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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to
the Love Quest International 

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Church Podcast, where we seek to
love all nations, equip the 

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church, mobilize the equipped, 
and serve all. 

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We're super glad you're joining 
us from whenever and wherever 

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you're at in the world. 
Welcome to the family to get 

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your Bibles ready, get some 
water, get some coffee, maybe 

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some tea, and get ready to 
receive. 

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It's go time. 
Let's get into it. 

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Amen. 
Gonna do things a a a slight bit

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different today. 
Over the last few weeks we've 

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been talking about the equipping
of the Saints and the maturing, 

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the, the perfecting, the growing
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And we, we, we can't, we can't 
stop it. 

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Just wanting to be saved, right?
Like Jesus has to go from Savior

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to Lord in our lives. 
We can't always need to be 

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rescued, saved, promoted. 
What's next, right? 

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It's get the orphan out of our 
faith because there's a dying 

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world. 
Anybody living this world with 

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me does know that there's it's a
dying world out here. 

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And what I do understand about 
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everywhere we go things should 
shift. 

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It doesn't mean everything that 
shifts is noticeable to the eye,

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but if you stay somewhere long 
enough, things should change. 

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Starting with the unseen. 
And what I do feel and know that

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as a lot of times what we think 
revival is, is it is mere 

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awareness and there's behavior 
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Behavior modification is not 
revival. 

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Because I change how I respond 
or act does not mean it's 

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revival, and it also doesn't 
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A serial killer knows how to 
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convince someone to get in the 
car with them, hide their 

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behavior for months, and then 
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Be careful of modifying 
behavior, calling it 

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transformation and we're in the 
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What is at risk? 
The Bible says that the elect, 

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the elect is the chosen ones. 
The elect is some of you in here

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that know Jesus serve in the 
church, The elects not just the 

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church goer, the elect. 
The Bible says the elect will be

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drawn away. 
Now there's levels to drawing 

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away. 
Some drawing away is complete 

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turning away from the faith. 
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is you will find believers elect
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In park and you are no longer 
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In the Kingdom, for the Kingdom,
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You, you served 10 years ago. 
You no longer serve because 

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you're convinced that the church
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OK, that's like saying your 
house is bigger than your house.

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No, your house matters. 
God's house matters. 

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The point of the equipping of 
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in the snares of the world. 
It is to equip the body. 

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Where does the by? 
Where's the body's house? 

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It's the local church and 
there's an attack against the 

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local church. 
There's an attack against the 

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leaders. 
There's an attack against the 

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relevance of local church. 
And then there's some of us. 

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We may think local church is 
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But we don't even get specific 
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important for me based on what 
God's put in me and what God 

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needs to cultivate in me and the
type of leadership that I need 

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and training I need, right? 
It's the local church and just 

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whatever closest to me or 
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No, no, this is not like 
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work. 
Some gyms don't have all the. 

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Equipment you need for your 
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And so today you're going to 
hear from two of us. 

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You're going to hear from Elder 
John 1st and you're going to 

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hear from me second Matthew 16. 
Now I just told Elder John, get 

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ready. 
I don't know what he going to 

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share. 
He don't know what I'm going to 

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share, but we probably going to 
see how God is saying something.

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But what God's going to release 
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I ask that you put any pride 
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intellectual reasoning down, and
just hear and ask the Lord to 

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reveal to you what he's saying 
The Scripture says here. 

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Jesus said to Peter, For flesh 
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you, but my Father who is in 
heaven. 

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The Holy Spirit revealed who 
Jesus was beyond what he could 

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see with his naked eye. 
Today you need to hear beyond 

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what your your your, your 
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Ears can hear. 
You need to hear what the Spirit

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of God is saying in these last 
days because eyes will be 

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tricked, ears will be 
manipulated in the last days 

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like never before. 
Zechariah 4/6 says not by might 

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not, not by intelligence, not 
not by oh I'm a seasoned St. not

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by I'm a pastor's kid, not by 
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by power, but by my spirit. 
There is levels to this and we 

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have become very intellectual 
with a spiritual God. 

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And now here it is. 
AI has become our Holy Ghost. 

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Ephesians 117 For I always pray 
to God of our Lord Jesus Christ,

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Father Glory, that He may grant 
you a spirit of wisdom and 

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revelation, of insight into 
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deep and intimate knowledge of 
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Not every believer is eating 
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We're getting the same food. 
Not every believer is digesting 

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from revelation. 
So you're going to hear stuff 

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today and. 
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Room is going to hear one thing,
another part is going to hear 

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another thing. 
But the power of the Holy Ghost 

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is He can all help us hear what 
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He says by having the eyes of 
your heart flooded with light so

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that you can know and understand
the hope to which He has called 

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you. 
Uh oh, that big word called you 

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and how rich his glorious 
inheritance in the Saints, His 

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set apart ones so that you can 
know and understand what is the 

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immeasurable and unlimited and 
surpassing greatness of his 

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power in and for us who believe 
as demonstrated in the working 

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of his mighty strength. 
Father, I thank you today that 

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we hear Holy Spirit have your 
way. 

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We cast our cares down. 
We put our pride down. 

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We put our judgments down. 
We put our our our prejudices 

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down. 
We put our racisms down, we put 

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our biases down, and we ask Holy
Spirit, unite us around the 

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throne. 
Feed us something that will 

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shift, that will remove the 
blocks, that will unplug our 

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ears. 
Demonstrate today Holy Spirit in

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Jesus name, Amen. 
Pastor, I just want to thank you

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for this opportunity once again,
particularly in these sacred 

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holy moments that we have as God
is doing some amazing work in 

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our church and our lives. 
So the part I want to share 

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today is I'm going to give you a
title to anchor your thinking, 

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and that is perfecting the 
Saints, maturing for the wild. 

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And in the wild, perfecting is 
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And that procuring part of it 
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isolated, more set apart, set 
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It's not the only place. 
It's not the only way. 

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Coming and hearing a message is 
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perfecting or maturing the guy 
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Procuring occurs in the wild 
outside of these walls, so there

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are places where you become 
perfected that are separate from

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the wild. 
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but you also have to learn how 
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the midst of the wild, in the 
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that's really, really critical. 
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I want to set this as a 
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I'm going to read it in some 
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worthwhile to repeat. 
It's something that passes 

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already set up, but I'm going to
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Ephesians 4, starting in verse 
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And he gave some apostles and 
some prophets, some evangelists,

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some pastors and teachers, for 
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for the work of the ministry, 
for the edifying of the body of 

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Christ, until we all come in the
unity of the faith, and for the 

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knowledge of the Son of God. 
Unto a perfect man, unto the 

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measure of the stature of the 
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henceforth oh, so that from this
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children tossed to and fro, and 
carried about with every wind of

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doctrine by the slight of men 
and cunning craftiness whereby 

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they lie in wait to deceive. 
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we may grow up. 
The perfecting is for to get us 

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to a point where we're speaking 
the truth in love, where we may 

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grow up into Him in all things, 
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Even Christ, from whom the whole
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compacted, that by that which 
every joint supplies according 

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to the effectual working in the 
measure of every part, makes an 

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increase of the body unto the 
identifying of itself in love. 

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Now I want to read that last 
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version to help catch your ears 
if you didn't quite follow that 

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part. 
So instead speaking the truth in

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love, we will grow to become in 
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Him who is the head that is 
Christ. 

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From Him the whole body, joined 
and held together by every 

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supporting ligament, grows and 
builds itself up in love as each

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part does it's work. 
I want to revisit that first 

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part. 
And he gave some apostles, some 

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prophets, some evangelists, some
pastors and teachers for the 

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perfecting of the Saints, for 
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the edifying of the body of 
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It doesn't say for the 
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It says for the perfection of 
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That suggests you can't be 
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It's not independent perfection.
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will be fully realized in the 
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perfected together. 
And if you're out trying to be 

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perfected on your own 
independently, you will come 

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back to a body and find yourself
out of place because the body 

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may have been perfected beyond 
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And so now you're trying to plug
something that doesn't fit into 

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something that does fit. 
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this. 
You don't put a new a new patch 

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onto A to the old garment. 
You don't put new wine in the 

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old wine skin. 
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all perfecting of the Saints, 
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That's why gathering in context 
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He gave these gifts to the body,
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Perfecting perfection is not an 
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local church work. 
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perfecting of the Saints faith. 
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the Saints, not for the 
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It's just for for the perfecting
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Perfecting is a relational soul,
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affection, identity, being 
sonship, matter first and 

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foremost. 
God is perfecting you more than 

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what you do. 
He's perfecting you more than 

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how you believe. 
Who you are will determine how 

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you believe. 
So God understands I'm going to 

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make the first thing the first 
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If I become perfected as a son, 
my faith will be in my Father as

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automatically. 
I cannot be perfected as a son 

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without having faith in the 
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son in Him. 
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Not informational, not learning,
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It's a relational. 
You can't be perfected without 

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being with people who you called
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It's relational. 
It's a heart posture. 

