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We welcome you to the We Are 
Zion sermon podcast. 

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We are a church based out of 
Chennai, India. 

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We are thrilled that you tuned 
in today and hope that you will 

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be refreshed, revived, and 
energized by what you hear. 

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Our desire is that you will live
life with a renewed sense of 

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purpose that stems from a 
vibrant faith in Jesus. 

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Jesus is the giver of life and 
when we invite him into our 

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heart, he brings new life into 
every aspect of our life. 

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This Lent, we pray that you will
experience this new life in 

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amazing ways and carry its power
into the world so that all may 

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know the way, the truth, and the
life. 

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It's such a joy and honor to be 
able to bring God's Word to you 

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today, even as you watch the 
bumper and even as you probably,

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I've heard the sermon last week.
We're going to go into the 

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second part of this Lent series 
that we've been doing. 

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It's called Inheriting the 
resurrection Life. 

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Last week what we saw was we 
have to be dead to sin and alive

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in Christ. 
And through that we saw some key

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things. 
And I don't know about you, but 

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I was really confronted with 
especially the idea of the door 

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that Tina spoke about. 
A lot of those three different 

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doors. 
One it's open, the other one we 

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have a netted door where we are 
wanting to still have something 

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to do with the old life, and the
other one is a closed door. 

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And I pray and ask that even as 
we go through this entire Lenten

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series that God will start 
disrupting our idea of what is 

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right and wrong and we'll be 
able to go back into God's Word 

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and find out what He wants us to
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I just wanted to recap some of 
those points we saw last week. 

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First, we saw the presence of 
open doors, which causes us to 

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continuously be in that pattern 
of sin. 

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We saw that we're submitting to 
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We know Jesus is the true and 
living King, but we yet are 

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submitting to the wrong Master. 
And the third thing that we saw 

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is we display false fruit. 
We, we kind of tend to, you 

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know, fabricate our, our idea of
the fruit that Christ wants us. 

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And we are content with that. 
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Christian life is for us to move
deeper and deeper so that we'll 

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be able to really see what God 
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And, and I'm realizing as I get 
older, some of these areas where

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God has to do a deep work is 
getting harder because it's 

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already set. 
There's a lot of persona that's 

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been formed. 
There's a lot of myself that I 

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can't let go because if it 
breaks, it breaks my certain 

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things that I've built around 
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But God's like he wants to deal 
with us in that hard areas of 

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our heart. 
And so today, as we go into the 

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second part, I've titled it as 
living hope now and beyond. 

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Living hope now and beyond. 
Even as I was just titling this,

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I was realizing that Jesus came 
2000 years back. 

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Jesus died for us since 2000 
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He rose again three days later 
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And that's a fact. 
That's a reality. 

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But a lot of times over these 
2000 years, we've had only a 

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select few living out in this 
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And so today you and I have to 
have a distinct point in our 

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life where we are like God. 
This living hope is to be 

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manifested in my reality. 
Today. 

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A lot of us understand the idea 
of hope and are content with it,

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but God's like, no, this living 
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present. 
It's not there, it's right now. 

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And so that's why I've titled 
Now and beyond. 

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You know, I was watching the 
trailer of the upcoming Toy 

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Story 5 and in I love the whole 
idea of Buzz Lightyear where he 

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says to Infinity and beyond and 
our understanding is the 

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eternity is there. 
It seems really far off. 

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We probably have more years to 
live, but sometimes with all 

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that's happening around the 
world, eternally seems close up.

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But God's like asking us, will 
you live with this living hope 

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right now? 
And so today I want to ask you 

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what is our hope really on? 
You know, we've, we've built 

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certain ideas in our head of 
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And I want to challenge you 
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What is hope looking to you 
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You know, is hope looking like a
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Is hope looking for a secure 
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And, and mind you, we're living 
in a time and age where no place

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seems to be safe. 
No city seems to be safe. 

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No country seems to be safe. 
No, we, we are all, especially 

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after COVID, everyone has been 
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Everyone has been touched by, 
you know, factors that disrupt 

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hope. 
And so today, you and I can't. 

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What are we looking for? 
What are we looking for a 

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healthier world Are we looking 
for, for our families to last 

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through certain times. 
And the hope is that we will 

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live this hope not just in a 
unreal world, but we will live 

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it in a real world today. 
Jesus, when he came, as long as 

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he was talking to the elect, to 
certain people, from Abraham, 

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Isaac and Jacob, then to Moses, 
Joshua, and then the prophets, 

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and then to the kings that got 
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We felt when we read the Old 
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It feels like he's only talking 
to a select group, but with the 

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New Testament and him coming to 
earth, he is talking to all of 

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us. 
And so today what we get to 

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experience of Jesus is not 
hearsay, is not what something 

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someone is saying about, but is 
1 where we can really call on 

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the name of Jesus. 
So today you and I have access 

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to call on the name of Jesus in 
a real world in the midst of 

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real problems. 
Today you are thinking probably 

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you know what, only I'm going 
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No, everyone is going through 
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It's interesting that we think 
the blessing of the Lord is upon

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our life, but the blessing comes
with certain things that we walk

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through, certain hardships that 
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And it's not in the in the 
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it's in the midst of those 
hardships we experience as a 

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blessing. 
And so today you and I have to 

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realize that Jesus is everything
for the real world that He 

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created, for the real problems 
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He created the world, but He 
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Sin was direct disobedience, as 
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And so today Jesus came into a 
real world with real problems. 

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Jesus walked among real lives 
with real issues. 

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Your issue that you're facing, 
you can take it to Jesus. 

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And the reason why I want us to 
come to this place is a lot of 

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times we are thinking we just 
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No, you need a person who will 
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You've brought it to me. 
Now I'm going to tell you what 

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to do. 
Do it. 

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Sounding board doesn't cause 
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Sounding board doesn't cause 
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Jesus listens to it and says, 
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wrong. 
And lot of times he wants us to 

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address those real issues. 
The third thing is Jesus sat in 

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real homes of the real people. 
The temple that was built in the

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Old Testament was so exclusive. 
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inner court and the most holy 
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And one of the things is that it
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on who can enter that. 
But with Jesus walking into 

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homes, when he walked into homes
of tax collectors, when he 

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walked into the rooms of 
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the room homes of ordinary 
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sat with real people. 
He ate with real people. 

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He did life with real people. 
So today you and I cannot say 

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God is not approachable. 
God is all the more 

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approachable. 
And so today when we step into 

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church, we are not walking into 
a bubble of people just being in

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a Dome like structure in their 
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walking with people who in the 
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Jesus, we need you. 
Jesus, you alone are enough. 

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Jesus, I am OK with just 
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to do what to do next. 
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I've come to that place. 
That is where we are at. 

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We are bringing our real selves,
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And one of the things we see is 
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Where Jesus died and rose again 
later is the place where we find

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ourselves and we find who we 
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Jesus came for sinners like you 
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Yes, but today when we go to the
cross, do we identify what we're

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trading with Jesus? 
Do we identify what we are 

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trading of Jesus? 
A lot of times we have accepted 

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the fact that yes, he came for 
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Yes, but today when you go to 
the cross, are you like God? 

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This particular area of my life,
Lord, this perversion that I'm 

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enjoying, this addiction that 
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that is my secret sin. 
I have to identify to the cross 

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and say, God, you came for a 
person like me, please transform

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me. 
I lay it down here. 

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That is what happens when you 
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When you come to the cross, you 
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are. 
It suddenly becomes clear. 

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Shame comes and meets with the 
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Our our broken identity comes in
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So today you and I have to 
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Jesus in, the minute we are 
wanting this resurrection life, 

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the minute we are wanting to 
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accepted because Jesus himself 
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Again, when we read from the 
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knew no sin as he walked like 
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It you know, one of the things 
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that Jesus God walking down his 
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but to know that he no knew no 
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the Holy Spirit to know that sin
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he was a perfect sacrifice you 
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fact. 
So Jesus walked as a living 

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person here on this earth, God 
in man, yet he was not accepted.

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So today when we are trying to 
get rid of our sin today when we

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are trying to get our sinful 
nature out, the world will not 

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be able to accept us. 
They will identify us with our 

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sinful nature. 
They will choose to not identify

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us without our sinful nature. 
And so if you're feeling alone, 

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welcome. 
If you're feeling like this 

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journey is hard, welcome. 
If you're feeling like this, 

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this journey getting harder day 
by day, welcome to this journey.

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It was never meant to be easy. 
There was nothing mythical about

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Jesus. 
Oh, he just came that he gave me

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the goosebumps. 
He gave me the tingle feeling. 

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No, he was real. 
He was in flesh. 

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So what you feel, he felt what 
you went through, he's gone 

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through what you've encountered 
as pain. 

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He's if it's fatigue, if it's 
tiredness, he's gone through all

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that. 
Every emotion he's gone through,

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every pain we feel, he's gone 
through. 

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The only thing was the curse of 
sin was nowhere close to him 

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because he knew no sin and he 
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And so today I wanted to just 
before we go into the key 

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passage, I wanted to go into 
this one passage which which I 

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wanted to encourage us with in 
Hebrews chapter 4, verse 15 to 

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17 is what it says in as much 
then as we believers have a 

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great high priest who has 
already ascended and passed 

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through the heavens. 
Jesus, the Son of God, Let us 

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hold fast our confession of 
faith and cling tenaciously to 

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our absolute trust in Him as 
Savior. 

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For we do not have a high priest
who's unable to sympathize and 

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understand our weakness and 
temptations, but one who has 

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been tempted, knowing exactly 
how it feels to be human in 

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every respect, as we are, yet 
without committing any sin. 

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Therefore, let us with privilege
approach the throne of grace, 

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that is, the throne of God's 
gracious favor, with confidence 

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and without fear, so that we may
receive mercy for our failures 

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and find His Amazing Grace to 
help in time of need, an 

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appropriate blessing coming just
at the right moment. 

