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Out With The Old | Pastor Darren Palmer | Faith Church · Faith Church Podcast

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Revelation chapter 21, if you'd turn there with
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me. Revelation chapter 21. And I want to read,
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I want to just start by reading one verse. Revelation
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21. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Verse 5.
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Then he who sat on the throne said, behold, I
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make all things new. I want to say that again
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because it felt so good. Behold, I make all things
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new. And he said to me, Right. For these words
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are true and faithful. Hallelujah. I feel the
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anointing on the Word of God this morning. The
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anointing is already on His Word. And we tap
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into that. And we say, thank you, Lord, for causing
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Your Word to change us. And affect us today.
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Praise God. Those of you that have given yourself
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to construction. Understand that there are some
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things that you can fix up. There are some things
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that you can clean it. And you can put a nail
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in it. And you can paint it. And it's good to
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go. There are some things that are like that.
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And then there are other things in construction
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that you come across. Maybe you pull a board
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away and you realize, oh, that faucet's been
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leaking there for a year. And the damage is so
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extensive that it cannot be repaired. It has
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to be replaced. It cannot just be fixed up. It
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cannot just be reformed. It has to be transformed.
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You have to remove that which was old. And can
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I just say this? Not everything old is damaged
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and needs to be removed just because it's old,
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right? But there are some things that are old
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and damaged. And the damaged needs to be taken
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out. The old has to be taken out so that the
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new can be put in. And there are some jobs in
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your house you're thinking of right now where
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you know that that's what has to happen. And
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you wish that it would just go away. But for
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the new to come, guess what has to happen? The
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old has to be done away with. God is not always
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trying to reform you. If I can just find a better
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version of this right here. There are things
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in our lives that God is not trying to reform.
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He's trying to transform. He's trying to take
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the old out and put something brand new in. That's
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what he does. Now this passage in Revelation,
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the Lord is speaking about the very end of times.
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He's talking about the end of our faith. And
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let's just talk about that for a moment. He's
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talking about heaven. And the great mystery of
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Revelation is this, that the earth will eventually
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get tired out. Did you know that? The earth will
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eventually get worn out. Now, I am not an advocate
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that says, well, then let's just treat it any
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old way we want. I believe that we have to take
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care of what God's given to us, whether it's
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our little corner of the earth or the earth in
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general. I believe we've got to take care and
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steward that which God has given to us. Amen?
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But one day will come that the earth will wear
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out. In fact, you read the book of Revelation
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and the bowl judgments and the trumpet judgments
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and all of those things will be poured out on
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the earth. The earth will be filled with plagues
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and earthquakes. And guess what's going to happen
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through those end times? The earth is going to
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get torn apart because of judgment. And that's
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what is happening. And right before he says this,
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before, behold, I make all things new, he speaks
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of a heaven where there are no more tears, where
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there is no more sorrow, where there is no more
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struggle. Everything becomes brand new. Hallelujah.
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The old is gone. The new has come. Around these
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verses, in the beginning, you can go back to
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chapter 19, but even in the beginning of this
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chapter, you can see Jesus talking about his
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bride, the church. Jesus is waiting for his wedding
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day. And this that you see right now, you look
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around and say, this is one tiny expression of
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the kingdom of God. This is faith church, one
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tiny expression of the kingdom at large, and
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yet we are part of the bride of Christ. And there
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is a wedding day that is coming. Do you know
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why God is very particular about marriage? Because
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your marriage is a reflection, or it's supposed
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to be, a reflection of the bride of Christ and
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Jesus. It's why marriage and everything that
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surrounds it, God calls it to be holy. because
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it is a reflection of Jesus and his bride. Hallelujah.
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That was not in my notes, but I feel the Lord
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speaking in that. And part of the newness that
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is coming in the end times is that the bride
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of Christ will be fully united, not just in part.
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You know, in this time period that we live in,
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we see in part, 1 Corinthians 13 says, we look
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through a glass dimly, and we just can barely
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see, but then we shall see face to face, and
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we shall know him fully, even as we are fully
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known. Are you looking forward to that day? He
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breathes on his people, behold, I make all things
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new. And I want to encourage you, even as Paul
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encouraged the people, the trumpet is going to
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sound, Jesus is going to come back, and this
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whole thing is going to get wrapped up. Hallelujah.