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It's an inner man. 
You can be amongst people but be

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disconnected because inside 
you're unaffected and 

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disaffected and your affections 
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This whole song said this. 
Your body's here with me, but 

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your mind is on the other side 
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You can be one place but not be 
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Perfecting is not about where 
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It's about where your heart and 
soul is and the people you're 

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giving your heart and soul to. 
Discipleship is a strategy for 

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perfecting the Saints. 
Discipleship requires 

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accountability, so whenever 
you're looking to duck 

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discipleship, then you're 
ducking perfecting, and if 

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you're not being discipled, then
you're not being perfected 

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because discipleship is the 
strategy through which God does 

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the perfecting. 
It's really important to 

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understand that because if you 
don't want to be discipled, it's

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going to be difficult for you to
be perfected and discipled. 

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In what context? 
God didn't say I gave teach, I 

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gave the book writers. 
He said I gave these five fold 

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ministry gifts for this, 
perfecting for this. 

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This discipleship comes out of 
what God has established in his 

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church house, the gifts he's 
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Discipleship begins with the 
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You can say I want you to 
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Word disciple you? 
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is this. 
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authority in your life. 
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it's your favorite verse, the 
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I'm not saying it's the verse 
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final authority, but it's the 
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authority, so that when you're 
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you're also going to be looking 
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Where am I weak? 
Where am I confused? 

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Where am I blindsided? 
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And I'm going to listen to the 
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It begins with the Word. 
Are you willing to let the Word 

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disciple you? 
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it's also the message that comes
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If you're not willing to let 
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speaking in your life is going 
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The Father is speaking to all of
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what He's saying on Sundays and 
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That's why Sundays is important.
My wife said it this way. 

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Can you imagine looking at a 
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I'll call it a French film 
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conversational. 
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and you come in in the 1st 5 
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minutes, come back in another 10
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10 minutes and then come back 
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You think you're going to 
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What's what happened? 
Is this in the first part, I'm 

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going to understand, I'm going 
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As soon as I come back, I'm 
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And then saying what did I miss?
I'm automatically missing what's

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in front of me right now, OK. 
And the whole time I'm trying to

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figure out what will happen and 
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not fully receiving what's in 
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Then I'm going to go away again.
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going to do this. 
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I'm gonna finish it, but I'm not
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transform me at all. 
Conversation it's it's a 

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conversation and the idea of the
messages God's given for a 

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house, God's doing a 
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So 9:00 AM starts the 
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Tuesday is another aspect of the
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If you when you say you're 
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you, that means the entire 
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that's convenient for your 
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your work time, your off time, 
your pleasure time, or your rest

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time, or your weekend time. 
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the house. 
Are you letting them also help 

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disciple you? 
Maturing calls for rooting. 

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Everyone say rooting. 
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Because roots means you're going
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So you're not shaking. 
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That's the aspect of a wind 
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Let them to have ears to hear. 
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fro because winds are coming. 
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enemy and some of the winds are 
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to you what your roots and what 
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for rooting. 
Roots help you seek water. 

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They help you stand tall. 
They help you fight wilting. 

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They anchor you against winds. 
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Roots protect the soil. 
Why do I need this brother 

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rooted in the house? 
His roots help keep out the soil

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of our hearts and the soil of 
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If you take all the roots out, 
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washes away and there's no next 
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plant that can grow there. 
I need Him to be rooted along 

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with me to be rooted, because 
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more soil. 
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The church, the work of the 
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Him being rooted helps us keep a
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and get rooted, others to come 
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Maturing begins and ends with 
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He cuts off every branch. 
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fruit. 
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The fruit is purge. 
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got to cut back first. 
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decide how much I got to cut 
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The next fruit season doesn't 
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It begins when you cut back that
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Maturity means you're going to 
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more than you're going to be 
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You got to give yourself to a 
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be purged. 
I'm willing to be checked. 

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I'm willing to be held 
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way you are producing fruit. 
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The purpose of the tree of the 
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fruit. 
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not to produce apples, it's to 
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It's the consumer that stops at 
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The whole purpose of the fruit 
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healthy environment in which 
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So when those seeds are then 
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apple trees can produce. 
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to produce apple trees, not 
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If the purpose is apples, you 
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get apples, but you can't get 
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store. 
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is to produce a healthy 
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benefits of what the 
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Perfecting is the is for the 
work of the ministry to the body

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of Christ, not unbelievers. 
Go back and read the scripture 

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we just talked about for the 
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the work of the ministry to the 
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The perfecting is to help you 
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unbelievers. 
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evading the body, then you are 
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perfecting. 
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distract you from what 
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something that's focused more on
those that don't believe or 

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those that are outside of your 
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The local church body that God 
gives you your perfecting is for

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your local body as well. 
There's A and it's for the work 

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of the ministry. 
Everyone say work of the 

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ministry. 
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What's the work of God? 
To believe the work of the 

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ministry is not to do is to 
believe in the one he has He has

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sent. 
That's the work of the ministry.

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Perfecting is coming to help you
further believe in the one that 

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God has sent. 
That's very important because it

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goes back to heart posture who 
you are on the inside 

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individually. 
Perfecting is for that 

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relationship with God the Father
not accomplishing more work and 

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it's good to know father in the 
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particularly the families placed
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through 19 talks about this. 
That part of our work is the 

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ministry of reconciliation. 
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the ministry, what's the work to
believe in the one He sent and 

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then to reconcile us and others 
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reconcile us and others to God 
as a Father. 

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That reconciliation is not a one
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It is a continuing, ongoing 
thing in which you are 

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continually measuring how am I 
walking relative to the full 

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image of Christ so therefore I 
can grow more fully to that 

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image of Christ. 
It's not a one time thing. 

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Jesus has done it all in his 
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But we live it out all day today
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context of our community and the
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Perfecting leads to the unity of
the body that causes the world 

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to know that Jesus was sent. 
Those scriptures there talk 

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about how God's Jesus says, God,
I want them to know that you 

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sent me. 
Have them dwell in unity. 

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Ephesians 4 talked about for the
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the edifying of the body of 
Christ, until they come to the 

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unity of the faith, not the 
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faith. 
This perfecting is to bring us 

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to a place of unity in the 
faith, not for theology, but for

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the knowledge of the Son. 
The purpose of the unity is to 

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know Jesus as a Son. 
God is a Father, and for us to 

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know who He is. 
Not to throw theology around and

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say this is better or that is 
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The perfecting leads to that 
kind of unity because when we're

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walking in that unity, Jesus 
says the world will know that 

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God sent me. 
It's easy. 

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The issue is sometimes the 
church is distracted by trying 

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to win the lost and stepping 
over the people in their 

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household. 
It's great. 

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I can be generous of people 
outside the house, but am I 

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loving the folks in my house? 
It's for the body. 

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The purpose of perfecting is not
to overtly reach the lost, but 

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to create a mature body so 
loving and united with the 

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Father and each other that the 
world is compelled to ask, what 

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do I got to do to experience 
this? 

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That is the purpose of the 
perfecting. 

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And you can't say I'm perfecting
with God, but not being 

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perfected with His body, and 
most specifically with the local

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church he's assigned and called 
you to. 

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Perfecting has processes, 
multiple processes. 

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Perfecting has a process, and I 
mean there's different 

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processes. 
I want to talk about two as I 

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close. 
Suffering is the beginning of 

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maturing to hope. 
If perfecting is maturing, then 

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suffering is a process by which 
you mature to hope. 

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You gave me what? 
You can't run from hard work. 

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You can't run from when it's 
hard or when you have to 

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sacrifice because suffering, not
pain. 

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Suffering is hard work. 
You can suffer without pain. 

