor you, honor your dear.
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  Speaker 1: Wife and the entire leadership. May God bless you in
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  Speaker 1: Jesus' name. Allow me to appreciate Mayor Harold Moore. He
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  Speaker 1: flew in from the United States for this. This man
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  Speaker 1: is an incredible man. When he called that he was coming,
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  Speaker 1: I said, no, no, no, you don't have to fly in.
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  Speaker 1: He's been around all the Sound of Revival conferences in
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  Speaker 1: North America.
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  Speaker 2: And I said, just sit. You're a politician. You're a mayor.
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  Speaker 1: Don't let them drive you because you're traveling, doing evangelism.
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  Speaker 1: And he didn't even answer me again. Next thing I
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  Speaker 1: heard was that he was already in the plane coming.
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  Speaker 2: So God bless you. It truly is a joy and
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  Speaker 2: an honor.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, I appreciate and honor everyone, every man
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  Speaker 1: of God, every person who is worthy of honor.
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  Speaker 2: We give Jesus the praise.
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  Speaker 1: I'm here because I believe in what God is doing
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  Speaker 1: in your life and in the territory.
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  Speaker 2: This is why we've been sent.
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  Speaker 1: Every time he grants us the grace to strengthen one
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  Speaker 1: another and to speak over the territory, we embrace it
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  Speaker 1: as an opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: I'm here to.
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  Speaker 1: Help someone see clearer, better. I'm here to help someone
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  Speaker 1: access the grace needed for the hour. God sends us
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  Speaker 1: as instruments of mercy to help give clarity, perspective, to
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  Speaker 1: help build. And it's one of the burdens that God
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  Speaker 1: has given me in this season, a.
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  Speaker 2: Renewed burden to disciple nations.
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  Speaker 1: There is need for the body of Christ across every
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  Speaker 1: territory to come into the fullness of the stature of
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  Speaker 1: the measure of Christ. The church is at the mercy
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  Speaker 1: of the men and the women who teach and serve
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  Speaker 1: the wisdom and the grace of God. And if we
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  Speaker 1: are limited, we will produce a sincere but ill-prepared people.
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  Speaker 1: We cannot give beyond a level of access, access to light,
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  Speaker 1: access to wisdom, access to power. And so every time
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  Speaker 1: God provides an opportunity like this to meet people beyond
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  Speaker 1: the local assembly, for me, it gladdens my heart because
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  Speaker 1: only God can tell who is standing before me.
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  Speaker 2: Only God can tell.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible says, now are we the sons of God
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  Speaker 1: and it does not yet appear. You see, you can
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  Speaker 1: predict fairly how many fruits can come from a tree,
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  Speaker 1: but you never can tell how many trees can come
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  Speaker 1: from a seed.
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  Speaker 2: That one seed planted, nurtured. Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: And so my charge for us tonight as we begin
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  Speaker 1: these sessions is, number one, let your hunger rise. Let
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  Speaker 1: your hunger rise. The word of God produces when it
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  Speaker 1: meets a hungry heart. Number two, let's adopt the principle
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  Speaker 1: that was given to Moses. For many years, Moses had
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  Speaker 1: been in Egypt. In fact, he was being prepared to
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  Speaker 1: be the next Pharaoh. But when he encountered the burning bush,
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  Speaker 1: the first instruction he was given was take off your shoes.
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  Speaker 1: Your shoe is a representation of your experience, your knowledge
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  Speaker 1: about God so far. Sometimes when you encounter him, he says,
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  Speaker 1: take it off. Because I'm about to show you something
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  Speaker 1: that may be foreign to your experience, but needed for
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  Speaker 1: your destiny. I'm praying that somewhere in the course of
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  Speaker 1: this meeting, someone will really find grace. Someone will encounter wisdom.
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  Speaker 1: That mighty men and women will arise.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: You have invested your time. Many of you perhaps have
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  Speaker 1: traveled outside of Leicester. Some of you within the city. Regardless,
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  Speaker 1: and for those who are following online, look beyond a man.
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  Speaker 1: Let your eyes be on Jesus. Let your eyes be
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  Speaker 1: on his wisdom, his light, and he will do us good.
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  Speaker 1: Can we lift up our hands in one minute and
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  Speaker 1: ask again that the spirit of grace will breathe upon us.
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  Speaker 2: Go ahead. Thank you, Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Speak to our hearts. Light our candles. Give us understanding.
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  Speaker 1: Bring us to a state of maturity and stature by
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  Speaker 1: the Spirit.
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  Speaker 2: Empower us.
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  Speaker 1: Strengthen the body of Christ within this territory, O God.
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  Speaker 2: Let your name be glorified. Let your name be lifted.
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  Speaker 3: We lift you high Yahweh Yahweh be lifted high Yahweh Yahweh.
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  Speaker 2: Sing we lift you.
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  Speaker 3: High Yahweh Yahweh.
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  Speaker 2: We lift you.
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  Speaker 3: High Be lifted high.
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  Speaker 4: We lift you high. We lift you high. Yahweh, Yahweh.
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  Speaker 4: Be lifted high.
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  Speaker 3: Yahweh.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Spirit of Grace. We receive understanding. Let the
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  Speaker 1: book be open. Let the scrolls be unlocked. Guide our
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  Speaker 1: destinies to a place of perfection and power. In Jesus'
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  Speaker 1: name we pray. God bless you, please. You may be
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  Speaker 1: gloriously seated.
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  Speaker 2: Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: I understand we're dealing with the subject of the blessing
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  Speaker 1: for this conference and I always like to teach along
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  Speaker 1: the theme given to me.
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  Speaker 2: But for the.
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  Speaker 1: Purpose of stability, I would request that you allow me
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  Speaker 1: just digress for a few minutes to lay a very
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  Speaker 1: strong foundation. Because you see, as we grow into maturity
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  Speaker 1: and stature, one of the things we must learn is
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  Speaker 1: the value and the supremacy of the will of God.
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  Speaker 2: The will of God.
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  Speaker 1: Now, everything in the kingdom revolves and must revolve around.
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  Speaker 2: The will of God.
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  Speaker 1: What gives value to every teaching, every desire, every pursuit,
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  Speaker 1: is that it must be connected directly to the birthing
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  Speaker 1: of the will of God. Is someone learning already? So
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  Speaker 1: in the kingdom, when you attain unto maturity as a believer,
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  Speaker 1: and let this also be a great encouragement to perhaps
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  Speaker 1: a man of God, a woman of God, that in
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  Speaker 1: teaching concepts in the kingdom, you have to first let
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  Speaker 1: the people know that nothing in the kingdom in itself
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  Speaker 1: profits the believer except and unless it is.
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  Speaker 2: Connected to the will of God.
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  Speaker 1: So if you're teaching healing, if you're teaching prosperity, if
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  Speaker 1: you're teaching fruitfulness, if you're teaching.
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  Speaker 2: Advancement, it becomes vanity if left alone.
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  Speaker 1: The strength of that teaching is when you can connect
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  Speaker 1: that pursuit, that desire.
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  Speaker 2: To the will of God. Do you understand me so far?
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  Speaker 2: That means if you.
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  Speaker 1: Just want to prosper for the sake of prosperity... if
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  Speaker 1: you want to be healed for the sake of healing,
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  Speaker 1: one's self becomes the object of the pursuit, then it
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  Speaker 1: is vanity.
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  Speaker 2: It holds no weight in the spirit.
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  Speaker 1: What gives our pursuit its value is that it is
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  Speaker 1: connected to kingdom come.
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  Speaker 2: It is connected to the program of God.
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  Speaker 1: So when people understand the will of God, and get
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  Speaker 1: to a point where they are determined to see His
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  Speaker 1: kingdom come and His will done, then you have no
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  Speaker 1: restraint in teaching them the things that equip them.
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  Speaker 2: To do so. Healing, prosperity.
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  Speaker 1: Now you can teach it with confidence, knowing that you
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  Speaker 1: are teaching a people who are already cultured. They have
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  Speaker 1: an orientation that my life and everything about.
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  Speaker 2: It must be for His glory and for His kingdom.
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  Speaker 2: Are we learning now? It is a risk.
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  Speaker 1: To begin to explore certain dimensions.
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  Speaker 2: Of the provisions, the riches that are in Christ.
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  Speaker 1: And to help people understand it without first connecting them
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  Speaker 1: to Christ, to his program, to his purposes. What will
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  Speaker 1: happen is that that knowledge will become like the tree
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  Speaker 1: of good and evil. It, number one, will bring enlightenment.
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  Speaker 1: But with enlightenment, it will bring corruption. So you will
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  Speaker 1: find the people who rejoice at increase, rejoice at prosperity,
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  Speaker 1: but Jesus is not at the back of their joy.
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  Speaker 1: They are only rejoicing because they have been better equipped
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  Speaker 1: to be selfish. They have been equipped, knowledge- has fortified
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  Speaker 1: self in them so they rejoice because.
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  Speaker 2: Self is finding expression. Are we learning already?
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying that as a background because in teaching very
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  Speaker 1: delicate subjects like the blessing, it matters to me and
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  Speaker 1: it matters, you know, the Bible calls us master builders.
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  Speaker 1: And the Bible says that every man of God must
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  Speaker 1: be a wise master builder.
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  Speaker 2: Are we together? And you have to build according to patterns.
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  Speaker 1: So that whilst people enjoy and receive the revelations and
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  Speaker 1: the blessings that follow those revelations, they don't fuel self.
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  Speaker 1: You bring them to a point where they realize that
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  Speaker 1: all of the provisions that are made available for me
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  Speaker 1: in Christ is not just for self-aggrandizement.
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  Speaker 2: Are we together?
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  Speaker 1: That at the end of it, it is to equip
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  Speaker 1: me to be an effective witness and to birth the
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  Speaker 1: will of God.
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  Speaker 2: Everything around the kingdom.
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  Speaker 1: Now, the word gospel, I'm still digressing. Wherever we stop,
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  Speaker 1: thank God we have two other sessions. But this foundation
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  Speaker 1: is important. The word gospel does not just mean good news.
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  Speaker 1: It is a declaration of glad tidings. But in that,
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  Speaker 1: according to scripture, there are seven distinct gospels. The most
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  Speaker 1: popular that we know is called the gospel of salvation.
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  Speaker 1: It's a declaration of the love of the Father revealed
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  Speaker 1: in and through the substitutionary sacrifice of Jesus. But one
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  Speaker 1: of those gospels for our discussion tonight is the gospel
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  Speaker 1: of the kingdom. And although it is by the same
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  Speaker 1: Lord and the same Spirit, the dynamics differ. When you
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  Speaker 1: discuss the gospel of salvation, in that narrative, Jesus is
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  Speaker 1: revealed as Savior. Man is revealed as Savior. A helpless
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  Speaker 1: personality unable to save himself by any work of the
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  Speaker 1: law whatsoever. The father in the narrative of the gospel
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  Speaker 1: of salvation is the initiator of the process that demonstrates
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  Speaker 1: his love.
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  Speaker 2: Are we together? And so man really does not do anything.
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  Speaker 1: Man has the privilege of watching a spectacular display of love.
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  Speaker 1: That God so loved the world and he proved that
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  Speaker 1: love by giving his son.
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  Speaker 2: And Jesus came, died, paid the price. Are we together?
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  Speaker 2: But when you.
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  Speaker 1: Now teach the gospel of salvation, in that narrative, Christ
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  Speaker 1: is no longer a savior.
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  Speaker 2: He is king.
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  Speaker 1: And the helpless personalities called men, they are no longer
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  Speaker 1: helpless because at that point.
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  Speaker 2: They are saved, they are empowered. Are we together? Are
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  Speaker 2: we together? but then there is an orientation that they sustain.
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  Speaker 1: They now know that God has a program, God has
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  Speaker 1: an agenda, and that their lives must.
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  Speaker 2: Be about birthing the will of God.
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  Speaker 1: And it is from that standpoint that you begin to
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  Speaker 1: explore everything in the kingdom, prosperity, health.
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  Speaker 2: So if I ask you, why do you want to
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  Speaker 2: be healed?
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  Speaker 1: I am not convinced until your explanation ends up revealing
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  Speaker 1: the will of God. Why do you want to prosper?
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  Speaker 1: If you say, well, I'm tired of suffering. Lester does
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  Speaker 1: not seem to open up. That's a sincere explanation, but
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  Speaker 1: it is not kingdom because Christ and his will is
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  Speaker 1: not captured in your explanation. Is someone understanding now? We
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  Speaker 1: become a matured people, not just when we have so
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  Speaker 1: many scriptures in our minds, but when we get to
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  Speaker 1: a point where our wills can die so that his
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  Speaker 1: will is birthed, his will is revealed. And don't get
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  Speaker 1: me wrong, if you truly understand the will of God,
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  Speaker 1: you will know that the will of God is all
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  Speaker 1: about your profiting.
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  Speaker 2: So that it does not look like he's such a
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  Speaker 2: selfish person.
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  Speaker 1: He says, I know the thoughts that I think towards you,
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  Speaker 1: Jeremiah 29, 11, they are thoughts of peace and not
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  Speaker 1: of evil to bring you a future and an expected end.
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  Speaker 2: So God is all about you.
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  Speaker 1: Whilst we were yet sinners, not even asking, not praying,
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  Speaker 1: not demanding for salvation. He went out of his way.
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  Speaker 1: And if he gave his son, will he not give
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  Speaker 1: you all things to enjoy?
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  Speaker 2: Are we together?
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  Speaker 1: Praise the name of the Lord. Someone say, let your
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  Speaker 1: will be done. One more time, say, let your will
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  Speaker 1: be done. And let me just connect that very quickly,
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  Speaker 1: and then we'll hopefully begin our discussion. What exactly is
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  Speaker 1: the will of God for man? We have to understand this.
