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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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A rolled stone, doubtful and 
worried disciples, a new 

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beginning, all mark that very 
first Easter morning. 

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It is vital that for every 
follower of Jesus to know that 

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their faith rests and grows from
the fact of Christ's 

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resurrection. 
This Easter, we look at the two 

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hinges on which all of our faith
rests and hope that you are 

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strengthened and established in 
your faith while being filled 

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and overflowing with the 
resurrection power within you. 

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Just day before yesterday we 
were here and you're listening 

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to the Good Friday's service and
we heard about 3 different life,

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new life, eternal life and 
abundant life. 

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And even today, as we look into 
the Resurrection Sunday, the 

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fact remains that Jesus is 
alive. 

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How many of you agree? 
How many of you know it's a 

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fact? 
And so this tomb, the stone was 

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rolled and the grave is empty. 
And even as I was thinking 

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about, you know, one of the hard
things to preach is I feel Good 

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Friday also, you can preach, but
Easter is even more harder 

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because Easter, Christmas, all 
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less all of us know the story. 
And then it becomes even more 

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harder because what is he going 
to say is what the next big 

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question is? 
And as I was preparing, I was 

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just looking through the news. 
Amidst all the chaos that's 

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happening in the world, they 
sent a rocket up to the moon. 

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How many of you are following 
the Artemis 2? 

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Yeah. 
One thing that was unique about 

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that entire expedition was it's 
happening after a long time is 

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what they claim. 
You know, each country claims it

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differently. 
We've sent the we've sent our 

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own tundra and all there all the
way to the moon. 

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But that didn't make as big a 
splash as this one did. 

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But one of the things which they
posted immediately after the 

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moon, after the rocket left, was
the astronaut started looking 

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onto the Earth. 
And there was an entire article 

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about it. 
But NASA put out an image, and I

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wanted us to see that image, not
the the previous one. 

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Yeah, this is the image. 
This is Earth today, just couple

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of days back, I mean just a day 
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So this is Earth which they took
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But we've and the pre the next 
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1972, fifty years and they say 
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It's the same as this. 
Probably a better camera. 

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You can see more finer details, 
the highlights, you know, it 

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looks there probably even more 
pollution. 

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So that's why a lot of grey air 
quality index is probably very 

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bad. 
But as I was looking through 

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this image, I realized we are 
worshipping a God for him. 

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This is just the word of God 
says it's a footstool. 

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It says a footstool. 
If you can turn with me to 

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Isaiah chapter 66 verses one to 
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Lord says. 
Heaven is my throne and the 

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earth is my footstool. 
Where is the house you will 

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build for me? 
Where will my resting place be? 

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How many of you actually use a 
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For those of you who have 
children, the one thing you ask 

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them to go get is move that 
chair closer or move that 

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whatever Ottoman or whatever you
guys have, we'll tell it to move

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closer so we can raise our legs.
But there's an interesting thing

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for a God who's sees the earth 
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He has a command for us which 
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these things? 
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declares a lot. 
These are the ones I look on 

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with favour, those who are 
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and who tremble at my world. 
So this Easter and we are seated

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here, this is our world. 
To the creator it doesn't look 

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like it's changed, but when we 
look zoom into all those, all 

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the humans that he's created, so
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Just imagine those two images, 
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how many wars, how many cyclones
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through. 
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thinking, God, this resurrection
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but do you really care about me?
Do you really care about me? 

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I'm going through this thing 
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And then to top it all, we are 
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which is more or less like just 
it's, it's a gossip media for 

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us. 
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to find out what celebrities are
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Up to today, we just go into 
Instagram to see what my friends

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are up to. 
How many of you do that? 

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You get your daily dose of 
irritation from that. 

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Oh wow, they got that dress, 
huh? 

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And then immediately you take 
it, you put it into Google and 

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you find out what the dress cost
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And you're like, man, how could 
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And then you, you start 
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And we have taken his 
resurrection power and we're not

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living it out to what he wants 
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A scientist says this. 
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ask, how can I, scientist, 
believe in such a grandiose, 

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incredible, apparently 
unscientific claim of Jesus 

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being alive? 
How can someone who works with 

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quantum mechanics, molecules and
lasers also believe in the truth

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of a 2000 year old religion 
having a personal relationship 

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with the spiritual being? 
This was a scientist interview. 

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The dead of who's a Christian, 
and he just said this one 

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statement. 
He's a top scientist and he says

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for me, the bodily resurrection 
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the fruitfulness of 
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If Jesus genuinely died and rose
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that he was who he claimed to 
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the Son of Man. 
If it did not happen, the 

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Christianity would be a false 
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And in Matthew 1616, we hear 
Simon Peter says saying this, 

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You are the Christ, the Son of 
the living God. 

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And so today, even as you go out
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that declaration saying Jesus, 
you are the Son of the living 

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God. 
He rose up, yes, but he's coming

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back as a king. 
He rose up, yes. 

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He's coming for a generation 
who's ready to accept and walk 

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in holiness to what he's called 
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And so today I want to ask you, 
what is your response and what 

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is my response? 
Are we just going to go through 

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another Easter and not respond 
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Because today when we respond, 
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God, I want to have a course 
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A lot of us were seated here who
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We worship a risen Saviour, 
which is true, which a lot of us

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will take. 
Yes, I believe in that. 

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But do you really believe in the
resurrection power that makes 

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that statement true? 
Do you believe in the 

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resurrection power that makes 
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Jesus is alive? 
Because otherwise we are just 

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like every other person on the 
face of the earth, looking for a

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spiritual experience. 
Only Jesus rose again. 

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Only Jesus came back, witnessed 
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Only Jesus has done that, no one
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And so today, as you and I are 
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a lot of us who are here, for 
those of you who have, who 

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haven't, who don't know Jesus, I
would, I, my hope is that at the

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end of this, you'll be able to 
accept him, accept his accept 

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the life giving word that he has
for you. 

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But for those of us who've 
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we've, we've somehow built a 
wall around us making that our 

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understanding could be your 
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yourself, how you've become 
self-made, wanting to be 

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relevant in the culture. 
You know, ideally I wouldn't be 

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wearing the shirt. 
You know, today when I woke up 

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on my on the side of my bed, 
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OK, One was a brand new shirt 
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The other was a brand new shirt.
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know why all these shirt guys 
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You know, the same 44 size, but 
it says tailored fit. 

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And I wore it and it was like, 
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even come close. 
It was more like a just like a 

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jacket for me, you know, I had 
to and I felt that wasn't good. 

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And then this shirt, which I had
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and I'm seeing like everyone is 
vibing in that same same kind of

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outfit from David to, you know, 
Alan and Josh. 

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And we want to be relevant to 
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Or some of us are probably open 
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Because you found that being 
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Being neutral is safe. 
But if you're seated here on 

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Easter Sunday, you'll realize 
that you're only a select few 

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who are not called to be safe. 
What we heard in the narration 

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happened between Nicodemus and 
Mary. 

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They were not called to be safe.
The revelation of his, of him 

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resurrecting was not for us to 
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So don't look for a safety net. 
Don't look for a safety net. 

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You, you, you. 
The news will always be bad here

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on this earth. 
The only good news is Jesus. 

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And so, and some of us have 
really built this wall because 

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of the hurt that we've gone 
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And one of the things that as I 
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about hinges. 
How many of you have seen a 

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hinge, but we don't actually pay
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How many of you know that we pay
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the age of Pinterest, we are so,
so particular that we need to 

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color coordinate even our door. 
You know, it has to go with the 

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entire theme. 
What is the new green that 

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they're talking about? 
It's called sage green. 

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Yes. 
That couple of weeks back we had

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all the three girls who are the 
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The beautiful thing about a 
hinge is it's hidden. 

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The beautiful thing about a 
hinge is that it's needed 

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without which the door can't 
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And as I mentioned those points,
a lot of us have replaced and I 

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have two points which I wanted 
even as I was getting the hinge 

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from the hardware store. 
I asked him how many will come 

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in and said he said two. 
But in my head, I knew most. 

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So those have three and we have 
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We have a couple of architects 
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They might have a reason for 
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weight of the wood, but probably
he thought mine was compressed 

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wood, not solid wood. 
So, so that when and I have two 

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points and I'm glad that I have 
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believe a lot of us, as I 
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resurrection par is not evident 
because the hinges are something

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else from what he wants. 
And the first hinge, which I 

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would like for us to look. 
And the reason why this hinge is

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important is because in 
Revelation 3 was 20 to 22. 

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He says, behold, I stand at the 
door of the church and 

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continually lock. 
If anyone hears my voice and 

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opens the door, I will come in 
and eat with him. 

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And in brackets it says that 
restore him, restore him. 

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A lot of us think of eating like
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We go and we sit, we eat, we 
leave. 