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Suffering means just to endure 
and put yourself under, and to 

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submit yourself to and to 
sacrifice. 

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Romans 5 says this. 
Therefore, since we have been 

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justified through faith, we have
peace with God our Lord Jesus 

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Christ, through whom we have 
gained access by faith into this

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grace in which we stand, and we 
boast in the hope of the glory 

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of God. 
Here we go, verse 3. 

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Not only so, but we also glory 
in our sufferings because we 

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know that suffering produces 
perseverance, perfecting 

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perseverance, character, and 
character hope. 

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Notice how much of that is about
the Saint being perfected, not 

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just the saint's performance 
being perfected. 

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And hope does not put us to 
shame because God's love has 

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been poured out into our hearts 
through the Holy Spirit who's 

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been given unto us. 
The process of perfecting that 

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involves suffering leads to a 
hope that responds to the love 

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of God in a way where the love 
of God can't be defeated. 

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The love of God can't be can't 
be blocked or stopped. 

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And another process is using 
what you have is the process of 

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maturing to knowing right from 
wrong and righteousness. 

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Hebrews 5 says this. 
We have much to say about this, 

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but it's hard to make it clear 
to you because you no longer try

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to understand. 
You quit trying to understand. 

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You quit trying to grow. 
You quit trying to press in. 

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You quit trying. 
Now you're waiting for people to

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come to you rather than you 
going out and trying. 

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In fact, though, by this time 
you ought to be teachers. 

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You need someone to teach you 
the elementary truth of God's 

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Word all over again. 
You need milk, not solid food. 

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Anyone who lives on milk being 
still an infant is not 

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acquainted with the teaching 
about righteousness. 

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You need to know be mature to 
understand righteousness. 

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But solid food is for the mature
who by constant use have trained

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themselves to distinguish good 
and evil. 

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If you're not using what God is 
doing, you will not know good 

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from evil, and you will never be
prepared for the mature weight 

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of your things. 
Perfecting requires you to use 

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what's being given. 
The word being preached, the 

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sermon's being delivered, the 
relationships being here, the 

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leaders God's put in your life. 
If you are not using them as a 

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resource, using them to help 
disciple you, then you are 

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missing out on what God is 
giving to perfecting you. 

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00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:36,960
I want to close with this. 
Hebrews 511 from the AMPC says 

453
00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:38,920
this. 
Concerning this we have much to 

454
00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:43,320
say, which is hard to explain 
since you have become dull in 

455
00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:48,440
your hearing and sluggish, even 
slothful and achieving spiritual

456
00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:51,000
insight. 
For even though by this time you

457
00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:54,120
ought to be teaching others, you
actually need someone to teach 

458
00:31:54,120 --> 00:31:57,960
you all over again. 
You've come to need milk, not 

459
00:31:57,960 --> 00:32:00,160
solid food. 
That last phrase, it's 

460
00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:04,240
suggesting this. 
There was a time when you 

461
00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:06,640
desired meat. 
There was a time when you want 

462
00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:09,440
to press in the meat, but you've
grown sluggish. 

463
00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:12,800
You don't try to understand. 
You separate yourself from the 

464
00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:14,920
body. 
You separate yourself from a 

465
00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:18,560
heart, affection, commitment to 
the people that God has around 

466
00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:21,000
you, and you just don't even try
anymore. 

467
00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:24,640
You used to do that and because 
you've drifted, now I got to go 

468
00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:28,440
back to the beginning with you 
and teach you from the very 

469
00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:30,800
beginning. 
You can lose what you got if 

470
00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:32,840
you're not maturing, is the 
point. 

471
00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:35,800
If you're not maturing, you're 
losing what you got by 

472
00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:39,040
definition, and if you're not 
doing it in the context of the 

473
00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:42,040
body, then you're not able to 
fully mature, which means you 

474
00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:48,840
eat still own milk anyway. 
God is calling us to perfect for

475
00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:51,840
the wild and in the wild. 
Want to pray? 

476
00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:55,280
Father, we thank you for the 
Word. 

477
00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:58,840
We thank you for His ability to 
penetrate our hearts and lives 

478
00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:01,520
and our souls. 
We thank you, Father, our hearts

479
00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:04,640
and lives are open and we 
receive not only the Word, but 

480
00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:07,520
the voice of your Spirit on 
which that Word is carried. 

481
00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:12,000
We thank you, Lord God, that 
we're going to let the Word 

482
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:15,320
transform us and everything that
Pastor Terrence prayed about 

483
00:33:15,320 --> 00:33:19,520
being gielded to the Spirit to 
hear and listen today, We're in 

484
00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:23,160
agreement with it. 
So let the Word bear fruit, let 

485
00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:25,440
the word transform, let the word
cut. 

486
00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:27,680
What cut needs to be? 
Let the word prune what pruning 

487
00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:30,520
needs to be. 
God, everything's on the table 

488
00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:32,200
today. 
All of it. 

489
00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:34,520
Even the secret parts I keep 
from everybody. 

490
00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:40,240
It's all on the table. 
Today we received in Jesus name,

491
00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:49,480
Amen. 
He is equipping us because the 

492
00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:58,640
wind it's about to blow. 
The wind is blowing. 

493
00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:07,280
I was watching these two Katrina
documentaries and I remember 

494
00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:13,679
that time and not really get 
into the governmental side of 

495
00:34:13,679 --> 00:34:19,239
things and all that, but just 
the, the actual Katrina and 

496
00:34:19,239 --> 00:34:26,520
there was warning that this 
tornado was coming or hurricane 

497
00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:29,840
was coming. 
Like most hurricanes have a 

498
00:34:29,840 --> 00:34:36,679
warning. 
And, and there's these levees 

499
00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:42,120
that I forget the, the hurricane
that happened in the 60s that 

500
00:34:42,120 --> 00:34:46,159
was even worse than Katrina, but
the levees broke then and then 

501
00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:50,159
the hurricane was over. 
So the damage, most of the 

502
00:34:50,159 --> 00:34:52,440
damage that we saw was not from 
the hurricane. 

503
00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:57,720
It was from the levees breaking.
And after they broke, before 

504
00:34:57,720 --> 00:35:00,120
they did, they did all their 
research and they built these 

505
00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:05,120
levees, but they also built 
these levees that that they knew

506
00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:08,360
with the right storm would be 
broken again. 

507
00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:13,640
And the levees was to keep the 
city from flooding because the 

508
00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:19,080
city is in a ball, it's 6 feet 
below sea level. 

509
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:26,120
And I encourage you go and go 
and go and watch the 

510
00:35:26,120 --> 00:35:28,440
documentary. 
But the idea that that I'm 

511
00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:41,170
getting to is the the wind came 
like it was told it was coming, 

512
00:35:42,770 --> 00:35:49,680
but but the people was not 
prepared for what the wind would

513
00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:52,720
activate. 
See you. 

514
00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:54,760
You're just thinking that the 
wind blowing. 

515
00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:59,880
But when the wind blows, it's 
going to expose things. 

516
00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:06,040
It's going to expose if the 
walls that you have put up are 

517
00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:11,360
Gods way of of of guarding your 
heart or that was your trauma or

518
00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:15,840
your carnal way of the wind is 
blowing and it's coming and even

519
00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:17,600
in this room today the wind is 
blowing. 

520
00:36:17,600 --> 00:36:21,600
I feel the Lord. 
I sense the spirit really trying

521
00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:30,640
to get us to look at our hearts.
Watch this there. 

522
00:36:30,680 --> 00:36:34,040
There will be no slides from 
from me today. 

523
00:36:34,160 --> 00:36:43,200
I am, yeah. 
Thank you, EJ Matthew 13 to 

524
00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:45,680
start at verse 11. 
Can you give me the TPT really 

525
00:36:45,680 --> 00:36:49,200
quickly, please? 
The wind is blowing. 

526
00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:53,440
It's not just harvest time, it's
inspection time. 

527
00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:56,600
And, and the fact that he's 
going to come and blow away all 

528
00:36:56,600 --> 00:37:00,520
the little, little paper houses 
we built and the sand houses we 

529
00:37:00,520 --> 00:37:06,240
built is because he loves us. 
Understand that pruning is God's

530
00:37:06,240 --> 00:37:15,000
love, he explained. 
You've been given the intimate 

531
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:23,040
experience of insight into the 
hidden truths and mysteries of 

532
00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:33,160
the realm of Heaven's Kingdom, 
but they have not believers. 