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Keep your eyes on the prize. Keep your eyes on
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heaven. Lift it above all this stuff that's temporary.
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And we're looking forward to that day. But I
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want to declare some good news to you. That God,
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who is the same yesterday, today, and forevermore,
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has always and will always be in the business
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of making things new. It's what He does. The
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earth. Was without form and void and the spirit
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of God hovered over the waters. He was then in
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the business of making all things new. Can you
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even imagine it? When he spoke into nothingness
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and he said, let there be light. Before there
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was sun, before there was moon. There was light.
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God saw that it was good and there was evening
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and morning the first day. And he began to speak
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and creation burst forth in wonder and majesty.
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And that which was chaotic and without form took
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form. Why? Because God makes all things. I preached
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last week about the heavens opening up from Genesis
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7, and I believe that this is going to be a year
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where the heavens open up. Hallelujah. But what
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happened in Genesis 7, verse 11, when the heavens
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opened up and rain flooded the earth, even the
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tops of the tallest mountains were covered with
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water? What was happening to the earth? The earth
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had become corrupt, and the Bible says that man,
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every inclination of his heart was evil all the
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time, except in one family, and that family was
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Noah. And what was God doing when he flooded
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the earth? He was removing that which was old
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and bringing in that which is new. and bringing
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the earth into a place of newness of life. The
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old was washed away, and the new came. Because
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for the new to come, the old has to be done away
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with. It was not just an Egyptian army. When
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Moses had led the Israelites across the Red Sea
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and then the Egyptians followed and the waters
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went in over the Egyptian army. It was not just
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the Egyptian army that God was cleansing. God
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was washing away the old life of the Israelites.
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It was that army that was the administers. of
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the slavery of the Israelites. And that baptism
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in water got rid of all their slavery as they
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came into the land of freedom. The washing of
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something new. And you that have been baptized
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into Christ, you have... gone through the waters
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of baptism, you have entered in to the newness
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of God. In Romans chapter 6, it says this concerning
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baptism. Therefore, we were buried with Christ
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through baptism into death, that just as Christ
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was raised from the dead by the glory of the
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Father, even so we should walk in newness of
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life. Hallelujah. What is happening in your life?
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Is God just coming along and just making your
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life a little better? No. No. He's washing away
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the old and putting something brand new in your
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life. Hallelujah. That's good news. That's good
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news. Somebody ought to get happy about that.
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You've been baptized into Christ. You've been
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baptized into newness of life. It's no wonder
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that the process of repentance requires cleansing.
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The process of repentance involves the character
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of God That breathes newness into people. You
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remember David and his great sin. His great falling
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away. Having Uriah killed. Having taken Uriah's
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wife. And after nine months of hardness of heart.
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And backsliding. And turning away from God, the
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prophet Nathan came and confronted him with his
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sin. Not knowing if he would be killed too like
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Uriah, but David softened his heart. And he wrote
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Psalm 51. And he said this in verse 7. Purge
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me. With hyssop. And I shall be clean. Wash me.
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And I shall be whiter than snow. David had lost
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his joy. He had lost his way. He had lost his
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sense of righteousness. He was not hearing from
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God. He had done that which is evil before the
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Lord. He needed to be cleansed. He needed the
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old to be washed away. And he needed the new
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to come. And he prayed this beautiful prayer.
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Wash me. And I will be whiter than snow. Cleanse
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me with hyssop. You know what hyssop is? Hyssop
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is the plant that the priests dipped into the
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blood and sprinkled on the ones that offered
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the sacrifice. Hyssop was the plant when the
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Israelites were in Egypt before they left and
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God had instructed them to put blood on the doorposts
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of their houses so that the death angel would
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see the blood and pass over them. It was the
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hyssop plant that they used when they dipped
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it in the blood of that lamb and painted it on
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the doorposts of their homes. And David says,
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wash me with hyssop. And what he's saying is,
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if you will cleanse me in the blood of the sacrifice,
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I'll be clean. I'll be transformed. I'll experience
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the newness of God in my life. David didn't know
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it, but he was prophetically looking ahead to
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the cross when Jesus would shed his blood on
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Calvary. And that you and I, God doesn't use
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a hyssop plant in the physical. But when you
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come to the cross, do you know what the Father
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does? When you come to the cross with all of
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your junk, with all of your sin, with all of
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your failure, with all of your garbage, He applies
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the blood of the cross to your heart. And 1 John
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1 .9 says, as we confess our sins, He's faithful
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and just to cleanse us from our sin and to get
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all unrighteousness out of our lives. That's
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the newness of God. Praise the Lord. When a leper
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was cleansed, you can read about it in Leviticus
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14, they would dip the blood in the hyssop plant,
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and over that leper they would sprinkle the blood.