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  Speaker 1: What is the will of God? Now, Theologically speaking, there
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  Speaker 1: are two dimensions of God's will. Number one, there's what
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  Speaker 1: we call the written will of God. That means, or
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  Speaker 1: the generic will of God, the will of God for
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  Speaker 1: all men. It is not unique to any individual. Are
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  Speaker 1: we together? It is every time you find a man,
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  Speaker 1: you can be sure that that is God's will for
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  Speaker 1: that man. And it is written in scripture that God
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  Speaker 1: desires that all men be saved, number one. And then
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  Speaker 1: number two, that they come unto the knowledge of the truth.
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  Speaker 1: So for every man you see, you can be sure
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  Speaker 1: that preaching Christ to them is not going out of
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  Speaker 1: the will of God. Helping them to be part of
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  Speaker 1: a family that builds them spiritually. You don't need a
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  Speaker 1: prophecy on that. Are we together now? It is the
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  Speaker 1: will of God. So there is the generic or written
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  Speaker 1: will of God as captured in scripture. God desires for
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  Speaker 1: all men to come into the fullness of sonship. The
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  Speaker 1: Bible calls it the hope of his calling. That when
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  Speaker 1: he got us saved, there was an intent in his heart.
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  Speaker 1: that we structurally grow and attain maturity through sonship. Because
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  Speaker 1: an heir, for as long as that heir is a child,
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  Speaker 1: Galatians chapter 4 from verse 1, he differeth not from
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  Speaker 1: a slave, even though he be Lord of all.
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  Speaker 2: Are we together?
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  Speaker 1: So that even though we are saved, if we remain children,
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  Speaker 1: we will never be able to release the.
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  Speaker 2: Riches that are captured in the God life.
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  Speaker 1: Because the life we have received, manifesting the riches, the
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  Speaker 1: glory that is embedded in that life, is knowledge dependent
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  Speaker 1: and maturity dependent.
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  Speaker 2: Knowledge dependent.
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  Speaker 1: Some of you right here as parents, in your wheel
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  Speaker 1: right now, you have, perhaps you have children who are
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  Speaker 1: not even up to teenage age. But there is a
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  Speaker 1: will for them. But you're not going to give them
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  Speaker 1: access to it.
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  Speaker 2: Are we together? Maybe not even a will.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe you've purchased something for them, some shares, investments, and
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  Speaker 1: you are thoughtful enough. Even as much as you love them,
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  Speaker 1: you know that until they attain a state that you
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  Speaker 1: consider maturity enough, you will not.
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  Speaker 2: Grant them access to it. So in as much as.
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  Speaker 1: We are saved, we have received the riches that have
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  Speaker 1: come from this life. It will not profit us, I
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  Speaker 1: tell you. And your difference, the difference between you and
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  Speaker 1: one who is unsaved will barely be you. It's only
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  Speaker 1: from a spiritual standpoint that we can really tell the difference.
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  Speaker 1: But as far as manifesting victory and dominion is concerned,
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  Speaker 1: the difference will not be there because eternal life, releasing
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  Speaker 1: the riches that eternal life captures is knowledge dependent and
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  Speaker 1: maturity dependent.
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  Speaker 2: Is someone following me so far? Praise the name of
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  Speaker 2: the Lord. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That means the more we press to gain knowledge, understanding,
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  Speaker 1: and attain unto maturity, the more we are able to
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  Speaker 1: release that which is invested in our spirit for the
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  Speaker 1: nations to see.
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  Speaker 2: And at the end of it, Christ will be glorified.
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  Speaker 1: John 15 and verse 8, Herein is my Father.
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  Speaker 2: Glorified, that ye bear much fruit.
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  Speaker 1: I hope you know fruitfulness is proof that the tree
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  Speaker 1: has become matured. A tree only becomes fruitful when it's
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  Speaker 1: grown beyond a certain limit. It will be unfair for
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  Speaker 1: you to plant and by next week you expect fruit. No,
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  Speaker 1: you are patient. You know the tree is growing. But
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  Speaker 1: then it gets to a point where you begin to
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  Speaker 1: see the indices that attest to the fact that growth
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  Speaker 1: has happened.
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  Speaker 2: John 15, 16.
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  Speaker 1: You have not called me, but I have called you
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  Speaker 1: and ordained you that you should go and bear fruit
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  Speaker 1: and that your fruit should remain.
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  Speaker 2: If someone is learning so far, say amen. Praise the
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  Speaker 2: name of the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm talking about the will of God that number one,
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  Speaker 1: there is the generic or written will of God. We
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  Speaker 1: still have that, all of us. Number two, there is
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  Speaker 1: what is called the revealed will of God. Now this
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  Speaker 1: is the revealed of God, the will of God that
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  Speaker 1: is revealed to you on demand. Because your destiny will
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  Speaker 1: require progressive.
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  Speaker 2: Revelations of God's will.
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  Speaker 1: There is a generic will that guides you, but progressively
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  Speaker 1: your call, direction, that which God wants you to do
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  Speaker 1: per time and per season. And you will need the
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  Speaker 1: revealed will of God. And that's where the Holy Spirit comes.
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  Speaker 2: Are we together? That the Holy Spirit is a revealer
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  Speaker 2: of the will of God.
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  Speaker 1: No man knows what is in the heart of man,
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  Speaker 1: save the spirit that is in that man. So also
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  Speaker 1: no man knows what is in the heart of the Father,
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  Speaker 1: save the spirit of the Father. And that the Holy
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  Speaker 1: Spirit has the exclusive right to search the mind of
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  Speaker 1: the Father and to reveal to the saints that which
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  Speaker 1: has been stolen.
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  Speaker 2: Ordained for their glory. Hallelujah. The revealed will of God.
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  Speaker 1: And perhaps some of you have heard me teach that
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  Speaker 1: in learning the will of God, there are three biblical ways.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why God is just routing me through
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  Speaker 1: this path, but there are three ways that to accessing
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  Speaker 1: the will of God.
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  Speaker 2: Number one, Scripture.
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  Speaker 1: Number two, the revelatory ministry of the Holy Spirit. Number three,
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  Speaker 1: the prophetic. This is how we're able to extract the
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  Speaker 1: will of God for our profiting. Again, number one, Scripture.
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  Speaker 1: The first way we know the will of God is
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  Speaker 1: by learning Scripture. The Bible says in Luke chapter 4
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  Speaker 1: that Jesus stood up to read and it was given
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  Speaker 1: to him the scroll of Isaiah and he found there
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  Speaker 1: where it was written concerning him.
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  Speaker 2: Hebrews 10, 7.
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  Speaker 1: Lo, I come in the volume of the book as
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  Speaker 1: it is written of me to do your will.
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  Speaker 2: Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: Praise the name of the Lord. Number two, the revelatory
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  Speaker 1: ministry of the Holy Spirit. That the Holy Spirit guides,
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit reveals. As they set themselves to pray,
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Ghost spoke to them, separate me Paul and Barnabas.
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  Speaker 2: And then number three, the prophetic ministry.
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  Speaker 1: I have spoken to you in similitudes and I have
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  Speaker 1: spoken to you in dreams all by the prophetic. The prophetic,
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  Speaker 1: if under the influence of the word of God, can
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  Speaker 1: produce power in that it is able to bring direction
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  Speaker 1: and to bring guidance.
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  Speaker 2: It's someone learning. Praise the name of the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm hoping that as we explore this topic, it
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  Speaker 1: would not just be a carnal celebration of the awareness
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  Speaker 1: of victory, But now with this background, everything I'm about
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  Speaker 1: to say, because we're going to go deep into this
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  Speaker 1: concept of being blessed to really understand.
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  Speaker 2: What it is.
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  Speaker 1: And if you do understand, it will truly change your life.
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  Speaker 1: And you will now appreciate this digression that has come
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  Speaker 1: as a disclaimer. So that in rejoicing, it tames your
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  Speaker 1: appetite and makes sure that your joy is only purified
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  Speaker 1: by its connection to the will of God. So that
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  Speaker 1: as you leave this place tonight, you will live rejoicing,
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  Speaker 1: knowing indeed that I am blessed. But you will not
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  Speaker 1: speak as a carnal man.
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  Speaker 2: You will speak as one who is enlightened.
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  Speaker 1: That heaven will rejoice over your awareness of this revelation.
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  Speaker 1: Because you would now become an advantage to the kingdom.
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  Speaker 2: Are we learning?
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  Speaker 1: So can we begin? Let's pray in the spirit for
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  Speaker 1: one minute. Thank you, Father, for wisdom. Thank you for grace.
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  Speaker 2: It is about your glory.
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  Speaker 1: To see you high and lifted up. You are shining
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  Speaker 1: in the light of your glory.
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  Speaker 2: Pour out your power and love as we sing holy, holy, holy.
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  Speaker 3: We'll see you high and lifted up.
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  Speaker 2: You're shining in the light of your glory.
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  Speaker 1: Pour out your power and love.
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  Speaker 2: As we sing holy, holy, holy. Thank you Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 2: In Jesus much less name. We pray.
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  Speaker 1: So I'll be teaching on the blessing. The blessing. Tonight
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  Speaker 1: will be part one. And we'll take it from there.
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  Speaker 1: Wherever we stop, we'll pray.
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  Speaker 2: Go home. Come back. Try again. Go home. Come back.
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  Speaker 1: And then see how far we're able to cover. Amen
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  Speaker 1: and amen. Anyone ready? I rejoice in advance. I rejoice
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  Speaker 1: in advance. Someone's life will change.
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  Speaker 2: Hallelujah. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Ephesians chapter 1. We're reading the first three verses. Ephesians
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  Speaker 1: chapter 1. Paul, now notice who he's talking. He starts
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  Speaker 1: by telling you he's an apostle.
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  Speaker 2: Of Christ by the... Does it make sense to you
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  Speaker 2: everything we've discussed now?
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  Speaker 1: So you can trust everything he's saying because he's telling
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  Speaker 1: you that his life and his apostleship is not just
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  Speaker 1: about the issues he's discussing, but that ultimately it is
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  Speaker 1: the will of God.
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  Speaker 2: The will of.
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  Speaker 1: God is what drives him. So Paul, verse 1 again, media. Paul,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm not seeing verse 1, I'm seeing verse 2.
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  Speaker 2: Can we try again? Just do what you did the
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  Speaker 2: first time. I saw that one. Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. No, just go to verse 1. Let's finish verse 1.
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  Speaker 2: Let's take it slowly. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God.
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  Speaker 1: So this is the person speaking now. Who is he
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  Speaker 1: speaking to? To the saints who are in Leicester. Now,
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  Speaker 1: it's important for you to know so you know whether
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  Speaker 1: the discussion is your business or not. There are certain
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  Speaker 1: discussions that are not your business. So you have to
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  Speaker 1: know who he's speaking and who he's speaking to. This
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  Speaker 1: gives you contextual understanding in discussing scripture.
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  Speaker 2: Are we together? So to the saints.
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  Speaker 1: So if you are the saints, those saved, those who
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  Speaker 1: love Jesus, who are faithful in Christ Jesus, then every
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  Speaker 1: other thing I'll be discussing is for you.
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  Speaker 2: Are we learning?
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  Speaker 1: So to the saints who are in Ephesus. Now we're
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  Speaker 1: in Leicester, so we'll not say Ephesus. The saints in
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  Speaker 1: Leicester and the faithful in Christ Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: Verse 2. Grace, I like this.
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  Speaker 1: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and
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  Speaker 1: our Lord Jesus Christ. Shout verse 3 with me, please,
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  Speaker 1: if you love Jesus. When you see it projected, media,
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  Speaker 1: we're ready for verse 3. Ephesians 1 and verse 3.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, let's go. One, two, go. Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.
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  Speaker 2: Don't rush it. Don't rush it at all.
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  Speaker 1: Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 2: Who was? Now, there are many things God has done
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  Speaker 2: for us. He saved us. Are we together?
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  Speaker 1: But now Paul is saying he had blessed us. Not
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  Speaker 1: will bless us. He had blessed us. And then he
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  Speaker 1: tells us the extent of the blessing. That he's blessed
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  Speaker 1: us with every spiritual blessing. Every spiritual blessing. But now
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  Speaker 1: there's an issue we need to discuss. Because he tells
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  Speaker 1: us the location. that these spiritual blessings are in heavenly places.
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  Speaker 2: And the code for access is the Christ.
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  Speaker 1: So that if your life fails to capture and reveal
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  Speaker 1: these blessings, it does not change the fact that God
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  Speaker 1: has blessed you with every spiritual blessing.
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  Speaker 2: Are we together?
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  Speaker 1: In heavenly places in Christ. So let's leave that scripture
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  Speaker 1: there to revisit it. Let's go to Genesis chapter 12.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible talks about a very interesting man who is
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  Speaker 1: very interesting because the major world religions today, as we.
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  Speaker 2: Know, all came out from that one man. Christianity.
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  Speaker 1: Are we together? Judaism and all its expressions. And then Islam.
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  Speaker 1: All came out from that one.
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  Speaker 2: Man, Abraham.
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  Speaker 1: So the Bible tells us that this was a man
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  Speaker 1: who was in a nation called Ur of the Chaldeans.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't want to go into the background, but
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  Speaker 1: if we had the time, I would have told you
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  Speaker 1: and shown you from Scripture that the first person to
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  Speaker 1: be called was not really Abraham. The first person God
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  Speaker 1: called was his father, Terah. But for whatever reason, he
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  Speaker 1: did not respond. And that tells you how God is.
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  Speaker 1: He comes to you and proposes a superior life, but
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  Speaker 1: he gives you the opportunity to partner with him or
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  Speaker 1: reject him. The Bible says, as many as received him.
