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Well, good morning Crossing 
Church. 

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How are you doing today? 
Some of you might remember me. 

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It's so good to be. 
Here. 

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It is so good to be with you. 
I've had the opportunity to 

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preach in a couple of churches 
in the last month, or so one in 

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Arizona, it was like, they were 
having the worst cold snap of 

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course. 
In Arizona bows, great to speak 

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with them and then in Lincoln 
Nebraska and it was havin, 

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they're havin a big warm snap. 
So that's, you know, 

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everything's topsy-turvy but 
there's no place like being 

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home. 
And this is home and just so 

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glad that we get to be together 
and we get to be in God's word 

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together. 
I want to welcome all of our 

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locations all around this 
region. 

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So, thankful for each and every 
one of you of your Insider 

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online. 
We love you. 

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And and just so happy to be able
to share with you this fine 

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Lord's day as well. 
And just one thing I want to 

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remind you of is that in the 
month of March, there are two 

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more marriage. 
Retreats. 

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And I'm going to be talking 
about marriage today. 

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And there is nothing that you 
could do. 

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Better than just to invest 
yourself in a marriage Retreat. 

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Let God speak into your life. 
Let us word speak into your life

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to focus on that. 
That's homework worth doing and 

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it can totally totally change 
your life, your marriage, your 

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kids, your grandkids, who knows 
the blessings that God will give

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through that whole process. 
So we're in this series, I love 

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the Title of this series and its
reclaimed. 

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I love the word reclaim so much.
I feel like biblically that is 

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encapsulated in that word 
reclaim and I Was preparing for 

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this message today and I saw 
these two little tag lines that 

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they kind of did some artistic 
work with. 

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You can see, just make some kind
of hard to read, but it's 

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restoring what was lost and 
fixing. 

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What is broken. 
Restoring what was lost and 

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fixing, what is broken. 
And Those those words that word 

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reclaim and those two taglines, 
they kind of hit me because 

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there's an assumption that's 
being made in that word. 

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The word reclaim and the 
assumption is that you want. 

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Whatever is broken or whatever 
was lost that you that you want 

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that back, right? 
Whether you you earned it, 

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whether you paid a lot for it. 
Whether it was just precious to 

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your what that you want that 
back. 

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You want to reclaim that. 
And I'm contextualizing that in 

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my life and in my context, in my
circumstances and I wonder how 

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you might feel about those 
words. 

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Do you sense? 
Culturally. 

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That we are surrounded by broken
things. 

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Do you feel like we've lost 
things like some really 

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necessary things and they seem 
to be lost or forgotten. 

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I wonder if you might feel that 
way, is an American like in our 

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country. 
You might feel that way as a 

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complete Community member like 
in your community. 

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All these communities that we 
represent at the Crossing, all 

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of network in or maybe even 
personally things that are lost 

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or broken inside of you, I want 
you to know that I feel that 

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way. 
That's a burden on me. 

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And I want to do something right
now that maybe I would encourage

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you to do today and that is I'm 
going to confess something to 

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you. 
And that is that sometimes. 

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I feel like the things that I so
that I feel so deeply, They 

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Don't Really resonate sometimes 
with younger generations, and it

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makes me wonder if there is even
a desire out there to reclaim 

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anything. 
Instead, I see this non-stop 

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indoctrination to move American 
culture away from reclaiming and

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instead embracing new ideas 
about sexual identity, about 

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historical identity about 
national identity, about social 

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identity and about Civility and 
so many other things and I don't

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want to be classified. 
I know I'm 63 years old but I 

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don't want to be that guy. 
Who's morning the good old days.

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But can't help believe but 
believe that so much that is so 

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valuable has been broken and 
lost. 

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And I confess to you that 
sometimes I feel like that any 

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desire to want to reclaim any of
those things is just a pipe 

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dream. so then I hear about 
something happening in Wilmore 

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Kentucky, Went viral a couple 
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Everyone, that has a pulse knows
what I'm talking about. 

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Asbury University students 
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Chapel service. 
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a week and instead continued to 
worship and praise God in their 

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chapel and they miss their 
classes to continue to worship 

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and praise God. 
And I know that that you've 

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heard about it, like just one 
post on social media had over. 