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Maybe you've never had leprosy in the physical,
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but how many of you would identify with the leprosy
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of sin and the leprosy of the heart? Our God
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specializes in making everything new. Praise
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God. That's why Paul said in 2 Corinthians 5
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.17, He who is in Christ Jesus is a new creation.
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The old has gone and the new has come. Because
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our God specializes in making all things. Did
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you know that God does things new on a daily
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basis? Do you know He makes things new on a daily
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basis? Lamentations chapter 3. Now, Jeremiah
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was called the weeping prophet. Because God kept
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speaking to him, and he kept relaying the message,
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but nobody ever listened to him. And great sorrow
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filled his heart, and he would weep and weep
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and weep over his nation. Because he had such
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a burden for them to walk in right relationship
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with God. But they would never listen. Until
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generations later listened to him, but his generation
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did not. But he wrote this in Lamentations chapter
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3. He said in verse 21, this I recall to my mind,
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therefore I have hope. Through the Lord's mercies,
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we are not consumed. Because his compassions
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fail not. They are new every morning. Great is
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your faithfulness. Hallelujah. Now, as I consider
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the earth and what we know about the earth that
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maybe they didn't know back then, is that it
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is always morning somewhere, isn't it? The sun
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is always rising somewhere on our planet, and
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it is always setting somewhere on our planet.
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But wherever the sun is rising on our planet,
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the mercies of the Lord and His compassions are
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renewed. Hallelujah. It means this, that there
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is always more. Look at the person next to you
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and say, there is mercy for you. Hallelujah.
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There is mercy for you. Because the mercy and
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the compassion of God rises with the Son. And
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so the earth is constantly being renewed in the
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mercy and the compassion of God. It is never
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ending. It is never failing. It's why every single
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day you can get up and say, God, I thank you
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for your mercy in my life, that it's brand new
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this morning, that you don't tire of me. Hallelujah.
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One of the greatest things about... being married
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to my wife for 32 years, is that she has not
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gotten tired of me. Maybe you should ask her
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about that. See if she groans. God is not tired
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of you. There is mercy for you. Because God makes
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all things new. Paul said it like this. We do
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not lose heart. Our outward man is perishing.
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How many of you like getting older? Anybody like
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it? I get calls every day from AARP. I'm 52.
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Our outward man is perishing. Yet the inward
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man is being renewed day by day. your inward
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man, your spirit man, is not getting older, friends.
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It is being renewed as if it were brand new every
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single day. Hallelujah. It is being renewed day
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by day. Do you think God does new things? He
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absolutely does new things. He is preserving
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you. He is keeping you. He is doing new things
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in your heart and in your life. Now you need
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to cooperate with it, friends. You need to cooperate
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with the new things that God is doing. And Colossians
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3 verse 10, it says this, we have to put on the
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new man. We have to step in to the new things
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that God is doing in our life. And we have to,
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in Colossians 3 .10, it says the new man is being
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renewed in knowledge according to the image of
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Christ. And so if we're going to put, in fact,
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the verse before in verse 9, it says, put off
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the old man. Put off the old man, Colossians
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3 .9. Put off the old man. All the old junk,
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all the old way of living, put it off and put
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on and step in to what God is doing now. Hallelujah.
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Glory to God. Because he makes all things new.
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He speaks that over your life. He makes all things
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new. But you've got to cooperate with it. And
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that means the stuff that you've... Giving yourself
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to that you know you can't give yourself to anymore.
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You've got to crucify that thing. You've got
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to put it off in Jesus' name. And you've got
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to step into the lifestyle, the newness that
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God has for you. Hallelujah. Isaiah 40, 31. They
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that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength.
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Praise God. And so God does new things every
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single day. God has new things in seasons. Seasons
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bring forth that which is new. How many of you
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are already ready for spring to come? All your
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hands are up. I know it's 50 degrees this week,
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but that's just teasing us. You know that, right?
