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Amen. 
Amen. 

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So we continue our study of the 
book of Galatians. 

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We come to chapter 2, verses 1 
to 10. 

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Anybody who has read it and come
this morning, one hand, two. 

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Yeah, somebody give chocolate. 
It is not funny anymore. 

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I would say I really, I would 
really encourage people to read 

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and come because the gospels on 
the New Testament is so fully 

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loaded. 
Unless you interact with it, we 

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are not going to grasp it. 
Even I myself have struggled 

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with it the whole week to get a 
sense of what is this trying to 

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say or what is Paul trying to 
say in this chapter 2 verses 1 

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to 10. 
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that 14 years later I went up 
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So what is this 14 years 
referring to probabilities from 

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the time he came to know the 
Lord and see after he was he was

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conversion in Damascus. 
He came to Jerusalem and as he 

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was praying in the Temple, the 
Jesus appeared to him and said 

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I'm sending you to far away 
place to the Gentiles. 

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They are not going to receive 
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And by revelation, I think he 
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and then he disappeared for 
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Then Barnabas found him and 
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That is all the ministry 
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So now from that time when he 
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he has come back. 
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one more time in between? 
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In Acts Chapter 11, he brought 
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people and that he brought them 
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He came with Silas or somebody 
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And later again in chapter 15, 
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council. 
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important because that was a 
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delegation came from Antioch and
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They all came, I think, at the 
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These things are happening 
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So some theologians, you know, 
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Acts 11 and then this is written
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Acts 15 and then it's written. 
Whenever it is happened. 

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I'm not really too much worried 
about it, but he did visit and 

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these things are happening for 
our good now. 

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Many times in the olden days 
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ship, sometimes there will be a 
ship will be wrecked and people 

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will be going through loss and 
goods is loss and people who 

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are, I mean drown and die, but 
no one remembers when the water 

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started leaking into the ship. 
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We see the end result, Ship is 
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Was anybody aware when the water
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If somebody has seen it that can
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Put your finger there. 
The boat will not sink. 

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So what Paul did in this chapter
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He didn't wait for the shipwreck
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She he didn't wait for the whole
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No, he took the initiative and 
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happen. 
Paul could see far into the 

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future what this all discussion 
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The Jewish Christians traveling 
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they come and say hey, unless 
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not be saved. 
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one. 
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and came to Antioch and said 
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You Gentiles, you will not be 
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circumcised. 
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look at that little hole in the 
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try to stop it so that the 
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the future. 
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We need to be proactively see 
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It may be a simple thing now, 
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become a big issue in the 
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That's the reason why we need 
leaders with foresight who can 

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look into the future and look 
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where it is going, where is 
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So Paul was one of those guys 
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future if he allowed those 
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That guy, one guy comes here and
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you're a gentile, you must be 
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Paul is standing there and 
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conversation and listen, its OK,
let him talk what he wants to 

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talk. 
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No, I can imagine he will go 
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Hey, what did he say? 
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of a doctrinal deviation. 
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That is Paul, and because of him
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us now without being diluted. 
We did men like Paul. 

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Even now, if you want churches 
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churches to become strong in the
Word of God, we need people who 

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are strong in the doctrine and 
who can foresee when we 

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compromise a little how it is 
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future. 
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night I had a dream of a man who
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telling me, hey, let us help 
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You know, helping is good, isn't
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But he actually was trapping me 
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bad. 
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going to be you're going to go 
to jail if you keep going with 

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that guy. 
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I'm not going to cooperate with 
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So I don't know for whom it 
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But there may be somebody whom 
the Satan is tempting you to 

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compromise on a little thing so 
that he can shipwreck your life 

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in the future. 
So I'm not very big guy to 

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dreams, but these days is 
increasing. 

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I don't know why I always 
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But now I had the second dream 
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Something is happening inside. 
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So now what happened here is 
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Yeah. 
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this time with Barnabas. 
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me. 
He took Barnabas and Titus. 

