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Friends, the the title for my 
talk today is this the cross, 

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God's answer to the mind and the
heart. 

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And the verse that's the anchor 
for this talk is Acts 2 verse 

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36. 
It says Jesus says this. 

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This Jesus whom you sacrificed, 
God has raised. 

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This should give a bit of 
context. 

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This is Peter speaking to a 
crowd. 

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After that, the Holy Spirit has 
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So he's calling them to repent 
and believe in Jesus, right? 

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So by church this is what many 
believers miss. 

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Like the cross didn't save 
souls, but the cross created a 

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people, a community, right? 
And like this right now, what we

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are doing right now and the 
beautiful word that we use for 

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this gathering is church with 
me. 

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So if you look to even to the 
original word in Greek, which is

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Ecclesius, which means a cold 
out assembly or gathered people.

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So even if we look back to the 
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It is not random. 
So Pentecost, even though we're 

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not in a Pentecost, in the 
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not a Holy Spirit fireworks 
display. 

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It's the moment the cross 
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So Peter, there we have Peter 
stands up on Pentecost and what 

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does he preach on the cross? 
The cross, this Jesus whom you 

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sacrifice, God has raised. 
And if we look to this verse 

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again, we can take away three 
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The first one is this 
repentance, the baptisms in the 

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Spirit and the instant born of 
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If we strip down a bit more, we 
can take away these three 

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things, cross Spirit Church. 
And then if we carry on to Acts 

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242, we have this Acts 242, And 
they devoted themselves to the 

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apostles teaching and the 
fellowship, to the breaking of 

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the breads and the prayers. 
But I want to carry on until 

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verse 43. 
This is verse 43 right now. 

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And all came up upon every soul,
and many wonders and signs were 

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being done through the apostles 
and awe, awe came upon every 

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soul and many wonders and sign 
were being done through the 

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apostles. 
So there are four things that we

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can take away from this passage.
First one, the apostles teaching

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second fellowship. 
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prayer. 
So #1 apostles teachings pretty 

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much is the cross revelation 
continued as getting deeper in 

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the word of the Lords is the 
cross continue? 

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Is the cross revelation 
continued? 

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And then we have #2 fellowship 
is that the cross reconciles us 

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not only to God, but to each 
other. 

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Again, the cross, the, the cross
is that has this beautiful thing

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as moving towards, towards, to 
Jesus, but not only that, the 

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move, the cross move towards one
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This is the beautiful thing 
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And #3 what we did this morning,
the breaking of the bread cross 

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remembered in the century of the
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And what does it, what the, what
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Kingdom of God is a place where 
everyone belongs that we can 

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come and can we can get our 
spiritual food is US saying to 

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the Lord, Lord, your bread, your
blood is enough. 

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I'm fully content with your 
sacrifice. 

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And then #4 prayer, which means 
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in power, expect God to move in 
power again. 

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Are we ready to see, to see the 
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remains? 
Are we ready? 

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Are we ready? 
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we pray the Lord's prayer, Lord,
let your Kingdom come, your will

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be done on earth as it is in 
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When we pray on earth as it is 
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saying there's a standard in 
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There's a certain parade in 
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now that we are green. 
We're praying that it's going to

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happen on earth. 
Question is, are we ready? 

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Are we taking this serious? 
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church that we need to raise up.
Things are going mad and we need

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to be grounded in what is solid.
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solid rock and we will not be 
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heaven, on earth as it is in 
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So this, the simple message was 
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So it was the cross and 
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message. 
Simple, the cross, resurrection.

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The cross means forgiveness and 
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creature. 
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And what was the result? 
They see grace and power in 

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their community. 
Grace and power in their 

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community. 
So every time we gaze upon the 

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beauty of the Lord, every time 
we we, we see. 

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When we look to the beautiful 
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what's the result of us moving 
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Grace and power in US, raising 
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But if we go back in Acts 2, if 
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verse Acts 431, I just remember 
this verse powerful Acts 431, 

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Acts 431. 
Hear this church, when they had 

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prayed, the place in which they 
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shaken, and when they are and 
when they were all filled and 

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they were all filled with the 
Holy Spirit and continued to 

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speak the word of God with 
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Can we imagine if we keep moving
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towards one another, if we keep 
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back to the table, stay at the 
table and we keep feeding from 

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that table. 
And then after that the table 

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that leads us to prayer because 
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We cannot stand in the presence 
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His beauty. 
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this passage was that this was 
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But did you see the word I used 
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Can we imagine? 
No, this should be normal. 

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Can you believe one? 
Can you imagine? 

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Look at this, imagine I'm using 
again these words. 

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One day we see this whole 
warehouse shaking because the 

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people of God has finally 
raised. 

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But this again, for them, this 
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Normal. 
When are we going to take these 

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things serious? 
As I said many times here 

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before, I'm a Baptist. 
I have a Baptist background and 

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appreciate Alamein in a 
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Yes, grace and power in their 
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So what I'm saying is that the 
early church was not built by 

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preference, not by a really cool
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or a good preacher. 
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simply by the Cross Church. 
Again, simple message. 