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It's just like a teaser. Seasons bring forth
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that which is new. It's why I wouldn't trade
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the four seasons. I don't want to live in a place
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where there's not four seasons. I love four seasons
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because there's change, because there's new things
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that come. The passing of the season, one to
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another, is refreshing. And there are pros and
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cons to all the seasons. But there's something
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new that happens in the season. The prophets
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of the Old Testament, sometimes they're hard
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to read because they're filled with judgment
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and destruction. But do you know what judgment
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and destruction does? It's trying to get rid
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of that which is old. And the prophets, you read
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the judgment and destruction, but you've got
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to read the silver linings also that are there.
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Because the judgment and destruction on all the
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ways that people have walked away from God and
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done the wrong thing are lined with hope. And
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one that I... That I often read in Isaiah 43
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at the beginning of the year. And this being
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the first Sunday of 2026. Isaiah 43 verse 16
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says this. Thus says the Lord who makes a way
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in the sea. And a path through the mighty waters.
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Who brings forth the chariot and the horse. This
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is the enemy of Israel. The army and the power.
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They shall lie down together. They shall not
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rise. They are extinguished. They are quenched
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like a wick. And I believe that 2026 is going
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to be a year of battle. It's going to be a year
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of war. You're going to feel it in every aspect
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of life. You're going to feel it in politics.
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You're already feeling it. The election that's
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coming this fall is an expression of the spiritual
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battle that we are in. We've got to pay attention.
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What's happening in the natural. I woke up a
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couple days ago. Maduro had gotten arrested by
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the United States military. That's a phenomenal
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thing that happened. But what is it representative
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of? The war that we are in. The war that we are
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in. And it is not just so that we can get more
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oil in Venezuela. The real battle that we are
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in is for the souls of mankind. So that people
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will come into the kingdom. Those other things
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are outward expressions. We are believing for
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many to come to Jesus Christ. Hallelujah. These
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are seasons, shifting of seasons where the new
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comes. Daniel was, as a young man, deported into
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Babylon. And as an old man, now in his 80s, he
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read in Jeremiah. He read. That this season of
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captivity is only lasting 70 years. Daniel was
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one of the people that in the next generation
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listened to Jeremiah. And in Daniel chapter 9,
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it says this. In the first year of Darius, the
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son of Ahasuerus. Let me say that again. In the
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first year of Darius, the son of Ahasuerus, the
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lineage of the Medes. who is made king of the
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realm of the Chaldeans, in the first year of
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his reign, I, Daniel, understood by the books
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the number of the years specified by the word
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of the Lord through Jeremiah the prophet, that
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he would accomplish 70 years in the desolation
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of Jerusalem. Daniel had been in Babylon nearly
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70 years. And he understood by the prophet that
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change was coming. He understood by the prophet
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that a new season was about to be birthed into
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the lives of the Israeli people. He knew that
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That the time prophesied by Jeremiah, in fact,
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you can read about it in Jeremiah 25. Jeremiah
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said, it will be 70 years. And that's what Daniel
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read about. And he knew that the new season was
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coming. And so what did he do? In verse 3 it
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says this, Then I set my face toward the Lord
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God to make request by prayer and supplication
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with fasting and sackcloth and ashes. He knew
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the new season was coming. And so what did he
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do? He positioned himself. For the God that makes
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all things new to have his way in the nation
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of Israel. Hallelujah. I believe, friends, that
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when we know that God is about to do a new thing,
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God is about to birth a new thing, God is about
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to stir a new thing. Hallelujah. What is our
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responsibility? I want to call this house to
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be like Daniel. and to be people that prepare
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themselves for the new things that God wants
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to do. that position themselves for the new things
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that God wants to do. So we've called for a fast.
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We've called for prayer. We've called to fix
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our eyes on heaven, to fix our eyes on Jesus.
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We're calling the church to the place of prayer,
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to come back to the place of the altar. But why
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do we do that? Is it just to do a religious thing?
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Well, all the churches are doing it. No. My friend,
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it is to position ourselves for what God is about
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to do. Behold, I make all things new. I believe
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that in 2026, that many of you are going to see
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shifting happening in your lives. you've been
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waiting for, that you've been believing God for.