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80 million views. 
So everybody's heard about this 

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and the more I saw, the more I 
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social media. 
I wanted to investigate it 

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myself. 
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Christian standard magazine and 
and I have an editor that lives 

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in Louisville Kentucky and 
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Wilmore which is just a like 15 
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South west of Lexington Kentucky
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Hey if you would go down there 
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maybe I said something about, it
will pay your expenses and he 

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said to me, his name is Mike Mac
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got back. 
I was there for seven hours and 

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it was life-changing. 
It was so powerful and I came 

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there and, and you could just 
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And, and people I was out on the
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I never even made it in the 
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I was out on the lawn and people
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and a guy came up to me and I 
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you. 
I started praying with him. 

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Feel just art, you'll 
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another, with a holy spirit was 
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And I went, wow. 
So I felt this need inside of me

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to go there to experience that 
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So I thought about a couple of 
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be able to go with me and I 
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was going to call Jim Dennis. 
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hey, you want to go? 
And he goes yeah, I'd love to go

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and I go I'm going to call Jim. 
Dennis, he goes, don't bother. 

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He's already there. 
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He's actually on his way back. 
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go and I called Jim and he's on 
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like this was not. 
He goes he was crazy and it was 

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it was incredible. 
He started telling me about his 

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experience and then he said, you
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It was provided, they had pizza,
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had drinks had all this stuff 
and I went, I tried to pay for 

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it and they go, no, it's been 
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Like are you kidding me? 
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know said it's been provided. 
Like somebody had just ponied up

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the money for like all these 
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stuff and he goes I felt so bad.
It goes I put some I said you 

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just take donations and they 
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donation so he handed him some 
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And he said, maybe the crossing 
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And I said, what do you think 
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pay for all the stuff that 
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And he said, just come to the 
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for five thousand dollars. 
So you don't know it until now, 

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but as a church we participated 
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Revival. 
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You are paying for pizza. 
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Lord. 
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So we're in the car, you know, 
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morning and we made the 
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Friday, and in the car, I was 
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going to be preaching about, 
which is how to pick and be the 

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right spouse. 
How do you pick the right 

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spouse? 
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spouse? 
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really excited about half that 
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How come they got it over there 
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I don't know, any way we get to 
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Maybe you. 
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Anyway, I love his gift of 
encouragement anyway, so we got 

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there and we got there as it was
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And then as night fell, I mean I
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the video that I took when night
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So look at the screens right now
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experiencing. 
That's the lawn and right there 

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is Hughes Auditorium on your 
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And that's where the if you seen
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they're happening and you can 
see a line you can, stat line is

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for people wide. 
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6/10 of a mile and it is not 
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the auditorium, people don't 
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But people are willing to stand.
And by the way, it's 28 degrees.

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When I took that video And 
people have filled that Lon and 

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they're praying outside, you see
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They put like this Jumbotron 
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and that was amazing and and all
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matter what the sign was out 
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Didn't matter what denomination 
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There's an amazing thing. 
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I went into one a Baptist Church
and you can tell they don't they

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don't they don't do the whole 
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So I mean it was old school. 
It was Use and it was organ and 

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piano, right? 
But they had a chair sitting on 

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the left side and they had a, 
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sitting on the chair shooting up
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And so I mean, I mean that's 
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And and there was a couple of 
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that we're praying and 
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happening up front and there was
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was a guy that was leading them 
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that when like praying with 
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And and he kneels to pray and he
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front of the, of the video 
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And so, and so, you only see 
half of like, and nobody said 

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anything nobody cared. 
And about every other verse that

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they were singing that was being
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The the internet was so bad that
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Nobody cared. 
They just kept saying and it was

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amazing that when it, when it 
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with him again. 
It was absolutely astounding to 

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me. so, What was what was 
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production. 
I mean, it was there was not 

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produced at all. 
It was just a bunch of a bunch 

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of people in a room and most of 
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were under the age of 22. 
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excellence. 
I mean they weren't picking 

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people who are just great. 
Just somebody, if you get up 

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there with a guitar and there 
were somebody maybe on the piano

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and they had their phone, 
they're trying to find, You 

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Know, chords. 
And there was a guy on a beatbox

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and that was about it. 
And they're leading worship that

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didn't matter. 
I mean, all they had to do with 

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start, all they had to do was 
start a song. 

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There was no words on any 
screen, so you didn't have words

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to go with you, you know, didn't
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I mean, they, they sing like a 
bar to an everybody would just 

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pick it up and then start 
singing. 

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There was no special lighting. 
There was no famous people, 

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there is no comfortable chairs. 
There was no Posh accommodations

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and none of it mattered. 
It was completely student-led 

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and the, The Faculty of Asbury 
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there were people that tried to 
get some stage time. 