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Why Titus? 
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he's taking him with Jerusalem, 
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Why? 
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are a Greek, you must be 
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thing is going to erupt. 
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So he wanted to test and see 
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with this man. 
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let's go troubleshoot. 
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the man himself and let's see 
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And what does he say? 
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Not even Titus, who was with me,
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even though he was a Greek. 
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They did not, they did not 
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But was it easy? 
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Barnabas? 
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This matter arose because some 
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our ranks to spy on the freedom 
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make us slaves. 
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But at the same time, they are 
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Titus, be here. 
I will take care of you. 

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He's shielding. 
OK. 

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What? 
Do you want to talk to? 

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Titus? 
Talk to me. 

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You you want to say something? 
Titus, say to me. 

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Paul was out and out defending 
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him and say you need to be 
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I tell you the heart of Paul, we
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Everybody say we should have 
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Why is it important? 
It is like the heart of Jesus 

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himself. 
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heart of Jesus himself. 
Now let us look at one verse in 

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John chapter 10 verse 14 
onwards. 

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I am the Good Shepherd. 
I know my sheep, and my sheep 

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know me, just as the Father 
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and I laid on my life for the 
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I have other sheep that are not 
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I must bring them also. 
They too will listen to my 

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voice. 
And there shall be 1 flock and 1

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shepherd. 
You have Christians who will be 

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who will be followers of Jesus 
from the Jewish background, but 

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we have Christians who are going
to follow Jesus from other other

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flock. 
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but they also have to come so 
that there will be 1 flock and 1

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shepherd. 1 flock, 1 shepherd. 
This vision is caught up by Paul

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those three years in Arabia. 
He caught up with the vision of 

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what Jesus really came to do, 
accomplish in his flesh on the 

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cross to make peace. 
There was a wall between the 

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Jewish people and the Gentile 
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That wall had to be broken. 
And he knew that when Jesus died

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upon the cross, that wall is 
broken today. 

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He will not allow the wall to be
resurrected again. 

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He doesn't want this wall to be 
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This is the heart of all, a man 
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what he believes, a man who 
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changes the belief, how it is 
going to collapse the purposes 

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of God. 
Today we have the church 

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standing straight and upon this 
Reformation truth that the just 

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shall live by faith because 
there was one man, Paul, who 

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contended with the leadership at
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So what are the major benefits 
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One of the major benefits is 
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future if he allowed this 
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to talk to the non Jewish people
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You are going to end up with two
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one that is non Jewish and this 
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follow the law and this we will 
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circumcision and Christ dies on 
the cross for nothing in vain. 

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That purpose of Christ life 
laying down upon the cross will 

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be defeated if people begin to 
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Now sometimes come across some 
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the Christians who want to be 
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people. 
I am not against it, sympathy, 

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its not very bad, but we don't 
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do everything they do. 
The Passover is already done. 

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Christ is the Passover lamb. 
We don't need to celebrate the 

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Passover again and again. 
What we are doing when we follow

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those things, you are actually 
inviting a curse on yourself 

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because once you do something 
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So if Paul was fighting tooth 
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why should the modern Christians
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it? 
You can demonstrate it. 

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You can say, oh, let's just see 
what they have done, but don't 

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have to just talk about it, but 
don't have to do it. 

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There are two different things. 
There are two different things. 

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Anyway, I don't want to go too 
much into that, but I am one of 

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those who is completely sold out
to the the truth of the gospel 

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that Jesus died upon the cross 
for our sins as this morning as 

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shared from second cool is 5/21.
He knew no sin was made sin. 

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Basically he washed in a like 
Sinner. 

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God looked at Jesus. 
One moment he was spotless Lamb 

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of God, and the next moment is 
near to the cross and the Father

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is looking at him. 
He has become a sin. 

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Your sin, my sin is put upon 
him. 

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He is died as a substitute. 
He died as a representative. 

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He died as as as. 
He died as a ramana. 

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He died as John. 
He died as Joseph. 

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No, that is the truth. 
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When you compromise, you are 
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So doctrine is very important. 
We cannot compromise. 

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So instead of seeing this chest 
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the future, he put his finger 
there into the leak of the boat 

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and said, no, this boat shall 
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And he wanted to stop it. 
That's what he did. 