533
00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:41,400
The truths that God has shared 
with you is precious. 

534
00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:54,520
Not every believer knows Jesus 
and if he has been revealed to 

535
00:37:54,600 --> 00:38:02,440
you, if you have experienced any
amount of revelation, understand

536
00:38:02,720 --> 00:38:06,200
that you are in an elect or an 
elite group of people, not 

537
00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:10,200
better than, but there is 
something that has been unveiled

538
00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:13,520
to you that has not been saw by 
everybody. 

539
00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:26,840
Every Christian don't see Jesus.
We we use, we request, we 

540
00:38:26,840 --> 00:38:32,400
demand, but not every believer 
in this room walks with Jesus. 

541
00:38:33,640 --> 00:38:39,920
Every believer he walks with, 
Not every believer walks with 

542
00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:46,200
him. 
OK, He said what I've given you.

543
00:38:47,040 --> 00:38:54,840
Not everybody that was at my 
sermon heard what you heard. 

544
00:38:56,840 --> 00:39:01,920
Not everyone in this room is 
hearing the same thing. 

545
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:10,640
Watch it next verse for everyone
who listens with an open heart 

546
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:20,760
will receive progressively more 
revelation until he has more 

547
00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:23,480
than enough. 
He left off talking about meat 

548
00:39:23,520 --> 00:39:28,400
and milk and saying that, you 
know, you actually got to keep 

549
00:39:28,640 --> 00:39:35,440
being perfected to keep growing.
You got to keep eating to keep 

550
00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:43,680
growing. 
You look, look, you got to get 

551
00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:48,120
muscle. 
We're not eating to get fat. 

552
00:39:49,240 --> 00:39:54,600
We're eating to get strong. 
We're eating to get muscle. 

553
00:39:55,640 --> 00:40:04,040
We need protein. 
He says, but those who don't 

554
00:40:04,040 --> 00:40:11,840
listen with an open heart teach.
Your bold heart is why the 

555
00:40:11,840 --> 00:40:16,360
scripture says I pray that the 
eyes of your heart, there's a 

556
00:40:16,360 --> 00:40:21,600
lot of us in here. 
Oh, you hear me, right? 

557
00:40:21,600 --> 00:40:24,240
You like, you hear what you 
hear. 

558
00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:28,400
Here's the here's the ear test. 
When I say, hey, it's my last 

559
00:40:28,400 --> 00:40:32,160
scripture, last point, you might
say, yeah, right, you heard. 

560
00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:38,480
But the moment you're paying 
attention to length and not 

561
00:40:38,480 --> 00:40:43,320
substance, you don't have an 
open heart or teachable. 

562
00:40:46,960 --> 00:40:53,680
You have a critical heart, a 
judgmental heart, a suspicious 

563
00:40:53,680 --> 00:41:02,560
heart. 
It says those who don't listen 

564
00:41:02,560 --> 00:41:04,880
with an open heart. 
They say those who don't listen.

565
00:41:07,880 --> 00:41:10,800
He's speaking to your posture of
listening. 

566
00:41:11,880 --> 00:41:15,680
Some of you come in here and 
listen for what your friends 

567
00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:26,480
told you to watch out for. 
Even the understanding that they

568
00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:30,240
think they have will be taken 
from them. 

569
00:41:32,320 --> 00:41:35,000
It's not PT. 
This is, this is JC. 

570
00:41:37,480 --> 00:41:40,080
That's who talking. 
It's red right here. 

571
00:41:40,080 --> 00:41:43,600
This is red ink right here. 
He said those that don't come 

572
00:41:43,720 --> 00:41:46,720
with a teachable heart. 
An open heart. 

573
00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:48,520
Teachable. 
Accountability. 

574
00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:49,440
Listen. 
Ready. 

575
00:41:49,440 --> 00:41:51,120
Teachable. 
You don't know it all. 

576
00:41:53,200 --> 00:41:54,880
Don't care how long you've been 
saved. 

577
00:41:55,080 --> 00:41:57,000
Don't get. 
Don't care how many doctorates 

578
00:41:57,000 --> 00:41:58,160
you have. 
Don't care. 

579
00:41:58,320 --> 00:42:01,880
We flesh and blood did not 
reveal this to you. 

580
00:42:03,720 --> 00:42:05,960
Oxford. 
Oxnard did not. 

581
00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:08,640
Harvard did not reveal this to 
you. 

582
00:42:09,240 --> 00:42:13,840
It didn't reveal this to you. 
Your app didn't reveal this to 

583
00:42:13,840 --> 00:42:16,680
you. 
Yo, you too pastor, didn't 

584
00:42:16,680 --> 00:42:21,440
reveal this to you. 
Your parachurch you belong to 

585
00:42:21,680 --> 00:42:26,360
didn't reveal this to you. 
You listen more to people that 

586
00:42:26,360 --> 00:42:29,200
don't even know you than the 
ones that can smell you. 

587
00:42:30,920 --> 00:42:35,560
Shepherds smell the sheep. 
And you're more submissive to 

588
00:42:35,560 --> 00:42:38,800
leaders across the world that 
don't even know you beside a 

589
00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:47,360
Zoom. 
You keep distance from in person

590
00:42:47,360 --> 00:42:50,600
accountability. 
In person word, you critique 

591
00:42:50,600 --> 00:42:52,320
everything. 
But then you look at the 

592
00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:57,080
magnitude of other people's 
ministry and somehow the the 

593
00:42:57,080 --> 00:43:02,480
quantity of following is what 
got you listening. 

594
00:43:07,750 --> 00:43:10,230
Last days, you can see how we'll
stray away. 

595
00:43:12,590 --> 00:43:15,790
We have options. 
At first it was just the church 

596
00:43:15,790 --> 00:43:18,680
down the street. 
Now it's the church down the 

597
00:43:18,680 --> 00:43:21,200
street, around the corner, five 
blocks away. 

598
00:43:21,400 --> 00:43:23,640
It's the online church. 
It's the church in my phone. 

599
00:43:23,760 --> 00:43:25,640
It's my friend's church. 
It's my mama's church. 

600
00:43:25,800 --> 00:43:28,080
It's it's YouTube. 
It's Instagram. 

601
00:43:28,240 --> 00:43:30,160
I don't even need YouTube 
because I don't want nothing 

602
00:43:30,160 --> 00:43:34,960
that long. 
I can just get Yep, I have I, I 

603
00:43:35,160 --> 00:43:39,040
look, look, when you listen to 
sermons like this, you a milk 

604
00:43:39,320 --> 00:43:45,360
Christian, right, right. 
Like I've never went nowhere 

605
00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:49,360
with really good meat and rushed
that meal. 

606
00:43:52,440 --> 00:43:55,760
My fork and knife hit the hit 
the table a few times because 

607
00:43:55,760 --> 00:44:01,920
I'm letting this thing digest. 
This ain't no buddy burger. 

608
00:44:01,920 --> 00:44:04,320
This ain't no quick little meal 
through the drive through. 

609
00:44:04,560 --> 00:44:08,160
This is some substance. 
This is prime rib. 

610
00:44:08,160 --> 00:44:11,120
This is rib eye. 
No bone in it. 

611
00:44:11,120 --> 00:44:20,200
This this is aged meat. 
That's that's why I teach. 

612
00:44:20,240 --> 00:44:24,560
Watch this. 
Watch this, watch this yo-yo, we

613
00:44:24,560 --> 00:44:28,640
just made Jesus in this little 
soft little just oh, he just 

614
00:44:28,760 --> 00:44:30,360
going to care about my pity 
party. 

615
00:44:30,520 --> 00:44:33,200
He going to see that I'm not 
getting my needs met. 

616
00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:36,400
And so he going to help me find 
a place where my needs are going

617
00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:38,840
to watch what he does. 
He says if you don't have an 

618
00:44:38,840 --> 00:44:42,640
open heart, what he has revealed
to you, the little you have 

619
00:44:42,640 --> 00:44:44,440
gotten, he's going to take that 
away. 

620
00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:52,720
That's why you got to start over
at milk, because the meat you 

621
00:44:52,720 --> 00:45:01,270
did have, it was taken away 
because you stopped eating, he 

622
00:45:01,310 --> 00:45:02,790
said. 
That's why I teach the people 

623
00:45:02,790 --> 00:45:03,750
using. 
Parables. 