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So today this living hope now 
and beyond requires us because a

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lot of times why we've not been 
able to see this living hope 

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come alive in our lives is 
because we've done it, then 

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we've moved to striving, we've 
done it, then we've we've not 

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dealt with our sin patterns in 
our life. 

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We've done it and we've just 
merely with fatigue and 

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exhaustion of Christian life 
said God, I can't do this around

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and you've taken a back step. 
But God saying no, I am coming 

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today to see that you understand
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This living hope as we read 
requests us to do certain 

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things. 
First is to hold fast to our 

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confession that Lord, it's not 
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It's coming out of a place of 
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to be so solid, and so we it, as
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tenaciously to our absolute 
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Without any doubt, I will 
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Yes, you came, you died, you 
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through me so that I would be 
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Our gospel life today is 1 of 
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wherein we are being changed 
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that we'll be able to live it 
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time comes to be in eternity 
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privilege, which means when 
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you have the access to go to the
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Christians will be overcomers of
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There will be overcomers of what
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overcomers of the fact that God 
I need you more so I will 

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approach the throne room of 
grace God without you I can't do

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this. 
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we can approach Jesus. 
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confidence. 
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face your sin head on. 
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move because when you move to 
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realization that you want to 
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able to overcome truth is 
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So we are set free from fear. 
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speak. 
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You know, a lot of us are 
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and even as we we have one, 
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for this year. 
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takeover, I'm realizing I'm 
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because I can't. 
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East, resistance is that each 
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I don't want an entire table, 
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He's like, you allow me, I'll 
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I will do what is marvelous that
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approach the light Himself. 
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darkness in our areas will start
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conditional love, areas of 
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this is how we've been dealt 
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others like this. 
God will start changing us 

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inside out. 
God will start revealing. 

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He'll keep throwing that light 
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hidden and say I need that place
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I need that anger. 
I need every part of this. 

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I need your ideology on this 
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I need you to be a person who 
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I need you to be a person who 
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on socio economic group. 
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to be your culture. 
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what I have proclaimed to be in 
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So as we read the exaltation of 
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being the high priest, that we 
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power. 
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his power will he be able to do 
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If Jesus is Lord and is in our 
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It's interesting. 
We often times take most times I

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would say would take what we've 
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that that's how he's dealing 
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When we go to God, we have an 
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Every facet of God we will be 
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Is this that am I choosing to 
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An access is a question like for
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there's a certain access that 
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There are certain things that 
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When I'm in a meeting, they will
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full attention of God, the full 
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which got me thinking, am I 
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really access him? 
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It's all my issue. 
Am I spending time with him to 

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access him entirely? 
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cultural nuances into this. 
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And so that's why the very words
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important because of our very 
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We look to God as daddy, as this
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he's also saying, I need you to 
walk in the authority I've given

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you to a lot of us areas that 
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We go to God and we think only 
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No, he wants to sort even the 
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the healthier parts have been a 
leaning mechanism for the things

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that have been crippled in our 
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And I pray and ask we will be 
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And mind you, I have been asking
God so many things which I 

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thought I was good at to say 
God, is this the right way to 

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still to do it? 
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which I feel which have been 
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environment and not for the 
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in right now. 
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you in 2026, is living hope 
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Because the living hope, if it 
requires change, are you 

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confident to spend time with 
Jesus today and say, God, I'm 

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ready for the change. 
I want you to work in and 

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through me Today. 
His powers made available in and

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to us. 
If Jesus is Lord and is in our 

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life, we have all access. 
Every aspect of Him is 

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available. 
The healer, the Redeemer, the 

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restorer, the the person who's 
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willing to listen. 
Everything is accessible. 

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Am I willing to spend time and 
so to read the passage that 

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we've taken for our meditation 
for this, for the living hope 

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for now and beyond. 
It's from one Peter one versus 3

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to 5. 
Praise be to God the Father of 

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our Lord Jesus Christ in his 
great mercy has given us new 

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birth into a living hope through
the resurrection of Jesus Christ

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from the dead and into an 
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spoil or fade. 
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heaven for you who through faith
are shielded by God's power 

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until the coming of salvation 
that is ready to be revealed in 

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the last time. 
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Peter's writing this entire 
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Rome and he's writing it and 
he's writing it to a group of 

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people that the he calls 
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He says you are all exiles and 
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persecution has started and he's
wanting to encourage them, what 

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is he wanting them to be 
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And he's wanting them to be 
encouraged in the fact that your

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faith should not be shaken. 
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aspects, may it not, it's not 
prevalent, may not be prevalent,

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which means as churches, we 
always have this understanding 

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graph that it always has to grow
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But the realization of when we 
are doing God's work, there will

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be areas where we will see 
things change entirely. 

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But God uses all that so that he
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You'll feel the gospel will end 
with us. 

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But eternity is just a thought. 
He's saying let that all not 

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this inheritance that you have 
is yours. 

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It's not perishable. 
It can't be forgotten, and it 

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won't spoil. 
And so today, what does it mean 

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to be in the midst of 
uncertainties and in the midst 

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of confusion? 
This last week, I was caught up 

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finishing a conference and as 
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end, 4-5 hours before the 
conference could end, we started

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getting alerts saying we've gone
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We've, you know, being in in 
Dubai and then flights got 

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cancelled. 
Things seemed confused in a 

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confusion setting. 
And then in all of that, I would

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say that I've grown up, born, 
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I've been brought to understand,
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that Iran will strike and it's 
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But there are certain things 
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When I look into our own lives 
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in one of our business trips. 
I was caught up in another 

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country. 
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Internet and the phone was not 
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And that prepared my wife to 
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harder because she didn't even 
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She didn't know she couldn't 
communicate till I landed here 

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and I could actually have a 
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And so today you and I will be 
put in situations where it will 

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suddenly change around us, but 
the living hope will not change.

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That will remain. 
But it it's upon us, will we 

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walk through certain experiences
that God has given us and be 

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obedient to that? 
Or are we going to be 

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withdrawing ourselves? 
Because what Peter's saying here

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is this living hope comes alive 
because of the resurrection of 

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Jesus Christ. 
You and I have to realise that 

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this life here on this earth is 
temporary. 

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We, as I mentioned here, we may 
want a secure future, we may 

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want a secure understanding of 
where we can live and enjoy the 

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fruit of the land. 
But our enjoyment today is 

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temporary. 
We are called to inherit 

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something eternally and that is 
what we are living for. 

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God will give us the grace to 
withstand all that comes along 

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our way. 
He will move things 

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miraculously. 
And so to think that God is in 

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control helps me live out this 
living hope with much grit, with

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much tenacity, knowing that God,
you have everything in control. 

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And so suddenly I look at things
differently, with sicknesses, 

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with things not going my way, 
with even the economic downturn,

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with the sudden idea that, you 
know, we might have job losses, 

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businesses might struggle with 
all that. 

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We will still realize that God 
is working in everything to see 

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things happen. 
And I'm encouraged that they're 

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living in a time such as this to
know that God is a God of 

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justice. 
God's been uncovering so many 

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things. 
God's been hearing the prayers 

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of faithful people, faithful 
servants. 

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So you and I have nothing to 
hold back. 

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Rather, we have all we have 
everything in us to participate 

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much more deeper. 
I was reading this story of 

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missionaries, AW Milne. 
They were called one way 

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missionaries. 
They basically were people who 

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felt that God had called them. 
And so they dispatched one way. 

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They didn't have a return 
ticket. 

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They didn't back with they 
didn't leave behind things and 

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and lot of times our Christian 
life should be like that where 

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Lord, we are taking everything 
and we're heading to where 

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you're calling us to do boldly 
so that we'll be able to 

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accomplish and it's in that he 
says this in his tombstone. 

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This was written, in fact, he 
went into a place, we were 

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called the Headhunters, the New 
Hebrides. 

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And there all of the 
missionaries who went before him

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were martyred. 
But when he went there, he lived

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among them for 35 years and he 
found favour. 

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And when he died there and when 
he was buried, this is what they

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wrote on his tombstone. 
When he came there was no light.

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When he left there was no 
darkness. 

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When he came there was no light.
When he left there was no 

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darkness. 
So what is God calling us into 

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today? 
Because this living hope is not 

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just meant for us, our four 
walls, you know, this living 

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hope is just not meant for us 
and to keep it hidden. 

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No, it's for us to go in and 
encourage whoever is coming 

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along our path, encourage 
whoever we come across, 

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encourage and strengthen whoever
we come across. 

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What are we moving forward to 
and what God is asking us to do?

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What are we moving forward? 
You know, in verse 3 it says 

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that in his great mercy He's 
given us this new birth into a 

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living hope through the 
resurrection of Jesus Christ. 

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New birth. 
A lot of us, this living hope is

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for a lot of us is 1/2 dead hope
or for a lot of us it's like 

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this Walking Dead hope where 
you're dead but you're walking 

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hopefully. 
No, it has to be a living hope 

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where you are clear that God has
called you for a time such as 

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this. 
You know when you look at the 

449
00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:07,720
Greek, what he has given us new 
birth. 

450
00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:12,960
It's Anagnao, which means God 
regenerating A believer. 

451
00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:16,280
And the beautiful thing about 
regeneration means it's either 

452
00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:19,680
cut off certain part, the whole 
life is cut off, things of the 

453
00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:22,600
past are cut off, things of 
sinful nature are cut off and 

454
00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:25,560
God regenerates something new, 
it's amputated. 