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Lots of people that tried to do 
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Some of them famous like Kari, 
Jobe cane and one of the things 

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they said, no, this is 
student-led Tucker Carlson came 

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with a film. 
What came with a film crew? 

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Wanted to do film? 
They said no completely 

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student-led That was that day. 
I thought it was amazing how 

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they kept that the way it was 
and what you saw instead was 

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students worshiping in song 
confessing their sins, publicly 

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dropping to their knees at the 
altar and repentance giving 

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their testimonies reading 
scripture. 

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And this is how they would read 
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I mean, they would line up, they
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scripture. 
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was standing in front and they 
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Asbury when they read scripture 
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of God. 
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students would say and we 
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they would say that and then 
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one would come up, they have 
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scripture on their heart that 
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distractions that kept keep it, 
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wanted that stage time. 
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of wilmore's only 3,300 people 
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can't just stay here. 
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The Holy Spirit was so thick. 
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and Field of Dreams when he said
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your face, you just walk into 
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Was powerful. 
And I know I needed to be there.

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I needed to be there because of 
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I was there for hope. 
Mike Max said I was there for 

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Unity. 
I saw Unity. 

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What I saw was hope hope for a 
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TriMet predominately 18 to 22 
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Lord's presence confessing their
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of their sins and praying. but 
there are a whole heart for him 

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to move because that is what 
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Revival is reclaiming. 
Repentance is reclaiming. 

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Confession is reclaiming 
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And His word is reclaiming. 
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times, I have felt like Elijah 
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everyone else is broken and lost
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And I was reminded that God told
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for himself that he had reserved
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to Baal and I saw thousands and 
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up the Cross of Christ and deny 
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Now, that is not the topic that 
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Finding or being the spouse. 
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God requires obedience to him. 
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Over the things of this world 
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under greater pressure than any 
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of to bow down to the idol of 
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But that trip to Asbury. 
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Taste of the spirit of God is so
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those idols and any of those 
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and it's infallible and it stood
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of years regardless of culture 
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little if any shelf life it is 
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disposable. 
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once this generation to be known
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the generation of depression, 
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God can and will speak life into
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And it begins with God's word so
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today when it comes to being a 
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And so we're going to start in 
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that. 
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behind this table and you've all
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the flight attendant comes up 
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that's really dumb. 
I don't need to do that mean, 

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look at me. 
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operate a seat belt. 
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wonder when we're trying to 
reclaim something. 

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If we still need to know how to 
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When the oxygen mask comes down,
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even though you ought to know 
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Right, so there's going to be 
some stuff. 

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I'm going to say. 
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And I just want you to put your 
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know, where your oxygen mask is 
okay. 

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waste any time doing it, ready. 
I'm going to tell you three 

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things about marriage. 
Here's the first one, male and 

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female. 
Just that. 

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Male and female. 
I'm going to encourage you today

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to do the same discipline, the 
same traditional discipline that

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as very students do, because 
when I'm done reading the 

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scripture, I'm going to say this
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Matthew 19:4 through six, these 
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In my Bible that means there are
the words of Jesus ready? 

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Having you read, he replied that
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made them. 
Male and female and said, for 

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this reason, a man will leave 
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flesh. 
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one therefore what God has 
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Let man not separate. 
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There are two Sexes assigned at 
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That's the way that God created 
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It goes. 
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men, have an X chromosome, and 
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cell, That's how your made even 
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know there are all sorts of 
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to sexual identity, but that is 
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down to every cell in your body.
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I know what culture says, but 
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away. 
We just read what Jesus says and

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Jesus is alive forever. 
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worried about being judged by 
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something you will never stand 
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but you and I will stand before.
God? 

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We will all stand before God. 
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to his word and this is not my 
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This is what the Bible says. 
I know that for some of you this

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is like, how do you, how do you 
Buckle a seatbelt? 

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But that is not the case in our 
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Orange in Zee. 
Number two. 

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To be unified in faith for life 
to understand male and female. 

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And then, to be unified in faith
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I don't know what you did, or 
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do, if you ever find a spouse or
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you ask someone to be your 
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you should find out is where are
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Before you like their clothes, 
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shape. 
How will they have a 

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conversation? 
Where do they stand on their 

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faith? 
The Apostle Paul said, do not be

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yoked together with unbelievers 
for what do righteousness and 

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wickedness have in common or 
what Fellowship can light have 

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with Darkness. 
This should be the first thing 

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that you look for. 
You need to be it and you to 

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look for it. 
Listen to me, it is essential to

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be in a one flesh in spirit as 
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it, you'll never be on the same 
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Now, I know some of you that are
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marriage is balloons and 
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those of us that have been in 
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that it's not always easy and 
sometimes it's hard. 