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  Speaker 1: That means not all will receive him, unfortunately. Now the
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  Speaker 1: Lord said to Abraham, get out of your country, from
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  Speaker 1: your family, and from your father's house to a land
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  Speaker 1: that I will show you. Verse 2, reading to 3.
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  Speaker 1: It says, I will make you a great nation. And
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  Speaker 1: I will bless you. And make your name great. Do
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  Speaker 1: you know we can spend all night just discussing what
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  Speaker 1: this means? I'm telling you, we can take the whole
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  Speaker 1: day just discussing verse 2. It's a very profound scripture.
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  Speaker 1: I will make your name great. You can be great
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  Speaker 1: without your name being great.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: If you are great without your name being great, your
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  Speaker 1: greatness ends when you leave. How many of you have
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  Speaker 1: heard the word J.P.
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  Speaker 2: Morgan? Chase?
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  Speaker 1: How many of you have heard whatever names that represent dynasties?
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  Speaker 1: That's a great name. An individual can be great. But
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  Speaker 1: if your name is not great, they cannot perpetuate greatness.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody can come under the covering of your name. You see,
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  Speaker 1: in giving inheritance, don't tempt me to digress.
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  Speaker 2: Help me. I'm a pilot tonight. Just help me. Let's
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  Speaker 2: fly straight. No detours. Let's get to where we're going.
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  Speaker 2: But I need to say this. One of the things
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  Speaker 2: the Bible calls inheritance is a good name. Are we together? Yes.
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  Speaker 1: That in all your giving, whatever you give your children
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  Speaker 1: or those, if you just give them physical things, you
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  Speaker 1: really did not help them.
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  Speaker 2: A good name.
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  Speaker 1: To be better desired than material wealth. Anyway, so back
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  Speaker 1: to our discussion. I will make your name great and
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  Speaker 1: you shall be.
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  Speaker 2: Take note.
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  Speaker 1: You shall be a blessing. I will bless you. And
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  Speaker 1: you shall be a blessing. Verse 3. I will bless
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  Speaker 1: those who bless you. And I will curse him who
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  Speaker 1: curses you. And in you shall the families of the
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  Speaker 1: earth be blessed. If that is you, say amen. Now, generally,
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  Speaker 1: across the body of Christ, we use the word blessed
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  Speaker 1: or blessing.
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  Speaker 2: Bless you. We use it to greet.
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  Speaker 1: You know, most of that was an extra from the
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  Speaker 1: way the Jews salute one another. They greet shalom, peace,
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  Speaker 1: blessings to you, and all of that. And it was
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  Speaker 1: Bible culture to speak blessings. You see, Paul would begin
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  Speaker 1: or end his conversations with, you know, with blessings and
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  Speaker 1: so on and so forth. And the Psalmist used that
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  Speaker 1: a lot. For instance, Psalm 1, please give it to us.
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  Speaker 1: It says, blessed is the man. Blessed is the man.
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  Speaker 1: Psalm 1, when you read from verse 1 to 3,
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  Speaker 1: blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel
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  Speaker 1: of the ungodly, who stands nor stands in the way
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  Speaker 1: of sinners. nor sits in the seat of the scornful.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to go ahead of myself, just leave
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  Speaker 1: us one there. By the time we get to verse 3,
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  Speaker 1: he begins to describe expressions that attest to whether or
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  Speaker 1: not that man is blessed. So you can use verse
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  Speaker 1: 3 to verify verse 1. If a man tells you
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  Speaker 1: I'm blessed and eventually you do not find the expressions
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  Speaker 1: in verse 3, something is wrong with his understanding or
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  Speaker 1: wrong with that reality.
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  Speaker 2: Are we together?
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  Speaker 1: So we use the word blessing or we use the
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  Speaker 1: word blessed. And it's important for us to really understand
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  Speaker 1: what does it mean to be blessed. When I say
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  Speaker 1: bless you or God bless you or you are blessed
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  Speaker 1: or I call you a blessing.
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  Speaker 2: We use it in English. We use it culturally.
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  Speaker 1: But for the most people, we've not taken our time.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm telling you, even if you search the dictionary,
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  Speaker 1: it only goes so far. But it's a very pregnant word.
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  Speaker 1: that I'm hoping we'll explore in the course of this conference.
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  Speaker 1: Are you ready for it? So the word blessed, generally speaking,
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  Speaker 1: refers to favor, refers to fruitfulness, refers to advancement, refers
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  Speaker 1: to preservation and protection. I'm just broadening the scope for you.
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  Speaker 1: So generally... When you hear the word blessed, these are
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  Speaker 1: the similes that come to your mind.
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  Speaker 2: Fruitfulness, favor, preservation, advancement.
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  Speaker 1: Everything around that is captured in that word blessed. But
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  Speaker 1: let's do a little Hebrew and Greek just to put perspective.
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  Speaker 2: So the Hebrew word, there are many Hebrew words, as
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  Speaker 2: you know.
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  Speaker 1: Hebrew is a very deep word, and the Bible was largely,
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  Speaker 1: the Old Testament was largely written in Hebrew. And then
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  Speaker 1: the New Testament had a combination of Greek, Aramaic, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, here and there you would find other expressions,
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  Speaker 1: Latin and all of that, but largely it's believed and
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  Speaker 1: agreed that the Old Testament was largely composed of Hebrew,
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  Speaker 1: whilst the New Testament was had a lot of Greek expressions.
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  Speaker 1: And so the word blessing, really, there are many words,
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  Speaker 1: but I want to select just one. It's the word barak. B-A-R-A-K.
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  Speaker 1: The word blessing is the word barak. There are other
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  Speaker 1: expressions like esher. There are other expressions like baraka that
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  Speaker 1: talks about being a blessing.
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  Speaker 2: It's a blessed blessing.
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  Speaker 1: But generally, the word barak, the root word barak has
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  Speaker 1: to do with stooping down, kneeling down, and communicating honor.
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  Speaker 2: Are we together?
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  Speaker 1: So when we talk about the word blessing as the
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  Speaker 1: word of blessed, barak, the Hebrew word, it gives an
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  Speaker 1: expression of going down on your knees, bowing down, and
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  Speaker 1: and communicating honor.
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  Speaker 2: Now you can.
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  Speaker 1: Extend that word to me kneeling down, stooping down in
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  Speaker 1: respect and then giving someone a gift, presenting something of value.
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  Speaker 2: Is someone learning now? Yes.
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  Speaker 1: So when you kneel down and worship, when we say
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  Speaker 1: bless the Lord, how do you bless the Lord?
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  Speaker 2: By giving him money? No.
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  Speaker 1: How do you bless the Lord? You see that the honor,
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  Speaker 1: the worship is blessing the Lord. So when you go
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  Speaker 1: down on your knees in worship as you love him,
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  Speaker 1: as you just pour out your heart to him, you
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  Speaker 1: are blessing the Lord. It's the word Barak. Is someone
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  Speaker 1: learning now? Yeah, so that's very important. And then it
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  Speaker 1: extends to other words like Baraka. We're blessing now. So
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  Speaker 1: generally it has to do with praising and it has
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  Speaker 1: to do with stooping down to show respect and in
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  Speaker 1: that communicating benevolence in terms of gifts or whatever it is.
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  Speaker 1: But let's look at the Greek word. I don't want to,
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  Speaker 1: you know, stretch us beyond necessary. The Greek word for blessing,
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  Speaker 1: and there are two of them. One is called elogia. Now,
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  Speaker 1: and that's even the root word where you get, well,
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  Speaker 1: let's leave that. But blessing, eulogia, if you care for
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  Speaker 1: the spelling, e-u-l-o-g-i-a. E-u-l-o-g-i-a. And it's from two words. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not going to go into the details. It simply means
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  Speaker 1: a good word. A good word. The Greek does a
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  Speaker 1: better presentation of what we are looking for.
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  Speaker 2: So the word eulogia means a good word.
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  Speaker 1: That means a pronouncement that works for your favor. A
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  Speaker 1: pronouncement that leads to your advancement. A pronouncement that brings protection.
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  Speaker 1: a pronouncement that brings preservation. Who is learning now?
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  Speaker 2: So the word eulogia has to do with declarations.
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  Speaker 1: Whilst barak has to do with worshiping, obeisance, and all
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  Speaker 1: of that, eulogia has to do with pronouncements that produce effects, visible,
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  Speaker 1: evident effects, effects of advancement, effects of blessings.
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  Speaker 2: Are we together?
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  Speaker 1: Now you understand what the Lord did to man. The
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  Speaker 1: Bible says, and God blessed him. And God blessed him
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  Speaker 1: and said to him, be fruitful. It was a divine
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  Speaker 1: pronouncement that must produce an effect.
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  Speaker 2: Who is learning so far? Another word.
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  Speaker 1: It's still a Greek word and I think that's one
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  Speaker 1: that now that one really means blessed itself. That means
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  Speaker 1: an expression of it. So one Greek word eulogia has
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  Speaker 1: to do with the speakings that produces the evidence. Whereas
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  Speaker 1: another has to do with becoming an embodiment is.
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  Speaker 2: The word makarios. Makarios.
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  Speaker 1: The word makarios there does not just talk about the pronouncement.
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  Speaker 1: It means living in the evidence. Makarios means being fortunate.
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  Speaker 1: Makarios means you have been preferred. That means you have
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  Speaker 1: become an embodiment of the favor. It's not just the
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  Speaker 1: pronouncement that was made on you, but you have come
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  Speaker 1: as the evidence.
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  Speaker 2: Who is learning now?
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  Speaker 1: Makarios means fortunate. It means privileged. It means happy. It
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  Speaker 1: means spiritually prosperous. Are we following so far? I just
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  Speaker 1: needed us to have these foundations. For the purpose of
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  Speaker 1: our discussion, we're going to dwell on the Greek expression
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  Speaker 1: because that's what captures all that we're doing. That pronouncement
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  Speaker 1: and then you becoming an evidence. Giving you all of
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  Speaker 1: the evidence. And all through our discussion, there are three.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to break my discussion into three. Number one,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to be understanding what the Bible calls the
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  Speaker 1: blessing of Abraham. Number two, we will understand what the
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  Speaker 1: Bible calls the blessing.
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  Speaker 2: They are not the same. Then number three, we will
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  Speaker 2: understand what the Bible calls blessings. Three things. One, the
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  Speaker 2: blessing of Abraham. Number two, the blessing.
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  Speaker 1: Number three blessings you see we use these words in
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  Speaker 1: church and in a very well-meaning way but they are
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  Speaker 1: not the same it's the reason why it does not
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  Speaker 1: produce power in our lives who is who is hearing
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  Speaker 1: so far now I need to tell you this both
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  Speaker 1: God and men can bless men God can bless men.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis 128. God blessed man. Both God and men can bless.
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  Speaker 1: Blessing is not exclusively reserved to God. Genesis 128. And
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  Speaker 1: God blessed them. Talk to me, who blessed them? God
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  Speaker 1: blessed them and said unto them, In Genesis 1.22, he
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  Speaker 1: blessed creation, he.
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  Speaker 2: Blessed the fishes, and God blessed them.
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  Speaker 1: I hope you know that the same blessing.
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  Speaker 2: This is interesting, isn't it?
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  Speaker 1: Most people do not know why the sea, the waters,
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  Speaker 1: the air is rich and fruitful.
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  Speaker 2: It's because God blessed them. Look at it.
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  Speaker 1: We focus on Genesis 1, 28, and that's wonderful, but
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  Speaker 1: we forget that something happened in Genesis 1, 22. If
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  Speaker 1: it ever works, it's because there is a blessing on it.
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  Speaker 1: And God blessed them saying, be fruitful and multiply and
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  Speaker 1: fill the waters. He gave them fruitfulness, he gave them multiplication,
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  Speaker 1: but he did not give them dominion.
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  Speaker 2: You see.
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  Speaker 1: So he said, fill the waters and let the birds
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  Speaker 1: multiply on the earth.
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  Speaker 2: Can you imagine?
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  Speaker 1: So God blesses creation. God blesses men. How about men?
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  Speaker 1: In Genesis 1, 12, 1 and 3, we already read
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  Speaker 1: that he spoke and proposed a blessing to Abraham. Now
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  Speaker 1: let's look at men blessing men. Genesis 24. Give us
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  Speaker 1: verse 16. Genesis chapter 24. So Rebekah is about to
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  Speaker 1: leave her family. Are we Bible students? Rebecca is leaving
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  Speaker 1: her family to go to Isaac. Finally, they found a
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  Speaker 1: wife for Isaac called Rebecca. And they blessed Rebecca and
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  Speaker 1: said unto her, Our sister, may you become the mother
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  Speaker 1: of thousands and ten thousands. Can I prophesy over a
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  Speaker 1: daughter of Abraham here? In the name of Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 1: may you become a mother of thousands.
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  Speaker 2: Now listen, listen.
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  Speaker 1: Already, you are wise enough to know That is not
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  Speaker 1: just saying your womb should give birth to 1,000 people.
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  Speaker 1: Even if you get pregnant every week. That already should
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  Speaker 1: inform you. You need to understand the thinking of the
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  Speaker 1: people who wrote. By what they are saying.
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  Speaker 2: Are we together? The mother of thousands, of 10,000.
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  Speaker 1: And may your descendants possess the gates of those who
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  Speaker 1: hate them. Have this a good prayer in the name
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 2: May your descendants possess the gates of those who hate them.
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  Speaker 2: Please be seated. So God can bless and men can bless.
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  Speaker 1: Is it in your Bible that Isaac was about to die?
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  Speaker 1: Then he calls his son Esau. He says, come, make
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  Speaker 1: me venison such as I love. I want to eat
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  Speaker 1: that venison so that my soul will be delighted and
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  Speaker 1: I will bless you and die.