624
00:45:04,030 --> 00:45:11,190
That's why I speak. 
High language, you know, we, we,

625
00:45:11,190 --> 00:45:13,390
we want, we want pastors to dumb
it down. 

626
00:45:14,230 --> 00:45:16,910
Like just talk about love 
because I'm hurt. 

627
00:45:17,310 --> 00:45:21,430
I just want to know, you know, 
that I'm hurt and I love. 

628
00:45:21,550 --> 00:45:26,560
Let's talk about relationships. 
I'm like, can you help me with 

629
00:45:26,560 --> 00:45:38,770
my love life? 
Milk, you tell me how to get 

630
00:45:38,770 --> 00:45:42,050
more money. 
Those those financial principles

631
00:45:42,050 --> 00:45:52,960
in the Bible, Milk, he says. 
Because they think they're 

632
00:45:52,960 --> 00:45:57,880
looking for truth. 
You know how people come to the 

633
00:45:57,880 --> 00:46:00,160
church and be like, I'm ready? 
To hear from the Lord today. 

634
00:46:02,400 --> 00:46:06,360
What if the what? 
That's why I teach the people 

635
00:46:06,360 --> 00:46:08,640
using parables, because they 
think they're looking for the 

636
00:46:08,640 --> 00:46:10,880
truth. 
Yet because their hearts are 

637
00:46:10,880 --> 00:46:13,280
unteachable, they never discover
the truth. 

638
00:46:14,120 --> 00:46:17,720
Although they will listen to me,
they never fully perceive the 

639
00:46:17,720 --> 00:46:20,960
message I speak. 
What? 

640
00:46:20,960 --> 00:46:22,720
What do you say? 
Fully perceive? 

641
00:46:24,600 --> 00:46:34,640
Fully perceive. 
They never fully receive the 

642
00:46:34,640 --> 00:46:36,160
message I speak. 
Next verse, please. 

643
00:46:39,280 --> 00:46:42,840
The prophecy. 
Isaiah describes them perfectly.

644
00:46:44,440 --> 00:46:48,280
Although they listen carefully 
to everything I speak, they 

645
00:46:48,280 --> 00:46:53,000
don't understand a thing I say. 
They look and pretend to see, 

646
00:46:53,000 --> 00:46:57,400
but the eyes of their hearts are
closed, their minds are dull and

647
00:46:57,400 --> 00:47:02,240
slow to perceive, their ears are
plugged and are hard of hearing,

648
00:47:02,240 --> 00:47:06,560
and they have deliberately shut 
their eyes to the truth. 

649
00:47:06,840 --> 00:47:10,320
Otherwise they would open their 
eyes to see and open their 

650
00:47:10,320 --> 00:47:14,320
hearts to open their ears to 
hear and open their minds to 

651
00:47:14,320 --> 00:47:17,160
understand. 
Then they would turn to me and 

652
00:47:17,160 --> 00:47:21,880
let me instantly heal them. 
Oh, you thought because you went

653
00:47:21,880 --> 00:47:24,960
to revival night, run to the 
altar, lay hands on me, throw 

654
00:47:24,960 --> 00:47:26,680
some oil on me. 
No, no, no, no. 

655
00:47:26,880 --> 00:47:31,640
Instant healing comes from the 
embracing of of some of that 

656
00:47:31,640 --> 00:47:35,040
meat that you don't want to 
hear, embracing the teachers and

657
00:47:35,040 --> 00:47:38,520
pastors and apostles and and 
prophets that God has sent you. 

658
00:47:43,280 --> 00:47:48,320
Elder John said something about 
it's about a tree, the 

659
00:47:48,320 --> 00:47:53,560
infrastructure, but here it is 
what a lot of our arguments or 

660
00:47:53,560 --> 00:47:58,200
distaste is or choosing of 
churches is the programs that 

661
00:47:58,200 --> 00:48:08,320
they provide for us, fruit, 
healthy infrastructure. 

662
00:48:10,480 --> 00:48:15,240
Rarely have we went to a church 
and said how will you mature? 

663
00:48:15,240 --> 00:48:22,120
Me. 
Let me look at the fruit of the 

664
00:48:22,120 --> 00:48:27,520
maturing in your church versus 
the perfect, the perfect 

665
00:48:27,520 --> 00:48:33,280
programs you offer. 
I'm not saying man, all of this 

666
00:48:33,280 --> 00:48:36,960
is great, but it's like the 
stuff that got us stuck and the 

667
00:48:36,960 --> 00:48:42,400
stuff we need to be locked into.
A church is rarely Jesus. 

668
00:48:47,360 --> 00:48:53,080
What if it's too long? 
Well, how do we? 

669
00:48:53,720 --> 00:48:56,800
How do we serve the people 
that's really hungry and don't 

670
00:48:56,800 --> 00:49:00,720
mind longer? 
What, what, what, what? 

671
00:49:00,720 --> 00:49:04,280
What if we're in a tent? 
What if the children's ministry 

672
00:49:04,280 --> 00:49:16,720
ain't up to par, Are you? 
What, what, what, what if we in 

673
00:49:16,720 --> 00:49:18,600
the ghetto? 
What, what, what, what? 

674
00:49:18,600 --> 00:49:21,800
What if you can't predict? 
What if you can't put your thumb

675
00:49:21,800 --> 00:49:24,480
on what God's doing? 
What, what if you can't find the

676
00:49:24,480 --> 00:49:26,520
pulse? 
What, what, what if you can't 

677
00:49:26,520 --> 00:49:28,520
have control? 
What, what what? 

678
00:49:28,680 --> 00:49:34,120
And what do you need to do the 
work of the ministry? 

679
00:49:36,240 --> 00:49:40,120
Now what do you need to be 
comfortable? 

680
00:49:45,400 --> 00:49:50,600
The work of the ministry EJ is 
this to help people carry their 

681
00:49:50,600 --> 00:50:03,760
cross, starting with you. 
The work of the ministry is not 

682
00:50:03,760 --> 00:50:11,280
merely producing a Sunday 
service that keeps you coming 

683
00:50:11,280 --> 00:50:15,720
back. 
The goal is not merely to feel 

684
00:50:15,720 --> 00:50:19,480
deceased when you're sent to go 
out there. 

685
00:50:20,760 --> 00:50:23,680
The goal is not to make you feel
like you have a couch in the 

686
00:50:23,680 --> 00:50:28,720
house. 
The goal is to make you uncomfy 

687
00:50:29,120 --> 00:50:31,960
because we're on the go. 
Jesus is returning. 

688
00:50:33,280 --> 00:50:37,920
The goal is not to stop at I 
found my church home. 

689
00:50:38,520 --> 00:50:42,800
The goal is to I found my church
equipping center. 

690
00:50:43,480 --> 00:50:50,120
Jesus is my home abide in me. 
I abide in you Your your your 

691
00:50:50,120 --> 00:50:52,800
favorite church is not your 
home. 

692
00:50:53,160 --> 00:50:56,800
Jesus is your home. 
The Father in that church house 

693
00:50:57,000 --> 00:51:02,640
is your home, but the work of 
the ministry is get living a 

694
00:51:02,760 --> 00:51:06,400
winning life because that's your
witness light of the world. 

695
00:51:06,680 --> 00:51:12,080
Get out there and make disciples
to obey what the Lord says. 

696
00:51:13,320 --> 00:51:15,800
But we're arguing over 
preferences. 

697
00:51:17,480 --> 00:51:20,520
So what if we got church Monday,
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, 

698
00:51:20,520 --> 00:51:24,720
Friday, 7 AM, 10 AM. 
The point is to fish. 

699
00:51:25,520 --> 00:51:28,880
So maybe you got to have 
diversity because there's a 

700
00:51:28,880 --> 00:51:33,000
pond, there's a river, there's 
an ocean there, there's a lake, 

701
00:51:33,120 --> 00:51:37,000
there's all types of watch this.
You ain't the only fish. 

702
00:51:42,360 --> 00:51:45,320
We got salmon that flow against 
the stream. 

703
00:51:46,640 --> 00:51:51,960
There's all types of fishing and
he said you are fishers of men, 

704
00:51:52,120 --> 00:52:00,580
not fishers of her. 
And we just overlooked the 

705
00:52:00,580 --> 00:52:02,740
concepts that Jesus had given 
us. 