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As a matter of fact, it can be 
the hardest things, the hardest 

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things that you ever experienced
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that one flesh, relationship and
the place you go for Hope and 

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peace and strength. 
Is God and his word. 

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And if you're not on the same 
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I've had enough people in in my 
office prove to me that when 

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you're not on that same page, 
somebody bears that alone. 

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And that is not the way that God
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It's the first thing you should 
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Your faith. 
Number three. 

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You need to be committed to The 
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There is no disorder in God and 
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None zero. 
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that with God, you don't have 
confusion, you have something 

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else. 
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not the author of confusion but 
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when you follow God, you can be 
at peace, not in confusion. 

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What do I mean? 
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Well, I'm going to read 1st 
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to 20. 
He's the words of the Apostle. 

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Paul. 
Flee from sexual immorality. 

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All other sins. 
A man commits are outside of his

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body. 
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I want you to raise your hand. 
If you've heard. 

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Somebody say all sins the same, 
all Sin is Sin. 

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Yeah, that's only partly true 
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not the same. 
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all sin separates you from God? 
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That's true. 
But there are some sins that 

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make a lot bigger Mark in your 
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And that's what the Apostle Paul
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Let's look at it all other sins.
A man commits are outside of his

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body but he used in sexually 
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Do you not know that your body 
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Spirit? 
Who is in you whom you've 

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received from God? 
You are not your own, you were 

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bought at a price, therefore 
honor God with your body. 

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So we have to flee, sexual sin. 
So I said, male and female, I 

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said that we need to be unified 
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And third, be committed to Godly
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And that's what this scripture 
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Defining now a few months ago, I
showed you this is called the 

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ram model and this is the way 
that a relationship is supposed 

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to form. 
You're supposed to get to know 

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somebody. 
And when you know them well 

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enough, you begin to trust them 
because what trust is is what 

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you think about what you know, 
I've had a lot of people come to

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me. 
Their marriages are falling 

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apart and they said, well, I 
really thought that I knew that 

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person. 
Because that's what trust is it.

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When trust is broken. 
It means that what you thought 

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you knew you really didn't. 
So those knowing and then 

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there's what you think about, 
you know, trust then Reliance is

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what you do based on what you 
think about what you know How 

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you actually act not just what 
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And then, if all of that goes, 
well, you come down here to 

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Commitment you say, I want to 
get, I'm going to get that 

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person off of the market. 
I want that one to be mine. 

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I want that one to be forever. 
I want that. 

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I netwo, yes. 
Sign me up, right? 

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That's commitment. 
That's why you're taking all 

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these O's. 
When you get married, that's 

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commitment. 
And then, and then, and then 

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this Touch. 
Yeah. 

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That's the way it's supposed to 
work. 

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Now there's a lot of reasons for
that because when you get these 

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in the wrong order, Things 
become very confusing and very 

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destructive. 
And Satan is the author of 

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confusion. 
Not God And I'll tell you why 

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that is because just like the X 
and Y chromosomes and all these 

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things that God did when he when
you were created. 

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He also created you that way in 
every way including your married

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life. so, when a woman gives 
birth, Her body delivers, 10 

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times, the amount of normal of 
oxytocin hormone into her body. 

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She just gets this huge rush 
soon as that babies, born of 

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oxytocin and they put that baby 
on mommy's tummy. 

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And something happens. 
Something miraculous happens. 

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Bonding. 
And it's bonding for life and 

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it's because God designed her to
release 10 times the oxytocin in

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that moment. 
So there is a chemical 

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scientific response that God has
designed inside of a woman to do

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that. 
She also releases that in sexual

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intimacy. 
A man in sexual intimacy 

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releases vasopressin a hormone 
that is also called the monogamy

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molecule. 
Because as a species human 

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beings were designed to mate for
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Wow, cool. 
Now, maybe not so much because 

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how many relationships do you 
know, started that way and did 

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that? 
Or did we go to the bar? 

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Hoping we get lucky. 
We picked someone up. 

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It's dark. 
You're drunk or drinking in the 

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dark, they look pretty good. 
You wake up in the morning 

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you're going. 
Oh my goodness. 

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But all that hormonal stuff 
happened and you do that over 

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00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:10,400
and over and over and over 
again. 

454
00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:13,800
What happens? 
This is not how you were 

455
00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:16,100
designed. 
This is not how I was designed 

456
00:29:16,100 --> 00:29:19,600
and right now you're going. 
Oh, stop preaching. 