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And then secondly, he came to 
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OK, and who does he meet first? 
He chooses the leadership. 

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He goes to the leaders first. 
And he shares exactly what God 

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is doing through him. 
How miracles are being done, how

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healings are being done, how 
Satan is being driven from the 

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lives of the people, how we were
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John and James, which whom there
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was 9 James, Peter and John, 
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gave me and Barnabas the right 
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It is by the same Holy Spirit is
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But by the way, you must go home
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Gentiles need not be 
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That's that moment is very 
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moment so that the truth of the 
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Tell me, how many of us have 
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That should be how it should be 
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future generation the truth of 
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No compromise. 
Jesus is the Savior He died for 

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upon the on the cross and no 
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You can be saved only by faith 
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I tell you that words that just 
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your life. 
You will live by faith. 

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You will live by faith. 
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There's no other way. 
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took Barnabas and Titus along. 
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revelation. 
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I went in responsible 
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Antioch and say, hey, Paul, come
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Antioch, say, Saint Paul here, 
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What is he teaching there? 
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revelation. 
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and said, go up now. 
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many times he was warned an 
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stars and no wind, no light, no 
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An Angel of the Lord stood by me
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take away not one hair is going 
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Everybody on the ship, I'm 
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Ship was only the there will be 
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is going to die. 
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on a island and then all of them
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man, because of revelation. 
I am telling you, lot of us are 

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wanting to live a life without 
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It is not going to be the Word 
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understand it is not happening 
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understand Bible? 
It is revelation. 

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When you don't understand it, 
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Holy Spirit is the one who 
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He put the toss in your mind and
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See this word. 
This is the word for you. 

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For now. 
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We need to learn to feed upon 
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That's the theologists talk 
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You know the word 1 is the 
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logos. 
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Rima is the word that the Holy 
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enlightens it to you and makes 
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There was a time I was reading a
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Man shall not leave a bread 
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proceeds from the mouth of God. 
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book, not even loudly with my 
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Suddenly I felt that warmth 
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it. 
Man shall not leave a plate 

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alone, but by every word that 
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that is Revelation. 
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Wesley, he went into a meeting. 
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Bible study, I think it was on 
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Galatians. 
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commentary by Martin Luther. 
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reading the gesture Live by 
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shreddy, his heart was strangely
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When the revelation comes to 
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man Why? 
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He takes the mud, makes the 
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his nostrils the breath of life 
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It will be as important as 
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ordering, as that experience of 
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being. 
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Hallelujah. 
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thought about before and it 
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Second Corinthians. 
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truths with spiritual words. 
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Spirit. 
Am I going to finish? 

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Let's see how it goes S he he 
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heart of conciliation. 
He was not wanting to have Let's

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go to Jerusalem. 
Let's confront the leaders. 

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Let us just I'll tear them apart
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He fears that, you know, I had. 
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Was 7. 
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the Gentiles, just as Peter had 
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Paul when he was saying he was 
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you know, I have wasted my 
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He was because of he was afraid.
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body of Christ. 
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message being discredited. 
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That's not his worry at all. 
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I suddenly my mind has gone 
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OK, somebody finds it, please 
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leaders in Jerusalem, which he 
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leaders referring to Peter, John
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brother of Jesus Christ. 
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this is the gospel I am 
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can win the larger body. 
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the larger body. 
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the confident, confidentially. 
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They said, Paul, excellent, we 
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We are with you in this matter. 
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That is Acts chapter 15. 
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So this is how he had a heart of
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He had a heart, humble heart to 
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talk it over. 
Let us just make it clear. 

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Let us be very clear what you 
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The whole issue is he did not 
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He says no one told me the 
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I received it straight from the 
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Can he go wrong? 
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Jesus for 12 long and 3 1/2 
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teaching from the mouth of Jesus
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there is a man who comes along 
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encounter with Jesus and Jesus 
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be the same. 
It cannot be a different gospel.