455
00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:31,240
God is asking today can every 
which means the blood, the nerve

456
00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:35,160
endings, everything has to be 
regenerated new so that it can 

457
00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:37,800
be a living hope. 
And so you and I today when we 

458
00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:43,000
look at this passage, are we 
ready to be a regenerated 

459
00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:46,400
believer in that living hope 
regenerated in the sense like 

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00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:51,560
what making sure that what we 
heard last week, we're dead to 

461
00:26:51,560 --> 00:26:55,000
that we're dead to sin, we're 
dead to everything we're dead 

462
00:26:55,000 --> 00:27:00,400
we're cutting off that you and I
will be set apart given you and 

463
00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:05,880
I will be set apart when we read
the words in Romans, you and I 

464
00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:08,400
will be set apart outside in the
world. 

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00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:11,520
We cannot participate in the 
things that the world 

466
00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:14,080
participates in. 
In fact, so many of them who 

467
00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:17,480
don't know God, who don't know 
the true and living Saviour are 

468
00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:22,280
living lives right still because
of that moral compass that God's

469
00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:25,760
given us with free will. 
They still are fighting for 

470
00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:27,520
justice. 
They still are fighting for 

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00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:29,280
truth. 
They still are fighting for the 

472
00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:32,120
right things. 
But often times we who've given 

473
00:27:32,120 --> 00:27:34,880
into sin have become people 
who've been bound. 

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00:27:35,120 --> 00:27:38,640
And God is like, if you can cut 
those ties off, if you can cut 

475
00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:41,640
those areas off, if you can cut 
that understanding of ministry, 

476
00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:43,640
if you can cut that 
understanding of the church, if 

477
00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:47,880
you can cut that understanding 
of what you are thinking right 

478
00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:51,080
now, God is like, I can do 
bigger things in and through you

479
00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:59,120
guys, bigger things you and I 
cannot do this unless God has 

480
00:27:59,120 --> 00:28:03,120
his touch on us. 
And I want to give us 3 

481
00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:07,880
takeaways from this for a daily 
basis for us to have this living

482
00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:11,400
hope, this living hope. 
So today, you and I for living. 

483
00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:14,640
What do we do? 
We breathe air that 

484
00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:19,360
automatically oxygen goes in, 
carbon dioxide comes out and so 

485
00:28:19,360 --> 00:28:22,560
we're able to live, our lungs 
are working and so breathing. 

486
00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:24,440
So air becomes one important 
aspect. 

487
00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:27,520
Water becomes everything, an 
important aspect because of the 

488
00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:30,200
amount of blood that runs in and
through US. 

489
00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:33,440
The the way our system functions
of water becomes another 

490
00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:35,000
necessity. 
Another thing is food. 

491
00:28:35,360 --> 00:28:38,880
We know food also is necessity, 
but also we've come to this 

492
00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:41,720
place where we can probably do 
one meal a day or intermittent 

493
00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:43,320
fasting and all those other 
things. 

494
00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:48,160
But in the midst of all of this,
there's something that we're 

495
00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:50,120
doing every day so that we can 
live. 

496
00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:53,080
There's something that we do 
systematically where we have 3 

497
00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:56,480
potion meals that we have so 
that we can sustain and live 

498
00:28:56,520 --> 00:28:59,560
every day. 
And so today, this living hope 

499
00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:02,920
for now and beyond requires us 
to also do certain three things 

500
00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:05,280
daily. 
And I pray and ask that as I 

501
00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:08,080
leave that with you, that you 
and I will be able to put it to 

502
00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:10,280
practice so that we'll be able 
to do what God's called us to 

503
00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:12,400
do. 
The first thing is we need to 

504
00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:17,320
have to do for this living hope.
To be living in and through US 

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00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:21,680
is to be dying Daily. 
New birth requires my daily 

506
00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:28,200
dying, daily dying. 
A lot of us have hope, like I've

507
00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:31,680
accepted Jesus Christ, I am 
participating in eternal life. 

508
00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:34,440
I will come to church, I'll 
partake in communion. 

509
00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:37,880
That's it. 
And even partake in communion, 

510
00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:40,800
come to church is all secondary.
Yeah, I have eternal life. 

511
00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:43,640
So now I get to live my life and
I can do whatever I want. 

512
00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:46,520
And so we think, OK, when I turn
to 1780, I'll become more 

513
00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:49,960
passionate for God. 
No, it requires a daily dying. 

514
00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:51,880
Living hope requires a daily 
dying. 

515
00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:53,520
The living hope is a growing 
hope. 

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00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:55,520
Living hope is the one which 
matures. 

517
00:29:55,720 --> 00:29:59,040
Living hope is 1 which enables 
you to start dreaming for the 

518
00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:02,280
future generations which will be
unable to dream because many are

519
00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:06,200
being steered away by culture. 
You and I have to have daily 

520
00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:08,160
dying. 
It's interesting that Peter 

521
00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:13,040
talks about enjoying a 
resurrected life, which means I 

522
00:30:13,040 --> 00:30:17,000
need to get accustomed to some 
things which have to die daily. 

523
00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:21,760
My pride has to die daily. 
My thing of God, I know this 

524
00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:24,880
better, has to die daily, God. 
That's when we go come into the 

525
00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:27,160
Scripture. 
That is one habit where we are 

526
00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:29,960
dying daily, because when we 
refresh ourselves with this 

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00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:31,880
word, there's something that 
dies. 

528
00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:35,160
I get to know him better. 
It's interesting. 

529
00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:38,240
A lot of us can throw this word 
around saying they're hurt with 

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00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:41,440
the church, but we don't even 
realize what the real church is.

531
00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:43,960
We don't realize what the real 
church is. 

532
00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:46,240
A lot of us can say, you know 
what? 

533
00:30:46,360 --> 00:30:49,400
I've been treated bad by the 
church, but the truth is we've 

534
00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:52,200
really not understood what the 
church is. 

535
00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:56,160
The church is the manifold 
wisdom of God. 

536
00:30:56,360 --> 00:31:00,760
And so even today when people 
have hurt us, when I bring it 

537
00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:06,000
down, there's a daily dying in 
that because God won't ask us to

538
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:08,080
erect structures for what we are
hurt by. 

539
00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:14,200
Rather, he'll be like, let me 
build something more accessible 

540
00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:17,200
to others so you can tell them 
how you become an overcomer 

541
00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:20,080
through this hurt. 
You become an overcomer through 

542
00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:23,080
this hurt. 
You know, it's interesting. 

543
00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:27,640
We think that the revelation of 
sin and the sin of things around

544
00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:30,880
us will, you know, will become 
these structures. 

545
00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:34,720
No, they're all meant to be 
revealers so that we'll be able 

546
00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:38,440
to see Jesus grace far more than
anything else. 

547
00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:43,440
So when you start living this 
Christian life, we come to terms

548
00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:45,920
that this renewing has to happen
every day. 

549
00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:47,960
This renewing has to happen 
every day. 

550
00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:52,360
How I wished his renewing was 
just once and we're done. 

551
00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:57,840
No, today when we eat, anything 
that we eat which doesn't edify 

552
00:31:57,840 --> 00:32:00,960
our body is excreted out, is 
excreted out. 

553
00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:04,600
Just imagine a lot of us are 
walking with things that have 

554
00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:09,040
not come out of us and we are 
thinking hope looks bad, hope is

555
00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:11,400
dead. 
But God's like, no, I want you 

556
00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:15,320
to have this daily pushing out 
of things which are which the 

557
00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:18,600
culture and the world and 
circumstances and things I've 

558
00:32:18,760 --> 00:32:22,360
accumulated in my life all along
I've been holding up inside me. 

559
00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:26,160
It is in the becoming that I 
realize I can overcome. 

560
00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:29,320
It's in the becoming that I 
realize I don't know the whole 

561
00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:33,000
story yet. 
So new birth into a living hope.

562
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:36,520
It's my dying. 
Every day I realize I need Jesus

563
00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:39,160
more. 
The Holy Spirit has a lot of 

564
00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:42,440
things to undo in my life. 
One passage I want to leave with

565
00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:45,400
us is from Second Corinthians 
chapter 4 verses 16 to 18. 

566
00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:47,120
And this is what it says. 
Therefore we do not become 

567
00:32:47,120 --> 00:32:50,040
discouraged, spiritual, is 
disappointed or afraid. 

568
00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:54,160
Though our outer shelf is 
progressively wasting away, yet 

569
00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:57,200
our inner self is being 
progressively renewed day by day

570
00:32:57,560 --> 00:33:01,760
for a momentary light distress. 
This passing trouble is 

571
00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:05,320
producing for us an eternal 
weight of glory, of fullness 

572
00:33:05,320 --> 00:33:10,120
beyond all measure, surpassing 
all comparisons, A transcendent 

573
00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:13,280
splendor and an endless 
blessedness. 

574
00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:18,320
So we look at the things which 
are seen, but are the things 

575
00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:20,920
which are unseen. 
For the things which are visible

576
00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:23,880
are temporary, just brief and 
fleeting. 

577
00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:28,040
For the things which are 
invisible are everlasting and 

578
00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:32,000
imperishable. 
So therefore do not become 

579
00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:36,040
discouraged, spiritualist, 
disappointment or of afraid. 

580
00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:38,240
And I pray a lot of us are in 
that space. 

581
00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:42,360
It will look like God what is 
happening, but God's like, no, 

582
00:33:42,360 --> 00:33:44,080
I'm preparing you for something 
far bigger. 

583
00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:49,400
I'm building capacity in you. 
I'm building tenacity in you. 

584
00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:52,840
I'm building strength in you. 
And that happens only when I'm 

585
00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:56,600
willing to die every day and 
experience this living hope. 

586
00:33:57,600 --> 00:34:01,200
This living hope, something 
about the everyday we see in the

587
00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:06,480
Bible that God gives importance 
to daily dying, which means God 

588
00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:10,159
is not wanting us to store so 
much of revelation also in us. 