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  Speaker 2: And Esau leaves to the wilderness to go and catch.
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  Speaker 1: Now isn't it interesting that what Esau went to look for,
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  Speaker 1: Isaac already had in his house.
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  Speaker 2: So why did he ask him to go to the field? Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: He wanted him to bring the fruit of his values.
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  Speaker 1: So he would speak to him. And once that happened unfortunately.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't it amazing that this same Rebecca again. She calls
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  Speaker 1: Jacob and says I've heard something. A blessing is about
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  Speaker 1: to leave your father. But we have an advantage because
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  Speaker 1: he is blind. His blindness can be an advantage.
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  Speaker 2: You see that. May you not be blind. Because blindness
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  Speaker 2: can cost you. It can.
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  Speaker 1: Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 2: And so he said, okay, I will prepare this for you.
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  Speaker 1: And Jacob became afraid. Jacob said, no, my father may
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  Speaker 1: be blind, but he.
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  Speaker 2: Will feel me. My brother is hairy and I'm not hairy.
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  Speaker 2: He said, don't worry. We'll get something and just create
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  Speaker 2: and simulate. He said, please. So I don't end up
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  Speaker 2: securing a course. He said, don't worry. I know he's
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  Speaker 2: my husband. I know what to do.
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  Speaker 1: And then the Bible says that he went, you find
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  Speaker 1: that in Genesis 27, and he goes to get everything
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  Speaker 1: and meets his father and says, Father, I'm Esau.
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  Speaker 2: I brought it.
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  Speaker 1: Somewhere in the course of this conference, I'll prophesy verse
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  Speaker 1: 20 for you. Even though he was lying, but there's
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  Speaker 1: a powerful principle there.
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  Speaker 2: Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: And he met him, he said, how is it that
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  Speaker 1: you have gotten it so quickly?
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  Speaker 2: Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: He said, because the Lord God has brought it to me.
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  Speaker 1: Even though he was lying, let me use it as
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  Speaker 1: a prophetic word. The things that others are looking for,
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  Speaker 1: in the name of Jesus, you will get it quickly.
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  Speaker 1: Because my God will bring it to you. How is
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  Speaker 1: it that you got the job so quickly? How is
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  Speaker 1: it that the lines, you got everything so quickly? I
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  Speaker 1: release grace upon you as I speak right now. Grace
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  Speaker 1: upon you. Help us under the anointing in the name
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: Please be seated. It's too early. Let's leave that. It's
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  Speaker 2: too early. It's too early.
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  Speaker 1: He said, because the Lord God has brought it to me.
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  Speaker 1: And so he convinced his father. But he said something, ah,
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  Speaker 1: I have many things to say. Holy Spirit, help me.
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  Speaker 1: Verse 21.
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  Speaker 2: Jacob, or Isaac.
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  Speaker 1: He said, come so that I may fill you, my son,
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  Speaker 1: whether you are really Esau or not. Verse 22. Leaders,
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  Speaker 1: this is one way to discern deception. The voice is
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  Speaker 1: the voice of Jacob, but.
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  Speaker 2: The hand are the hands of Esau. Can you imagine?
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  Speaker 1: He went near to Isaac and said, my father. He
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  Speaker 1: felt him and said, no, something in my spirit. It
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  Speaker 1: is true that it is The voice betrays you. It
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  Speaker 1: is the voice of Jacob. But the hand, it's true
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  Speaker 1: that they are the hands of Esau. Anyway, he now
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  Speaker 1: speaks a blessing over him. And Jacob receives it. And
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  Speaker 1: as soon as Jacob leaves, the Bible says Esau returns.
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  Speaker 1: And Esau says, my father, I brought the meal. And
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  Speaker 1: he said, what is this? I mean, what has happened
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  Speaker 1: to you? What has happened? I just, I was deceived.
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  Speaker 1: I have spoken the blessing already. The Bible says a
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  Speaker 1: hardworking adult with skill, ability to fend for himself, began
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  Speaker 1: to cry. And Isaac trembled exceedingly, verse 33, and said, ooh,
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  Speaker 1: where is the one who hunted and brought it to me?
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  Speaker 1: I ate of it and I have blessed him. And
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  Speaker 1: indeed he shall be blessed, verse 34. When Esau had
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  Speaker 1: the words, he cried, question, what really is the blessing?
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  Speaker 1: Because Esau was not a lazy man. We're not talking
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  Speaker 1: of someone who is not productive. We're talking of an adult.
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  Speaker 1: What makes an adult to cry with very sin in
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  Speaker 1: your hand?
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  Speaker 2: It means if you.
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  Speaker 1: Don't understand that blessing, there is no guarantee to live
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  Speaker 1: in a victorious life. Whatever will make an adult cry
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  Speaker 1: and say, Father, He said bless me also. Find a
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  Speaker 1: way of doing it. If it was all about pronouncement.
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  Speaker 1: Couldn't he just.
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  Speaker 2: Repeat it again? 35.
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  Speaker 1: He said your brother came with deceit. And has taken away.
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  Speaker 1: What did he take away?
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  Speaker 2: 36. And Esau said. is he not rightly named Jacob?
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  Speaker 1: For he has supplanted me these two times. He took
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  Speaker 1: away my birthright and he took away my blessing. And
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  Speaker 1: he said, have you not reserved a blessing for me?
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  Speaker 1: Watch this, 37. Then Isaac answered and said, indeed, I
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  Speaker 1: have made him your master. When did that happen? I
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  Speaker 1: have made him your master. And all his brethren I
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  Speaker 1: have given to him as servants. With grain and wine
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  Speaker 1: I have sustained him. What shall I do for you now,
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  Speaker 1: my son?
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  Speaker 2: Verse 38.
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  Speaker 1: And Esau said to his father, Have you only one blessing,
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  Speaker 1: my father? Bless me also, O my father. And Esau
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  Speaker 1: lifted up his voice and cried. I just want to
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  Speaker 1: show you one scripture and then we'll get back to
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  Speaker 1: our discussion. And Isaac, his father, said unto him, Behold.
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  Speaker 1: Your dwelling shall be of the fatness of the earth
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  Speaker 1: and of the dew of the heaven from above. Verse 40.
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  Speaker 1: By your sword you shall lead. and you shall serve
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  Speaker 1: your brother and it shall come to pass. Now, we'll
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  Speaker 1: leave this till we get to Jesus Christ. It shall
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  Speaker 1: come to pass that under a certain condition, when you
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  Speaker 1: become restless, you shall break that yoke. Give us NLT
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  Speaker 1: or NIV. It doesn't just call it yoke. It shall
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  Speaker 1: come to pass when you become restless that there is
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  Speaker 1: a burden. If you can't get it, that's fine.
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  Speaker 2: Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: It talks about breaking the dominion. The dominion. That's the
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  Speaker 1: word I'm looking for. Of your brother over you.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway. Anyway.
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  Speaker 1: I just wanted you to see the implication of being blessed.
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  Speaker 1: Adults cried in Bible days. Because they did not get blessings.
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  Speaker 1: Today most believers just trivialize it. And we generally say
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  Speaker 1: I am blessed. But we don't expect anything to happen
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  Speaker 1: in our lives as an advantage. Praise the name of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord. But I pray that things will change from
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  Speaker 1: this conference. You believe that say Amen. So in the
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  Speaker 1: Old Testament. The blessing. was an empowerment to prosper. In
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  Speaker 1: the Old Testament, the blessing was largely concerned with being
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  Speaker 1: empowered to prosper, empowered to advance, empowered.
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  Speaker 2: To be fruitful, and to be preserved. Are we together?
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  Speaker 1: So throughout the Old Testament, everywhere you see the blessing,
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  Speaker 1: it largely had to do with a priestly and prophetic
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  Speaker 1: pronouncement that produced an effect of favor An effect of fruitfulness.
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  Speaker 2: Are we together?
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  Speaker 1: It was an empowerment that made an individual, any individual whatsoever,
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  Speaker 1: to be preserved. It is safe for you to look
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  Speaker 1: at the Bible and every expression in the Old Testament
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  Speaker 1: of preservation, advancement, etc.
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  Speaker 2: It was credited to the blessing. Are we learning now?
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  Speaker 1: Now, but something, the dynamics of the.
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  Speaker 2: Blessing began to change. as we approach the New Testament.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, the foundation of it began with Father Abraham.
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  Speaker 1: Now we're delving into the blessing of Abraham. If you're writing,
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  Speaker 1: please write that down. The blessing of Abraham. I want
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  Speaker 1: us to discuss the blessing of Abraham. Haven't laid the foundation,
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  Speaker 1: just a general understanding. Now most times to the average believer,
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  Speaker 1: and please by no means don't find any offense at all.
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  Speaker 1: When we say the blessing of Abraham, here's what most
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  Speaker 1: believers think. Cars, houses, a job, promotion, and they are
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  Speaker 1: not necessarily wrong, except that that's not really what the
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  Speaker 1: Bible calls the blessing. In fact, when the Bible mentions
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  Speaker 1: the word blessing, it has nothing to do with material things.
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  Speaker 1: Material things only come. as an attestation that you have
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  Speaker 1: been blessed.
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  Speaker 2: Are we together? Praise the name of the Lord. So
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  Speaker 2: when we talk about.
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  Speaker 1: Blessings in the kingdom or the blessing now, I'd like
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  Speaker 1: you to take your mind away from a good house,
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  Speaker 1: a good car. Those things are by their eventual product.
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  Speaker 1: You can have all those things without being blessed. Diligence
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  Speaker 1: can bring them. The blessing is higher, greater, by far
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  Speaker 1: more superior than any physical or material thing.
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  Speaker 2: Even though it does control them. Are we together? Now
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  Speaker 2: let's examine the blessing of Abraham.
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  Speaker 1: Isaiah chapter 51 from verse 1 and 2. The blessing
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  Speaker 1: of Abraham. If you are learning so far, say Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Please be patient with me as I build this. We've
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  Speaker 1: established a number of things that one, the blessings have
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  Speaker 1: to do with pronouncements that produce effects. Effects such as peace, prosperity, happiness, etc.
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  Speaker 1: And that God can bless and men can bless. We're
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  Speaker 1: still working together on that? Alright, so it says, happened
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  Speaker 1: to me. Ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek
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  Speaker 1: the Lord. It says, look unto the rock from whence
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  Speaker 1: ye were healed and to the hole of the pit
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  Speaker 1: when ye were digged.
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  Speaker 2: Verse 2.
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  Speaker 1: It says, look unto Abraham your father. The word look
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  Speaker 1: unto means understudy. He is the portrait of what I
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  Speaker 1: call the blessing or a blessed man. If you want
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  Speaker 1: to study what it means to be blessed by God
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  Speaker 1: in the Bible, your study is not complete until you
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  Speaker 1: do a case study. Now the way God works is
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  Speaker 1: that sometimes in helping us understand him, he will call
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  Speaker 1: men and deal with those men in a certain way
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  Speaker 1: that they become an embodiment of certain possibilities. So every
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  Speaker 1: time you don't understand what he's saying, he will refer
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  Speaker 1: you to that man. If we are talking about a
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  Speaker 1: blessed man, Abraham is the Bible's portrait of a blessed man.
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  Speaker 2: If we're talking about encounters, Jacob, are we together?
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  Speaker 1: His encounter in Genesis 32 is a portrait of what
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  Speaker 1: the Bible calls encounter. If we're talking wisdom, Solomon, for instance,
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  Speaker 1: are you seeing now? So there are individuals who embody
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  Speaker 1: certain spiritual possibilities so that in studying their lives, you
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  Speaker 1: can learn the ways of God. So look unto Abraham.
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  Speaker 1: The word look there does not just mean you can't
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  Speaker 1: even find Abraham now. He's long dead. But he means
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  Speaker 1: understudy him. There is a way that I led Abraham.
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  Speaker 1: And if you follow that path, you will eventually arrive
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  Speaker 1: an embodiment of a blessed man. It says, I called
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  Speaker 1: him alone and blessed him and increased him. So let's
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  Speaker 1: study the life of Abraham to understand what it means
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  Speaker 1: to be blessed. The Bible calls it the blessing... Of Abraham.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis chapter 12, 1 to 3. Write that for reference.
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  Speaker 1: We already read that. We won't go back to it again.
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  Speaker 1: Then let's go to Genesis 17. We'll look at 6
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  Speaker 1: and 7. We're doing a bit of Bible study. And
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  Speaker 1: I will make thee exceeding fruitful. This is still God
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  Speaker 1: speaking to Abraham. And I will make nations of thee.
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  Speaker 1: And kings shall come out of thee. Verse 7.
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  Speaker 2: I will establish my covenant. Watch this. Between me and
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  Speaker 2: thee and thy seed.
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  Speaker 1: After thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant. What
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  Speaker 1: is a covenant? To be a God unto thee and
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  Speaker 1: to your seed. So when you say the God of Abraham.
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  Speaker 1: you are not just naming God after Abraham. Are we together?
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  Speaker 1: He's saying that I have an everlasting covenant to you
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  Speaker 1: and to your seed that I will be a God
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  Speaker 1: unto thee and to your seed that is after thee. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Genesis chapter 15, please. Genesis chapter 15. Let's connect a
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  Speaker 1: few things very quickly. From verse 1. Genesis 15 from
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  Speaker 1: verse 1. After these things, the word of the Lord
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  Speaker 1: came to Abraham in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abraham,
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  Speaker 1: I am thy shield and your exceeding great reward. And
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  Speaker 1: Abraham said, Lord God, what will thou give me? Remember,
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  Speaker 1: at this time, he's still without Isaac. He's still without
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  Speaker 1: a child. What will thou give me, seeing that I
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  Speaker 1: go childless? And the steward of my house is Eliezer
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  Speaker 1: of Damascus.