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Simple message even every every 
time you come to a Sunday 

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morning, my friends, the Sunday 
morning when the holy people are

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gathered should be in an 
overflow of your daily life with

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Jesus. 
As simple as that, as simple as 

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that. 
So as we keep looking to the 

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cross, my friend, for some the 
cross is only like a religious 

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symbol. 
But my hope is that the cross 

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for us is the center, the center
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Every time we come on Sunday 
mornings to see the the building

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shaking should be normal for us,
for us to look for us to move 

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towards on another should be 
normal for us, for us to deliver

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forgiveness should be normal for
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For us to have the the to break 
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us. 
But you're probably wondering, 

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Edouard, you have no idea what's
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I'm going through. 
But this wonderful friend called

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Saint Augustine, he quoted this,
this wonderful friend that I 

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haven't met, and he said this 
God had one son without sin, but

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never one without suffering, 
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So there we have Jesus hanging 
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gods. 
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communicate to us is this, that 
you, you can't over, you can't 

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overcome sin. 
He got attempted in every single

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way possible to say to you, to 
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you need to move forward towards
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God had one son without sin, but
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Remember something right now. 
So last week we had our 

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wonderful space online and on 
site on Wednesdays as we 

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continue to fast as a church. 
If you don't know, we're fasting

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as a church every Wednesday over
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PM. 
So you can join us here in 

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person. 
Also, you can watch online, but 

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I had this moment where I was 
like so grateful for the unite 

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of Kingdom from Charles Porgens 
with John Wesley and so on and 

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so on. 
Friends, God has chosen the 

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knight of Kingdom with great 
revivalists in the past, 

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evangelists. 
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they impacted my nation, Brazil,
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There's something special in the
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I don't know if you can feel it,
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Catch if you can, catch if you 
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Are you ready? 
So then we have this, yes, we 

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had this wonderful moment where 
we were just giving thanks to 

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God for the United Kingdom. 
My friends, your history is 

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amazing. 
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it's amazing. 
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And as a Brazilian, I'm so 
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your history. 
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So then we have this wonderful 
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called John Lennox. 
This wonderful brother is still 

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with us, and he quoted this If 
God simply announced forgiveness

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from far away, we would suspect 
he doesn't take justice 

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seriously. 
The cross is God, God stepping 

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into history. 
The cross is where God takes 

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evil and justice seriously in 
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Christianity. 
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suffering from distance. 
He carries it and he bleeds into

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the world he made so that we 
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His blood dripping for all of 
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This is the same blood that we 
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we eat from. 
Lord, give me Jesus, give me 

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Jesus. 
When are you, when are you going

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to to invite Jesus to be in your
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When are you going to bring 
Jesus when you can? 

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When are you going to invite 
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center of your table in your 
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When you're going to have Family
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your parents and your kids 
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Does it have to be something 
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I know it can be painful for the
kids, but something that you're 

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going to bring you guys 
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I'm giving practical tips, if 
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Yeah, he works. 
Fluffy works, right? 

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So see your kids, they all love 
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So when you're going to bring 
Jesus back to the be the center 

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of your life, your family, your 
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So then Sunday mornings, does it
become more like you'll come 

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here to expect some fame. 
You'll come to give because it's

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an overflow of your life devoted
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I really hope to see one day is 
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Jesus. 
Lord forgive us that we we've 

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come so lazy to be in our 
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We find church so comfortable. 
We keep chasing not for 

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happiness, but you. 
It's clear the Christianity is 

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about suffering, but with that 
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and that you we can do it. 
So the cross is the Bernie 

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century of transformation. 
And then, then, then we have 

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again another Englishman called 
John Wesley saying this. 

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The blood of Christ is the life 
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believer. 
So the cross is not only, but 

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simply the moment. 
It's not simply the moment we we

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get forgiven. 
It's the power you live from. 

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Everything from flows from the 
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Everything flows from your 
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So the cross is not only a 
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only washing, it's empowering. 
So for John Wesley, grace not 

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only removes guilt, grace breaks
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So then we have Romans 66. 
Our old self was crucified with 

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him and then called Galatians. 
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lives in me. 
So the cross for us needs to be 

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felt and lived. 
We need to feel it. 

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But this is the life. 
This is where we live from, 

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where we get our food from, our 
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So with all of this being said, 
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the heart. 
So the cross is not only true, 

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this is the big statement today,
the cross is not only true, the 

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cross is transforming. 
It's not only historically 

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defensible, but historically 
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So the cross of cross is 
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So the cross is not only a 
merely how how I get to heaven, 

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but how heaven gets into me and 
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But did you see that I'm 
throwing the responsibility back

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at you? 
Is all of us responsibility? 

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All of us? 
And as you, as you say, yes, 

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this beautiful sacrifice of 
Jesus, when you take these 

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things serious again, what does 
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It means a new power, new 
identity, new affection. 2 

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Corinthians 517 If anyone is in 
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praise him, all be creatures. 
Yeah, Jesus Christ has risen, 

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yes, praise him all in nations. 
He has bought our freedom. 

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I'd love for us to to move to a 
time of ministry again. 

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The way we should respond is 
always to is always on this, 

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this beautiful thing where it's 
like. 

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You see the Lord and He's there 
with so much power, grace, love,

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and you respond based on that 
reality, the gaze upon the Lord.

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We look at Him, and then we do 
the first step. 

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So worship is about giving, as 
you know, but that's the 

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invitation for us today. 
So come to the cross again, not 

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only to be forgiven, but to be 
remade. 

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So if you want freedom from old 
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sin, a new heart affection, A 
renewed first love, even if 

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you're asking the Lord, Lord, 
make my heart tender again, 

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Lord, may my heart tender 
towards one another. 

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Lord, make my heart tender 
towards you. 

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I want to invite you to step 
forward, not to earn anything, 

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but to to receive everything 
that Christ paid for you. 

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I know that moving forward 
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You don't get any special 
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But this is you publicly saying 
to the body of Christ, yes, I 

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want to come back to the cross. 
Yeah, let's always stand.