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And what ought we to do? We ought to position
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ourselves before the Lord. That's what these
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four or five days are for, to position ourselves.
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Cammie asked me, do you want to have a theme?
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for each prayer meeting, for each night. I remember
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last year when we did our week of prayer and
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fasting, and we had a different theme each night,
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and we prayed for that different theme, and that's
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fine. But I felt in my heart, no, we're not going
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to have a specific theme this year for each night.
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Do you know what we're going to do? We're going
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to come before the Lord, and we're going to position
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ourselves, and we're going to pray. And we're
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going to seek his face. And we're going to say,
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God, here we are. We humble ourselves before
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you because you are the God that makes all things
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new. It's what he does. It's what he does. We
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fast and we pray to position ourselves. For that
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which what God wants to bring in our lives. When
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you receive a word from the Lord, which if you
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read your scriptures, you are receiving word
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from the Lord. Did you know that? God will apply
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it to your lives. That's why... The beginning
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of the year is a great time to renew your commitment
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to the Word of God. And you're reading it, you're
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reading it, you're reading it. And, you know,
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for a lot of passages, you're just reading it
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and it's good and you're just trying to understand
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it and you're just trying to take it in. And
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then you come across a passage one day that you're
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reading and it just goes... And it's God speaking
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his word directly to your life. But friend, if
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you're not in the word of God, you're going to
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miss it. Or somebody has prayed over you and
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released by the gift of the Spirit a prophetic
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word over your life. And that word... comes into
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you, and you have a sense that you know that
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this is God for your life. Well, what is your
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responsibility? You have a responsibility to
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the fulfillment of that Word. Well, I can't make
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it come about. No, only God can make it come
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about. It's the Word of the Lord. Amen? Only
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He can come about, make it come about. But what
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can you do? You can position yourself. for the
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word to come about in your life. You can fast
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and pray. You can stand in the place of God,
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believing before, you can stand before the Lord,
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believing for that word to come to pass in the
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name of Jesus. God, I'm not just going to let
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that word fall to the ground. I'm going to steward
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the word that has been given to me so that I
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can see that word come to pass in my life. Behold,
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I make all things new. God, I position myself
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before you because you're the God that makes
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all things new. We want God to do it all. And
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we sang about his faithfulness. And he is faithful.
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He is faithful. He is faithful. And I have the
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worship team come and do one of the songs that
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you did earlier about the faithfulness of God.
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And I want us to have a moment here of consecration.
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Because you have God -given dreams for 2026.
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Anybody have a God -given dream for 2026? Anybody?
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Come on, lift up your hand if you have something
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you're believing God for in 2026. We need to
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believe God. These are things we're laying before
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the Lord. We're believing God. Hallelujah. There's
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a father in the room who has a deep desire to
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become the man of God that he created you to
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be. But you know in your heart you're far from
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it. And you wonder, can I ever get there? And
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the Lord would speak to you this morning and
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say that He sees that desire that's tucked into
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your heart to become what God created you to
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be. And it is true that right now you're not
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a spiritual leader. But God in 2026, step by
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step, one step at a time, is going to shape you.
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And he is going to take you from one place to
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another, here a little, there a little. And he's
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calling you to position yourself. Keep positioning
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yourself before the Lord. God sees that desire.
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Lord, you see a couple right now that they want
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to honor you in their relationship. And you're
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helping that couple to make things right. And
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they're going to take steps this year that will
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position themselves under the blessing of God.
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Lord, we have dreams and visions that we present
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before you right now in Jesus' name. Dreams and
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visions. Promises. The promises of God. We are
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not alone. And you've called us as a people like
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Daniel. to position ourselves before you. The
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70 years is coming to an end. The slavery is
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over. There's a washing and a cleansing. God
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makes all things new. Perhaps you're here and
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you've never trusted Christ as your Savior. Trusting
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Him as your Savior is as simple as a prayer.
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It's as simple as turning away from the old and
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turning to the new. And saying, Jesus, here I
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am. I want to be a follower. This morning, this
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morning, God, we consecrate our hearts to you.
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Grandmothers and grandfathers perhaps have known
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the Lord for a long time but are coming before
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you this morning saying, God, I'm ready for you
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to breathe a new season. Into my life. Hallelujah.