589
00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:13,239
He's asking as you to see the 
revelation, are you partying it 

590
00:34:13,239 --> 00:34:14,760
out with people who are coming 
around you? 

591
00:34:15,120 --> 00:34:18,600
That's why as a church, when you
do this 20 list, who you're 

592
00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:21,040
praying for is very important. 
That's why when you do something

593
00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:23,440
like supper Saturday, it's 
important because those are all 

594
00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:28,280
God-given opportunities for us 
to participate in declaring and 

595
00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:31,000
in telling. 
And So what is this God everyday

596
00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:32,880
provision? 
Because when you look Exodus 

597
00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:36,560
416, we see God said I will 
drain down bread from heaven for

598
00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:40,080
you. 
The people are to go out each 

599
00:34:40,080 --> 00:34:41,760
day and gather enough for that 
day. 

600
00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:45,199
In this way, I will test them 
and see whether they will follow

601
00:34:45,199 --> 00:34:46,560
my instruction. 
Today. 

602
00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:49,960
God will only give you enough 
revelation for you to handle 

603
00:34:49,960 --> 00:34:52,600
that day. 
And so today, even as you try 

604
00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:56,600
getting that spending time and 
understanding that I pray you'll

605
00:34:56,600 --> 00:34:59,160
be able to gather that's enough.
You see in this, we'll see 

606
00:34:59,160 --> 00:35:01,000
people who gathered more the 
next day. 

607
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:02,880
It became bad. 
It just got mold. 

608
00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:07,480
The people who got were not able
to, who were grasping for more. 

609
00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:10,520
So I pray we will realize God, 
when I come into your presence, 

610
00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:13,800
I'll understand enjoying you and
receiving from you is more 

611
00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:16,200
important. 
It's not the quantity of it. 

612
00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:20,560
It's in the everyday contentment
that builds capacity, everyday 

613
00:35:20,560 --> 00:35:22,520
submission that builds 
surrender. 

614
00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:25,680
In Matthew 6, he talks about 
this. 

615
00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:28,000
Give us this day, Our Daily 
Bread. 

616
00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:31,800
And so this is very important 
because in my daily dying, I 

617
00:35:31,800 --> 00:35:34,800
realized that you didn't want me
to build a pipeline of 

618
00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:37,240
assurances. 
You wanted me to build a 

619
00:35:37,240 --> 00:35:41,160
pipeline of faithfulness of me 
trusting you every day. 

620
00:35:41,960 --> 00:35:45,440
So for a freelancer like me, for
a person who's just doing things

621
00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:49,040
which come along by me, I have 
to be heavily dependent on the 

622
00:35:49,040 --> 00:35:51,680
fact that God will provide 
everything that I need. 

623
00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:54,120
God will take care of my 
children. 

624
00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:58,000
God will put food on my table. 
God will make sure I'm able to 

625
00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:01,000
pay the bills. 
Else I'll be striving. 

626
00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:04,400
Else I'll move on to a place of 
controlling. 

627
00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:07,920
Else I'll move to a place of 
seeing certain things done the 

628
00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:10,080
way I would like and not the way
God would want. 

629
00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:13,680
In Lamentations it talks about 
this in Lamentations. 

630
00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:18,200
See because of the Lord's great 
love, we are not consumed for 

631
00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:21,240
His compassion never fails. 
They are new every morning. 

632
00:36:21,240 --> 00:36:23,720
Great is your faithfulness. 
What is he talking about? 

633
00:36:23,720 --> 00:36:27,360
What are we not consumed? 
God can wipe us away because a 

634
00:36:27,360 --> 00:36:30,880
lot of us to being detached from
those sinful nature and 

635
00:36:30,880 --> 00:36:36,600
practices is hard. 
We keep falling down, we keep 

636
00:36:36,600 --> 00:36:39,040
getting up, we keep coming to 
the throne room and yet we keep 

637
00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:42,520
shaking hands outside. 
God is asking us to come to a 

638
00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:45,760
place saying I want you to be 
liberated, but I want you to 

639
00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:49,920
walk in confidence. 
I want you to walk knowing in 

640
00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:54,840
who I've created you to be. 
So today as I close the first 

641
00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:59,240
point about dying daily dying, 
maybe know who we are in Christ.

642
00:36:59,240 --> 00:37:03,520
Who am I in Christ? 
It is in reminding who I am, 

643
00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:09,200
I'll know whose I am because in 
that what happens. 

644
00:37:09,480 --> 00:37:13,320
It's because when I'm know who 
I'm dying to every day, I will 

645
00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:15,760
realize who I'm getting 
resurrected in every day. 

646
00:37:16,480 --> 00:37:19,560
And so today I pray and ask that
we'll be able to realize that. 

647
00:37:19,560 --> 00:37:24,640
The second thing is we move to a
place of daily disinheriting. 

648
00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:29,080
New birth is letting go of my 
earthly possessions to take off 

649
00:37:29,080 --> 00:37:32,640
my earthly inheritance. 
It's interesting in Earth we 

650
00:37:32,640 --> 00:37:35,720
only have possessions, things 
we've possessed, things we'll be

651
00:37:35,720 --> 00:37:39,400
able to take because of certain 
transactions that have happened.

652
00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:43,000
But God's like saying the minute
you come into my fold, the 

653
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:45,920
equation seems I am giving you 
an inheritance. 

654
00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:49,720
Eternal life is an inheritance. 
The legacy of your generation 

655
00:37:49,720 --> 00:37:52,760
will be an inheritance. 
But will you move in the line 

656
00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:56,800
that I'm calling you to move? 
Remember, any inheritance has to

657
00:37:56,800 --> 00:38:00,560
go through certain channels. 
Is this not given? 

658
00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:04,800
A lot of times, especially for 
those who are inheriting things 

659
00:38:04,800 --> 00:38:08,080
which are far bigger, they 
always have certain 

660
00:38:08,080 --> 00:38:10,080
restrictions. 
The previous generation has to 

661
00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:12,200
be done this way. 
Within these things. 

662
00:38:12,200 --> 00:38:14,640
These things can't be sold. 
These things have to be kept. 

663
00:38:15,520 --> 00:38:18,000
Today, the inheritance you and I
are receiving from Christ 

664
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:21,480
requires the same thing. 
We have to be followers, moving 

665
00:38:21,480 --> 00:38:23,280
to a place of daily communion 
with Him. 

666
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:26,280
A lot of us are striving today 
for a better version of what we 

667
00:38:26,280 --> 00:38:30,360
have, a better home, a better 
car, a better education. 

668
00:38:30,360 --> 00:38:33,080
And you know, it's interesting, 
when I'm talking to people my 

669
00:38:33,320 --> 00:38:36,520
age, we all want to give our 
kids better shoes than we had, 

670
00:38:36,520 --> 00:38:39,440
better things that we had, a 
better life than we had. 

671
00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:44,560
But the truth is, when we look 
at the way how the world is 

672
00:38:44,560 --> 00:38:52,840
progressing, we are all living 
better for that time, but the 

673
00:38:52,840 --> 00:38:55,280
issues still remain the same. 
The issues have not changed. 

674
00:38:55,600 --> 00:38:57,600
They're not having a better life
with lesser issues. 

675
00:38:57,600 --> 00:38:59,440
They're having better life with 
more issues. 

676
00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:03,320
And so today we have to learn 
the daily discipline of 

677
00:39:03,320 --> 00:39:06,280
disinheriting. 
Disinheriting, what are earthly 

678
00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:08,640
positions saying? 
These positions are here today, 

679
00:39:08,640 --> 00:39:11,720
gone tomorrow. 
These positions can't control 

680
00:39:11,920 --> 00:39:16,240
where my life has to be. 
I was recently talking to a 

681
00:39:16,240 --> 00:39:19,360
pastor couple and they was 
telling me how a lot of them 

682
00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:22,440
have gotten into debt, are 
living beyond their means, are 

683
00:39:22,440 --> 00:39:26,640
using these daily conversions 
where they can put everything on

684
00:39:26,640 --> 00:39:29,680
a loan and they don't realize 
what they're piling up with 

685
00:39:30,040 --> 00:39:34,960
daily inheriting disinheriting. 
Sorry, daily disinheriting 

686
00:39:35,320 --> 00:39:39,360
because we are such people with 
grabbing mentalities. 

687
00:39:40,040 --> 00:39:42,520
No, we need to move to a place 
of daily disinherity. 

688
00:39:44,040 --> 00:39:49,120
This letter that Peter writes 
has an interesting salutation. 

689
00:39:49,760 --> 00:39:52,240
He calls the believers on all 
four sides. 

690
00:39:52,240 --> 00:39:55,000
He's not addressing. 
He's saying he tells them all 

691
00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:57,760
four directions he names, and he
says this in one Peter. 

692
00:39:57,760 --> 00:40:00,400
One was one and two it says this
is a letter from Peter and 

693
00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:03,520
apostle of Jesus Christ. 
I'm writing to God's chosen 

694
00:40:03,520 --> 00:40:06,840
people who are living as 
foreigners in the provinces of 

695
00:40:06,840 --> 00:40:10,920
Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, 
Asia and Lithonia. 

696
00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:13,800
God the Father knew you and 
chose you long ago, and his 

697
00:40:13,800 --> 00:40:16,160
Spirit has made you holy. 
As a result. 

698
00:40:16,160 --> 00:40:19,000
You have obeyed him and I've 
been cleansed by the blood of 

699
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:20,640
Jesus Christ. 
Coming back to verse 1, he says 

700
00:40:20,880 --> 00:40:24,200
I'm writing to God's chosen 
people who are living as 

701
00:40:24,200 --> 00:40:27,040
foreigners in the provinces. 
You know, it's interesting when 

702
00:40:27,040 --> 00:40:30,960
you are living in a society 
where you're in a country, like 

703
00:40:30,960 --> 00:40:33,840
for example, when you live in a 
country like India, what you buy

704
00:40:33,840 --> 00:40:37,240
is as citizens and as rightful 
citizens over here, you get to 

705
00:40:37,240 --> 00:40:39,800
own certain things you get to. 
But when you move outside of 

706
00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:42,640
here, you're living as an expat,
which means it's all temporary. 