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No, but when he says he's 
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He's a long term guest in our 
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He's wanting to be that long 
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Restoration takes time. 
How many of you know fixing 

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takes time? 
And he with me, he who overcomes

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the world through believing that
Jesus is the Son of God, I will 

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grant to him the privilege to 
sit beside me on my throne as I 

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also overcame and sat down 
beside my Father on his throne. 

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He who has an ear, let him hear 
and heed what the Spirit says to

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the churches. 
And so today I want to ask you, 

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Church, would you be willing to 
replace the hinge? 

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The belief of Jesus resurrection
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believe in the power that lives 
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It'll be like a hinge. 
This hinge opens all our world 

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to the spiritual. 
This hinge opens all our world 

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to the miraculous. 
This hinge opens all our world 

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to the hope that is assured to 
the certainty of to eternal life

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after death because a lot of us 
are knocking at so many doors, 

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but God is like I'm resurrected.
I am living. 

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Would you appropriate that into 
your life and walk in that bar 

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and walk into the door that I'm 
calling you to walk into? 

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We open and shut our hearts with
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And Paul talks and I want to 
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book of First Corinthians, 
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This is the basis for what we 
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When Paul's talking to the 
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of things that he talks and he 
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Jesus Christ. 
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What are some of the concerns 

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that have come out? 
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were there, they were in the 
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How many of you know we are in 
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If you have a phone, we are in 
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You don't have to be. 
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COVID taught us that everything 
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So we are in the centre of 
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Wisdom. 
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travel to go and spend time for 
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You can obtain it. 
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to Bihar and we were there in 
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It's called Nalanda University. 
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were there, we were walking. 
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thing. 
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created for each of these monks 
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But today we are in the 
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You don't. 
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doing businesses, you don't have
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Some of us go out to work, but 
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home. 
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where we are at. 
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religion. 
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temples there. 
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synagogue. 
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the diversity of what all people
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The intersection of trade bought
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what Paul was addressing to the 
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when we know that the 
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years back, we sometimes can 
deny the outworking of his power

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in our lives. 
But I want to ask you today, can

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we say God, I'm ready for you to
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us. 
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are very pivotal for us to walk 
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How is our response? 
We can either walk out of here 

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knowing that Jesus is alive. 
He resurrected, so that's his 

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power and walk out of here and 
go back to ground 0 of what 

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we've been doing continuously. 
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the argument in one Corinthians 
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It goes on to say, Now brothers 
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you of the gospel I preached to 
you, which you have received, on

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which you have taken your stand.
By this gospel you are saved. 

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If you hold firmly to the Word. 
I preach to you, otherwise you 

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have believed in vain for what I
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I passed on to you as the first 
importance that Christ died for 

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our sins according to the 
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and that He was raised on the 
third day according to the 

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Scriptures, and that he appeared
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After that He appeared to more 
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sisters at the same time, most 
of whom are still living, though

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some have fallen asleep. 
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to all the apostles, and last of
all He appeared to me also as to

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1 abnormally born. 
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Because he started as a Pharisee
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and then he was saved. 
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asking us is what is our 
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Is our response just yes, Jesus 
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Because when we start to live it
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from the word will be true, we 
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We will hold on to it like that 
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That is our oxygen. 
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And he's telling them, don't 
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come. 
It just requires you to have a 

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slight doubt whether he rose 
again. 

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You're having a bad day in just 
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You will doubt whether he's 
alive. 

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If someone is behaving badly and
they say they're following 

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Christ, you will doubt his 
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You won't doubt anything else 
because you're saying, God, are 

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you really alive? 
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If you've been mistreated, you 
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realizing, is God really alive? 
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for the Corinthians? 
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Greek mythology. 
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time, I, I have no, you know, 
I'm not, I'm not really been 

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fascinated by that. 
I mean my fascination only. 

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I mean not fascination. 
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through my wife and Caleb. 
And they started reading quite a

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few of those books. 
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of death who guided spirits into
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while their bodies decayed in 
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power that has to be brought to 
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Hades. 
And and we saw in good fighting 

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that the the spirit of death is 
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Life came again after that. 
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That means whatever, whatever 
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an end objective that is death. 
It's only Jesus who's 

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resurrected. 
So today when you and I have to 

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hold on to that, we will realize
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brought death to all spiritual 
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So which means you walk under an
understanding, knowing that no 

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spiritual power outside of Jesus
can actually overcome you will 

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overcome you if you know that 
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And if you allowed that to work 
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And so suddenly everything that 
is elevated in your body, in 

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your spirit man, in your soul, 
you will pull it out in Jesus 

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name because you won't allow 
that to overcome. 

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You won't allow that to 
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The second thing is they didn't 
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body, our, our human spirit, 
which is dead, will go back into

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the same dead body again. 
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But our Christian understanding 
is we will be given a body which

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is glorious when we rise again. 
So today death is not something 

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we're scared about. 
Death is just the doorway to 

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eternity. 
To be with him, where there'll 

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be no pain, where there'll be no
sorrow, where there'll be no 

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shame, we get to spend time with
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A lot of us today is, can we 
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A lot of us are crippled by it, 
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And the reality is, are people 
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Yes. 
Is sickness real? 

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Yes. 
But if you and I are walking 

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this resurrected life, we need 
to walk in the in the power of 

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knowing what that is. 
And so today I want to ask you, 

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how strong is your grip on the 
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How strong is that grip? 
Today I'll be on shaky ground 

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because of what is happening 
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You know, just take for example,
the whole war started, our 

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country was only concerned about
oil 3-4 days later they were 

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concerned about LPG. 
If look at we are all for it in 

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ourselves, you, you look at 
geopolitics, you'll see every 

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country is in it for itself. 
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it because each of us can have 
our opinions and we're entitled 

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to have our opinions. 
But I want to ask you because 

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what happens around us kind of 
informs us and we move towards 

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that. 
And so suddenly we know, OK, 

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here in the last days, there'll 
be wars and rumors of wars and 

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suddenly everything else we hear
suddenly the news says of 

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layoffs happening. 
Suddenly the news says of things

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that are coming out in terms of 
diseases and things that and get

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shaken and we forget the fact 
that Jesus is alive because 

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Jesus is alive. 
Nothing positive was actually 

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promised here on this earth. 
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Anything about the New Testament
church had nothing they didn't 

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have. 
It wasn't a bond to say in one 

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year you'll get 10% return. 
It wasn't a guaranteed way of 

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life, but it was 1 where it was 
where our internal system is 

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built to trust Jesus alone. 
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the Passion he says this. 
Jesus replied, Now you finally 

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believe in me, and the time has 
come when you all will be 

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scattered and each one of you 
will go your own way, leaving me

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alone. 
Yet I am never alone, for the 

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Father is always with me, and 
everything I've taught you is so

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that the peace which is in me 
will be in you and will give you

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great confidence as you rest in 
me. 

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For in this unbelieving world 
you will experience trouble and 

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sorrow. 
But you must be courageous, for 

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I have conquered the world. 
You will be assured of trouble 

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and sorrows, but you must be 
courageous. 

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How many of you lack courage 
today? 

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I like I can honestly say like 
even as Tina was talking during 

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Good Friday and was telling 
about, you know, the struggle 

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that we we like that one day we 
had like we were just head 

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butting on some of the 
breakthroughs that have not 

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come. 
And it's like you're in a tight 

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place and you're not you're 
pretty. 

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And we were just praying and we 
realized for the last one year, 

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it's been a struggle in this one
area. 

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And we're saying, God, why are 
we struggling in this area? 

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But when we look into that 
entire scenario, that didn't 

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make us be still. 
It was 1 where there was trials,

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where there was troubles, but we
were able to still have courage 

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and we were able to still take 
the next step. 

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And so we were thanking God for 
that. 

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We were thanking God for that. 
And so today I want to encourage

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you, you and I, as we walk in 
this life here on after this 

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resurrection Sunday. 
Would you be courageous? 

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You and I have no overcoming to 
do. 

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That's the beautiful thing he 
says I have overcome, I have 

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overcome. 
We all have to just call on his 

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name. 
And so today I wanted to ask, is

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your grip form? 
We can overcome. 

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We can be overcome by the world,
but if you're firm in the truth 

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of Jesus and who he is, we will 
not be moved. 

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We will not be moved because 
honestly speaking, a lot of us 

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will want answers from others. 
How many of you have actually 

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sometimes tried talking some 
issue to your parents and they 

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don't have the answer you? 
I'm I'm sure our kids also feel 

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that they come and they ask and 
we're giving like a grandparents

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answer to them. 
They might be feeling like that 

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or sometimes you ask a trusted 
friend and they don't have that 

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answer. 
Or probably you might sometimes,

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OK, this week I'll go to church 
and I'll ask Geshum and Tina to 

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pray and they'll give me an 
answer and they'll be like, no, 

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you just need to go back into 
your word. 