706
00:52:08,300 --> 00:52:12,300
God's doing a new thing in the 
earth 20 years from now. 

707
00:52:12,340 --> 00:52:19,080
Church will look different. 
It'll look different. 

708
00:52:20,160 --> 00:52:23,640
How we do it, the approach and 
how we do it, how we reach 

709
00:52:23,680 --> 00:52:25,160
people, it's going to look 
different. 

710
00:52:31,430 --> 00:52:40,430
Your local church is an 
assignment, not a luxury, right?

711
00:52:40,430 --> 00:52:44,990
You don't just go to any 
college, not every college. 

712
00:52:46,760 --> 00:52:48,960
And and then maybe you go to any
junior. 

713
00:52:48,960 --> 00:52:51,760
College while you trying to 
figure out what you want to 

714
00:52:51,760 --> 00:52:56,520
major in. 
But your local church is not 

715
00:52:56,520 --> 00:52:59,200
just this little pop up thing. 
You just whoever, whoever 

716
00:52:59,200 --> 00:53:00,920
talking about Jesus or wherever 
is the Bible. 

717
00:53:00,920 --> 00:53:03,920
That's where I'm going to go. 
No, you don't just go to any 

718
00:53:03,920 --> 00:53:06,320
college. 
You don't just apply for any 

719
00:53:06,320 --> 00:53:08,040
job. 
You don't just go to any 

720
00:53:08,040 --> 00:53:21,360
restaurant. 
Matthew 1324. 

721
00:53:21,840 --> 00:53:32,760
I believe it's the message I. 
Saw something and this is 

722
00:53:32,960 --> 00:53:36,720
something that contributes to 
the falling away, the 

723
00:53:36,720 --> 00:53:40,800
lukewarmness. 
And I love the analogy of a body

724
00:53:40,800 --> 00:53:43,360
because you could take the word,
you can look at it corporately, 

725
00:53:43,560 --> 00:53:46,400
you can you look at it 
universally when it comes to the

726
00:53:46,400 --> 00:53:48,560
body, but you also can make it 
individually. 

727
00:53:49,280 --> 00:53:52,560
Right, He told another story. 
God's Kingdom is like a farmer 

728
00:53:52,560 --> 00:53:57,200
who planted good seed in his 
field that night, that night. 

729
00:53:57,320 --> 00:54:01,520
God's Kingdom is like a farmer 
who planted good seed, good seed

730
00:54:01,520 --> 00:54:07,000
in his field that night while he
while his hired men were asleep.

731
00:54:08,440 --> 00:54:12,720
His enemy sold thistles all 
through. 

732
00:54:12,720 --> 00:54:14,800
Maybe it's the amplifier. 
I just I need, I need to see, I 

733
00:54:14,800 --> 00:54:17,080
need to see Darnell. 
I think it's amplified classic. 

734
00:54:18,240 --> 00:54:20,320
Amplified classic. 
Thank you. 

735
00:54:21,240 --> 00:54:23,720
Here's a parable. 
Remember this is he, he tells 

736
00:54:23,720 --> 00:54:25,120
parables. 
Because folks really ain't 

737
00:54:25,120 --> 00:54:27,000
listening. 
So those that really want to 

738
00:54:27,000 --> 00:54:29,760
listen from their heart, then 
you're going to pursue deeper 

739
00:54:29,760 --> 00:54:34,040
understanding. 
The Kingdom of God is like a man

740
00:54:34,040 --> 00:54:38,600
who sold good seed in his field,
but while he was sleeping his 

741
00:54:38,600 --> 00:54:41,440
enemy came. 
While he was sleeping, his enemy

742
00:54:41,440 --> 00:54:43,920
came. 
While he was sleeping his enemy 

743
00:54:43,920 --> 00:54:50,160
came and sold. 
Also, Darnell weeds resembling 

744
00:54:50,440 --> 00:54:57,760
weeds resembling weeds 
resembling lies resembling 

745
00:54:57,760 --> 00:55:02,640
truth. 
Watch this wisdom resembling 

746
00:55:02,640 --> 00:55:10,960
God's answer, weeds resembling 
weeds among the weeds and went 

747
00:55:11,080 --> 00:55:15,720
out, went on his way. 
So this is not an enemy that 

748
00:55:15,720 --> 00:55:18,560
hangs around that needs to be 
cast out. 

749
00:55:20,440 --> 00:55:27,320
He sows a thought garden. 
He sews a he starts with an 

750
00:55:27,320 --> 00:55:30,040
imagination. 
He sews a question. 

751
00:55:30,240 --> 00:55:33,280
He sews something. 
He gives you wisdom. 

752
00:55:33,600 --> 00:55:35,920
He brings your counterfeit 
spouse. 

753
00:55:42,800 --> 00:55:45,560
He brings you the pastor that 
you think you want, but it's 

754
00:55:45,560 --> 00:55:49,120
just it's you can call him 
Bishop flesh. 

755
00:55:49,560 --> 00:55:53,680
It's it's, it's, it's the one 
that speaks to your fleshly 

756
00:55:53,680 --> 00:55:58,120
needs. 
It's the one that speaks to your

757
00:55:58,320 --> 00:56:02,440
cultural, the relevance of what 
you want to be a part of. 

758
00:56:04,440 --> 00:56:08,000
It's not the one that's going to
dig deep into your soul like the

759
00:56:08,000 --> 00:56:16,760
word does and divide and expose 
this guy. 

760
00:56:17,680 --> 00:56:22,560
Darnell. 
He said so when it plants, it's 

761
00:56:22,560 --> 00:56:29,160
sprouted and formed grain. 
The Darnell appeared also when 

762
00:56:29,160 --> 00:56:31,360
it was harvest time, Darnell was
up in there. 

763
00:56:31,360 --> 00:56:37,000
Hey, what's up girl? 
Right? 

764
00:56:37,000 --> 00:56:39,840
The opportunity. 
During harvest time, counterfeit

765
00:56:39,840 --> 00:56:44,560
opportunities present itself. 
And when the wind blows, it 

766
00:56:44,560 --> 00:56:49,640
ain't just bringing fruit, it's 
also you. 

767
00:56:49,840 --> 00:56:53,360
That's why you need to be eating
meat, because you need eyes to 

768
00:56:53,360 --> 00:56:56,760
see, you need ears to hear in 
this hour. 

769
00:57:01,160 --> 00:57:08,040
And the servants of the owner 
came to him and said, Sir, did 

770
00:57:08,040 --> 00:57:10,360
you not sow good seed in your 
field? 

771
00:57:12,600 --> 00:57:16,520
God, have you not been given us 
Word? 

772
00:57:17,280 --> 00:57:18,520
God, have you not been warning 
us? 

773
00:57:18,520 --> 00:57:20,360
Have you not been sowing good 
seed in US? 

774
00:57:21,720 --> 00:57:23,600
Have you not been revealing 
truth to us? 

775
00:57:24,240 --> 00:57:26,320
Have you not been warning us, 
encouraging us? 

776
00:57:26,720 --> 00:57:32,960
Have you not sent prophets? 
How many churches you know a 

777
00:57:32,960 --> 00:57:36,880
prophet can walk in and have a 
word for a church and that body 

778
00:57:38,920 --> 00:57:42,680
can hear and see and release the
prophet that was sent to the 

779
00:57:42,680 --> 00:57:47,160
house to speak into the house 
and then have the maturity to 

780
00:57:47,160 --> 00:57:49,280
make sure the house stewards 
that word? 

781
00:57:50,200 --> 00:57:54,120
How many churches you know the 
prophet is alive in that house 

782
00:57:55,840 --> 00:58:00,040
this last hour? 
If all you be in is taught, you 

783
00:58:00,040 --> 00:58:05,520
getting fat and when the wind 
blows, you ain't going to be 

784
00:58:05,520 --> 00:58:12,160
able to move because you're not 
agile, because God has not been 

785
00:58:12,160 --> 00:58:16,320
proven to be able to enter your 
life and do what He wants to do,

786
00:58:17,640 --> 00:58:19,760
mold you how He wants to mold 
you. 

787
00:58:19,760 --> 00:58:25,120
I was supposed to be in Atlanta 
today for an extremely cool 

788
00:58:25,120 --> 00:58:30,760
opportunity to work with a very 
hot producer right now. 