707
00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:46,800
It's all there are so many 
things which you have to go by 

708
00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:49,160
the laws of man. 
There's nothing which you can 

709
00:40:49,160 --> 00:40:52,480
live on your own. 
And God is telling us that when 

710
00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:56,840
you are living in his Kingdom, 
you have you have an inheritance

711
00:40:56,840 --> 00:40:59,560
in him. 
You will suddenly everything 

712
00:40:59,560 --> 00:41:02,800
that you're doing has a 
different Kingdom equation. 

713
00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:05,960
Suddenly you will realize your 
children, I've been realizing 

714
00:41:05,960 --> 00:41:09,880
this a lot is they'll be like 
sharpened arrows, which will be 

715
00:41:09,880 --> 00:41:12,160
in your quiver, which you'll be 
able to launch them out into 

716
00:41:12,160 --> 00:41:14,160
this world. 
You will suddenly realize the 

717
00:41:14,160 --> 00:41:18,600
marriage that you had with your 
wife is for far bigger Kingdom 

718
00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:22,440
exploits than just US bringing 
up kids and putting them into 

719
00:41:22,440 --> 00:41:24,760
some jobs and thinking we've 
done well. 

720
00:41:24,920 --> 00:41:27,000
No, it's for far greater 
exploits. 

721
00:41:27,160 --> 00:41:31,040
Your life that you're living 
today as a single person has far

722
00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:33,520
bigger impact here on this earth
for Jesus. 

723
00:41:33,760 --> 00:41:36,880
And so in that inheritance, 
you'll realize a lot of the 

724
00:41:36,880 --> 00:41:40,320
things that I'm wanting results,
I won't be able to see it. 

725
00:41:41,600 --> 00:41:47,000
I don't get any earthly result 
by leading a church over here in

726
00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:48,800
Chennai. 
I don't get a result. 

727
00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:52,000
There's there's, there's, 
there's no report that I have to

728
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:53,640
give. 
There's no report that I have to

729
00:41:53,880 --> 00:41:56,080
submit and see. 
This is how this is all for 

730
00:41:56,080 --> 00:41:58,960
God's glory. 
This is all for God's glory. 

731
00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:01,280
And that is how it'll feel like.
So it'll be like God. 

732
00:42:01,280 --> 00:42:02,560
Why do I have to keep doing 
this? 

733
00:42:02,560 --> 00:42:04,000
God? 
Why is it so hard? 

734
00:42:04,160 --> 00:42:07,960
God is like daily disinheriting.
Daily disinheriting. 

735
00:42:07,960 --> 00:42:10,880
Because this is disinheriting. 
You will know that you're not 

736
00:42:10,880 --> 00:42:12,800
doing it for yourself, you're 
doing it for God. 

737
00:42:13,520 --> 00:42:16,520
It's in your daily design, daily
designating, not of my 

738
00:42:16,520 --> 00:42:19,240
responsibility as a husband, not
as my responsibility as a 

739
00:42:19,240 --> 00:42:22,640
father, not of my responsibility
as a son, but decelerating the 

740
00:42:22,640 --> 00:42:28,800
desires that are so humanly tied
to this world of being earthly 

741
00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:32,680
possessions. 
God's chosen people are called 

742
00:42:32,680 --> 00:42:36,440
to live as foreigners. 
So today you and I are wanting 

743
00:42:36,440 --> 00:42:39,720
to be citizens of the world. 
No, you won't be citizens of the

744
00:42:39,720 --> 00:42:41,000
world because everything is 
temporary. 

745
00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:45,400
Everything will change systems 
and things will change so quick 

746
00:42:45,400 --> 00:42:48,800
it will be hard for us to grasp.
But God's like, can you live as 

747
00:42:48,800 --> 00:42:51,960
foreigners? 
Which means he'll give you the 

748
00:42:51,960 --> 00:42:56,200
things to enjoy. 
You have the harvest to do 

749
00:42:56,200 --> 00:42:58,800
everything, but you'll realize 
God, all this is for your glory.

750
00:42:59,320 --> 00:43:02,680
All this that I get here in 
terms of things that happen 

751
00:43:02,680 --> 00:43:04,880
around these don't control my 
mood. 

752
00:43:04,880 --> 00:43:09,320
They don't control my validity. 
I have my identity is in you. 

753
00:43:09,320 --> 00:43:12,320
I'd secure in you my my 
understanding is in you 

754
00:43:12,320 --> 00:43:14,720
completely. 
What happens? 

755
00:43:14,720 --> 00:43:17,760
This breaks the norm of what we 
are called to operate, meaning 

756
00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:19,520
our treasure is in heaven, not 
here. 

757
00:43:19,960 --> 00:43:21,640
What does living as foreigners 
mean? 

758
00:43:21,640 --> 00:43:24,400
It means our interests are 
different, our pursuits are 

759
00:43:24,400 --> 00:43:26,240
different, our anchor is 
different. 

760
00:43:26,400 --> 00:43:29,440
How we view people and 
socioeconomic groups are 

761
00:43:29,440 --> 00:43:32,640
entirely different. 
What are the fruits of the Holy 

762
00:43:32,640 --> 00:43:35,440
Spirit in Galatians chapter 5? 
This is what it says in NLT. 

763
00:43:35,680 --> 00:43:38,720
But the Holy Spirit produces 
this kind of fruit in our lives.

764
00:43:39,000 --> 00:43:42,320
Lovejoy, peace, patience, 
kindness, goodness, 

765
00:43:42,320 --> 00:43:44,840
faithfulness, gentleness, and 
self-control. 

766
00:43:45,560 --> 00:43:48,400
There is no law against these 
things. 

767
00:43:48,800 --> 00:43:52,480
Those who belong to Christ have 
nailed the passions and desires 

768
00:43:52,480 --> 00:43:56,640
of their sinful nature to His 
cross and crucified them there. 

769
00:43:56,880 --> 00:43:59,480
Since we are living by the 
Spirit, let us follow the 

770
00:43:59,480 --> 00:44:02,160
spirits leading in every part of
our lives. 

771
00:44:02,440 --> 00:44:06,720
Let us not become conceited or 
provoke one another, or be 

772
00:44:06,720 --> 00:44:11,320
jealous of one another. 
Daily disinheriting requires us 

773
00:44:11,320 --> 00:44:15,280
to disinner these three things. 
Where we conceit, where we 

774
00:44:15,520 --> 00:44:18,520
literally give up, we sing. 
God, I can't do this. 

775
00:44:18,520 --> 00:44:22,920
No, the enemy will always be 
there to move certain things 

776
00:44:22,920 --> 00:44:25,280
toward us. 
He'll bring certain ties, 

777
00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:29,560
certain prospects to us. 
Saying this might expand 

778
00:44:29,560 --> 00:44:31,800
everything, but if it's not of 
God, don't take it up. 

779
00:44:32,040 --> 00:44:35,040
It will remove you from the 
heavenly inheritance. 

780
00:44:35,040 --> 00:44:39,080
So make sure you don't concede 
to the enemy. 

781
00:44:39,360 --> 00:44:41,480
Second thing, don't be jealous 
of one another. 

782
00:44:41,480 --> 00:44:46,280
It's jealousy where we allow the
root of Satan to work in and 

783
00:44:46,280 --> 00:44:48,320
through us. 
We suddenly are spewing things, 

784
00:44:48,520 --> 00:44:51,840
saying things. 
The power of death is an our 

785
00:44:51,840 --> 00:44:54,880
tongue and so suddenly he'll use
our very own tongue which 

786
00:44:54,880 --> 00:44:58,480
praises the name of Jesus, but 
yet it'll speak death over other

787
00:44:58,480 --> 00:45:00,320
people. 
That won't happen. 

788
00:45:00,520 --> 00:45:04,440
Shouldn't happen because we're 
disinheriting daily to say God. 

789
00:45:04,440 --> 00:45:07,400
I will speak life. 
I will be watchful with my 

790
00:45:07,400 --> 00:45:09,320
words. 
I will learn to be silent. 

791
00:45:09,520 --> 00:45:12,080
I will learn to allow you to 
work. 

792
00:45:12,400 --> 00:45:15,280
Let us also not provoke one 
another where we are not just 

793
00:45:16,400 --> 00:45:20,280
harboring disunity, where we are
moving others towards a place of

794
00:45:20,280 --> 00:45:23,000
rebellion, of saying this is not
God's will. 

795
00:45:23,920 --> 00:45:27,960
Earthly possession will always 
come with strife. 

796
00:45:28,280 --> 00:45:33,360
Fear will come with such a 
gameplay where you playing your 

797
00:45:33,360 --> 00:45:36,480
cards right, but heavenly 
inheritance comes from a clean 

798
00:45:36,480 --> 00:45:39,080
place where the Holy Spirit is 
working, where you nailed 

799
00:45:39,080 --> 00:45:42,160
everything to the cross of Jesus
and you're experiencing the 

800
00:45:42,160 --> 00:45:45,160
fruit that is right. 
And so today I want to ask you, 

801
00:45:45,440 --> 00:45:51,280
will you be able to experience 
this and give God the glory of 

802
00:45:51,280 --> 00:45:55,760
disinheriting earthly 
possessions and moving towards 

803
00:45:55,800 --> 00:46:00,000
heavenly inheritance? 
Remember, it's his Holy Spirit 

804
00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:02,200
that makes you holy, nothing 
else. 