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And that I could have done it at
home. 

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Why did I come that Sunday? 
You'll be thinking how firm is 

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your belief Today. 
As I was thinking, I was 

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reminded of this animal called a
sloth. 

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So if you look at the slot if. 
You can get an image up. 

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It's positioned. 
In life like this it's always to

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be upside down, nails around 4-5
inches and has a firm grip and 

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says even a Jaguar or a cheetah 
struggle to take a sloth out of 

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its position. 
It fights the grip is so strong.

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So I was just researching and 
finding what are the some of the

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animals which are firm against 
predators and the first name 

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that came up was Sloth and I was
reading about his interesting. 

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This is a position that they are
there. 

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They look nice like this, but 
when a predator comes, they're 

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menacing their teeth come out. 
And God was asking me, Geshom, 

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is your grip as firm as that? 
Cause predators will come. 

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Why? 
Because God would have given you

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a promise. 
The enemy will come to steal, 

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kill and destroy as he saw on 
Good Friday. 

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He's not out there to be like, 
oh, Tina's got this promise. 

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I'll just go sit with her and 
just try giving her a good vibe.

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No. 
He'll come in to steal, he'll 

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come in to destroy. 
He'll kill you, and then he'll 

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move on to his next target. 
How will he kill you? 

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He'll put doubt, and then you 
believe the doubt. 

449
00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:44,800
You establish the doubt, and 
you're living on the doubt. 

450
00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:47,000
That's it. 
He's done his job and he's gone.

451
00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:50,400
You can't claim the promise. 
So today, your first hinge is 

452
00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:53,040
how firm is what you're 
believing? 

453
00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:56,600
How firm is it? 
Because if you're not firm, the 

454
00:26:56,600 --> 00:26:58,960
second hinge doesn't work. 
You don't get to participate. 

455
00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:02,280
How many of you really struggle 
to open a door that's expanded? 

456
00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:08,800
You know we have a door in the. 
Top this one, which gets rain 

457
00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:11,200
and during summers it's 
difficult to open because the 

458
00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:15,720
wood is expanded and you have to
really, you know, hit on it 

459
00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:19,680
hard. 
And if you're not firm, we won't

460
00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:21,800
be able to participate in what 
he's called. 

461
00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:25,120
And Paul beautifully tells here 
in one Corinthians 15 as we 

462
00:27:25,120 --> 00:27:28,320
continue to read it says, for I 
am the least of the apostles to 

463
00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:31,120
not even deserve to be called an
apostle because I perceive you 

464
00:27:31,120 --> 00:27:34,840
to the Church of God. 
But by the grace of God, I am 

465
00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:37,080
what I am. 
And his grace to me was not 

466
00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:40,680
without effect. 
No, I worked harder than all of 

467
00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:45,560
them, yet not I, but the grace 
of God was with me, whether then

468
00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:48,960
it is I or they. 
This is what we preach and this 

469
00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:51,920
is what you believe. 
So even as you hold on to the 

470
00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:55,640
truth that Jesus is alive, my 
second thing is, would you 

471
00:27:55,640 --> 00:28:01,280
participate by his grace? 
Participate by his grace, which 

472
00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:04,840
means today God will tell you, 
you know what I'm ready to 

473
00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:09,160
redeem you of all that past and 
then the minute you have that 

474
00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:12,920
promise your doubt next out is 
but God can I be used? 

475
00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:15,960
Would you use me. 
He's saying yes, I'm ready to 

476
00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:18,640
use you walk in that authority, 
but you're like God. 

477
00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:23,280
How can I that's why he says 
here Paul tells no, I worked 

478
00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:26,560
harder than all of them. 
When you look in that what is he

479
00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:28,760
talking. 
He's gone through so much for 

480
00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:33,520
the sake of what he's believed 
in that Jesus Christ is God and 

481
00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:36,080
Savior of all that his mission 
was to the Gentiles. 

482
00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:38,600
He had worked harder. 
When you actually read, there's 

483
00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:41,320
a passage where he talks about 
all that he's gone through. 

484
00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:43,960
I've been stoned like this. 
I've been spat on, I've been 

485
00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:45,600
killed. 
I've been I've all this has 

486
00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:49,280
happened to me and today you and
I, if you're not firm a 

487
00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:51,640
participation is the first thing
that will get hit. 

488
00:28:52,720 --> 00:28:54,600
He'll hit you where you can 
participate. 

489
00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:01,560
In the message version it says. 
It beautifully it says, but 

490
00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:05,960
because God was so gracious, so 
very generous, here I am as you 

491
00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:09,520
read for it says it was God 
giving me the work to do, God 

492
00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:12,920
giving me the energy to do it. 
You didn't even have to get the 

493
00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:14,520
energy. 
He's saying I'll put the energy 

494
00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:16,600
in you. 
He just it's a will issue. 

495
00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:19,800
God, am I willing? 
Yes, God, I'm willing he'll and 

496
00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:21,680
he'll inject that energy into 
you. 

497
00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:25,480
So Jesus is a resurrection for 
us today, and the power is for 

498
00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:28,440
an invitation to participate in 
the grace he's giving us. 

499
00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:32,640
We receive an aspect. 
Of grace but when we have to 

500
00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:37,120
work harder to sustain this 
graceful life, we tend to give 

501
00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:41,520
way because this graceful life 
requires all of us and not just 

502
00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:44,400
part of us so this. 
New life that you're. 

503
00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:48,320
Called with resurrection life 
and resurrection power has to be

504
00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:52,240
put to practice. 
What is a participation? 

505
00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:55,440
Being like is a participation 
where we're saying no to sin. 

506
00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:59,560
Are we saying OK to sin because 
our participation has to be 

507
00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:02,840
saying no to sin? 
What is God awakening you to say

508
00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:05,360
no to today? 
What are some of the things that

509
00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:07,440
you've just dragged along all 
this while? 

510
00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:09,600
Because if you've just completed
this entire series of 

511
00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:14,840
resurrected life that as I was 
preparing, we cannot drag our 

512
00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:17,600
sin any further in the 
resurrected path that we're 

513
00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:21,240
called to. 
James Ford, verse 17. 

514
00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:24,480
Says if anyone then knows the 
good they ought to do and 

515
00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:26,360
doesn't do it, it is sin for 
them. 

516
00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:29,200
What does he mean? 
He's saying that many a times 

517
00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:33,320
we'll be in this place where we 
will know that this is what 

518
00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:37,360
God's calling me to do. 
Me not responding to. 

519
00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:41,840
It not participating in it will 
become is as equivalent as a 

520
00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:44,680
sin. 
A lot of us are called to. 

521
00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:47,960
Shine a torch to what? 
Because that's what God did in 

522
00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:50,280
US. 
So I pray that what is our 

523
00:30:50,280 --> 00:30:53,400
response saying? 
Because a lot of us have certain

524
00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:55,760
responses. 
When we look in the Easter 

525
00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:58,680
story, there are a lot of these 
characters, when they heard that

526
00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:02,920
Jesus is alive, their response 
couldn't, they couldn't overcome

527
00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:04,160
certain things that they're 
feeling. 

528
00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:07,720
And I want to talk about 3 
different feelings that can pull

529
00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:09,760
us back from actually responding
to this. 

530
00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:13,360
The first one was shame when you
look at Mary Magdalene and it 

531
00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:16,960
says in John 20 was 11 to 18. 
Now Mary stood outside the tomb 

532
00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:20,360
carrying crying as she wept. 
She went to look into the tomb 

533
00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:25,360
and saw 2 angels while seated 
where Jesus body had been in and

534
00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:28,760
the head and I mean Jesus body 
had been one at the head the 

535
00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:31,480
other at the foot. 
They asked a woman, Why are you 

536
00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:35,040
crying? 
Then they have taken my Lord 

537
00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:37,200
away, she said, and I don't know
where they have put him. 

538
00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:40,280
At this she turned around and 
saw Jesus standing there, but 

539
00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:42,240
she did not realize that it was 
Jesus. 

540
00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:44,400
She asked a woman, Why are you 
crying? 

541
00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:45,760
Who is it that you're looking 
for? 

542
00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:49,080
Thinking he was the gardener, 
she said, Sir, if you have 

543
00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:52,600
carried him away, tell me where 
you have put him. 

544
00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:56,200
Then I and I will get him, Jesus
said to her, Mary. 

545
00:31:56,200 --> 00:32:00,080
She turned toward him and cried 
out in Aramaic Rabbani, which 

546
00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:03,840
means teacher Jesus said do not 
hold on to me for I have not yet

547
00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:06,640
ascended to the Father. 
Go and sit to my brothers and 

548
00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:10,760
tell them I am ascending to my 
father and your father to my God

549
00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:12,440
and your God. 
Mary Bank didn't went to the 

550
00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:16,640
disciples with the news. 
I have seen the Lord and she 

551
00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:20,920
told them what that he had said 
these things to her. 