457
00:29:23,100 --> 00:29:26,700
Killing me. 
Cuz I haven't done that. 

458
00:29:27,900 --> 00:29:30,300
I'm broken. 
I'm lost. 

459
00:29:30,500 --> 00:29:37,900
I don't know what to do reclaim 
Reclaim because God has the 

460
00:29:37,900 --> 00:29:43,500
ability to fix what is broken? 
He has the ability to recover. 

461
00:29:43,500 --> 00:29:48,800
What has been lost, only he can 
do that, we have got to reclaim 

462
00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:50,100
and you're going, okay? 
Okay. 

463
00:29:50,700 --> 00:29:52,900
How do I do it? 
Okay. 

464
00:29:53,700 --> 00:29:59,400
Here's an acrostic, an acronym, 
ready, re-see laim reclaim. 

465
00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:02,900
I'm going to give you a word and
a statement for every one of 

466
00:30:02,908 --> 00:30:04,100
those. 
So you can remember it, you 

467
00:30:04,100 --> 00:30:05,300
might want to write them down. 
Down. 

468
00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:07,700
Number one. 
Are what does it stand for 

469
00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:16,600
repent of your sins? 
Repent of your sins to repent 

470
00:30:16,600 --> 00:30:19,900
means to turn. 
Literally, the Greek word means 

471
00:30:19,900 --> 00:30:24,200
to turn And and there's a 
scripture that actually has the 

472
00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:28,200
definition within the scripture.
It's in Acts chapter 3 verses 19

473
00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:31,900
to 20. 
It says repent then and turn to 

474
00:30:31,900 --> 00:30:35,600
God so that your sins may be 
wiped out. 

475
00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:37,600
You want your sins wiped out? 
I do. 

476
00:30:39,500 --> 00:30:43,400
How do I get my sins wiped out? 
I Repent that your sins may be 

477
00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:45,500
wiped out. 
How many you want? 

478
00:30:45,500 --> 00:30:49,500
The next thing that times of 
refreshing may come from the 

479
00:30:49,500 --> 00:30:51,600
Lord? 
That's Revival. 

480
00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:55,900
That's where God fixes your 
heart times of refreshing come 

481
00:30:55,900 --> 00:30:59,500
from the Lord, and that he may 
send the Messiah. 

482
00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:05,300
Who has been appointed for you? 
Even Jesus to feel the presence 

483
00:31:05,300 --> 00:31:08,200
of Jesus. 
To repent. 

484
00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:12,000
I want that. 
Yeah, you're broken. 

485
00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:21,900
Something's lost, repent. 
Number 2 or e the letter e 

486
00:31:22,300 --> 00:31:31,300
experience experience the cross.
experience the cross because 

487
00:31:31,300 --> 00:31:35,300
that's where the sacrifice for 
your sins are If you know that 

488
00:31:35,300 --> 00:31:37,500
you're carrying all these sins, 
you know, you've got all this 

489
00:31:37,500 --> 00:31:40,300
stuff, maybe nobody else knows, 
maybe it's a secret thing, you 

490
00:31:40,300 --> 00:31:43,000
don't, you know as and it's just
you that knows it. 

491
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:45,300
What do I do with it? 
I've owned this regret. 

492
00:31:45,300 --> 00:31:47,300
I have all this hurt. 
I have all this pain. 

493
00:31:48,700 --> 00:31:51,500
What do I do with it? 
You take that right to the Cross

494
00:31:51,900 --> 00:31:56,100
experience, the cross, because 
it was at the cross where Jesus 

495
00:31:56,100 --> 00:32:00,000
shed his blood and his blood is 
enough to cover every one of 

496
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:03,800
your sins, it doesn't require 
anything more than what Jesus 

497
00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:08,500
did when he gave himself as a 
sacrifice for your sins. 

498
00:32:08,500 --> 00:32:14,600
So experience the cross because 
that is where the payment is for

499
00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:19,300
your sins, see? 
Confess your sin. 

500
00:32:20,900 --> 00:32:24,700
Confess your sin, which means to
admit your sin before. 

501
00:32:24,700 --> 00:32:31,700
God, first John 1:9 says, if we 
confess our sins, he is faithful

502
00:32:32,500 --> 00:32:39,300
and just and will what you want 
that? 

503
00:32:39,900 --> 00:32:43,500
I want that. 
I want my sins to be wiped out. 

504
00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:45,900
I want a time of refreshing from
the Lord. 