805
00:46:02,200 --> 00:46:06,720
As we read earlier in Peter one,
Peter one, it says through Jesus

806
00:46:06,720 --> 00:46:10,520
Christ, because it says God the 
Father knew you and chose you 

807
00:46:10,520 --> 00:46:12,960
long ago and his Spirit has made
you holy. 

808
00:46:12,960 --> 00:46:16,840
So the Spirit who makes us holy,
so the Spirit who enables us to 

809
00:46:16,840 --> 00:46:22,920
make these daily dying things in
our life, daily dying, daily 

810
00:46:22,920 --> 00:46:25,520
disenerating. 
And the third one is daily 

811
00:46:25,520 --> 00:46:27,880
declaring. 
What is daily declaring new 

812
00:46:27,880 --> 00:46:31,480
birth is speaking God's living 
word over everything that is 

813
00:46:31,480 --> 00:46:34,960
dead in my life, everything dead
in my life. 

814
00:46:35,400 --> 00:46:39,360
What is dead in your life today?
You know, when Satan, when we 

815
00:46:39,400 --> 00:46:42,760
are born into this world, a 
sinful nature is we we've 

816
00:46:42,760 --> 00:46:47,120
inherited sinful nature and each
of us distinctively are moving 

817
00:46:47,400 --> 00:46:50,760
to with certain sin patterns, 
which means when you're moving 

818
00:46:50,760 --> 00:46:54,600
through certain sin patterns, 
those sin patterns are alive in 

819
00:46:54,600 --> 00:46:56,160
us. 
But there are certain things 

820
00:46:56,160 --> 00:46:59,360
that God had instituted in our 
very own creation which have 

821
00:46:59,360 --> 00:47:02,760
been dead. 
So in our daily declaring, we 

822
00:47:02,760 --> 00:47:05,200
are saying God, we are bringing 
new birth to this. 

823
00:47:05,640 --> 00:47:07,960
We are bringing new birth to 
this, even as we read earlier, 

824
00:47:07,960 --> 00:47:10,440
the fruit of the spirit of all 
those different fruits. 

825
00:47:10,440 --> 00:47:14,640
If joy has been stolen and is 
not prevalent in your family 

826
00:47:14,640 --> 00:47:19,800
line, if you've, if you've seen 
your parents or your relatives 

827
00:47:19,800 --> 00:47:23,600
always being so negative and not
being able to, you need to say 

828
00:47:23,600 --> 00:47:27,440
God, this is not from you. 
I'm going to use living hope. 

829
00:47:27,480 --> 00:47:30,320
I'm going to start speaking and 
declaring joy over family. 

830
00:47:30,320 --> 00:47:33,000
In all my circumstances. 
Joy will be my strength. 

831
00:47:33,320 --> 00:47:34,920
Joy of the Lord will be my 
strength. 

832
00:47:34,920 --> 00:47:38,480
You start declaring his word. 
So daily declaring is very 

833
00:47:38,480 --> 00:47:39,920
important. 
Where does this come from? 

834
00:47:40,120 --> 00:47:43,440
It comes from the very Old 
Testament where we see what did 

835
00:47:43,440 --> 00:47:47,840
God do when he took his people 
out of Egypt from slavery into 

836
00:47:47,840 --> 00:47:50,760
living in freedom. 
He had to remind them that you 

837
00:47:50,760 --> 00:47:52,840
need to live differently than 
what you lived before. 

838
00:47:53,760 --> 00:47:56,960
The patterns of the sinful 
nature that you had in Egypt 

839
00:47:56,960 --> 00:48:00,360
cannot be how you live here. 
And so he gives this instruction

840
00:48:00,600 --> 00:48:02,320
to Moses and he gives this 
beautiful thing. 

841
00:48:02,320 --> 00:48:05,800
He numbers chapter 15 verses 37 
to 41. 

842
00:48:05,800 --> 00:48:09,000
He says the Lord said to Moses, 
speak to the Israelites and say 

843
00:48:09,000 --> 00:48:13,120
to them throughout the 
generations to come, you are to 

844
00:48:13,120 --> 00:48:16,720
make tassels on the corners of 
your garments, the blue cord on 

845
00:48:16,720 --> 00:48:19,480
each tassel. 
You'll have these tassels to 

846
00:48:19,480 --> 00:48:24,880
look and so you'll remember all 
the commands of the Lord and 

847
00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:31,160
that you may obey them and not 
prostitute yourselves by chasing

848
00:48:32,520 --> 00:48:36,600
them after the lusts of your own
hearts and eyes. 

849
00:48:36,600 --> 00:48:39,840
Then you'll remember to obey all
my commands and will be 

850
00:48:39,840 --> 00:48:43,200
consecrated to your God. 
I am the Lord your God who 

851
00:48:43,200 --> 00:48:46,160
brought you out of Egypt to be 
your God. 

852
00:48:46,200 --> 00:48:48,560
I am the Lord your God. 
It's interesting, he says here 

853
00:48:48,760 --> 00:48:53,080
you will have these tassels to 
look and remember the commands 

854
00:48:53,080 --> 00:48:56,320
of the Lord, so that you'll obey
them and not prostitute 

855
00:48:56,320 --> 00:48:59,880
yourselves by chasing after. 
Because what we don't look and 

856
00:48:59,880 --> 00:49:02,080
remember, we will chase after 
certain things. 

857
00:49:02,680 --> 00:49:05,200
And so today a lot of us have 
nothing to look at. 

858
00:49:05,560 --> 00:49:09,680
What we have looking at is other
people's version of certain 

859
00:49:09,680 --> 00:49:11,160
things that you're chasing after
that. 

860
00:49:11,360 --> 00:49:14,160
But God's bringing us back. 
Hey, if you want to live this 

861
00:49:14,160 --> 00:49:18,040
new living hope, if you want to 
live this in my resurrection 

862
00:49:18,040 --> 00:49:21,160
power, if you want to see this 
thing, you need to look at me. 

863
00:49:21,960 --> 00:49:25,880
You need to look at me. 
And which means where do we look

864
00:49:25,880 --> 00:49:26,880
at? 
If you have to look at God, we 

865
00:49:26,880 --> 00:49:29,680
have to look at his word. 
And so today, are we really 

866
00:49:29,680 --> 00:49:33,240
looking at God's Word? 
Are we looking at God's Word? 

867
00:49:34,080 --> 00:49:37,040
Are we able to understand God's 
word today? 

868
00:49:37,040 --> 00:49:41,480
There's so much of it that we 
are quick to say we don't 

869
00:49:41,480 --> 00:49:43,640
understand. 
We are probably the most 

870
00:49:43,640 --> 00:49:49,600
resourced generation in 2026. 
We are the most resourced people

871
00:49:49,600 --> 00:49:54,400
group to ever live with. 
But yet we fail to take him at 

872
00:49:54,400 --> 00:49:58,680
his word. 
The tassels seem things which 

873
00:49:58,720 --> 00:50:03,480
don't make sense just because 
we've not spent time spend time.

874
00:50:03,480 --> 00:50:06,320
You know when you're dating, You
know when you're dating your 

875
00:50:06,320 --> 00:50:12,920
girl or if you're if you're if 
you're dating a guy to better 

876
00:50:12,920 --> 00:50:14,320
understand them. 
What do you do? 

877
00:50:15,200 --> 00:50:18,120
Do you go to shopping? 
Do you go just eating? 

878
00:50:18,120 --> 00:50:22,800
No, you you find these moments 
of sitting to talk and to 

879
00:50:22,800 --> 00:50:26,680
understand what they're saying. 
What does he really mean? 

880
00:50:26,720 --> 00:50:30,720
Is he dumb or is he just, what 
is he telling me? 

881
00:50:31,000 --> 00:50:35,080
You sit down to understand. 
So which means you and I have to

882
00:50:35,080 --> 00:50:39,000
come to a daily discipline of 
declaring, which means if I 

883
00:50:39,000 --> 00:50:42,840
don't sit and know what God's 
saying, what will I declare? 

884
00:50:44,040 --> 00:50:46,720
And so often times a lot of us 
are declaring all of our own 

885
00:50:46,720 --> 00:50:51,120
physical body, but God's saying,
no, I want declare you to 

886
00:50:51,120 --> 00:50:53,960
declare from what you've been 
meditating on, from what you've 

887
00:50:53,960 --> 00:50:55,720
been seeing, from what you've 
been reading. 

888
00:50:56,680 --> 00:50:59,760
And so I ask you today, would we
come to that place? 

889
00:50:59,760 --> 00:51:02,640
Revelation chapter 22 verses 
10:50 says, then I heard a loud 

890
00:51:02,640 --> 00:51:06,240
voice in heaven say, now have 
come the salvation, the power 

891
00:51:06,240 --> 00:51:09,080
and the Kingdom of our God and 
the authority of his Messiah for

892
00:51:09,080 --> 00:51:13,480
the accuser of our brothers and 
sisters who accuses them before 

893
00:51:13,480 --> 00:51:16,120
our God, day and night has been 
hurled down. 

894
00:51:16,200 --> 00:51:20,280
This is when Satan has been 
pushed down into the pits of 

895
00:51:20,280 --> 00:51:22,920
fire. 
They triumphed over him by the 

896
00:51:22,920 --> 00:51:25,480
blood of the Lamb and by the 
word of the testimony. 

897
00:51:25,720 --> 00:51:30,440
They did not love their lives so
much as to shrink from death. 

898
00:51:32,000 --> 00:51:34,480
Why do we have to declare? 
There are two things when you 

899
00:51:34,480 --> 00:51:37,160
need this. 
We have to declare because the 

900
00:51:37,160 --> 00:51:41,120
accuser is constantly telling us
something which we are not. 