552
00:32:21,360 --> 00:32:24,640
In fact, they didn't believe her
when she went and said John 20 

553
00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:27,080
verse 11 to 18 when we read 
about Mary Magdalene, why 

554
00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:31,200
thought of shame is a lot of us.
Mary Magdalene was one was 

555
00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:34,520
delivered from the from the 
demons that were inside her. 

556
00:32:35,280 --> 00:32:38,440
And so she started accompanying 
Jesus, and as she's standing 

557
00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:42,760
there, when she saw the tomb, 
she'd have realized. 

558
00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:47,960
Was her healing even real? 
Was her healing. 

559
00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:52,400
Even real and many a times it's 
in this hardness of times that 

560
00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:55,880
we go through hard times that we
go through, we will realize is 

561
00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:59,440
my miracle real Is the 
deliverance that I've relieved 

562
00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:02,240
received from God. 
Real is the truth that God's 

563
00:33:02,240 --> 00:33:05,480
telling me about my life. 
He saved me from certain things.

564
00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:08,920
So I want us to come to a place 
and realize is shame holding us 

565
00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:11,480
back from responding to what 
God's called us? 

566
00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:14,560
Because our participation could 
we know the truth, but in our 

567
00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:17,400
participation is shame holding 
us back? 

568
00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:21,200
Because remember here she sees 
Jesus, she goes back to tell the

569
00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:24,080
disciples and they say, I think 
she's blabbering. 

570
00:33:24,840 --> 00:33:27,800
She's not telling us till one of
them comes and they see and they

571
00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:31,280
find the tomb empty. 
And so today you can't allow 

572
00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:36,520
shame to really captivate you. 
How many of us actually feel 

573
00:33:36,520 --> 00:33:41,160
shame? 
All of us, all of us. 

574
00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:46,000
And Satan beautifully disguises 
shame to stop the resurrection 

575
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:50,120
power working in and through us.
Stop working in and through US. 

576
00:33:52,040 --> 00:33:55,320
Mary was delivered from the 
demoniac that she was plagued 

577
00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:56,600
by. 
So I want to ask you today, what

578
00:33:56,600 --> 00:33:58,880
are you plagued by with regard 
to shame? 

579
00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:02,720
What? 
What is that one? 

580
00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:05,680
Thing that is plaguing you, one 
of the postures that we can 

581
00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:07,960
learn from Mary is to linger 
more at the tomb. 

582
00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:13,639
Linger more in Jesus. 
Linger more in in the tomb where

583
00:34:13,639 --> 00:34:15,880
Jesus rose again, because that 
is a fact. 

584
00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:19,520
Because the tomb is empty. 
He's risen, which means what he 

585
00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:28,000
says is true. 
You might feel like people. 

586
00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:31,040
Around you are dismissing it, 
dismissing your testimony. 

587
00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:35,760
But remember, as the more you 
linger around the truth of what 

588
00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:39,480
Jesus is saying, you will be 
delivered you. 

589
00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:41,800
Will be there will be a time. 
When people start listening to 

590
00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:44,520
your side of what God has 
actually done through your life 

591
00:34:44,520 --> 00:34:46,520
with regard to the you 
overcoming that shame. 

592
00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:50,400
You know a. 
Week back, I was listening to a 

593
00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:54,760
podcast and I follow this 
couples podcast. 

594
00:34:54,760 --> 00:34:57,880
They are John Bevier and Lisa 
Bevier and they've raised up 

595
00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:02,880
four sons and as parents, many a
times we we, we, we would like 

596
00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:05,240
to learn from those who walked 
before us, you know, and so they

597
00:35:05,240 --> 00:35:07,720
had these four sons. 
They sit with them and they talk

598
00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:12,400
everything possible under the 
sun from raising up to, you 

599
00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:16,360
know, do you lust after girls 
to, you know, with regard to 

600
00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:18,480
masturbation and all that. 
And they're having that 

601
00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:20,120
conversation as parents and 
kids. 

602
00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:22,720
And then some of them got 
married. 

603
00:35:22,720 --> 00:35:24,080
They involved their 
daughter-in-law in that 

604
00:35:24,080 --> 00:35:26,240
conversation. 
But then this interesting thing 

605
00:35:26,240 --> 00:35:29,720
this week, the conversation that
they posted was the 

606
00:35:29,720 --> 00:35:33,080
daughter-in-law was talking to 
the mother-in-law about sex in 

607
00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:35,280
marriage, after marriage, after 
being married. 

608
00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:40,000
And. 
As I started the conversation, 

609
00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:42,680
they said this is a big shameful
topic for many. 

610
00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:45,560
And as I was listening to that 
whole. 

611
00:35:45,560 --> 00:35:48,800
Thing I realized, we are called 
to live in the fullness, this 

612
00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:52,320
resurrection life, live in the 
fullness of all that God's 

613
00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:54,520
called for us to do. 
For those of us who are married 

614
00:35:54,520 --> 00:35:57,560
to our kids, we can easily 
revolve everything, everything 

615
00:35:57,560 --> 00:36:01,040
around our kids that we forget 
the purpose God brought us 

616
00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:03,600
together. 
The kids will get 18, they'll 

617
00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:06,840
turn 18, they'll get their 
wings, and they'll fly like Red 

618
00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:11,440
Bull says. 
But if we haven't found a. 

619
00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:14,560
Purpose the resurrection power 
won't be active in us. 

620
00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:17,920
We will know, but the. 
Door that God's called. 

621
00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:21,880
Us to operate will be sounding 
creaky, will be loud, and sooner

622
00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:23,760
or later we won't walk in it 
together. 

623
00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:29,200
So, and it's interesting. 
That there's a part in which 

624
00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:33,080
John and Lisa say that as 
travelling speakers we travel to

625
00:36:33,080 --> 00:36:35,200
different places, but we long to
come back. 

626
00:36:35,200 --> 00:36:38,600
This is around 6065 and we were 
telling Tina. 

627
00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:40,520
I was telling Tina was telling 
to me this. 

628
00:36:40,520 --> 00:36:43,480
Imagine at 65 we still want each
other like that. 

629
00:36:44,480 --> 00:36:45,120
That is. 
What? 

630
00:36:45,120 --> 00:36:48,040
He wants you. 
To build, that is the marriage 

631
00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:51,600
he wants you to build. 
And as a daughter-in-law was. 

632
00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:53,520
Talking, she was talking. 
She says, you know what, 

633
00:36:53,520 --> 00:36:57,040
sometimes after having kids, 
it's just, oh man, here he comes

634
00:36:57,040 --> 00:36:58,960
again. 
You know, that's that's and 

635
00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:00,120
she's talking to the 
mother-in-law. 

636
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:02,280
Imagine that's a son and no 
issue. 

637
00:37:02,280 --> 00:37:06,200
You can imagine the dynamics. 
And and. 

638
00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:10,880
And the the reality is we need 
to be overcomers of shame 

639
00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:14,760
because the story of overcoming 
what we tell will be what our 

640
00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:18,800
generation needs to hear. 
A lot of us are having so many 

641
00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:21,800
topics taboo of not being able 
to talk because we've not 

642
00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:26,960
overcome. 
We've not overcome, we have. 

643
00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:29,680
And so the resurrection part is 
calling for us to overcome 

644
00:37:29,680 --> 00:37:32,200
shame. 
What aspect of shame do you have

645
00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:35,880
to overcome personally today? 
What aspect of shame should I 

646
00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:40,120
overcome today? 
Because I'm, I'm so worried 

647
00:37:40,120 --> 00:37:43,160
because when, when, when, when I
look at my kids, they are 

648
00:37:43,160 --> 00:37:45,840
getting so much of information 
in this day and age. 

649
00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:50,480
That if we don't teach them. 
What is healthy with regard to a

650
00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:52,520
marriage the world will teach 
them. 

651
00:37:53,880 --> 00:37:56,520
The world will teach them. 
A movie will teach them. 

652
00:37:57,600 --> 00:38:02,640
ATV series will teach them. 
TV series will teach them we. 

653
00:38:02,640 --> 00:38:03,480
All grew up. 
We are. 

654
00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:06,480
We are all the guys who watched,
binge watched Friends. 

655
00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:10,920
What do they teach? 
If it doesn't work out, call it 

656
00:38:10,920 --> 00:38:15,400
quits. 
Today overcome. 

657
00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:19,240
Shame, whatever that is in your 
life, would you come to the 

658
00:38:19,240 --> 00:38:21,840
truth and find out of finding 
God? 