505
00:32:45,900 --> 00:32:49,600
I want him to send the Lord, the
Messiah into my heart that he's 

506
00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:52,600
appointed for me. 
And I want to know that he's 

507
00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:56,300
forgiven me, and it doesn't say 
he will forgive us of our sins. 

508
00:32:56,300 --> 00:32:58,600
Only, it says, he will purify 
us. 

509
00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:01,300
And not just from some of our 
sin. 

510
00:33:02,100 --> 00:33:06,700
It says all unrighteousness. 
When we confess our sins, I need

511
00:33:06,700 --> 00:33:09,600
to do that. 
Oh yeah, I'm going to repent, 

512
00:33:10,100 --> 00:33:13,100
I'm going to embrace the cross 
and experience the cross, and 

513
00:33:13,100 --> 00:33:17,100
I'm going to confess my sins and
in the L, and reclaim is a 

514
00:33:17,108 --> 00:33:21,900
definition. 
It's to understand your sin from

515
00:33:21,900 --> 00:33:25,300
God's point of view. 
Look, it's for look is the L 

516
00:33:25,300 --> 00:33:28,200
look. 
At yourself from God's point of 

517
00:33:28,208 --> 00:33:32,700
view, See. 
Everything is just so biased 

518
00:33:32,700 --> 00:33:35,300
inside of us because we're 
always about our point of view. 

519
00:33:35,300 --> 00:33:39,200
We're so self-focused as a 
culture, but we need to get out 

520
00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:43,100
of ourselves and we need to get 
into God's point of view. 

521
00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:46,400
And when you see things from 
God's point of view, you agree 

522
00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:49,600
with him. 
And when you agree with him, 

523
00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:52,500
you're in the right place and 
that is where there is 

524
00:33:52,500 --> 00:33:57,600
incredible beauty. 
Because the beauty of Truth is 

525
00:33:57,600 --> 00:34:00,600
healing. 
It heals you? 

526
00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:05,200
Some people think, well, you 
know, I'm forever scarred. 

527
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:07,700
I've been victimized. 
And I've been forever scarred. 

528
00:34:07,700 --> 00:34:11,800
I'm not saying that you haven't 
endured a lot of hard things and

529
00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:13,699
that you haven't been 
victimized, but I'm telling you,

530
00:34:13,699 --> 00:34:18,300
there isn't coping in the Holy 
Spirit, there's victory in the 

531
00:34:18,300 --> 00:34:22,800
Holy Spirit. 
There, he remakes you and only 

532
00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:27,199
he can do that. 
There's healing in it. 

533
00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:33,699
A is for accept. 
This is where it gets really 

534
00:34:33,699 --> 00:34:38,300
good. 
Except the power of God's 

535
00:34:38,500 --> 00:34:40,199
Amazing. 
Grace. 

536
00:34:43,199 --> 00:34:48,800
In Romans chapter 5 verses 9 to 
11, it says, since we have been 

537
00:34:49,100 --> 00:34:53,300
justified by his blood, how much
more shall we be saved? 

538
00:34:53,300 --> 00:34:57,200
From God's Wrath through him, I 
want to be saved from God's 

539
00:34:57,200 --> 00:35:00,700
Wrath. 
For if, while we were God's 

540
00:35:00,700 --> 00:35:04,000
enemies, we were reconciled to 
him through the death of his 

541
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:06,300
son. 
How much more having been 

542
00:35:06,300 --> 00:35:11,600
reconciled shall we be saved 
through his life Not only is 

543
00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:16,200
this so but we also boast in God
through our Lord Jesus Christ 

544
00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:19,700
through whom we have now 
received reconciliation. 

545
00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:26,500
Wow. 
I is for imagine, imagine the 

546
00:35:26,500 --> 00:35:31,800
you That God sees. 
You know, a lot of times we 

547
00:35:31,800 --> 00:35:34,300
think that God looks citizen, 
all he sees is all of our 

548
00:35:34,300 --> 00:35:37,700
shortcomings, in all of our, all
the bad things that we've done. 

549
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:41,200
But you know what? 
That's Satan limiting you to 

550
00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:45,600
what God sees, because God sees 
you as a completed work. 

551
00:35:45,700 --> 00:35:49,700
God sees you with all of your 
potential realized. 

552
00:35:49,700 --> 00:35:53,000
The Bible says that we are as 
far as he is concerned, we are 

553
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:55,100
already seated with him in the 
Heavenly realms. 