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  Speaker 2: Verse 3, reading to 6.
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  Speaker 1: And Abraham said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed.
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  Speaker 1: And lo, one born in my house is mine heir.
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  Speaker 1: No one, he's trying to say. And behold, the word
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord came to him saying, Now everybody listen.
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  Speaker 1: This shall not be your heir, but he that shall
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  Speaker 1: come out from your own bowels shall be your heir.
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  Speaker 2: Verse 5.
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  Speaker 1: And he brought him forth abroad. He said, Look towards
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  Speaker 1: heaven and try to count the stars.
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  Speaker 2: Do you know what he's doing?
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  Speaker 1: I'll explain to you shortly. If thou are able to
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  Speaker 1: count them and he said, so shall your seed be. Finally,
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  Speaker 1: verse 6, Abraham believed in the Lord and it was
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  Speaker 1: credited to him for righteousness. So there was a conversation
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  Speaker 1: that happened between God and Abraham. The Bible says that
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  Speaker 1: God kept proposing to Abraham that he was going to
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  Speaker 1: become a father of great nations.
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  Speaker 2: Are we together?
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  Speaker 1: But for some reason, and according to scripture, it took
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  Speaker 1: Abraham a long time to believe God. Because Abraham was
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  Speaker 1: not interested in having multitudes children as the stars or
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  Speaker 1: the seashore.
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  Speaker 2: He just needed a child. Are we together?
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  Speaker 1: All his concern was to have a child. And God
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  Speaker 1: was proposing something bigger, better, greater. And it kept frustrating Abraham.
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  Speaker 1: And God didn't seem to get his attention in agreeing
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  Speaker 1: on that promise and that covenant. And here's how God
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  Speaker 1: helped him. He called him one night and tells Abraham,
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  Speaker 1: look at the stars. Try to count them. Then he
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  Speaker 1: will count, count, and then... You know, loose counting. He says,
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  Speaker 1: that's the way your seed will be. Finally, even though
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  Speaker 1: he had no child, Abraham believed God. And the Bible
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  Speaker 1: says it was credited unto him for righteousness.
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  Speaker 2: Now keep that scripture.
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  Speaker 1: Turn with me to Romans chapter 4 this is where
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  Speaker 1: we thank God for this noble apostle an apostle of
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  Speaker 1: apostles indeed begin from verse 1 Paul now makes reference
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  Speaker 1: to that encounter and he now gives us a biblical
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  Speaker 1: contextual perspective.
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  Speaker 2: What shall we say then?
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  Speaker 1: That Abraham our father as pertaining to the flesh has found.
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  Speaker 1: For if Abraham were justified by works, he had wherefore
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  Speaker 1: to glory but not before God.
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  Speaker 2: Verse 3. for give us.
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  Speaker 1: Niv i'm a king james person some of you are
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  Speaker 1: not getting the d and l so just give us
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  Speaker 1: niv or something so that um that will help us
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  Speaker 1: at least for now for now we'll go back to
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  Speaker 1: we're kings we're kings we'll go back to kjv so
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  Speaker 1: are we.
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  Speaker 2: On niv.
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  Speaker 1: Okay abraham believed god And it was credited to him
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  Speaker 1: as righteousness.
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  Speaker 2: You see that now?
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  Speaker 1: So Paul is making reference to Genesis 15.
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  Speaker 2: Now, verse 4.
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  Speaker 1: Now, to the one who walks, wages are not credited
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  Speaker 1: as a gift but as an obligation.
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  Speaker 2: Paul is explaining.
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  Speaker 1: However, to the one who does not walk but trusts God,
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  Speaker 1: who justifies the ungodly. Now, Paul is telling us that
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  Speaker 1: that thing has nothing to do with children. The blessing
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  Speaker 1: of Abraham is a mystery that was hidden, that Paul
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  Speaker 1: now was unveiling to us.
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  Speaker 2: Are we together?
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  Speaker 1: That what you call the blessing of Abraham is a
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: mystery that asks out how to be justified by faith.
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  Speaker 1: To the one who does not walk but trusts God,
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  Speaker 1: who justifies the ungodly, listen, their faith is credited as righteousness.
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  Speaker 2: Verse 6.
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  Speaker 1: However, David said the same thing when he spoke of
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  Speaker 1: the blessedness of the one who God credits righteousness apart
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  Speaker 1: from walk.
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  Speaker 2: Verse 7 now.
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  Speaker 1: He said, blessed are those whose transgressions are forgiven.
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  Speaker 2: And whose sins are covered. Final verse.
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  Speaker 1: Blessed is the one who sinned. The Lord will never
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  Speaker 1: count against them.
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  Speaker 2: So look up.
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  Speaker 1: What was he discussing in that whole conversation? Just help
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  Speaker 1: those under the anointing.
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  Speaker 2: Now look at this.
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  Speaker 1: He's saying, Paul is teaching us that the issue of stars,
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  Speaker 1: the issue of children, whatever it is, to the carnal man,
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  Speaker 1: he's just looking at the story. But Paul is saying
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  Speaker 1: there is a deeper mystery in that story. And if
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  Speaker 1: all you look at is the story, then you've not
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  Speaker 1: gotten the revelation. That out of that story, the mystery
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: is justification by faith. How a man will believe God...
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: Over something your ability cannot produce. And that the moment
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: you believe God, it is credited to you. That was
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: the formula that was used to impart salvation. So a
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  Speaker 1: message comes to believers. And even though we do not,
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  Speaker 1: it looks impossible. We believe and we receive the blessing
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  Speaker 1: of Abraham. So the blessing of Abraham is not cars,
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  Speaker 1: is not houses. It is justification by faith.
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  Speaker 2: Is someone learning?
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  Speaker 1: Galatians chapter 3.
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  Speaker 2: Give us verse 13. I love, I love. Galatians 3.
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  Speaker 2: I love your presence. I love, I love. I love you, Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: I love, I love. I love your presence. Now read
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  Speaker 2: for you.
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  Speaker 1: Christ, Paul again, has redeemed us. He's talking redemption now.
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  Speaker 1: From the curse of the law by becoming a curse
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  Speaker 1: for us. For it is written, curse is everyone who
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  Speaker 1: is hung on the cross or on the pole.
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  Speaker 2: To what end? 15.
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  Speaker 1: Give it to us from verse, let's go back to KJV. 13, 14,
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  Speaker 1: let's go back to 14.
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  Speaker 2: Media. That the. Talk to me everybody. That the. Might
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  Speaker 2: come on who? Now questions.
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  Speaker 1: How does the blessing of Abraham come upon the Gentiles?
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  Speaker 1: Because we are not part of his natural descent. So
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  Speaker 1: how are we supposed to receive that? If all he
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  Speaker 1: was talking about was physical things. You don't qualify to
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  Speaker 1: inherit anything from Abraham. Because we are not Jews historically.
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  Speaker 2: Are we together? We are Gentiles. So that talk should
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  Speaker 2: not even affect us. But now he says. Christ.
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  Speaker 1: He introduces a factor. That Christ has redeemed us from
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  Speaker 1: the curse of the law. Being made a curse for us.
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  Speaker 1: For it is written. Cursed is he that hangs on
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  Speaker 1: a tree. And the reason for all of that. Verse 14.
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  Speaker 1: Is that the blessing of Abraham. Replaced that expression.
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  Speaker 2: That justification. By faith. May come upon the Gentiles. Through
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 2: Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 1: So the next time you hear the blessing of Abraham,
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  Speaker 1: what it means is the formula Abraham used to be
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  Speaker 1: credited as righteous is the gift we are given.
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  Speaker 2: What is the formula? The word is nidi.
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  Speaker 1: The word comes to you in your mouth and in
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  Speaker 1: your heart if you believe it is credited to you.
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  Speaker 1: That you have no power to save yourself. You have
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  Speaker 1: no power to lift yourself.
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  Speaker 2: Are we together?
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  Speaker 1: But that you can believe in the finished work of Christ.
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  Speaker 1: Believing that he came as a propitiation for your sin.
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  Speaker 1: That he hung upon the tree. Are we together now?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: That the verdict is that all have sinned and have
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  Speaker 1: fallen short of the glory of God. But that you
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  Speaker 1: believe that report as frail as you are. Not feeling righteous.
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  Speaker 1: Not feeling worthy like Abraham. If you believe immediately, it
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  Speaker 1: is credited to you for righteousness. The blessing of Abraham
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  Speaker 1: is not cars. It is not houses. No. The blessing
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  Speaker 1: of Abraham is justification by faith.
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  Speaker 2: Now but listen. Justification by faith is not the end.
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  Speaker 2: It is a means. You see that it does not
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  Speaker 2: end there.
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  Speaker 1: So receiving the blessing of Abraham is a passage to
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  Speaker 1: go further.
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  Speaker 2: That leads you to receiving the blessing.
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  Speaker 1: Without receiving the blessing of Abraham, you cannot receive the blessing.
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  Speaker 1: And if you do not receive the blessing, you cannot
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  Speaker 1: have blessings. So the journey of a blessed man does
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  Speaker 1: not start with intellect. No, no, no, no, no. It
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  Speaker 1: starts with receiving the blessing. I will show you how
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  Speaker 1: this happened. Just be patient with me. It says that
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  Speaker 1: the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles through
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  Speaker 1: Christ Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: Are you seeing it there?
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  Speaker 1: That we might receive the promise. That already tells you
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  Speaker 1: what the blessing is. That we might receive the promise
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  Speaker 1: of the Spirit still through faith.
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  Speaker 2: Then it puts a full stop.
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  Speaker 1: So the end of that journey is that the blessing
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  Speaker 1: of Abraham ushers you into receiving the blessing. Whilst the
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  Speaker 1: blessing in the Old Testament ended with supernatural pronouncements that
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  Speaker 1: programmed you towards a life of grace, this.
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  Speaker 2: One is beyond a pronouncement.
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  Speaker 1: It's a personality alongside all his possibilities coming to indwell
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  Speaker 1: a believer. The Holy Spirit is called the blessing. Now
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. Keep your
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  Speaker 1: finger here. I hope you like Bible studies. Find a
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  Speaker 1: way of keeping your finger on this scripture because we're
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  Speaker 1: coming back.
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  Speaker 2: Go quickly with me to Psalm 133. Psalm 133. I
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  Speaker 2: learned to see like a brat here. Give it to us, please.
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  Speaker 2: Psalm 133.
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  Speaker 1: Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren
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  Speaker 1: to dwell together in unity.
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  Speaker 2: Are we Bible students? Verse 2.
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  Speaker 1: It is like the precious ointment upon the head that
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  Speaker 1: ran upon the bed, even Aaron's bed, and went down
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  Speaker 1: to his garment.
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  Speaker 2: Verse 3. And as the dew of Haman....
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  Speaker 1: And the dew that descended upon the mount of Zion.
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  Speaker 1: How does that dew come? Descending upon the mount of Zion.
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  Speaker 1: For there, in that corporate gathering.
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  Speaker 2: Are we together? The Lord had commanded the.
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  Speaker 1: Go to Acts chapter 2 and verse 1. Now you
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  Speaker 1: will see a playing out of this. Acts chapter 2. Remember,
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  Speaker 1: it says when brethren gather together, something happens. Whatever descends
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  Speaker 1: is called what?
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  Speaker 2: The... Talk to me. Are we Bible students? that when they.
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  Speaker 1: Gather together that gathering that state among the many things
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  Speaker 1: that descend like the dew from zion is the blessing even.
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  Speaker 2: Life forevermore.
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  Speaker 1: Now in Acts chapter 2 and verse 1, the Bible
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  Speaker 1: says when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they
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  Speaker 1: were together in, did they fulfill Psalm 133?
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  Speaker 2: Now let's see what is about to come.
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  Speaker 1: Suddenly there was a sound from heaven as of a
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  Speaker 1: mighty rushing wind.
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  Speaker 2: And it filled the house where they were sitting. Verse 3.
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  Speaker 1: If you're a believer, there appeared unto them cloven tongues
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  Speaker 1: as of fire, and it sat upon each.
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  Speaker 2: One of them. Number 4. And they were all filled
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  Speaker 2: with the... No, you got that wrong. With the... With the...
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  Speaker 2: Is someone learning? So Psalm 133.
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  Speaker 1: Tells us that in that gathering, descending from Zion like
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  Speaker 1: the dew of Haman, God has commanded that the blessing
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  Speaker 1: should rest, even life forevermore. They are about to act
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  Speaker 1: that on the day of Pentecost, never knowing that it
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  Speaker 1: was written already.
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  Speaker 2: They were gathered in one accord suddenly. The blessing. Not
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  Speaker 2: a pronouncement.
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  Speaker 1: No. In the Old Testament, it was a pronouncement. But
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: this time around, it was beyond just speaking. It was
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  Speaker 1: an embodiment of the speakings of God.
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  Speaker 2: Allos paracletos, they call him. He's a paraclet.
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  Speaker 1: Beyond just empowering you to make progress.
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  Speaker 2: Is someone learning now?
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  Speaker 1: The Bible says he rested on each and every one
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  Speaker 1: of them. Each and every one of them. And immediately.
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  Speaker 1: Isaiah 32 and verse 15.
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  Speaker 2: Became a reality.
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  Speaker 1: That until the spirit of God. Is poured upon us
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  Speaker 1: from on high. Then the wilderness. Is a spiritual language.
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  Speaker 1: Shall be counted for a fruitful vine. Three thousand people.
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  Speaker 1: Were saved in one encounter. And from there there was
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  Speaker 1: a movement. That has become an unstoppable force today. Is
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  Speaker 1: someone learning now? Praise the name of the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: So sit down.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go back to Galatians chapter 3. We read 13
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  Speaker 1: to 15.
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  Speaker 2: Now jump with me to 26.