659
00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:24,000
I want to overcome. 
This is the resurrection path 

660
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:26,560
that I'll give you because after
this, I believe Mary Magdalene's

661
00:38:26,560 --> 00:38:28,600
life would have been entirely 
different. 

662
00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:32,120
She I, I believe that she would 
have had a big women's study, 

663
00:38:32,240 --> 00:38:35,160
women's Bible study, and she was
doing it because she would, 

664
00:38:35,240 --> 00:38:37,520
she's an overcomer when an 
overcomer is that she 

665
00:38:37,520 --> 00:38:40,320
participates in what God's 
called us to do and she does 

666
00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:42,040
that. 
The second story we see is hand 

667
00:38:42,040 --> 00:38:45,920
holding. 
There's a story in Luke about 

668
00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:49,640
these two guys who walk, you 
know, hand in hand and then 

669
00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:52,360
they're walking and they're 
going away from all that's 

670
00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:55,520
happened, going to a village 
called Imanus. 

671
00:38:55,680 --> 00:38:58,320
Imanus about seminars from 
Jerusalem. 

672
00:38:58,520 --> 00:39:02,680
They were talking with each 
other, Luke 24 was 13, and about

673
00:39:02,680 --> 00:39:04,880
everything that had happened. 
As they walked and discussed 

674
00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:07,520
these things with each other, 
Jesus himself came up and walked

675
00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:10,840
along with them, but they were 
kept from recognizing Him. 

676
00:39:11,720 --> 00:39:14,640
He asked them, What are you 
discussing together as you walk 

677
00:39:14,640 --> 00:39:16,240
along? 
They stood still, their faces 

678
00:39:16,240 --> 00:39:19,080
downcast. 
One of them, named the office, 

679
00:39:19,080 --> 00:39:22,080
asked him, Are you only one 
visiting Jerusalem who does not 

680
00:39:22,080 --> 00:39:24,280
know the things that have 
happened in these days? 

681
00:39:24,480 --> 00:39:25,760
What things? 
He asked. 

682
00:39:26,160 --> 00:39:28,320
And when you read that story, 
they keep telling about what 

683
00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:32,280
happened, who Jesus of Nazareth 
was, but they missed the entire 

684
00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:35,840
crux of the matter. 
And the problem with handholding

685
00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:39,440
is it requires just another 
person to handhold you to 

686
00:39:39,440 --> 00:39:41,080
discount the resurrection part 
in your life. 

687
00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:45,680
Jesus had visited. 
Had walk alongside with them to 

688
00:39:45,680 --> 00:39:48,600
tell them the reality of what 
actually Jesus was on the world.

689
00:39:48,840 --> 00:39:52,080
When you read in verse 25, it 
says he said to them how foolish

690
00:39:52,080 --> 00:39:56,360
you are and how slow to believe 
that all that the prophets have 

691
00:39:56,360 --> 00:39:57,960
spoken. 
Did not the Messiah have to 

692
00:39:57,960 --> 00:40:01,360
suffer these things and then 
enter his glory? 

693
00:40:01,360 --> 00:40:04,320
Imagine Jesus, he's rejected and
he's walking with two guys who 

694
00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:07,360
probably journeyed with him and 
they've missed the whole plot. 

695
00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:14,080
They're hand holding. 
And so today, who are you hand 

696
00:40:14,080 --> 00:40:17,760
holding? 
Some of you are waiting for 

697
00:40:17,760 --> 00:40:20,400
your. 
Spouse to actually be Jesus and 

698
00:40:20,400 --> 00:40:24,960
speak Jesus into you. 
Honestly, I fail at that. 

699
00:40:24,960 --> 00:40:29,080
Miserably. 
Couple of days back, Tina. 

700
00:40:29,080 --> 00:40:33,440
Woke up like around 1:32 and 
said Gee I'm itching a lot. 

701
00:40:33,440 --> 00:40:35,720
Can you just put some cream and 
pray over me? 

702
00:40:35,880 --> 00:40:39,520
I don't know what I prayed. 
I honestly, I mean, you can't. 

703
00:40:39,520 --> 00:40:41,880
Wake me up. 
My time sleep time is from 12 to

704
00:40:41,880 --> 00:40:43,720
6 means 12 to 6. 
I'm out. 

705
00:40:45,040 --> 00:40:48,200
And I remember once. 
Celeste had a bad dream. 

706
00:40:48,200 --> 00:40:52,160
She came, I know she and half 
asleep she went. 

707
00:40:52,160 --> 00:40:54,760
She's trying to wake up Calvin 
to tell Calvin to pray to her 

708
00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:57,640
and then Tina goes and then 
spend and she's coming to tell 

709
00:40:57,640 --> 00:40:58,720
me. 
I just didn't know what 

710
00:40:58,720 --> 00:41:03,000
happened. 
Your hand holding has to be. 

711
00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:07,320
The one who's resurrected. 
Walk hand in hand. 

712
00:41:08,480 --> 00:41:11,800
Because somewhere down the line,
if you're holding someone else's

713
00:41:11,800 --> 00:41:15,040
hand, what they are going 
through will be the one that 

714
00:41:15,040 --> 00:41:18,560
informs you. 
And what informs you will. 

715
00:41:18,560 --> 00:41:21,040
Be what dictates you, and what 
dictates you will be what it 

716
00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:24,760
directs you towards. 
You also see the same. 

717
00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:28,360
Thing with regard to in Peter's 
life, hand holding all this. 

718
00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:31,880
Well, Peter was the one who was 
held by Jesus and by the 

719
00:41:31,880 --> 00:41:34,240
trailer. 
And then what happens the minute

720
00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:37,440
afterward? 
John 21 was 1 to 14. 

721
00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:40,480
Afterward Jesus appeared again 
to his disciples with the Sea of

722
00:41:40,480 --> 00:41:41,480
Galilee. 
It happened this way. 

723
00:41:41,480 --> 00:41:45,600
Simon Peter, Thomas, he already 
formed, so he got so many people

724
00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:47,680
around him. 
Nathaniel from Cana and Galilee 

725
00:41:47,680 --> 00:41:49,760
and the sons of Zebby and the 
two other disciples were 

726
00:41:49,760 --> 00:41:51,720
together. 
I'm going out to fish. 

727
00:41:51,720 --> 00:41:55,320
Simon Peter told him and they 
said, well, we'll go with you. 

728
00:41:55,320 --> 00:41:57,240
So they went out and got into 
the boat. 

729
00:41:57,520 --> 00:41:59,200
But that night they caught 
nothing. 

730
00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:03,240
Just imagine when you're 
drowning in your own doubt. 

731
00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:06,480
You'll go back to what you're. 
Comfortable with. 

732
00:42:08,520 --> 00:42:12,280
When you're drowning in your. 
Doubt going back into a sin 

733
00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:14,880
pattern like what you were used 
to earlier will be easier. 

734
00:42:16,400 --> 00:42:17,640
When you're drowning in your 
doubt. 

735
00:42:17,640 --> 00:42:21,400
As a single person, installing 
that app and trying to swipe and

736
00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:23,360
find a person for the night is 
the easiest thing. 

737
00:42:24,440 --> 00:42:27,880
Drowning in your doubt, going 
back to that alcohol bottle that

738
00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:31,320
was and you know where to go to 
which place, which is a restore 

739
00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:33,680
bar to go and sit and drink. 
You can easily go into that. 

740
00:42:34,520 --> 00:42:37,440
Don't allow yourself to drown 
and doubt. 

741
00:42:38,080 --> 00:42:41,680
Let the resurrected power work 
in and through you 'cause when 

742
00:42:41,680 --> 00:42:45,240
it works, you will realize you 
don't need a crowd around you. 

743
00:42:45,760 --> 00:42:48,720
This Imagine he just said I'm 
going fishing and a whole bunch 

744
00:42:48,720 --> 00:42:52,640
of like, OK, in our Tamil, come,
let's go. 

745
00:42:52,640 --> 00:42:56,480
And then all of you, you'll have
a crowd to come. 

746
00:42:57,440 --> 00:42:59,560
But I pray and ask that we'll 
come to a place. 

747
00:42:59,720 --> 00:43:02,320
So remember, who are those 
voices that are actually? 

748
00:43:03,760 --> 00:43:07,200
Speaking into your ear. 
Think about those voices. 

749
00:43:07,400 --> 00:43:10,120
You don't have to immediately go
and say you're the wrong voice. 

750
00:43:10,120 --> 00:43:12,560
I cut you in Jesus name. 
No, you don't have to do that. 

751
00:43:13,520 --> 00:43:16,440
Or you don't have to put a story
up on your WhatsApp status for 

752
00:43:16,440 --> 00:43:20,640
them to decipher that it's them,
their voice to cut off don't 

753
00:43:20,640 --> 00:43:22,440
have to be coded. 
You don't have to do all that. 