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So it was the same. 
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And now they, what they realized
is after the talk, hearing the 

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testimonies, OK, that isolating 
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they're saying Peter is 
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and Paul is interested to preach
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What about John and James? 
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They were only taking it as a 
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OK, we, when Peter, you talked 
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They were interested with the 
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Paul is interested with the 
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In fact, if you look at how how 
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Very tiny, small place, but how 
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covered when we were doing the 
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I have given you the map. 
How vast? 

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And he said I have labored more 
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I have suffered more than them 
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You know, that is something 
which is very, very difficult 

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for me to understand. 
How was this man? 

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What was it that is compelling 
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be so focused on preaching the 
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It is so hard. 
You we don't find one more Paul 

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in history. 
We may have thousands of 

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missionaries have gone too far 
and wide and preach the gospel, 

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but not one more Paul, not one 
more power. 

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And God's challenge to us is how
much do we appreciate the 

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gospel? 
Do we have the same concern? 

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Do you have the same desire to 
preach the gospel? 

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Do we have the concern for the 
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Yesterday I was listening to one
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YouTube. 
So he was having an argument 

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with a debate with an atheist. 
The atheist wanted to denounce 

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this man. 
He is John, are you a parents 

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Christian? 
He said, yeah, that explains why

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you are a Christian. 
So John Lennon says, my family 

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is the first source for me to 
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I thank God for it. 
And when his time came, he 

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turned to the atheist and said, 
are you a parents Christian? 

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He said, no, they are atheist. 
That explains why you are an 

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atheist. 
So what I'm trying to say here 

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is home should be the first 
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Children should hear the gospel 
in the home first. 

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And that's a big awesome 
responsibility. 

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You need to, if you can, pray 
for the whole city with tears. 

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God save Christchurch. 
Let there be few tears for our 

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own family. 
If we, if we cannot shed those 

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tears for our family, but for 
the city we can do. 

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It's not right. 
It has to begin in the family. 

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I'm not saying don't preach 
outside. 

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No, no, that's not my point. 
The point is the heart should be

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for the family and then for the 
city. 

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It has to go outward, not from 
inward. 

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It shall be in Jerusalem, in 
Judea, Samaria, the uttermost 

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parts of the world at begins 
with the home. 

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So I was very surprised to hear 
this man John. 

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He was a mathematician and 
brilliant guy and he proves 

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gospel in so many different 
ways. 

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And I was listening to him. 
I said, he said I am privileged 

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to hear the gospel from my 
parents first. 

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That word first was very 
impressive to me. 

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00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:28,560
OK, so we have this. 
God is at work in Peter's 

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Apostolic ministry, and God is 
at work in Paul's Apostolic 

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ministry in Gentiles. 
So who is the one who's doing 

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the ministry? 
Is it Peter and James and John 

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and Paul? 
It's God. 

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God is working through Peter. 
James and John is the same God 

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working through Paul. 
So we need to have that God 

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working in us, through us so 
that we will not lose the 

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essence or the power of the 
gospel. 

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When God works in US, it will be
the same power, it will be the 

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same gospel brings the same 
revival. 

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Revival will happen when we say 
to God we are ready now, we want

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the revival. 
You know, sometimes we ask for 

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God. 
We want 1000 people to come to 

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church. 
Are we ready for a handling 1000

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people? 
Can we disciple them? 

481
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Can we pray for all of them and 
deliver them? 

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Heal them? 
We are not ready, everyone of 

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00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:30,880
us, when we are committed with 
that kind of a commitment saying

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God, we want a Kingdom to come. 
You're ruled to come and you 

485
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stand up and say, God, let that 
Kingdom begin in my life, I want

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to be consumed by this gospel. 
I want to be consumed by the 

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power of the Kingdom of God. 
I am here available. 

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00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:45,920
Fill me with the same power of 
resurrection. 

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00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:49,720
And when you stand up and God 
says, yes, I'm happy to see you 

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stand up and I want to use you. 
And when we do it and when we 

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learn some things we had to 
learn, deliverance is not 

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00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:03,880
something you can just find 
somebody and say hey come out, 

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they will come out. 
Its not going to happen 

494
00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:08,440
overnight because there were 
times we prayed, nothing 

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00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:12,120
happened, but now something 
happens so we praise God for it.