554
00:35:57,800 --> 00:36:02,200
So God doesn't just see you as 
his broken up, busted up, dumb 

555
00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:06,400
kid. 
He sees you experiencing all of 

556
00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:09,300
the potential that he has in 
your life. 

557
00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:13,100
All of that realized impacting 
other people for the kingdom for

558
00:36:13,100 --> 00:36:16,800
all time. 
Imagine that true because it's 

559
00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:21,800
true. 
And finally, move em is move 

560
00:36:22,100 --> 00:36:25,400
toward Jesus. 
You see, the thing about Sin is 

561
00:36:25,900 --> 00:36:27,600
that makes it even more 
confusing. 

562
00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:30,500
Is we realize we've done 
something wrong and we realize 

563
00:36:30,500 --> 00:36:32,800
we're broken because of it 
realized stuff's been lost 

564
00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:37,200
because of it and then we just 
run but we're aimless, we just 

565
00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:41,300
kind of just run. 
And a lot of times when you run 

566
00:36:41,300 --> 00:36:42,900
from a sin, you run into a worse
one. 

567
00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:48,700
And what God is trying to help 
us to understand is that he 

568
00:36:48,700 --> 00:36:50,700
gives us. 
He doesn't just tell us to flee.

569
00:36:50,700 --> 00:36:54,300
He doesn't just tell us to run. 
He tells us where we're supposed

570
00:36:54,300 --> 00:36:56,900
to run, and that's to Jesus. 
Because I can tell you this, if 

571
00:36:56,900 --> 00:36:59,300
you're running to Jesus, you're 
always running in the right 

572
00:36:59,300 --> 00:37:02,300
direction. 
And if you're running to Jesus, 

573
00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:04,900
you're putting the right amount 
of distance between you and 

574
00:37:04,900 --> 00:37:08,800
that's in so move. 
Toward Jesus. 

575
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:15,100
I'm going to close with this. 
We sing the song We sang it last

576
00:37:15,100 --> 00:37:16,600
week. 
I think I'm praying. 

577
00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:19,900
God, come and turn this thing 
around. 

578
00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:22,300
God. 
Turn it around. 

579
00:37:22,300 --> 00:37:24,400
Turn it around. 
Lord, turn it around, right. 

580
00:37:25,500 --> 00:37:26,700
And you know what? 
That's putting all the 

581
00:37:26,707 --> 00:37:30,100
responsibility on him. 
Like, would you come and fix all

582
00:37:30,100 --> 00:37:33,400
this? 
And if we were to hear the voice

583
00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:37,300
of Jesus Christ, he would say, 
excuse me. 

584
00:37:38,100 --> 00:37:42,900
I've already been there. 
I've already been there. 

585
00:37:43,100 --> 00:37:48,000
I put on a human form. 
I walked on your Earth for 33 

586
00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:49,900
years. 
I endured the worst. 

587
00:37:49,900 --> 00:37:51,700
That a person could give another
person. 

588
00:37:51,900 --> 00:37:55,100
I died for you on the cross. 
I was buried for you in a 

589
00:37:55,107 --> 00:37:59,400
borrowed to I rose from the dead
and I ascended to my Father in 

590
00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:01,300
heaven. 
And I'm there right now, 

591
00:38:01,300 --> 00:38:06,900
pleading your case. 
So maybe when we sing I'm 

592
00:38:06,900 --> 00:38:10,700
praying God come maybe we should
just point her finger like this 

593
00:38:10,700 --> 00:38:12,200
and say and turn this thing 
around. 

594
00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:18,000
God turn this around. 
Turn me around. 

595
00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:27,200
Turn me around. 
Like the students in Asbury were

596
00:38:27,200 --> 00:38:31,200
broken, people were lost people.
So am I? 

597
00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:38,900
But when the spirit comes and we
submit to that Spirit, something

598
00:38:38,900 --> 00:38:44,400
happens. something wonderful 
happens because the church 

599
00:38:45,500 --> 00:38:49,800
begins to look beautiful. 
With all of her beautiful 

600
00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:53,300
messiness. 
I'm talking about marriage and 

601
00:38:53,300 --> 00:38:56,400
some people would say, you know,
but Jesus was never married, the

602
00:38:56,400 --> 00:38:58,400
whole reason. 
Jesus came to this Earth was to 

603
00:38:58,400 --> 00:39:04,000
get married. 
And you are his bride. 

604
00:39:05,300 --> 00:39:10,700
And he gave his life up. 
For his bride. 