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  Speaker 1: We'll read 26 to 29. If someone is learning, say amen.
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  Speaker 1: Endure sound doctrine. Sometimes the teachings line up online. Connecting
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  Speaker 1: scriptures will take a while. But once you are patient,
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  Speaker 1: you now begin to see the threat. Do you know
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  Speaker 1: why I'm stretching you like this? Because conviction is built
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  Speaker 1: on understanding. It is not what you do that produces power.
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  Speaker 1: It's the understanding that supports what you do. So that
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  Speaker 1: when you tell someone be blessed or you say I
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  Speaker 1: am blessed. These are the revelations that frame. They are
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  Speaker 1: like the bolts that tie your faith. It becomes anchored, unmovable.
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  Speaker 1: For ye are all children of God.
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  Speaker 2: How? Faith in the similitude of Abraham.
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  Speaker 1: Amen. Are you seeing that now? You became children of
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  Speaker 1: adoption by faith. In Christ Jesus, 27. For as many
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  Speaker 1: of you who have been baptized into Christ have put
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  Speaker 1: on Christ, there is neither Jew... nor Greek. There is
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  Speaker 1: neither bond nor free. There is neither male nor female.
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  Speaker 1: For ye are all one in Christ Jesus. Shout verse
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  Speaker 1: 29 if.
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  Speaker 2: You are a believer. One, two, go.
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  Speaker 1: And if ye be Christ, then are ye Abraham's seed.
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  Speaker 2: I will explain to you what that means.
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  Speaker 1: That you had no business even studying everything God told Abraham.
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  Speaker 1: Because it was between him and his seed. Unfortunately, the
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  Speaker 1: seed was not Isaac. It was his strategy. If the
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  Speaker 1: seed was Isaac, God meant Isaac was one child who came.
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 1: So Abraham thought God meant him and Isaac. But Paul
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  Speaker 1: came by the Spirit and said no. I have investigated
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  Speaker 1: this spiritually. The seed was not Isaac. It was Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Because Isaac does not have the capacity to bring everyone
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  Speaker 1: into that blessing. But through Christ. So that the one
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  Speaker 1: who is a Jew. Connected by natural descent. And the
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  Speaker 1: one who is alienated. And the proof that we all
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  Speaker 1: came to Christ was in Acts chapter 10. Because that
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 1: was when the salvation of the Gentiles would start. Until then,
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  Speaker 1: even the Gentiles did not believe. Remember, Paul was angry.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Peter now. Peter is having his siesta and
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden, A trance comes before him and
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  Speaker 1: he sees all kinds of unclean animals and he's told.
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  Speaker 2: To kill and he says, no, no, no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a Jew.
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  Speaker 1: We don't do all these kinds of things. They never
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  Speaker 1: call clean, unclean, what I have called clean. What's the
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 1: meaning of this? There's someone waiting for you. Go down
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  Speaker 1: and meet them. You will go to the house of Cornelius.
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  Speaker 2: Are we together now?
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 1: And when he went there, he now said, wow, while
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 1: Peter yet speak these things, the Bible says, the blessing
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  Speaker 1: is Like it came. I hope you know that everyone
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 1: who received the Holy Ghost in Acts chapter 2 was
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 1: a Jew. There was no Gentile there. Now the same
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 1: Holy Ghost. Exactly like it happened. And Peter said what
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  Speaker 1: happened to us Jews has now happened to the Gentiles.
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 1: Even without circumcision. He said truly God is no respecter
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 1: of persons. This was his verdict. What he does to
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 1: the British he does to the Africans. Don't worry, we
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 1: are coming there. You will now see that Christ has
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  Speaker 1: become the equalizer of all things. I can be disadvantaged
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  Speaker 1: by my natural descent. I can be disadvantaged by my background.
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 1: But when I come into Christ, my goodness, the Spirit
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  Speaker 1: of God in my life has become the advantage, the
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 1: redefiner of my destiny, the redefiner of my possibilities.
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  Speaker 2: You believe that? Shout Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Apostle, I came from a family of idol worship. You
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  Speaker 1: are right until you bring Christ into the equation. Apostle
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  Speaker 1: I know that by my background we have a we
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  Speaker 1: have a track record of diabetes We have a track
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  Speaker 1: record of failure you are right, but once the blessing
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  Speaker 1: of Abraham once you hear the gospel preach That Jesus
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  Speaker 1: loves you listen listen when we go around preaching the
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 1: gospel is beyond just Christian fanaticism We are bringing people
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  Speaker 1: into the blessing The only way to come into the
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 1: blessing is Is to follow the pattern of Abraham. You
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  Speaker 1: hear that report. Then you believe. You don't deserve it.
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  Speaker 1: But you believe. And like faithful Abraham. It is credited immediately.
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  Speaker 1: It's a spiritual fact. Your body may not show it.
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 1: Your mind may not yet show it. But it's a reality.
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 1: And immediately the Holy Ghost is ready to indwell you. Now.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Hopefully we'll find a place to pray today. Don't miss
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  Speaker 1: the remaining part. I will show you how to release
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  Speaker 1: the blessing. And you will see that having the blessing
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 1: is like having a brand new phone. But releasing the blessing,
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 1: you can have a brand new phone and keep it
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 1: there forever. Are we together?
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  Speaker 2: Yes. You see, what defines our possibilities.
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 1: In life Many times, it's not the love of God
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 1: because he loves everyone equally. But our possibilities are defined
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 1: by the extent and the depth of our spiritual understanding.
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 1: What you understand is what can rewrite your possibilities. So
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  Speaker 1: you can find two believers saved, but one is taking
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  Speaker 1: advantage of these resources that reside in heavenly places in Christ.
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 1: And with those resources, he's commanding such dominion And to
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  Speaker 1: the other one, you are wondering, God, why does it
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  Speaker 1: look like you are helping one fellow, you are helping.
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  Speaker 2: One brother, you are.
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  Speaker 1: Helping one sister, you are uniquely anointing this man of God,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm here. No, it is not the love of Jesus.
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 1: It is the depth of your understanding. I submit to
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  Speaker 1: you without sounding arrogant. There are certain things that cannot
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  Speaker 1: happen to me. My frame of understanding has risen beyond.
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 1: If Satan will attack me, he will use another strategy.
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 2: Not certain things. No.
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  Speaker 1: The revelation is a defense. It's going to be a
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  Speaker 1: waste of his time to come through certain things.
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 2: Are we together?
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 1: There are scriptures that have been implanted. They shoot like arrows.
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  Speaker 1: You see me minister deliverance to people and do all
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 1: of these things. The reason is because a man of
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  Speaker 1: God is like a midwife. You are helping people through
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 1: the passage. Until they get to that state of perfection.
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  Speaker 1: The state of perfection is not to be praying deliverance.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: There is a state of victory. Where the reality of
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  Speaker 1: your victory in Christ is seated.
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  Speaker 2: Established.
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  Speaker 1: But on your way there. We will continue to help
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  Speaker 1: you while we teach you. Are we together now? It's
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 1: like someone having a dream now and say, Apostle, I
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  Speaker 1: saw a curse on your life.
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  Speaker 2: Or whatever it is.
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  Speaker 1: Honestly, I'm not even going to pray about it. The
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 1: reason is, it's not pride. It's that there's no possibility
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  Speaker 1: for imagining that again. I have built a garrison of revelation. Now,
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  Speaker 1: it takes a while.
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  Speaker 2: It takes a while.
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  Speaker 1: It's like calling me a baby, like an infant, and
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  Speaker 1: then I feel offended.
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  Speaker 2: I'll be together. My stature has convinced.
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  Speaker 1: There's no way of my mind thinking of myself as
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  Speaker 1: a baby looking for breast milk again.
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  Speaker 2: That's what God is doing to you.
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  Speaker 1: Some of you, by what you are hearing, you will
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  Speaker 1: check and find out that certain diseases. I hope you
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 1: know that Satan fashions attack based on our gaps in knowledge.
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: He does not just attack you. He studies your frame
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 1: of revelation.
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 2: What do you not know?
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 1: That defines the way he attacks you. When Jesus was hungry,
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 1: how did he attack him? With the matters of food.
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 1: So Satan does not just come and attack you, no.
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  Speaker 1: He profiles your spiritual understanding. Because understanding is light in
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  Speaker 1: the spirit. It's not hidden. To the degree to which
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  Speaker 1: you have understanding, we can know in the spirit when
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  Speaker 1: we look at you spiritually. Satan has begot many believers
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 1: to think. That the way to walk in the blessing
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 1: is just to believe that a car will come, favor
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 1: will come. And there's nothing wrong with that. Except that
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 1: you see, we have faith. A more superior expression of
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 1: the blessing. They never had the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 1: But they had speakings. And he backed that speakings.
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  Speaker 2: But for us now.
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  Speaker 1: Beyond just a word. The pronouncement still stands. But it
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  Speaker 1: is more superior because the Holy Spirit. He indwells every
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 1: single believer. So that if you never have a chance
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 1: in your life for someone to make a pronouncement on
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 1: your life.
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  Speaker 2: If you are saved and you have the Holy Ghost.
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 1: Now, the Holy Ghost came to cure the reason why
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 1: Esau cried. Esau cried because the pronouncement was limited. It
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 1: had left the father. Are we together? Now we don't
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 1: have to cry. You can't say I got born again
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  Speaker 1: at 40. You are not too late. No.
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  Speaker 2: Because he came on 30 people. You are not too late.
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 1: The issue of Isaac and Jacob was that he could
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 1: only come on one person. But now in Christ, my brother,
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 1: my sister, Leicester, UK, Canada, everywhere.
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 2: Is someone learning?
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, listen to me. I explain to you
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 1: as we prepare to pray. One of the reasons for
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 1: the powerlessness of the body of Christ is that we
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 1: jump at so many things that we've not taken time
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 1: to build a strong foundation of understanding. There is no
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  Speaker 1: strong doctrinal understanding. So as much as we rejoice, yes,
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  Speaker 1: I'm one with Christ, I'm this, there's no depth of conviction.
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  Speaker 1: And so while we gyrate and jump in church, in
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  Speaker 1: the realm of the Spirit, there is no power to
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  Speaker 1: produce an effect.
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  Speaker 2: Help that lady under the anointing. Are we together?
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  Speaker 1: You see, when you, revelation is like an electromagnetic, it's
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  Speaker 1: like a sphere. When you come into a place, you
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  Speaker 1: also bring your possibilities with you.
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  Speaker 2: That's how it works. That's how it works. Are we together? Preachers,
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  Speaker 2: learn this.
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  Speaker 1: When you come in, it's not just a message you
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  Speaker 1: are bringing. No, you are bringing your cloud, your atmosphere,
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  Speaker 1: your possibilities. There are things that have no business happening
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  Speaker 1: to people, but because you have come, the Holy Ghost
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  Speaker 1: is riding through the vehicle of your knowledge and is
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  Speaker 1: blessing other people. I'll show you an example. How many
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  Speaker 1: people prayed in the prison and sang? Was it not
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  Speaker 1: just two people? But how many people benefited? Paul and
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  Speaker 1: Silas alone prayed. It was not everybody who was praying.
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  Speaker 1: But at least they did not fight them. But when
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  Speaker 1: that Shekinah came. The Bible said all doors. The jailer
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  Speaker 1: was about to kill himself. And he said no.
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  Speaker 2: We are all safe. We are all safe. We are
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  Speaker 2: not in a hurry to go out.
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  Speaker 1: We understand that the will of God is connected to
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  Speaker 1: this deliverance.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go to your house. It's about the salvation. Now
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  Speaker 2: let me tell you this ladies and gentlemen.
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  Speaker 1: You see the reason why, Pastor Sam, why the healing
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  Speaker 1: ministry seems to have diminished?
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  Speaker 2: You know why? Because we're more interested.
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  Speaker 1: In being called healers than being transmuters of his life.
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  Speaker 1: Most of the people, and your pastor has done an
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  Speaker 1: intelligent dissertation on, you know, the move of God and
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  Speaker 1: all of that.
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  Speaker 2: It was part of his Ph.D.
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  Speaker 1: I am a student of revivals and I've studied the
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  Speaker 1: move of God for a bit. I know a bit
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  Speaker 1: about the move of God. I can tell you the
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  Speaker 1: reason why we fail to see the power of God,
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  Speaker 1: the reason why the average believer cannot rise to efficiency
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  Speaker 1: and stature is because there's been a compromise on the
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  Speaker 1: formula for growth. Do you know that there are certain foundations,
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  Speaker 1: if you do not understand, you will never really get
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  Speaker 1: anything right again in the kingdom. It matters who mentors you.
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  Speaker 1: It matters what they tell you about God. It matters
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  Speaker 1: what they tell you about salvation. This is why we
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  Speaker 1: travel around, not only ministering to God's people, but strengthening
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  Speaker 1: men and women of God to say, come, let's sit
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  Speaker 1: on the drawing board. Let's, with all humility, examine these things.
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  Speaker 1: The powerlessness of the body of Christ is largely the
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  Speaker 1: powerlessness of the teachings that come. Because people are empowered
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  Speaker 1: by the words. Are we together now?
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit,
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  Speaker 1: but they can also be weapons of mass destruction. Something
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  Speaker 1: you can hear in one sermon will make you a
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  Speaker 1: powerless believer forever. Something you can hear through one sermon
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  Speaker 1: will make you become a mighty person.
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  Speaker 2: Is someone learning tonight?
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  Speaker 1: So you see, if you really understand the blessing, it
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  Speaker 1: should not lead you to just jumping and shouting about cars.
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  Speaker 1: It should draw you to the Holy Spirit. Truly, He
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  Speaker 1: is the blessing.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir. He is. He is.