901
00:51:41,600 --> 00:51:44,200
They're constantly saying 
something which He wants us to 

902
00:51:44,200 --> 00:51:47,880
take and make it our identity. 
If, if not, if we don't 

903
00:51:48,720 --> 00:51:52,800
retaliate back, because if the 
accuser is saying, hey, you are 

904
00:51:52,800 --> 00:51:55,680
an abused person, this is who 
you are. 

905
00:51:56,200 --> 00:51:59,240
This is who you are. 
You have no credibility. 

906
00:51:59,520 --> 00:52:02,120
This is a weakness in you. 
This is something which you are 

907
00:52:02,120 --> 00:52:05,000
struggling in. 
He riddles you with guilt and 

908
00:52:05,000 --> 00:52:08,360
shame and rise you up in that. 
But God is saying no, you need 

909
00:52:08,360 --> 00:52:11,200
to talk to him who you are. 
I am a chosen vessel of God. 

910
00:52:11,720 --> 00:52:13,840
I have been made in the image of
Jesus Christ. 

911
00:52:13,840 --> 00:52:16,400
God knit me even in my mother's 
womb. 

912
00:52:16,400 --> 00:52:18,480
He knew me even before the world
was made. 

913
00:52:18,680 --> 00:52:21,280
This is who we start declaring 
in Christ Jesus. 

914
00:52:21,480 --> 00:52:24,160
I know my God because He's the 
same yesterday, today, and 

915
00:52:24,160 --> 00:52:26,440
forever. 
So if He knew me then, He knows 

916
00:52:26,440 --> 00:52:28,200
me now. 
He's the one who's counted the 

917
00:52:28,200 --> 00:52:30,680
number of air in my head and He 
calls me my name. 

918
00:52:30,680 --> 00:52:34,080
I am the apple of His eye. 
All these words come alive 

919
00:52:34,080 --> 00:52:38,200
because of me sitting and 
putting it into my system to 

920
00:52:38,200 --> 00:52:42,680
know and realize what I'm 
declaring, what I'm declaring 

921
00:52:43,120 --> 00:52:45,400
because the accuser will always 
find these things. 

922
00:52:45,680 --> 00:52:49,200
So I pray that we will move to a
place of wanting to spend that 

923
00:52:49,200 --> 00:52:51,120
time. 
Also. 

924
00:52:51,120 --> 00:52:55,800
The second thing that we see is 
the desires of our flesh and our

925
00:52:55,800 --> 00:52:59,520
eyes, what we chase after. 
If you're if you're desiring 

926
00:52:59,520 --> 00:53:02,560
certain things and you're 
chasing after that, you'll 

927
00:53:02,560 --> 00:53:06,360
realize that that won't make us 
happy and full, but God's like, 

928
00:53:06,360 --> 00:53:09,400
can you move to a place of 
coming to a place of saying God,

929
00:53:09,400 --> 00:53:13,600
this is what I want to 
experience. 

930
00:53:14,200 --> 00:53:17,360
You'll soon realize the more you
follow Jesus, the more his 

931
00:53:17,360 --> 00:53:19,920
desire is set in Everything 
changes. 

932
00:53:19,920 --> 00:53:21,920
What you've been measuring 
before will change what you've 

933
00:53:21,920 --> 00:53:24,520
been thinking as goodwill 
suddenly change. 

934
00:53:24,520 --> 00:53:27,240
What you think is right also 
will change because you'll 

935
00:53:27,240 --> 00:53:30,080
realize that grace that has been
given looks grace completely 

936
00:53:30,080 --> 00:53:32,200
that has to be distributed to 
people around us. 

937
00:53:33,280 --> 00:53:37,000
And so today the desires we 
will, which we will be chasing 

938
00:53:37,000 --> 00:53:39,200
with our eyes and flesh when we 
are in Jesus, will look 

939
00:53:39,200 --> 00:53:41,640
different because they'll be for
the eternal truth, which we'll 

940
00:53:41,640 --> 00:53:43,960
start speaking. 
And so suddenly you will realize

941
00:53:44,200 --> 00:53:46,920
you are starting to pray for 
certain things that are not even

942
00:53:46,920 --> 00:53:50,120
in this year or the next year, 
but for the years to come. 

943
00:53:50,120 --> 00:53:53,960
You suddenly are declaring over 
things of the natural, the 

944
00:53:53,960 --> 00:53:55,560
things of the supernatural. 
Why? 

945
00:53:55,560 --> 00:53:58,760
Because when you take that, 
you'll start seeing sicknesses 

946
00:53:58,760 --> 00:54:04,000
flee, demons being bound. 
You'll suddenly start seeing 

947
00:54:04,000 --> 00:54:06,720
bondages being broken, 
strongholds coming down. 

948
00:54:06,720 --> 00:54:10,240
You'll suddenly see dead things.
The very things that reports are

949
00:54:10,240 --> 00:54:11,880
saying is strong. 
Because you're starting to 

950
00:54:11,880 --> 00:54:14,040
declare the life giving. 
What They will start 

951
00:54:14,040 --> 00:54:16,640
regenerating. 
The living spirit will start 

952
00:54:16,640 --> 00:54:19,720
regenerating tendon, joint, 
blood vessels. 

953
00:54:19,880 --> 00:54:22,480
It'll start functioning to a 
place where you'll see the 

954
00:54:22,480 --> 00:54:26,280
supernatural being evident. 
I have not given up still 

955
00:54:26,280 --> 00:54:29,680
believing for the supernatural, 
but I'm realizing that for the 

956
00:54:29,680 --> 00:54:33,160
supernatural to be evident, 
there's so much of more that has

957
00:54:33,160 --> 00:54:36,520
to change in me because when I 
am going back to the scripture, 

958
00:54:36,520 --> 00:54:40,240
I can still see a lot of it is 
being having a shade of mine on 

959
00:54:40,240 --> 00:54:42,600
it. 
And I'm God is undoing that. 

960
00:54:42,600 --> 00:54:45,320
He's he's creeping that off and 
saying no, it has to be my shade

961
00:54:45,320 --> 00:54:49,120
entirely else it's doom for 
destruction. 

962
00:54:49,120 --> 00:54:52,520
And so today I want to ask you, 
would you be ready to daily 

963
00:54:52,520 --> 00:54:56,280
declaring God's living Word, 
God's living Word? 

964
00:54:56,640 --> 00:54:59,160
I love this verse, Ephesians 
320. 

965
00:54:59,160 --> 00:55:03,040
He'll do far more than what we 
can think or imagine now it says

966
00:55:03,040 --> 00:55:05,920
in Ephesians 320. 
Now to Him who's able to do 

967
00:55:06,120 --> 00:55:09,280
immeasurably more than all we 
can ask or imagine, according to

968
00:55:09,280 --> 00:55:15,200
His part that is at work within 
us, to Him be all the glory in 

969
00:55:16,040 --> 00:55:20,080
the church and in Christ Jesus 
throughout all generations, 

970
00:55:20,080 --> 00:55:28,080
forever and ever, Amen. 
So you and I today can only see 

971
00:55:28,080 --> 00:55:31,800
all of that immeasurably more 
only when we are experiencing 

972
00:55:31,800 --> 00:55:36,320
His power, which means we need 
to start living this hope out, 

973
00:55:36,480 --> 00:55:40,720
living hope now and beyond, now 
and beyond. 

974
00:55:41,360 --> 00:55:43,640
So today, what are you and I 
called to do? 

975
00:55:44,560 --> 00:55:48,760
We are called to stand strong. 
Isaiah 59, verse 21. 

976
00:55:48,760 --> 00:55:51,560
This is what it says. 
As for me, this is my covenant 

977
00:55:51,560 --> 00:55:54,160
with them, says the Lord. 
My spirit that is upon you, and 

978
00:55:54,160 --> 00:55:57,320
my words that I have put in your
mouth or out of the mouth of 

979
00:55:57,320 --> 00:56:00,560
your children's offspring, says 
a Lord, from this time forth and

980
00:56:00,560 --> 00:56:04,200
forevermore, my spirit that is 
upon you and my words that I've 

981
00:56:04,200 --> 00:56:05,760
put in your mouth shall not 
depart. 

982
00:56:05,760 --> 00:56:10,840
So I pray and ask that His 
Spirit will reside in US, that 

983
00:56:10,840 --> 00:56:14,000
we'll become a storehouse for 
His Word, that we'll be able to 

984
00:56:14,000 --> 00:56:16,200
declare it into every place that
we go. 

985
00:56:16,480 --> 00:56:19,240
If God's taking you, if you're 
in the business of travelling to

986
00:56:19,240 --> 00:56:22,960
different cities for work, start
declaring His Word over each 

987
00:56:22,960 --> 00:56:27,480
city that you go. 
Start having a list of places 

988
00:56:27,480 --> 00:56:30,600
and people that you're praying 
far beyond what you've you're 

989
00:56:30,600 --> 00:56:33,240
currently doing because that's 
where our living hope is for now

990
00:56:33,240 --> 00:56:37,920
and beyond is starting to 
exercise this daily dying, this 

991
00:56:37,920 --> 00:56:42,040
daily disinheriting and this 
daily declaring so that God will

992
00:56:42,040 --> 00:56:45,120
be glorified. 
As I come to a conclusion, I 

993
00:56:45,120 --> 00:56:47,880
want to come to this conclude in
Jude chapter one, verse 17. 

994
00:56:48,360 --> 00:56:51,560
And he talks over here and he 
tells them in verse 18, and he 

995
00:56:51,560 --> 00:56:53,880
said to you in the last times, 
you will be scoffers. 