605
00:39:12,900 --> 00:39:16,500
And he's coming back for his 
bride, because there is nothing 

606
00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:22,600
in this world more beautiful 
than the Bride of Jesus Christ. 

607
00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:25,000
We're moving to a time of 
decision. 

608
00:39:38,700 --> 00:39:43,800
There are people in this room. 
Struggling right now. 

609
00:39:45,100 --> 00:39:49,800
Hurting right now. 
Wrestling right now. 

610
00:39:52,500 --> 00:39:55,000
Oh, you might be a Christian, 
you may have said the words, you

611
00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:57,300
may have made the decision. 
That's all great. 

612
00:39:57,300 --> 00:39:59,900
I appreciate that so much. 
But you know what I mean? 

613
00:40:00,500 --> 00:40:03,000
Because life happens like we 
call it the lower Story. 

614
00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:07,700
The lower story happens, right? 
And I'm just going to invite you

615
00:40:07,700 --> 00:40:11,200
to do something today because 
these steps. 

616
00:40:13,200 --> 00:40:16,100
Have been. 
They've been preyed on and 

617
00:40:16,100 --> 00:40:19,300
they've been wept on. 
For years. 

618
00:40:22,500 --> 00:40:26,900
And it is where the lower story.
Gets enveloped by the upper 

619
00:40:26,900 --> 00:40:35,400
story. because when you get low,
Before the Lord, you see the 

620
00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:43,900
heights like you never did 
before. when you get down, he 

621
00:40:43,900 --> 00:40:52,300
lifts you up. 
Because this is a place of 

622
00:40:52,300 --> 00:40:56,200
repentance. 
And it's a place of confession. 

623
00:41:00,500 --> 00:41:06,100
And it's a place of Grace. 
And if you've got something on 

624
00:41:06,100 --> 00:41:08,400
your heart, maybe you're 
carrying it for yourself where 

625
00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:11,000
you're carrying it for somebody 
that you love, bring it to the 

626
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:13,600
Lord, just bring it to the Lord.
And I know you can do that in 

627
00:41:13,600 --> 00:41:17,600
your seat, but it's something 
profound when we get down on our

628
00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:20,500
knees. 
And we don't care who sees us 

629
00:41:21,100 --> 00:41:23,400
like those students when they 
start confessing their sins 

630
00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:27,200
publicly with a microphone. 
I don't care who sees it, I 

631
00:41:27,207 --> 00:41:29,700
don't care who hears it because 
I want him to hear it. 

632
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:36,500
Some of you here today and 
you've never accepted Lord Jesus

633
00:41:36,500 --> 00:41:39,500
as your savior and your lord. 
You never come in to an intimate

634
00:41:39,500 --> 00:41:41,800
personal relationship with him. 
And right over there by that 

635
00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:44,300
baptistry, there's going to be 
somebody to talk to you and 

636
00:41:44,300 --> 00:41:48,100
there is nothing in this world. 
I can't, I can't ever put any 

637
00:41:48,100 --> 00:41:51,900
words together in a sermon. 
That would even begin to match 

638
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:57,800
the sermon that is preached when
a person is immersed in raised 

639
00:41:57,800 --> 00:42:02,200
up in that water, it's the most 
profound powerful sermon, you'll

640
00:42:02,200 --> 00:42:04,300
hear. 
Is that? 

641
00:42:06,700 --> 00:42:11,800
Just the sound of water. 
And a smile enjoy. 

642
00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:16,000
And that's available for you 
right now. 

643
00:42:16,600 --> 00:42:18,800
Would you stand with me? 
Let's pray together. 

644
00:42:18,800 --> 00:42:21,400
Heavenly father in Jesus name. 
We come to you. 

645
00:42:23,500 --> 00:42:25,900
Father, we reject the things of 
this world. 

646
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:29,400
We reject the things of this 
culture and we embrace the 

647
00:42:29,400 --> 00:42:32,000
culture of Heaven. 
We Embrace citizenship in 

648
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:35,100
heaven, we embrace your word 
because it is the inerrant 

649
00:42:35,100 --> 00:42:38,200
infallible truth in our 
Authority for life. 

650
00:42:40,200 --> 00:42:44,900
It's Eternal thing that you gave
us in this temporary world. 

651
00:42:45,500 --> 00:42:48,700
We hear your words. 
We want your words to see deep 

652
00:42:48,700 --> 00:42:53,400
inside of our hearts. 
So I pray father and this moment

653
00:42:53,400 --> 00:42:57,400
will respond to you in Jesus 
name. 

654
00:42:58,200 --> 00:42:58,800
Amen.