754
00:43:23,440 --> 00:43:26,680
Just go back to Jesus and say 
God, I'm, I'm, I'm restoring my 

755
00:43:26,680 --> 00:43:30,440
ears back to you. 
Lord, your words alone, your 

756
00:43:30,440 --> 00:43:34,160
power alone is what has to be 
fueling me in this journey. 

757
00:43:35,120 --> 00:43:38,400
The third thing we see is with 
doubt. 

758
00:43:38,920 --> 00:43:43,040
The very apostle who came to 
India, Thomas. 

759
00:43:43,360 --> 00:43:47,880
He doubted Jesus. 
That's why I love. 

760
00:43:47,960 --> 00:43:50,800
The New Testament, because it 
talks so much about community. 

761
00:43:51,360 --> 00:43:54,760
You want doubt to be dispelled 
in your life. 

762
00:43:55,240 --> 00:43:57,600
Be in community. 
I know why Tina actually came 

763
00:43:57,600 --> 00:43:59,640
and told that right after 
worship. 

764
00:43:59,640 --> 00:44:02,200
All of you should come to church
on a Sunday because we have 

765
00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:05,480
weekly doubts A. 
Lot of us have weekly. 

766
00:44:05,480 --> 00:44:11,200
Doses of medicine or a a weekly 
system of having meals. 

767
00:44:11,800 --> 00:44:15,400
How many have followed that one 
week have to eat biryani one 

768
00:44:15,400 --> 00:44:18,440
week have to eat pizza. 
Some of you have that some some 

769
00:44:18,440 --> 00:44:22,400
of us have a routine like that. 
Routines are good but in a 

770
00:44:22,400 --> 00:44:25,560
weekly doses of doubt. 
It's in community God will 

771
00:44:25,560 --> 00:44:28,640
answer the spirit of God is just
not moving between two of us. 

772
00:44:28,640 --> 00:44:32,280
He's moving amongst us and So 
what will happen is already a 

773
00:44:32,280 --> 00:44:35,000
person who's sitting over here 
like Abhishek will say Anna this

774
00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:38,160
is AI just wanted to encourage 
you with his one word Anna and 

775
00:44:38,160 --> 00:44:41,320
he can come and encourage me. 
That is what will happen in 

776
00:44:41,320 --> 00:44:45,120
community when you have when you
bring your doubt into the 

777
00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:48,320
community. 
Now Thomas also known as Delia 

778
00:44:48,320 --> 00:44:50,440
as one of the 12 was not with 
the disciples. 

779
00:44:50,640 --> 00:44:52,520
So what happens when you're not 
with the disciples? 

780
00:44:52,520 --> 00:44:57,200
When Jesus came, you miss out on
the resurrected Savior, so do 

781
00:44:57,200 --> 00:45:00,280
come to church every Sunday. 
So the other disciples told him,

782
00:45:00,280 --> 00:45:03,920
we have seen the Lord, but he 
said to them, Boss, unless I see

783
00:45:03,920 --> 00:45:07,080
the nail marks in his hands, and
put my finger where the nails 

784
00:45:07,080 --> 00:45:10,000
were, and put my hand into his 
side, I will not believe which 

785
00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:14,040
is true. 
In today's age, they said. 

786
00:45:14,040 --> 00:45:16,000
Hey, you know something? 
The word was. 

787
00:45:16,240 --> 00:45:18,320
Did you take a video about it? 
We would have asked. 

788
00:45:18,520 --> 00:45:21,520
You can send it by video. 
No, you need to participate in 

789
00:45:21,520 --> 00:45:25,960
something physically here. 
A week later his disciples were 

790
00:45:25,960 --> 00:45:28,360
in were in the house again and 
Thomas was with them. 

791
00:45:28,760 --> 00:45:31,240
Though the doors were locked, 
Jesus came and stood among them 

792
00:45:31,240 --> 00:45:34,160
and said, peace be with you. 
Then he said to Thomas, put your

793
00:45:34,160 --> 00:45:38,960
finger here, see my hands, reach
out your hand and put it in my 

794
00:45:38,960 --> 00:45:40,800
sight. 
Stop doubting and believing. 

795
00:45:41,160 --> 00:45:42,880
Thomas said to my Lord and my 
God. 

796
00:45:43,320 --> 00:45:46,520
Then Jesus told him, because you
have seen me, you have believed.

797
00:45:46,800 --> 00:45:50,800
Blessed are those who have not 
seen me and yet have believed. 

798
00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:54,400
You know, when I read that 
verse, it's his calling right 

799
00:45:54,400 --> 00:45:57,400
there, because his calling was 
to come to a land where there 

800
00:45:57,400 --> 00:46:01,840
are many gods and to proclaim 
about a God who they can't see, 

801
00:46:01,880 --> 00:46:04,440
who they can't touch, who they 
can't even understand. 

802
00:46:04,840 --> 00:46:06,800
And yet faith had to be 
resurrected. 

803
00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:09,920
Faith had to become. 
And today we are, we are all 

804
00:46:10,120 --> 00:46:12,320
participants of that. 
So. 

805
00:46:12,320 --> 00:46:14,960
Today are you? 
Allowing doubt to reign. 

806
00:46:14,960 --> 00:46:17,960
And so today, as you think about
these hinges, what is it? 

807
00:46:18,280 --> 00:46:21,120
Because this Christian life that
you and I are called, This 

808
00:46:21,120 --> 00:46:23,880
resurrection life, Jesus is 
resurrected. 

809
00:46:23,880 --> 00:46:26,240
We are called to go walk in this
resolution power. 

810
00:46:26,240 --> 00:46:27,880
There are three hours. 
I want you to leave. 

811
00:46:27,960 --> 00:46:30,880
I want to leave with you. 
Three hours. 

812
00:46:31,600 --> 00:46:34,600
This resurrection power will 
cause you to do It will cause 

813
00:46:34,600 --> 00:46:37,760
you to run. 
But I don't like running. 

814
00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:41,360
Even I don't like running. 
My WhatsApp image has. 

815
00:46:41,360 --> 00:46:44,320
Been me on the treadmill for the
last 15-16 years. 

816
00:46:44,320 --> 00:46:46,920
You can if you have my number 
you can go and see it's the same

817
00:46:46,920 --> 00:46:50,600
WhatsApp image. 
That's the running that I like. 

818
00:46:50,600 --> 00:46:53,640
Doing. 
But when you have the 

819
00:46:53,640 --> 00:46:56,440
resurrected. 
Power, the Christian life, the 

820
00:46:56,480 --> 00:46:58,720
Christ following life will 
require to run. 

821
00:47:00,120 --> 00:47:02,200
A lot of you are thinking. 
It's all about rest. 

822
00:47:02,200 --> 00:47:06,440
No, we have eternity to rest. 
The early church didn't rest. 

823
00:47:08,240 --> 00:47:10,600
Rest is important. 
But the beautiful thing about 

824
00:47:10,840 --> 00:47:15,320
rest is we find rest in Jesus. 
A lot of us are wanting. 

825
00:47:15,320 --> 00:47:18,160
That one vacation you'll realize
when you go on a vacation, you 

826
00:47:18,160 --> 00:47:19,680
need a vacation from that 
vacation. 

827
00:47:20,440 --> 00:47:23,800
That is the reality a lot. 
Of us are you're. 

828
00:47:23,880 --> 00:47:25,320
You're scrolling through 
everything. 

829
00:47:25,320 --> 00:47:29,400
Oh, and mind you, influences are
there everywhere. 

830
00:47:30,480 --> 00:47:31,760
Facebook. 
Is going to come up with this? 

831
00:47:31,760 --> 00:47:34,560
Model because of the amount of 
data they've collected with all 

832
00:47:34,560 --> 00:47:38,080
the different from WhatsApp to 
Instagram to this one, that even

833
00:47:38,080 --> 00:47:43,520
before you decide what has to be
what your brain can conceive, 

834
00:47:43,520 --> 00:47:47,160
they feel they can predict that.
Based on the data uses. 

835
00:47:47,160 --> 00:47:49,400
It that they have of yours, they
are coming up with a model like 

836
00:47:49,400 --> 00:47:52,880
that. 
And so before. 

837
00:47:53,080 --> 00:47:55,960
And just imagine the world wants
to know what your thoughts are 

838
00:47:55,960 --> 00:47:57,480
so they can direct you to that 
place. 

839
00:47:58,040 --> 00:48:01,960
If you're not caught up with 
things of the world of of God, 

840
00:48:02,040 --> 00:48:03,640
we'll be running with the things
of the world. 

841
00:48:03,640 --> 00:48:06,520
So today I want to ask you, Are 
you ready to run? 