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  Speaker 1: And out of the richness of your fellowship with Him
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  Speaker 1: comes power, comes wisdom, comes grace, comes favor.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Now, there are many people who want favor isolated from
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit. They want breakthrough isolated from the Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 1: Did you see that if the teaching of the blessing
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  Speaker 1: was done correctly, it would produce a generation that is
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  Speaker 1: deep in their intimacy with God. Not just people who
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  Speaker 1: want things. Because the blessing of Abraham has nothing to
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  Speaker 1: do with material expressions. It is a formula. Within that discussion,
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  Speaker 1: the conversation between God and Abraham was hidden a mystery
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  Speaker 1: that Paul unraveled. That is not about the stars. It's
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  Speaker 1: not about the sun. It's a formula where God justifies
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  Speaker 1: the unjust. A formula that leads you to meet the
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit. As mighty as Jesus was and is, he
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  Speaker 1: could not do anything until the Holy Spirit came. And
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  Speaker 1: he said, I have many things to tell you, to
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  Speaker 1: teach you, but ye cannot bear them now.
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  Speaker 2: How be it when he, the blessing.
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  Speaker 1: The spirit of truth. Now you understand him as an empowerment,
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  Speaker 1: but he's more than a pronouncement. In the Old Testament,
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  Speaker 1: they did not have the possibility of the Holy Spirit
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  Speaker 1: indwelling them.
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  Speaker 2: He would come and leave.
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  Speaker 1: So the psalmist would say, cast me not away from
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  Speaker 1: your presence and take not your Holy Spirit from me.
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  Speaker 1: Because he came to rest upon them, perform a task
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  Speaker 1: and leave. But now to the believer, we have become
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  Speaker 1: his habitation. Now, he comes to rest but utilizing his
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  Speaker 1: ministry is a separate dynamics that you'll be learning in
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  Speaker 1: the course of this sermon. So when you say I
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  Speaker 1: am blessed, if you mean I have some money in
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  Speaker 1: my account, no. No, you didn't get that right. If
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  Speaker 1: you say I am blessed, meaning I have some academic papers.
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  Speaker 2: Before me, well, that's fair, but that's not really it.
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  Speaker 1: The correct protocol is the depth of your relationship with
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 2: Then it now translates.
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  Speaker 1: No matter how rich you are, If you do not
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  Speaker 1: have the blessing of Abraham. Justification by faith. You are
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  Speaker 1: not blessed. You see that we misuse that word. Blessed
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  Speaker 1: means wealth. Blessed means all of that. But in Bible language.
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  Speaker 1: when we say a man is blessed, here's what we mean.
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  Speaker 1: The man is saved by hearing the gospel and applying
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  Speaker 1: the faith like Abraham did.
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  Speaker 2: Are we together? Now justified in Christ.
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  Speaker 1: Number two, that man has received the person and the
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  Speaker 1: ministry of the Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 2: And in partnership with the Holy Spirit, he's.
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  Speaker 1: Now accessing the resources necessary That have been kept for
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  Speaker 1: us in heavenly places. The resources of faith. The resources
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  Speaker 1: of wisdom. The resources of the word. The resources of power.
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  Speaker 1: And with these resources. You begin to play life like
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  Speaker 1: a chess. You manifest a level of dominion.
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  Speaker 2: And power.
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  Speaker 4: And power.
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  Speaker 2: And power. He blessed them. By saying.
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  Speaker 1: But this second Adam and the seed that have come
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  Speaker 1: from him, he did not bless us by saying.
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  Speaker 2: He blessed us by giving. Are we together? He made
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  Speaker 2: a pronouncement on the first Adam.
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  Speaker 1: But to the second Adam, he went beyond speaking.
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  Speaker 2: He gave. He gave.
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  Speaker 1: Every time you mention the word blessing, see the cross.
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  Speaker 1: Every time you mention the word blessing, see the spirit
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  Speaker 1: of God. Every time you mention the word blessing, see
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  Speaker 1: that you have legitimate access to wisdom, to favor, to defense,
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  Speaker 1: to power.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir. Now, does that mean pronouncements don't work? No, no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: We will talk about the activation of the blessing. Because
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  Speaker 1: it was while Peter speak. Don't forget that. Speaking does
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  Speaker 1: not end. But while he speaks, it is more than
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  Speaker 1: just oil that comes.
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  Speaker 2: It's the Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 1: God has given me an assignment through the theme of
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  Speaker 1: your conference to help you truly understand the blessing. For
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  Speaker 1: some of you, you are both happy and disappointed because
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  Speaker 1: you see, the idea you came with about the blessing
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  Speaker 1: is just to speak upon you that cars should come
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  Speaker 1: and houses and you will get all that. Let me
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  Speaker 1: tell you, more than it, you will get what brings it.
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  Speaker 2: Hallelujah. What you are receiving.
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  Speaker 1: Tonight, listen to me, ladies and gentlemen, that's.
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  Speaker 2: What the Bible calls true riches.
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  Speaker 1: I call it the capital that buys money because money
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  Speaker 1: itself is a product and there is something that buys it.
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  Speaker 1: Believers must be grounded, pastor. Thank you for this conference.
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  Speaker 1: Believers must be mature. Look at me, believers.
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  Speaker 2: We're about to pray. Hear me. One of the things
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  Speaker 2: I hope you learn.
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  Speaker 1: In this conference is to go back to the root
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  Speaker 1: of your spiritual understanding and begin to investigate the things
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  Speaker 1: that you have built your faith upon.
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  Speaker 2: Do not be ashamed to start again.
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  Speaker 1: There are many people, I tell you sincerely, they are
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  Speaker 1: building on shadows. Now, I don't mean to speak against
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  Speaker 1: pastors and all of that. I'm all for the body
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  Speaker 1: of Christ. But perhaps you were saved and you never
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  Speaker 1: had the opportunity to be under a system of structured
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  Speaker 1: spiritual guidance to learn doctrine methodically, line upon line. You
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  Speaker 1: will be surprised how many pastors do not understand the
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  Speaker 1: rudiments of salvation. How then do you talk of the
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  Speaker 1: business of power and then to be trusted with God's
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  Speaker 1: program across the nations?
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: It takes more than the awareness of his love for you.
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  Speaker 1: there are things you must know. I write these things
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  Speaker 1: to you that ye may know.
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  Speaker 2: You may know. Hallelujah. So let me summarize it this way.
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  Speaker 2: Outside of the blessing of Abraham.
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  Speaker 1: That leads you to the blessing, there is no possibility
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  Speaker 1: to truly be blessed. The only one who can say
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  Speaker 1: I am blessed is the one Who has partaken of
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  Speaker 1: the blessing of Abraham. And through that has received freely
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  Speaker 1: of the blessing.
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  Speaker 2: To such a one you can say I am blessed.
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  Speaker 2: Are you seeing that now?
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  Speaker 1: So the one who is blessed is not just the
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  Speaker 1: one who is rich without Christ. Not the one who
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  Speaker 1: is prosperous without Christ. Absolutely you can get all these
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  Speaker 1: things without Christ. But you see, in describing for you
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  Speaker 1: the expressions of the blessing, hopefully tomorrow, you will see
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  Speaker 1: the things money cannot buy.
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  Speaker 2: He says, peace I give you. My peace, not as
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  Speaker 2: the world gives.
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  Speaker 1: And then you will bear witness to me by tomorrow
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  Speaker 1: how many wealthy people you know who cannot sleep. Because
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  Speaker 1: there is a dimension of peace and joy that is
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  Speaker 1: of the Holy Ghost. The ability to laugh through storms.
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 1: These are things money cannot buy. How about the fruit
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  Speaker 1: of the I thought you would get it right. The
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  Speaker 1: fruit of the.
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  Speaker 2: These are things you cannot buy. The fruit.
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  Speaker 1: The life of Christ. That character. Apostle, I came from
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  Speaker 1: an angry family.
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  Speaker 2: Anger is... We are like that. Once I'm angry, I
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  Speaker 2: give it to you.
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 1: When you encounter the blessing, he.
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  Speaker 2: Begins to culture... You.
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  Speaker 1: See, the blessing, the Holy Spirit comes upon you and
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 1: is likened to olive. He releases something. There's oil that
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 1: is released. It's called the anointing within. It begins to
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  Speaker 1: do a work in you. Ladies and gentlemen. to produce
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  Speaker 1: that Christ-like character. And then, because of the presence of
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  Speaker 1: the blessing, the Holy Spirit, capacity is given to you
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  Speaker 1: to both know the will of God and understand the
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  Speaker 1: modus operandi of the kingdom. Now you can begin to
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  Speaker 1: engage the kingdom with intelligence in a way that produces dominion, victory,
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  Speaker 1: and profit to your Christian experience. Then you begin to
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  Speaker 1: bear fruits 30-fold, fruits 60-fold, and fruits 100-fold. Listen, it
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  Speaker 1: is at that level you will lay up wealth, gold
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  Speaker 1: like dust. Most people think God does not prosper, God
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  Speaker 1: does not lift, God does not favor.
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  Speaker 2: You are joking. You don't know the God of the Bible.
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  Speaker 2: Are we together?
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah. But what he needs is your heart and your understanding.
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 1: And then you will see levels of favor that you
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 1: never imagined. Believe me on this, ladies and gentlemen. Now,
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 1: Let me wrap up. In business, for those of you
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 1: who are business oriented, there's a law in business. We
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  Speaker 1: call it different names. We call it the law of attraction.
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 1: And it's also a law that has been received in physics, chemistry,
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 1: you know, Newton's law of gravitation.
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  Speaker 2: Remember, this is a campus. Praise the Lord.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I'm wrapping up with this. I want to tell you
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 1: something that is very powerful. And I'll just leave it
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 1: on that note and then we'll take it tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: People call it, others call it all kinds of things.
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 2: They call human beings.
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 1: So the law of attraction purports that men exhibit magnetic properties.
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 1: And they say that in relation to wealth and opportunities.
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 1: And they credit it to the cosmic forces. They credit
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  Speaker 1: it to mother nature. The concept is not wrong. It
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 1: is who or what they credit it to that is wrong.
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  Speaker 1: It is not the universe.
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 2: No. There is a God. All blessings come from God.
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 2: Are we together? But here's the part of it. Allow
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  Speaker 2: me for a moment.
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  Speaker 1: To borrow and draw from the wells of science as
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 1: I wrap up. Sir Isaac Newton, in studying the cosmos
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  Speaker 1: and in studying bodies, among the many postulations that he
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 1: came up with, was one that we know for those
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 1: who are science-based as.
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 2: The universal law of gravitation.
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 1: And here's what he said, that every body in the
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 1: universe attracts every other body, right? Which a force, which
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 1: for any two bodies, he says is directly proportional to
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 1: the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the
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  Speaker 1: square of the distance between them.
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 2: Let me summarize that.
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  Speaker 1: It means that everything you are looking for is also
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 1: looking for you.
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  Speaker 2: Hold on. But there is something it is looking for
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 2: in you.
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  Speaker 1: An instruction has been given creation that the things you
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 1: look for should only follow you when they.
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  Speaker 2: Find out that certain things are intact. I pray that
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  Speaker 2: you find a way of believing this. The Jews understand this.
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  Speaker 1: This is what makes certain people exhibit magnetic properties. So
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 1: a person can come into a land like Leicester and
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 1: find out that just when they arrived, a helper also arrived.
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 1: It looks like it's coincidence. No, it's a law in
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 1: the spirit. I'm showing you the implication of the blessing.
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 1: In physics again, please forgive me. That's what we call
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 1: the law of resonance.
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  Speaker 2: Are we together?
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 1: That when you hit a tuning fork at a certain frequency,
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 1: Every other body within its vicinity that is at that
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 1: frequency will vibrate without being touched.
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 2: This is how it is.
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 1: As you rise in the spirit knowing God, there is literally.
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 2: An energy that comes from you.
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 1: And it begins to resonate with the possibilities that are
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 1: connected to your destiny.
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 2: I really want you to believe this.
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 1: It's why a man of God can step into a land.
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 1: All of a sudden, a keyboardist comes. A guitarist comes.
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 1: A media person comes. And you are thinking, how did
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 1: he get them? You don't get them. They are attracted
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 1: by the health of your relationships. And listen, the deeper
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 1: you are with the Holy Ghost, the more you exhibit
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 1: those magnetic properties. Have you seen how, go to the port,
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 1: the seaport, you have a number of them here. Have
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 1: you seen magnet lift cars? Very heavy cars. Very heavy,
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 1: you know, maybe buses, whatever it is. And you're wondering,
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 1: I mean, it just comes itself on it and picks
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 1: it up like a fly.
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 2: And moves it somewhere else, pick containers. That's how you
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 2: can be.
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 1: You can grow your relationship with the Holy Ghost. To
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 1: a point where you exhibit such strong magnetic influences. Not
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 1: just to heal, not just to prosper. When you step
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 1: into a territory, it's like a sound. Deep calls on
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 1: to deep. Everybody and everything that must partner with your
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 1: destiny starts to gravitate towards you.
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  Speaker 2: It is true.
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  Speaker 1: So the next time you ask, how shall these things be?
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 1: Seeing that I know not a man. The answer is
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 1: still what Gabriel told Mary, the Holy Ghost. It will
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 1: always be him. You can't take him away. And we're
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 1: not just talking of falling down and standing up. No,
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 1: we have so underutilized his ministry. Especially Pentecostals and Charismatics.
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 1: We've reduced him to some kind of Pentecostal gibberish. We've
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 1: not tapped into the wisdom, the health of that relationship.
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  Speaker 1: You can prove that you are blessed by the dominion
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 1: that your life commands. You can prove that you have
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 1: met Christ. You can prove the health of your relationship.
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  Speaker 1: I receive I manifest.