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00:31:12,360 --> 00:31:16,600
So we need to go on the knees 
and pray and pray, and we fill 

497
00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:19,680
the Holy Spirit so that when the
devil looks at you, he knows 

498
00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:23,520
this man has already prayed, and
I cannot stop him from casting 

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00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:27,920
me out. 
They can see far more into you 

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00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:33,280
than you can see into them, like
the Son Saskewa. 

501
00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:38,480
So we need to go on our knees 
and pray and pray and pray, and 

502
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we fill the Holy Spirit more and
more and more so that we can 

503
00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:46,680
shake the Kingdom of darkness. 
I think I would now like to 

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00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:52,280
close it. 
So they wanted Paul to remember 

505
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the poor, which he was eager to 
do. 

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00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:57,680
They said OK, its all good now 
we have talked about it, what is

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00:31:57,680 --> 00:31:59,960
the gospel? 
Everything is clear now, but 

508
00:31:59,960 --> 00:32:04,280
remember us, particularly the 
poor among the Jewish people. 

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00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:09,360
Paul said yes, I want to do it. 
In fact, Chapter 11, he already 

510
00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:13,040
had brought some relief by 
collecting money from different 

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00:32:13,040 --> 00:32:19,000
places and brought it to 
Jerusalem and now during again 

512
00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:21,960
he is coming now again bringing 
the collection. 

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00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:26,800
He said here is it, take it. 
So we need to take 

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00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:30,560
responsibility for other 
believers who are poor and 

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00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:32,680
that's very important. 
We had to keep that in mind. 

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00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:39,160
But that doesn't really click in
the minds of New Zealanders 

517
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because we have the government 
giving some dole. 

518
00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:45,920
But when you go to third world 
countries like India and 

519
00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:49,200
Pakistan and many other 
countries, you have to be 

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00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:52,280
generous to help somebody who 
cannot afford to have a meal. 

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00:32:54,360 --> 00:32:58,240
So probably that's one of those 
things the Western church has to

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00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:00,480
learn how to be generous and 
support. 

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00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:06,560
Cool, let's just pray and ask 
the Lord to bless us this 

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00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:10,280
morning. 
Thank you Lord for your word. 

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00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:16,000
Thank you Jesus, thank you 
Jesus, you have not changed. 

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00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:18,440
You are the same yesterday, 
today and forever. 

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00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:23,200
It is we who need to change. 
So I pray, may a merciful, 

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00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:27,960
loving hand come upon each one 
of our hearts, touch our heart 

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00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:33,840
that we may change, and let the 
revelation come to us because 

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that is how we have to live. 
So I pray, Father, in the name 

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00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:40,720
of Jesus, you visit your 
children every day when they 

532
00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:43,640
read your word. 
Let revelation come to them, let

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00:33:43,640 --> 00:33:47,120
power flow into them because of 
the Holy Spirit enlightening 

534
00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:50,120
them with the Word. 
I pray that you make us into 

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00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:55,320
supernatural Christians, not 
complacent, not half hearted, 

536
00:33:55,680 --> 00:33:59,520
half dead, cold Christians, but 
people who are on fire of the 

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00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:02,000
Holy Ghost, who have been 
enlightened by the fire of the 

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00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:04,600
Holy Ghost. 
What are set on fire by the Holy

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00:34:04,600 --> 00:34:07,520
Ghost? 
I pray that you change your life

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00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:09,679
from inside out, that we may 
live for you. 

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00:34:09,679 --> 00:34:12,360
Bring glory to you. 
Our life is very small. 

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00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:15,000
Help us not to live for 
ourselves, but to live for you 

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00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:17,719
to the glory of your name. 
Bless each one of us. 

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00:34:18,120 --> 00:34:22,600
Jesus mighty name we ask. 
Everybody says Amen. 

545
00:34:23,159 --> 00:34:28,320
Amen. 
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00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:31,520
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