789
00:58:31,560 --> 00:58:34,760
Three days ago I was supposed 
and I made a decision at the 

790
00:58:34,760 --> 00:58:38,000
last minute and I said, man, I 
can't come. 

791
00:58:39,000 --> 00:58:42,280
I need to be here. 
Can we reschedule? 

792
00:58:42,680 --> 00:58:45,160
I was afraid to mess up the 
opportunity because I thought 

793
00:58:45,160 --> 00:58:46,520
the opportunity was going to 
pass, right? 

794
00:58:46,520 --> 00:58:48,840
This, this man or this woman? 
Is this the one God, If I don't 

795
00:58:48,840 --> 00:58:51,400
take it this time, Oh my, my, 
my, my, I'm not going to be able

796
00:58:51,440 --> 00:58:53,560
to get pregnant. 
I'm, I need to get to have a 

797
00:58:53,560 --> 00:58:55,280
baby now. 
I need to get a job now. 

798
00:58:55,280 --> 00:58:58,880
I need to move now. 
And when the wind is blowing, 

799
00:58:58,880 --> 00:59:01,720
the greatest thing you can have 
is rootedness. 

800
00:59:03,640 --> 00:59:08,640
When there's a fear a year that 
God labels a year the year of 

801
00:59:08,640 --> 00:59:14,040
the fear of God and then he was 
so good to say the fog because 

802
00:59:14,040 --> 00:59:17,880
the flip side of it, the reason 
I need the fear of God because 

803
00:59:17,880 --> 00:59:22,160
this may be a year I cannot see 
clear, not because I'm in sin. 

804
00:59:25,680 --> 00:59:29,600
A lack of clarity does not mean 
you are wrong or missing 

805
00:59:29,600 --> 00:59:32,960
something. 
Sometimes God is hiding things 

806
00:59:32,960 --> 00:59:37,160
from you, so the only thing you 
need to see is not the thing you

807
00:59:37,160 --> 00:59:40,520
want, but the thing you were 
made to worship is him. 

808
00:59:42,000 --> 00:59:45,760
Stop always wanting to see 
what's next and see what he got 

809
00:59:45,760 --> 00:59:47,800
for you. 
And who is my spouse, Reed? 

810
00:59:47,800 --> 00:59:50,680
When the last time you begged 
him to reveal him to you? 

811
00:59:50,920 --> 00:59:59,520
Not a spouse. 
It's it's it's harvest time. 

812
00:59:59,840 --> 01:00:06,960
But this is a time where great 
exposure is happening, he says. 

813
01:00:07,720 --> 01:00:11,840
Sir, did you not? 
He said. 

814
01:00:11,840 --> 01:00:16,120
Then then how does, how does how
did Darnell get here? 

815
01:00:19,760 --> 01:00:21,440
You've been sitting under all 
this word. 

816
01:00:22,320 --> 01:00:23,680
How that's still happening to 
you? 

817
01:00:25,080 --> 01:00:29,560
How you still so gullible? 
How you still getting pulled 

818
01:00:29,560 --> 01:00:33,000
into that direction? 
You've been sitting under all 

819
01:00:33,000 --> 01:00:36,000
that word. 
Why you still anxious? 

820
01:00:39,920 --> 01:00:42,360
Because all you've been doing is
just receiving seed. 

821
01:00:43,080 --> 01:00:45,640
You ain't dealt with weeds. 
You ain't dealt with your roots.

822
01:00:48,280 --> 01:00:53,160
You have not let God transplant.
You just let them. 

823
01:00:53,160 --> 01:01:00,320
Plant you let them sow seed you 
haven't let them take purge, 

824
01:01:00,320 --> 01:01:01,680
you're still holding on the 
stuff. 

825
01:01:01,680 --> 01:01:08,520
God's like, let it go. 
What if God said it ain't your 

826
01:01:08,560 --> 01:01:10,880
time for that, it's our time for
us? 

827
01:01:12,320 --> 01:01:15,480
What if there's a season God 
just wants you by himself 

828
01:01:16,560 --> 01:01:19,760
because you finally got ears to 
hear, and the moment you can 

829
01:01:19,760 --> 01:01:22,280
hear, now you want to get your 
ears away to something or 

830
01:01:22,280 --> 01:01:26,680
somebody else. 
Can you go for a few years 

831
01:01:28,520 --> 01:01:33,120
without having gaps filled and 
let God feel them? 

832
01:01:33,120 --> 01:01:36,440
Can you walk with God? 
Walk with God, not just be a. 

833
01:01:36,440 --> 01:01:38,160
Christian, can you walk with 
God? 

834
01:01:39,440 --> 01:01:41,840
Can you find you in God's rhythm
and pace? 

835
01:01:45,600 --> 01:01:47,800
Hey, look, I got kids I got to 
go to. 

836
01:01:47,800 --> 01:01:49,320
Calgary in a few days. 
Why? 

837
01:01:49,360 --> 01:01:53,160
Because my kids on another pace.
The more people you add to your 

838
01:01:53,160 --> 01:01:57,520
life, guess what pace you're 
going to be all over. 

839
01:01:57,520 --> 01:01:59,040
You're going to be all over the 
pace. 

840
01:02:04,960 --> 01:02:10,160
And This is why you got to get 
rooted in Him first, so that 

841
01:02:10,160 --> 01:02:14,840
anybody that comes in your life,
the rhythm that they merge into 

842
01:02:14,920 --> 01:02:22,320
is one that God has established,
he replied. 

843
01:02:22,320 --> 01:02:25,880
Watch this an enemy has done 
this. 

844
01:02:27,760 --> 01:02:31,600
The servant said to him then do 
you want us to go and weed them 

845
01:02:31,600 --> 01:02:35,920
out? 
Said no, let's in gathering the 

846
01:02:35,920 --> 01:02:39,200
wild wheat you. 
Root up the true. 

847
01:02:39,200 --> 01:02:47,760
Wheat along with it, he said. 
Let them grow together until the

848
01:02:47,760 --> 01:02:54,960
wind blows. 
And when the wind blows, I will 

849
01:02:54,960 --> 01:03:03,320
say to the reapers, gather 
Darnell first before you get any

850
01:03:03,320 --> 01:03:09,480
fruit in this season, the Lord's
gathering, Darnell, be careful 

851
01:03:10,200 --> 01:03:19,480
what you fight God to hold on to
because God's faithful, the 

852
01:03:19,480 --> 01:03:24,280
fruit is coming. 
But if you are faithful, more 

853
01:03:24,280 --> 01:03:27,920
faithful over Darnell than you 
are your relationship with God 

854
01:03:27,920 --> 01:03:31,240
and what He has for you, Darnell
will then enter into your 

855
01:03:31,240 --> 01:03:35,840
harvest time. 
What do you say? 

856
01:03:36,160 --> 01:03:45,550
Gather Darnell first and bind it
in bundles to be burned. 

857
01:03:46,030 --> 01:03:49,950
But gather the wheat to my 
granary. 

858
01:03:53,790 --> 01:03:57,840
Somebody say Darnell. 
Now this is individually, but 

859
01:03:57,840 --> 01:04:02,440
now I want to say something. 
In every culture there's a 

860
01:04:02,440 --> 01:04:06,640
subculture, and I'm speaking to 
the. 

861
01:04:06,640 --> 01:04:10,520
Subculture leaders and voices in
this room. 

862
01:04:12,040 --> 01:04:17,760
The subculture leaders. 
Who are those who will hear the 

863
01:04:17,760 --> 01:04:19,440
word? 
They're a part of the community,

864
01:04:19,440 --> 01:04:22,400
they're a part of the culture. 
But in their own little coffee 

865
01:04:22,400 --> 01:04:26,840
time, in their own little little
side ministries, they have 

866
01:04:26,840 --> 01:04:31,080
conversations about the culture,
what they don't like, what could

867
01:04:31,080 --> 01:04:34,360
be better, da da da da da, not 
knowing. 

868
01:04:34,360 --> 01:04:38,480
In some ways they're also sewing
questions, suggestions, which 

869
01:04:38,480 --> 01:04:47,040
then birth in the immature doubt
subculture, right? 

870
01:04:47,040 --> 01:04:51,240
You don't you don't you don't 
you don't go get counsel from 

871
01:04:51,240 --> 01:04:59,640
Pastor Julia, but you got your 
own male or female who you lean 

872
01:04:59,640 --> 01:05:02,080
on that ain't that don't even 
know you the same way. 