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  Speaker 3: Your power and your wisdom till the nations see Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: Lifted up.
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 1: Exalted I receive I manifest your power.
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  Speaker 5: Someone say after me, I'm blessed.
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  Speaker 2: Now you know what you are saying. Say, I'm blessed.
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  Speaker 1: If you mean I'm rich, you are not wrong. If
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  Speaker 1: you mean I'm favored, you are not wrong. If you
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  Speaker 1: mean I go forward, you're not wrong. To them who
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  Speaker 1: are the called according to his purposes, say I am blessed.
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  Speaker 1: Because I'm like a tree that is planted by the riverside.
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  Speaker 1: I don't wither and I bear my fruit in season.
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  Speaker 2: Everything I do prospers. Say I'm blessed.
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  Speaker 1: Because I may not see the wind, I may not
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  Speaker 1: see rain, but by the Holy Ghost my valley shall
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  Speaker 1: be filled.
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  Speaker 2: Say I'm blessed.
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  Speaker 1: Because by that energizing. I can run through a troop.
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  Speaker 1: And by my God. I can leap over a wall.
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  Speaker 2: Say I'm blessed.
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  Speaker 1: Because I'm a channel of blessing. Everyone's hand I shake.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a transmuter of life. I can be a curse.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not a burden to my world. I'm a blessing.
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  Speaker 2: Say I'm blessed. Blessed. This right here. Is a theology.
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  Speaker 2: Of the blessing. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus. Thank
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  Speaker 2: you Jesus. Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll tie it here for now. Let me encourage you.
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  Speaker 1: Make whatever sacrifice you can. To be here tomorrow. But
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  Speaker 1: just tonight. We just laid a few foundations. so that
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  Speaker 1: when we build, you'll be like one of your buildings,
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  Speaker 1: the tallest, that from that altitude, you.
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  Speaker 2: Will watch life and tame it like an animal.
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  Speaker 1: I truly believe that there will be remarkable testimonies. Some
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  Speaker 1: of you, between tonight and tomorrow, believe me, and I speak.
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  Speaker 2: To you by the Spirit of God.
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  Speaker 1: You see, one of the ways to receive from men
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  Speaker 1: is to find out whether they are blessed. If they are,
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  Speaker 1: then trust what comes from them. Because the Holy Ghost
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  Speaker 1: becomes in us a river that flows. And the Bible
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  Speaker 1: says it gives life. Ezekiel 47, Revelations. John chapter 9,
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  Speaker 1: it gives life.
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  Speaker 2: Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: Allow me for one moment to make an altar call.
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  Speaker 1: We spoke about the blessing of Abraham. That's where it starts.
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  Speaker 1: If you ignore the blessing of Abraham, it's not about
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  Speaker 1: the name. It's about the protocol, the strategy. It was
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  Speaker 1: just credited to one man.
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 2: Are we together?
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  Speaker 1: Like, imagine you call this hall Joshua Selman Hall. Whether
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  Speaker 1: I'm alive or dead, you just gave me the honor
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  Speaker 1: for whatever reason. That's what it means. The blessing of Abraham...
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  Speaker 1: does not just mean it is Abraham's blessing. His name
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  Speaker 1: was tied to it in honor to the fact that
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  Speaker 1: he obeyed God, he heard God.
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  Speaker 2: Are we together?
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to make the altar call in one minute,
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  Speaker 1: and please, let's minimize any movement. There will always be
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  Speaker 1: an opportunity for someone to make it right. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: just calling you to be a Christian. I'm not just
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  Speaker 1: calling you to be a fanatic. I'm not calling you
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  Speaker 1: tonight to be another religious person. The blessing of Abraham
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  Speaker 1: is the key. Now I've explained it. You can begin
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  Speaker 1: to come even before I make the call.
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  Speaker 2: Hold on.
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  Speaker 1: Let me just express what I'm saying. God bless you, sir.
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  Speaker 1: If you're coming, please come. You can make your way
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  Speaker 1: to the front.
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  Speaker 2: Come. Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: And all others who need to join him, begin to
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  Speaker 1: join him before I make that call. You are receiving
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  Speaker 1: tonight the blessing of Abraham. You are following that pathway.
• 1:47:07
  Speaker 1: Thou will show me the path of life. It is
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  Speaker 1: in your light. God bless you.
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  Speaker 2: Come.
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  Speaker 1: I see my precious brothers and sisters coming.
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  Speaker 2: Are you celebrating them? Come. Thank you. He gives you
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  Speaker 2: a new beginning. There's always a new beginning with him. Come. Come. Come.
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  Speaker 2: Let's encourage them. Let's let them know that.
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  Speaker 1: This promise is unto you and to your children and
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  Speaker 1: to your children's children.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone, listen.
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  Speaker 1: Let's let them know that they do not have to
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  Speaker 1: cry the cry of Esau again.
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  Speaker 2: No, it's in abundance for everyone.
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  Speaker 1: Esau cried because it was one pronouncement and it went
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  Speaker 1: to Jacob.
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  Speaker 2: But today we can rejoice.
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  Speaker 1: From end to end, from north to south, east and west,
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  Speaker 1: everyone can be a partaker.
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  Speaker 2: This is powerful. Listen, by the message of God, I've
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  Speaker 2: traveled around the world.
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  Speaker 1: Taking this glorious gospel the wisdom the life of Jesus
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  Speaker 1: can I tell you something I've learned pastor people are
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  Speaker 1: not really rebels is that they do not understand the
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  Speaker 1: gospel every time the gospel is presented with intelligence with
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 1: clarity I can tell you this from everywhere. Jesus will
• 1:48:42
  Speaker 1: always be received if he's presented properly.
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  Speaker 2: The problem is the presentation. To my brothers and my sisters,
• 1:48:56
  Speaker 2: those of you who have come, I salute you. Thank
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  Speaker 2: you for the courage. I'll tell you this.
• 1:49:02
  Speaker 1: Jesus came to give us beyond a religion. He didn't
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  Speaker 1: just come to make us Christians. The word Christian was
• 1:49:10
  Speaker 1: a testimony from unbelievers. They looked at those who were
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  Speaker 1: possessors of the life of God and they had to
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  Speaker 1: look for a name to call them.
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 2: Nothing wrong in being called a Christian.
• 1:49:21
  Speaker 1: You see, one of the difference between the faith life
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  Speaker 1: and every other faith practice I know is that it
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  Speaker 1: goes beyond the realm of rituals and proposes to you
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  Speaker 1: a relationship.
• 1:49:35
  Speaker 2: A relationship that is personal. Personal.
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  Speaker 1: Like we say it back home, when you go to
• 1:49:42
  Speaker 1: a herbalist or some diviner, you don't need a relationship.
• 1:49:45
  Speaker 2: You don't need to know his name. Just obey the rules.
• 1:49:48
  Speaker 1: And if he's to tell you something about your destiny,
• 1:49:51
  Speaker 1: they turn the ball and do whatever and tell you
• 1:49:54
  Speaker 1: what they tell you and you leave.
• 1:49:55
  Speaker 2: But when you come to Jesus, he does not give
• 1:49:59
  Speaker 2: you things. He gives you himself. Himself is the gift
• 1:50:03
  Speaker 2: he gives you.
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 1: His life, then he gives you access to his spirit.
• 1:50:08
  Speaker 1: To my brothers and sisters who are here, it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: matter what you have done or what you have not done.
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  Speaker 1: I still sense that there are a few people who
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  Speaker 1: perhaps are still contemplating joining them.
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  Speaker 2: Don't be ashamed.
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  Speaker 1: I will always say this, it's like calling you to
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  Speaker 1: receive an award, only that this is the noblest you
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  Speaker 1: can ever find in this side of God's kingdom.
• 1:50:29
  Speaker 2: Perhaps you are seated and you are still.
• 1:50:31
  Speaker 1: Dilly-dallying, you are saying, Apostle, I came out the other time,
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 1: but as it stands, I cannot say that my life
• 1:50:39
  Speaker 1: is working consistent with God's desire. You are at liberty
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  Speaker 1: to join them before I pray that prayer.
• 1:50:44
  Speaker 2: This is a family.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing to be ashamed of whatsoever. My Bible says, for
• 1:50:50
  Speaker 1: God so loved you.
• 1:50:52
  Speaker 2: He loved me. God bless you, sir. And he gave
• 1:50:55
  Speaker 2: his son. You know why he gave his son? Because
• 1:50:59
  Speaker 2: there was a verdict that all men had seen. Every
• 1:51:02
  Speaker 2: one of us.
• 1:51:03
  Speaker 1: That we've fallen short of that standard. But that he
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  Speaker 1: gave his son as a demonstration of love.
• 1:51:10
  Speaker 2: And here's the point.
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  Speaker 1: Whoever believes in him, believes what? Believes, number one, that
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  Speaker 1: he loves you. Number two, believes that he has your
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  Speaker 1: interest at heart. And that he's demonstrated that by giving
• 1:51:23
  Speaker 1: Jesus love. And that if you believe that report at
• 1:51:27
  Speaker 1: that instant, like it will be happening to you shortly,
• 1:51:30
  Speaker 1: you may not feel it, but this is an eternal
• 1:51:33
  Speaker 1: fact that whosoever believes in him should not perish, but
• 1:51:38
  Speaker 1: have life everlasting. I describe for you in one minute
• 1:51:42
  Speaker 1: what will happen to you as you make this declaration.
• 1:51:44
  Speaker 2: Eternal life. The very life of God. Not the God
• 1:51:47
  Speaker 2: kind of life. The very life.
• 1:51:50
  Speaker 1: It's supplanted in your human spirit. And the Holy Spirit
• 1:51:54
  Speaker 1: now has access to dwell within you. He begins to
• 1:51:58
  Speaker 1: culture you. He begins to lead you. He guides me
• 1:52:02
  Speaker 1: through the path of righteousness for his name's sake. One
• 1:52:05
  Speaker 1: more time, I want to say thank you for the courage.
• 1:52:08
  Speaker 1: I don't know you, but I love every single one
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  Speaker 1: of you. It always pays to start with Jesus and
• 1:52:15
  Speaker 1: for some to start afresh. Let me request that you
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  Speaker 1: lift your right hand as a sign of surrender to
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  Speaker 1: this Jesus. You imagine, just take me out of the
• 1:52:25
  Speaker 1: sin and just imagine the lover of your soul, the
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  Speaker 1: one who died for you.
• 1:52:29
  Speaker 2: When he hung upon that cross, it was not the
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  Speaker 2: nails that held him. He saw you. You were worth
• 1:52:34
  Speaker 2: the death. Even if you were the only person on earth,
• 1:52:37
  Speaker 2: he would still die. What love. You have trusted things
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  Speaker 2: of lesser value.
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  Speaker 1: With your life, your time. Give him a chance and
• 1:52:45
  Speaker 1: let him turn you to a sign and a wonder.
• 1:52:48
  Speaker 1: Say this after me as loud and as clear as
• 1:52:50
  Speaker 1: you can. And let me speak to someone who is
• 1:52:52
  Speaker 1: connected online or by television here in Leicester. Jesus is winning, saving, leading,
• 1:52:59
  Speaker 1: drawing many to himself. I'd like you to join these,
• 1:53:01
  Speaker 1: our precious ones, and say this after me. Say, Lord Jesus. Tonight,
• 1:53:08
  Speaker 1: I have heard your word. I've heard that you love me.
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  Speaker 1: I've heard that you died for me. And I believe
• 1:53:17
  Speaker 1: that report.
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  Speaker 2: I believe. I believe. You are the son of God.
• 1:53:22
  Speaker 2: I believe. You died for my sin. I believe. You
• 1:53:28
  Speaker 2: rose again. For my justification. Right now. I receive Jesus.
• 1:53:35
  Speaker 2: Into my heart. As my savior. My Lord.
• 1:53:41
  Speaker 1: As the Holy Ghost. We just thought about him. Remember
• 1:53:45
  Speaker 1: I told you. The justification by faith. gives room to
• 1:53:50
  Speaker 1: the blessing. He's just giving witness to it. Let it
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  Speaker 1: not distract you. Say from tonight, I'm a child of God,
• 1:54:00
  Speaker 1: washed by the blood of the Lamb. I live for
• 1:54:03
  Speaker 1: Jesus all the days of my life.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. With your hands lifted, I pray for you. Father,
• 1:54:11
  Speaker 2: thank you for these precious ones.
• 1:54:13
  Speaker 1: The Bible declares that as many who will come to you,
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  Speaker 1: you will in no wise cast away. These ones have
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 1: come declaring your lordship over their lives. Therefore, I declare
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  Speaker 1: at this instant that the power of sin, Satan, hell,
• 1:54:27
  Speaker 1: the grave, addictions, every kind of thing whatsoever that does
• 1:54:32
  Speaker 1: not represent the Christ, let it give way right now.
• 1:54:36
  Speaker 1: In the name of Jesus Christ, I call you bona
• 1:54:39
  Speaker 1: fide recipients of the life of God. And I decree
• 1:54:42
  Speaker 1: and declare that the joy of salvation is yours from henceforth.
• 1:54:45
  Speaker 1: You will live for Jesus all the days of your life.
• 1:54:49
  Speaker 2: In Jesus' matchless name, we pray. Now, praise the name
• 1:54:54
  Speaker 2: of the Lord. Here's a favor I want you to
• 1:54:56
  Speaker 2: do for me.
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  Speaker 1: There are counselors who have been trained to have a
• 1:55:01
  Speaker 1: word with you. They'll pray with you just for a
• 1:55:03
  Speaker 1: minute or two. Thereafter, you'll be back to your seats.
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  Speaker 1: Please do cooperate with them.
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  Speaker 2: Let me request that you move to my right. And
• 1:55:10
  Speaker 2: then you just follow them.