842
00:48:08,240 --> 00:48:12,640
Are you ready to run called the 
Holy Spirit will give spring in 

843
00:48:12,640 --> 00:48:16,240
your step for those of you 
single Are you ready to run into

844
00:48:16,240 --> 00:48:18,120
the promises God's calling you 
to come. 

845
00:48:18,520 --> 00:48:20,320
Don't think oh, I didn't get a 
guy, I didn't get a girl. 

846
00:48:20,320 --> 00:48:22,240
It'll happen. 
But when it happens. 

847
00:48:22,240 --> 00:48:24,840
Are you willing to actually live
the life he's called you? 

848
00:48:25,240 --> 00:48:27,760
Are you already clear with the 
plan and purpose that you have 

849
00:48:27,920 --> 00:48:30,960
with regard to a if you're a 
couple here are you already 

850
00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:33,920
ready to run into the promises 
he has for you? 

851
00:48:34,560 --> 00:48:37,600
Are you ready to run Ephesians 
513 to 14. 

852
00:48:37,600 --> 00:48:40,600
I want to read it over you. 
It says, but everything exposed 

853
00:48:40,840 --> 00:48:43,920
by the light becomes visible, 
and everything that's 

854
00:48:43,920 --> 00:48:49,160
illuminated becomes a light. 
Everything that is exposed by 

855
00:48:49,160 --> 00:48:51,960
the light becomes visible. 
Which means the more you allow 

856
00:48:51,960 --> 00:48:55,200
God to work that resurrection 
power to work in and through 

857
00:48:55,200 --> 00:48:57,920
you, it becomes visible. 
And everything that is 

858
00:48:57,920 --> 00:49:00,440
illuminated becomes a light for 
someone else who's going through

859
00:49:00,440 --> 00:49:03,080
the dark thing. 
So you are required to run. 

860
00:49:05,200 --> 00:49:08,640
This is why it says wake. 
Up sleeper, rise from the dead 

861
00:49:08,960 --> 00:49:15,800
and Christ will shine on you. 
Rise up today you and I are 

862
00:49:15,800 --> 00:49:19,760
called to run. 
Rise up the first R, the second 

863
00:49:19,760 --> 00:49:24,600
R that you're called to when we 
respond to knowing him, when we 

864
00:49:24,600 --> 00:49:27,680
hold on to him and when we 
participate, the second R is 

865
00:49:27,800 --> 00:49:34,560
you're called to renewal every 
step. 2026 God sing Yeshuma, I 

866
00:49:34,560 --> 00:49:38,000
still want to renew you. 
Because pride crept. 

867
00:49:38,000 --> 00:49:40,920
In the minute I knew or in 25, 
this is what he did. 

868
00:49:41,120 --> 00:49:43,560
I was so proud of that. 
But in 2026 God said, hey, 

869
00:49:43,560 --> 00:49:45,840
you're too proud. 
The outcome of that was not for 

870
00:49:45,840 --> 00:49:47,480
you to think of that you've 
become great. 

871
00:49:47,480 --> 00:49:51,760
No, I have to increase, you have
to decrease and God will keep 

872
00:49:51,760 --> 00:49:54,320
renewing you. 
You're like Geshom. 

873
00:49:54,320 --> 00:49:57,520
This is a lifelong process as we
heard Good Friday, till we close

874
00:49:57,520 --> 00:49:59,680
our eyes, God will be working in
and through US. 

875
00:50:00,080 --> 00:50:04,160
John 17 verses 16 to 18 says 
they are not of the world, just 

876
00:50:04,160 --> 00:50:08,480
I am as I am not of the world. 
Sanctify them in the truth, 

877
00:50:08,480 --> 00:50:11,320
which means you're set them 
apart for your purposes. 

878
00:50:11,520 --> 00:50:14,000
Make them holy. 
Your word is truth. 

879
00:50:14,440 --> 00:50:17,840
Just as you commissioned and 
sent me into the world, I also 

880
00:50:17,840 --> 00:50:20,960
have commissioned and I'm 
sending them as believers into 

881
00:50:20,960 --> 00:50:23,000
the world. 
So today. 

882
00:50:23,000 --> 00:50:24,200
Are you ready for? 
Renewal. 

883
00:50:24,200 --> 00:50:25,720
What does God got to renew in 
you? 

884
00:50:25,840 --> 00:50:31,440
He will renew you. 
He will renew you the other day 

885
00:50:31,440 --> 00:50:33,480
as Tina mentioned during Good 
Friday. 

886
00:50:33,480 --> 00:50:36,000
It's nice to say that she 
already mentioned this story. 

887
00:50:36,000 --> 00:50:38,880
So I can you know, it's not like
me leaking some story out. 

888
00:50:39,160 --> 00:50:43,240
But as she told that we were 
fighting the the because in 

889
00:50:43,240 --> 00:50:46,080
those as a couple, I know if you
notice we say unkind things. 

890
00:50:46,080 --> 00:50:50,480
No, when we fight, we say the. 
Truth, in fact. 

891
00:50:50,560 --> 00:50:53,280
You know, we don't, we don't, we
don't butter it up anymore. 

892
00:50:53,280 --> 00:50:57,360
We say the truth. 
And so as you're fighting, the 

893
00:50:57,360 --> 00:50:59,960
whole idea was for us to have 
lunch together, but she had 

894
00:50:59,960 --> 00:51:02,520
lunch and she came up and then 
she, I said we had lunch and she

895
00:51:02,520 --> 00:51:04,640
said, yeah, I already had. 
So then I went down and had 

896
00:51:04,640 --> 00:51:06,800
lunch. 
And then, you know, that typical

897
00:51:06,800 --> 00:51:09,480
six hour, 8 hour standoff, you 
know, you want to talk, look at 

898
00:51:09,480 --> 00:51:11,440
each other, you're like, you 
know, all that kind of thing. 

899
00:51:11,720 --> 00:51:15,840
And then she sends a text saying
if you're disagreeing like this.

900
00:51:17,160 --> 00:51:20,920
I don't think. 
God can work anything through 

901
00:51:20,920 --> 00:51:23,560
us. 
And then I had to come down and 

902
00:51:23,560 --> 00:51:26,440
see God. 
I mean this. 

903
00:51:27,160 --> 00:51:30,920
The problem still is there, but 
we bring it back to your feet 

904
00:51:32,040 --> 00:51:35,800
because the purpose is that you 
have a far greater, far greater.

905
00:51:36,520 --> 00:51:38,360
Now this might seem lighthearted
to you. 

906
00:51:38,360 --> 00:51:41,880
It, it, it is lighthearted, but 
the reality is the not all of 

907
00:51:41,880 --> 00:51:44,920
these, this will just be 
probably what, 7% of your 

908
00:51:45,200 --> 00:51:46,800
overall issues that will come in
life. 

909
00:51:48,080 --> 00:51:49,640
There'll be so many other things
that come. 

910
00:51:50,680 --> 00:51:54,240
And when all those come, you 
will need to go back to renewal.

911
00:51:55,520 --> 00:51:57,840
How many of you have, for those 
of you who are working, have 

912
00:51:57,840 --> 00:52:05,840
people issues, all constant 
renewal, constant renewal 

913
00:52:05,840 --> 00:52:07,560
because that's where you can 
shine your light. 

914
00:52:09,480 --> 00:52:12,480
But some of us our. 
Home needs renewal because 

915
00:52:12,480 --> 00:52:14,000
you're unable to see that person
again. 

916
00:52:14,720 --> 00:52:17,520
We're unable to handle our kids 
when they're making choices 

917
00:52:17,520 --> 00:52:19,560
which are completely different 
from what they what I want to 

918
00:52:19,560 --> 00:52:21,760
make. 
But God, I renew them because I 

919
00:52:21,760 --> 00:52:23,400
know you're the one who gave 
them to me. 

920
00:52:23,680 --> 00:52:25,880
I know they're better in your 
hands than in my hands. 

921
00:52:26,360 --> 00:52:29,440
Your plans are greater. 
Your plans are mightier. 

922
00:52:30,320 --> 00:52:35,960
The third thing, when a hinge is
ready, when you're willing to 

923
00:52:35,960 --> 00:52:39,920
run, when you're ready to run, 
when you're open for renewal. 

924
00:52:40,120 --> 00:52:43,800
The third thing is he'll send us
out to be repairers and 

925
00:52:43,800 --> 00:52:47,520
rebuilders. 
Repairers and rebuilders. 

926
00:52:47,520 --> 00:52:49,280
He won't want you to go and 
start something again. 

927
00:52:50,560 --> 00:52:51,920
He'll. 
Say, go back into society. 

928
00:52:51,920 --> 00:52:55,640
And do what is needed for that. 
What is God called you to repair

929
00:52:55,640 --> 00:53:01,280
today? 
Let me put it this way, what is 

930
00:53:01,280 --> 00:53:09,880
healthy in you? 
OK, between our marriage, I can 

931
00:53:09,880 --> 00:53:12,600
say we have a good enough we 
have a good marriage. 