996
00:56:53,880 --> 00:56:57,560
There will be scoffers who will 
follow their own ungodly 

997
00:56:57,560 --> 00:57:00,040
desires. 
These are the people who divide 

998
00:57:00,040 --> 00:57:03,200
you who follow mere natural 
instincts and do not have the 

999
00:57:03,200 --> 00:57:05,360
spirit. 
But you, dear friends, we're 

1000
00:57:05,360 --> 00:57:07,920
building yourselves up in the 
most holy faith and praying in 

1001
00:57:07,920 --> 00:57:10,760
the Holy Spirit. 
Keep yourselves in God's love as

1002
00:57:10,760 --> 00:57:13,920
you wait for the mercy of our 
Lord Jesus Christ to bring you 

1003
00:57:14,400 --> 00:57:17,320
eternal life. 
Be merciful to those who doubt. 

1004
00:57:17,720 --> 00:57:20,880
Save others by snatching them 
from fire to others. 

1005
00:57:20,880 --> 00:57:25,120
Show mercy mixed with fear, 
hating even the clothing stained

1006
00:57:25,120 --> 00:57:29,040
by corrupted flesh. 
What Jude is telling here is the

1007
00:57:29,200 --> 00:57:33,160
path that you're called to take 
requires us to be discerning. 

1008
00:57:34,040 --> 00:57:36,760
Discerning because if it is not 
without the Holy Spirit, we 

1009
00:57:36,760 --> 00:57:38,880
won't be able to last. 
Because with the Holy Spirit 

1010
00:57:39,120 --> 00:57:41,680
we'll be merciful to those who 
doubt, we'll know where to show 

1011
00:57:41,680 --> 00:57:43,960
mercy. 
We'll also be able to snatch 

1012
00:57:44,000 --> 00:57:45,920
those who are heading towards 
the pit of fire. 

1013
00:57:46,160 --> 00:57:48,680
God will be able to speak 
through our mouth through our 

1014
00:57:48,680 --> 00:57:50,920
declaration. 
He'll be able to say the right 

1015
00:57:50,920 --> 00:57:52,840
things. 
The right word of our testimony 

1016
00:57:52,840 --> 00:57:54,920
will be able to be will go out 
of our mouth. 

1017
00:57:55,640 --> 00:57:59,560
We'll also be able to see that 
how with mixed with fear and 

1018
00:57:59,560 --> 00:58:01,440
hating. 
How do we manage that? 

1019
00:58:01,440 --> 00:58:03,200
That is all the work of the Holy
Spirit. 

1020
00:58:03,200 --> 00:58:07,480
So you and I will be able to do 
that only when we allow the Holy

1021
00:58:07,480 --> 00:58:09,040
Spirit to work in and through 
us. 

1022
00:58:09,800 --> 00:58:13,240
And the more we get accustomed 
to this daily dying, daily 

1023
00:58:13,240 --> 00:58:18,680
disinheriting and daily 
declaring, we will see God work 

1024
00:58:18,680 --> 00:58:20,280
in and through us in a 
marvellous way. 

1025
00:58:20,520 --> 00:58:23,640
And I want to leave that with 
you because you and I have to 

1026
00:58:23,640 --> 00:58:25,560
come into a daily routine of 
everything. 

1027
00:58:25,560 --> 00:58:27,680
So I pray and ask. 
We have the Bible with us. 

1028
00:58:28,160 --> 00:58:30,360
We have prayer that is 
accessible to us. 

1029
00:58:30,360 --> 00:58:32,160
Let these all become daily 
habits. 

1030
00:58:32,400 --> 00:58:35,080
Let us have ensure we have daily
habits. 

1031
00:58:35,320 --> 00:58:38,920
Listen to these worship songs. 
Allow the words to sit into you 

1032
00:58:39,080 --> 00:58:43,000
so that they will start building
momentum and capacity in you so 

1033
00:58:43,000 --> 00:58:46,680
that nothing of the world what 
the terms of the world in terms 

1034
00:58:46,680 --> 00:58:51,720
of fear and anxiety, all that 
will be pressed down, stressed 

1035
00:58:51,720 --> 00:58:55,800
down, and you'll be able to be 
an overcomer in Christ Jesus 

1036
00:58:55,800 --> 00:58:59,160
through the Holy Spirit. 
So I just want to pray and ask 

1037
00:58:59,160 --> 00:59:01,160
that would you be able to do 
that, Lord? 

1038
00:59:01,160 --> 00:59:03,440
I ask Lord, even as we pray, 
Lord, that you would give us 

1039
00:59:03,440 --> 00:59:08,320
strength to do this daily dying,
Lord, we want to partake of this

1040
00:59:08,320 --> 00:59:11,560
resurrection life, Lord Jesus, 
this regeneration that comes 

1041
00:59:11,560 --> 00:59:14,000
through the Holy Spirit. 
So I pray that, Lord, we'll be 

1042
00:59:14,000 --> 00:59:17,360
able to amputate and cut off 
things that are not of you so 

1043
00:59:17,360 --> 00:59:19,880
that we'll be able to give you 
the glory, give you the honor. 

1044
00:59:19,880 --> 00:59:22,720
Lord Jesus, I pray that, Lord, 
we'll be able to come to a place

1045
00:59:22,720 --> 00:59:25,760
of daily disinheriting, Lord 
Jesus, because we don't want to 

1046
00:59:26,280 --> 00:59:30,640
be people who have earthly 
positions, but we don't have a 

1047
00:59:30,640 --> 00:59:32,320
place, Lord Jesus, in your 
Kingdom. 

1048
00:59:32,320 --> 00:59:35,120
We want to be people, Lord, who 
are running after Kingdom 

1049
00:59:35,120 --> 00:59:37,000
inheritances. 
Lord Jesus, we thank you. 

1050
00:59:37,000 --> 00:59:40,200
Lord, I pray, Lord, if we pray, 
Lord, for daily declaring, if 

1051
00:59:40,200 --> 00:59:42,720
you've been declaring death over
ourselves, I pray we'll come to 

1052
00:59:42,720 --> 00:59:45,720
a place of declaring life. 
If you've been declaring, Lord 

1053
00:59:45,720 --> 00:59:49,120
Jesus, the words of the world 
and trying to manifest certain 

1054
00:59:49,120 --> 00:59:52,440
things, I pray we'll declare 
your living word so that we'll 

1055
00:59:52,440 --> 00:59:54,840
be able to see living things 
come to life. 

1056
00:59:54,840 --> 00:59:57,640
Lord, living things or I pray 
Lord, even right now, Lord, 

1057
00:59:57,840 --> 01:00:01,080
things, Lord, I pray as we read,
Lord, faith, love, hope, 

1058
01:00:01,080 --> 01:00:05,160
self-control, contentment, Lord 
joy, all these will start coming

1059
01:00:05,160 --> 01:00:07,200
to life. 
Lord Jesus, we ask for more of 

1060
01:00:07,200 --> 01:00:10,160
it because we need more of it, 
Lord. 

1061
01:00:11,280 --> 01:00:13,800
I pray that, Lord, we'll be 
anchored in you, strengthened in

1062
01:00:13,800 --> 01:00:15,520
you. 
Our hope is in you, Lord, That's

1063
01:00:15,520 --> 01:00:18,960
living hope is in you. 
I pray that, Lord, from today 

1064
01:00:18,960 --> 01:00:24,040
on, till we see you face to 
face, we'll have this hope which

1065
01:00:24,040 --> 01:00:27,680
is growing, Lord, in you. 
Would you go before us, Lord? 

1066
01:00:28,600 --> 01:00:30,720
I pray, Lord, even as you read 
earlier a lot from the life of 

1067
01:00:30,720 --> 01:00:33,800
the machinery, I pray, Lord, 
we'll be moving into places of 

1068
01:00:33,800 --> 01:00:36,280
darkness. 
And when we leave that place, 

1069
01:00:36,360 --> 01:00:40,000
darkness won't be there because 
you've shine the light so well. 

1070
01:00:40,000 --> 01:00:44,800
Lord, be glorified, be honoured.
Lord, I pray your peace and your

1071
01:00:44,800 --> 01:00:46,640
love rest upon each and every 
one of us. 

1072
01:00:46,800 --> 01:00:49,440
Be with us in this coming week. 
Go before us mostly. 

1073
01:00:49,440 --> 01:00:50,920
Namely, pray. 
Amen. 

1074
01:00:51,240 --> 01:00:53,720
Amen. 
I pray that even as you step out

1075
01:00:53,720 --> 01:00:57,120
this week, God will bless you. 
Remember that this living hope 

1076
01:00:57,120 --> 01:00:59,840
that you're called to live is 1,
which you can only do with the 

1077
01:00:59,840 --> 01:01:03,680
help of the Holy Spirit. 
Trust Him, rely on Him, and 

1078
01:01:03,680 --> 01:01:07,200
remember that you'll be able to 
see all the plans that He has 

1079
01:01:07,200 --> 01:01:08,400
for you come through in your 
life. 

1080
01:01:08,440 --> 01:01:13,360
I believe that I'm a walking 
testimony of doing things which 

1081
01:01:13,360 --> 01:01:16,440
I've not even dreamt of. 
It's only possible because of 

1082
01:01:16,440 --> 01:01:18,560
God. 
And so I ask that you will be in

1083
01:01:18,560 --> 01:01:22,440
a place of seeing it that's 
surrounding to God. 

1084
01:01:22,440 --> 01:01:24,760
He does far bigger things than 
what we can imagine. 

1085
01:01:25,280 --> 01:01:27,840
I pray that you have a blessed 
week and remember this, that who

1086
01:01:27,840 --> 01:01:30,040
all finds Jesus finds life. 
God bless you all. 

1087
01:01:30,880 --> 01:01:33,680
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1088
01:01:34,400 --> 01:01:36,000
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1089
01:01:36,000 --> 01:01:37,760
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1090
01:01:38,160 --> 01:01:42,240
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1091
01:01:42,240 --> 01:01:45,640
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1092
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1093
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1094
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