932
00:53:13,760 --> 00:53:15,320
If I have to be a repairer, what
will I go? 

933
00:53:15,320 --> 00:53:17,480
I'll find those who are hurting 
in their marriage and start 

934
00:53:17,480 --> 00:53:19,680
helping them. 
Hey what is it that I can do to 

935
00:53:19,680 --> 00:53:22,360
help you not? 
That you need to come back to 

936
00:53:22,360 --> 00:53:23,040
me. 
But can I? 

937
00:53:23,240 --> 00:53:24,920
Can I? 
Even if I can't go, I'll start 

938
00:53:24,920 --> 00:53:27,560
praying for them. 
That's what a repairer does. 

939
00:53:27,920 --> 00:53:31,720
What does a rebuilder does? 
Rebuilders like you stand. 

940
00:53:31,720 --> 00:53:34,320
You build it to what God's 
calling you to build in that 

941
00:53:34,320 --> 00:53:37,160
particular place today. 
What are we called? 

942
00:53:37,160 --> 00:53:39,160
Like? 
As much as we pull down the 

943
00:53:39,160 --> 00:53:42,560
strongholds, we pull. 
We bind the strongman. 

944
00:53:42,680 --> 00:53:45,560
We ask him to break the powers. 
We are also called into those 

945
00:53:45,560 --> 00:53:48,480
places to rebuild. 
We are also called into those 

946
00:53:48,480 --> 00:53:52,400
places to restore. 
James. 

947
00:53:52,880 --> 00:53:57,520
Actually recalls this in Acts 15
verses 15 to 18 where the word 

948
00:53:57,520 --> 00:54:01,160
of God now has started going to 
the Gentiles and then they have 

949
00:54:01,160 --> 00:54:05,560
this huge debate. 
And then he recalls one of these

950
00:54:05,880 --> 00:54:08,640
scriptures where he goes on to 
say from the Old Testament for 

951
00:54:08,640 --> 00:54:11,600
the prophets that return. 
It says in Acts 15 verses 15 

952
00:54:11,600 --> 00:54:14,560
this goes on say the words of 
the prophets are in agreement 

953
00:54:14,560 --> 00:54:17,760
with this as it is assistant. 
After this, I will return and 

954
00:54:17,760 --> 00:54:21,720
rebuild David's fallen tent. 
It's ruins and I will rebuild 

955
00:54:21,720 --> 00:54:25,520
and I will restore it, that the 
rest of mankind may seek the 

956
00:54:25,520 --> 00:54:31,240
Lord, even all the gentiles who 
bear my name, says the Lord who 

957
00:54:31,240 --> 00:54:35,080
does these things, things known 
from long ago. 

958
00:54:36,000 --> 00:54:37,080
So I want to. 
Ask you today. 

959
00:54:37,440 --> 00:54:39,600
You and I are called to restore 
and rebuild. 

960
00:54:39,600 --> 00:54:41,920
Which part of society is he 
calling us to restore and 

961
00:54:41,920 --> 00:54:47,000
rebuild? 
Which part of society Ask what? 

962
00:54:47,000 --> 00:54:49,120
When you open the paper, what is
your heartbreaking? 

963
00:54:50,240 --> 00:54:52,440
What section of society is it 
breaking for? 

964
00:54:55,440 --> 00:54:56,880
Or when you look at your 
neighborhood. 

965
00:54:56,880 --> 00:55:00,920
What is it breaking for? 
When this week? 

966
00:55:00,920 --> 00:55:05,360
When we were talking to a cook, 
her mum is going through cancer 

967
00:55:05,840 --> 00:55:08,360
and she was talking about this 
place where she had gone and she

968
00:55:08,360 --> 00:55:12,640
saw like an entire big. 
Hall of 100. 

969
00:55:12,640 --> 00:55:16,480
Patients receiving their chemo 
medicines and all that every 

970
00:55:16,480 --> 00:55:18,360
day. 
And she was narrating about how 

971
00:55:18,360 --> 00:55:20,120
she looked after her 
mother-in-law and she was just 

972
00:55:20,480 --> 00:55:23,680
19 or 20 years old. 
She was suffering from cancer. 

973
00:55:23,680 --> 00:55:25,760
And she was there for a couple 
of months and she was looking 

974
00:55:25,760 --> 00:55:30,040
after. 
So she was saying to look after 

975
00:55:30,040 --> 00:55:32,120
them. 
And I just realized as Tina was 

976
00:55:32,120 --> 00:55:34,440
hearing this and he was just 
talking with her, Tina was 

977
00:55:34,440 --> 00:55:38,400
saying, I'd so desire the 
miracle of healing, but I can 

978
00:55:38,400 --> 00:55:40,080
pray over them and healings will
happen. 

979
00:55:40,760 --> 00:55:43,520
That is what restorer and 
rebuilders look like. 

980
00:55:43,920 --> 00:55:48,200
What is your heart aching for 
today what is your heart aching 

981
00:55:48,200 --> 00:55:52,760
for to the people around you 
what is your heart aching for so

982
00:55:52,760 --> 00:55:53,640
I want. 
To ask you as we. 

983
00:55:53,640 --> 00:55:56,520
Close. 
This hinge is very important. 

984
00:55:57,600 --> 00:56:02,040
If your belief is not firm and 
if you're stop participating, it

985
00:56:02,040 --> 00:56:05,080
remains a door shut. 
You know Jesus is alive, but 

986
00:56:05,080 --> 00:56:06,840
you're not walking in that 
resurrection park. 

987
00:56:07,400 --> 00:56:10,760
That door remains shut. 
And because that door remains 

988
00:56:10,760 --> 00:56:14,240
shut, you're not running. 
You're not open to renewal, 

989
00:56:15,080 --> 00:56:17,040
you're not a restorer and you're
not a rebuilder. 

990
00:56:18,160 --> 00:56:22,000
So I pray and ask that today it.
Won't just be a. 

991
00:56:22,000 --> 00:56:26,080
Fact that Jesus is alive. 
Satan also knows he's. 

992
00:56:26,080 --> 00:56:30,160
Alive but he should know that 
you and I are walking that 

993
00:56:30,160 --> 00:56:32,600
resurrection park. 
Nothing can stop us. 

994
00:56:33,160 --> 00:56:38,400
You and I are willing to say yes
God, let's overcome shame. 

995
00:56:39,560 --> 00:56:40,760
You're. 
Saying I have a mental. 

996
00:56:40,760 --> 00:56:43,240
Illness. 
His resurrection Park can 

997
00:56:43,240 --> 00:56:46,080
overcome that. 
You're saying God, I was abused 

998
00:56:46,080 --> 00:56:48,560
when I was young. 
His resurrection park can 

999
00:56:48,560 --> 00:56:50,680
overcome that. 
You're saying God, I've been 

1000
00:56:50,680 --> 00:56:53,760
stuck in this place. 
We feel so dysfunctional. 

1001
00:56:54,160 --> 00:56:57,120
Yes, His resurrection park and 
restore you back. 

1002
00:56:57,560 --> 00:56:59,520
He is the restorer of 
everything. 

1003
00:57:00,320 --> 00:57:03,880
You feel like you're going back 
to bad patterns, Ask him God, I 

1004
00:57:03,880 --> 00:57:06,400
want to get rid of it. 
Teach me what to do. 

1005
00:57:07,400 --> 00:57:12,000
He is willing to listen and give
us the resurrection part to work

1006
00:57:12,200 --> 00:57:15,480
and come through it today. 
And if you and I are responding 

1007
00:57:15,480 --> 00:57:18,640
is because all the three people 
that I mentioned, the one who 

1008
00:57:18,640 --> 00:57:22,760
had shame, the one who had 
doubt, the one who was holding 

1009
00:57:22,760 --> 00:57:27,800
hands and having someone just 
company for misery, all went out

1010
00:57:27,800 --> 00:57:30,640
to actually be responders to the
Great Commission. 

1011
00:57:31,480 --> 00:57:35,280
They started building, teaching,
being there where God called 

1012
00:57:35,280 --> 00:57:37,520
them to dance. 
So today you and I are called to

1013
00:57:37,520 --> 00:57:41,680
respond not just to the fact 
that Jesus is alive, but respond

1014
00:57:42,000 --> 00:57:44,560
to His resurrection power. 
We hope you enjoyed. 

1015
00:57:44,560 --> 00:57:46,360
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1016
00:57:47,120 --> 00:57:50,200
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1017
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1018
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1019
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1020
00:58:00,040 --> 00:58:06,120
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1021
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1022
00:58:09,920 --> 00:58:12,680
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