873
01:05:02,080 --> 01:05:05,680
And here's what I know about 
good shepherds. 

874
01:05:05,920 --> 01:05:08,680
They don't got to hang out in 
the field with you to know you 

875
01:05:08,680 --> 01:05:13,560
all the time. 
The assigned shepherd knows you 

876
01:05:13,560 --> 01:05:21,600
through divine connection and 
what I do know is those that 

877
01:05:21,600 --> 01:05:25,800
don't want to be pastored. 
You are a leader that is used to

878
01:05:25,800 --> 01:05:29,240
start subculture spiritually, 
spiritually, spiritually. 

879
01:05:30,120 --> 01:05:31,640
It's not you starting your own 
church. 

880
01:05:31,640 --> 01:05:34,200
It's not any of that. 
It is a spiritual thing. 

881
01:05:36,880 --> 01:05:41,800
Pastor T&P day talk about dating
you the person on the side that 

882
01:05:41,800 --> 01:05:43,880
will get in somebody's ear and 
be like. 

883
01:05:44,560 --> 01:05:51,040
Girl wouldn't like I I. 
Feel what he's saying, but right

884
01:05:51,040 --> 01:05:57,960
it's the butt culture right it's
the culture that that that 

885
01:05:57,960 --> 01:06:00,520
surround around the opinion of 
the word here. 

886
01:06:00,520 --> 01:06:10,720
It is teachable heart and you 
don't realize that you are being

887
01:06:10,720 --> 01:06:17,200
used to plant Darnell when 
you've been called to disciple. 

888
01:06:21,520 --> 01:06:24,200
Find have your insecurities, 
have your doubts, have your 

889
01:06:24,200 --> 01:06:27,760
complaints, but shut your mouth 
and keep it to yourself. 

890
01:06:30,680 --> 01:06:34,120
If you don't want to be here, if
you don't like what you see, if 

891
01:06:34,120 --> 01:06:38,560
you have, keep it to yourself. 
And that's not PT, that is God 

892
01:06:38,560 --> 01:06:45,200
telling you shut your mouth 
because you are planting Darnell

893
01:06:45,320 --> 01:06:52,000
in infants and the Bible talks 
about the root of bitterness 

894
01:06:52,160 --> 01:06:56,560
that comes up. 
Watch it is, watch how it is. 

895
01:06:56,720 --> 01:06:59,480
He says it is presented to be 
good. 

896
01:07:01,960 --> 01:07:07,520
We do a lot of stuff and say a 
lot of stuff in Jesus name in 

897
01:07:07,520 --> 01:07:11,600
protecting and loving my sister 
and loving my brother. 

898
01:07:11,760 --> 01:07:17,080
Every person in here has had a 
manipulative spirit at some 

899
01:07:17,080 --> 01:07:19,520
point or time. 
What do I mean? 

900
01:07:19,520 --> 01:07:21,800
You've said something or are you
like, I ain't going to even say 

901
01:07:21,800 --> 01:07:23,880
nothing no more. 
Somebody come to you and ask a 

902
01:07:23,880 --> 01:07:26,320
question or during the service. 
I see you looking. 

903
01:07:29,080 --> 01:07:31,680
I've even seen people texting. 
I pay attention. 

904
01:07:31,680 --> 01:07:34,760
I see one person text seeing 
women and women, then they look 

905
01:07:34,760 --> 01:07:37,280
over there and then I see the 
other person boom, boom, and 

906
01:07:37,280 --> 01:07:38,440
then they looking back and 
forth. 

907
01:07:38,480 --> 01:07:41,200
I I I busted, I busted the band 
before. 

908
01:07:42,960 --> 01:07:45,240
Michael, Michael, Michael, 
Michael, you guys have how you 

909
01:07:45,240 --> 01:07:47,120
doing, Sir? 
Michael Michael being used to be

910
01:07:47,120 --> 01:07:48,720
texting. 
Sometimes he's like no, no, no, 

911
01:07:48,720 --> 01:07:54,480
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, 
right, sometimes and and then 

912
01:07:54,480 --> 01:07:56,360
see, now you don't hear. 
The spirit of you like, oh, he 

913
01:07:56,360 --> 01:07:57,000
said. 
Shut up. 

914
01:07:57,120 --> 01:08:00,640
Some people dealing with no. 
No, no, I'm sure Jesus call them

915
01:08:00,640 --> 01:08:02,200
brew Vipers. 
Have I called you out your name 

916
01:08:04,560 --> 01:08:05,240
right. 
Did you see? 

917
01:08:05,240 --> 01:08:08,200
See, we don't the Bible. 
We we don't really want Jesus 

918
01:08:08,200 --> 01:08:09,800
though. 
We don't really want the five 

919
01:08:09,800 --> 01:08:11,680
fold ministry. 
We don't want apostles. 

920
01:08:11,680 --> 01:08:13,840
We don't want prophets. 
We want pastors. 

921
01:08:26,640 --> 01:08:29,319
That's what we want. 
We we we don't. 

922
01:08:29,319 --> 01:08:30,800
We don't want the apostle. 
To come in. 

923
01:08:31,080 --> 01:08:33,120
Snatch us. 
We don't want the real shepherd 

924
01:08:33,120 --> 01:08:35,080
to snatch us out the grip. 
What? 

925
01:08:35,120 --> 01:08:38,000
But we love David's story, huh? 
But we forgot that he snatched 

926
01:08:38,000 --> 01:08:42,080
the sheep out of the the Wait, 
wait, wait. 

927
01:08:42,080 --> 01:08:46,080
We we highlight Goliath because 
we love this big old superhero 

928
01:08:46,080 --> 01:08:51,319
story, but we don't look at the 
intimacy of David having to 

929
01:08:51,319 --> 01:08:53,720
snatch a sheep out of the paw of
a bear. 

930
01:08:55,600 --> 01:08:58,319
If then when they're shepherds 
that come and say, I can't 

931
01:08:58,319 --> 01:09:01,920
explain it to you because I got 
to cover everybody, but you are 

932
01:09:01,920 --> 01:09:05,080
in the ball. 
That person ain't the bear. 

933
01:09:07,560 --> 01:09:13,680
We wrestle not against flesh and
blood, but when you got good 

934
01:09:13,680 --> 01:09:21,160
shepherds in the land and you 
refuse to listen, that is a 

935
01:09:21,240 --> 01:09:23,920
dangerous culture We're we're 
creating. 

936
01:09:28,399 --> 01:09:34,279
We wonder why the world looks at
the church and laugh because in 

937
01:09:34,279 --> 01:09:38,240
a lot of ways we are a joke. 
We turn on each other. 

938
01:09:39,840 --> 01:09:42,399
The streets I came from man, We 
had real conversations. 

939
01:09:42,399 --> 01:09:45,040
You had beef with somebody back 
in the day that you put on some 

940
01:09:45,040 --> 01:09:47,319
gloves and you box it out and 
then guess what y'all do? 

941
01:09:47,319 --> 01:09:51,560
Y'all ride bikes and go play 
again with each other these 

942
01:09:51,560 --> 01:09:54,520
days, Christians. 
We just walk out the back door. 

943
01:09:54,520 --> 01:09:57,160
We murmur, we complain. 
We don't have no real 

944
01:09:57,160 --> 01:10:01,120
conversations. 
We'll sit in meetings for hours 

945
01:10:01,120 --> 01:10:03,960
with people and never say 
everything. 

946
01:10:05,960 --> 01:10:13,240
We'll keep parts off the table 
from good shepherds, from people

947
01:10:13,240 --> 01:10:16,600
who love you. 
What's the Bible say? 

948
01:10:17,520 --> 01:10:22,160
He corrects, He realigns, He re 
establishes. 

949
01:10:23,600 --> 01:10:27,160
Those who he love. 
And because we've adopted the 

950
01:10:27,160 --> 01:10:32,680
world's version of love and 
we've mistaken God's love. 

951
01:10:36,240 --> 01:10:39,360
And God's love leads to 
maturity. 

952
01:10:43,920 --> 01:10:46,160
God's love. 
Raises up sons and daughters who

953
01:10:46,160 --> 01:10:53,840
don't always need clarity before
movement. 

954
01:10:56,280 --> 01:10:58,160
Yeah, right. 
Even that I did. 

955
01:10:58,160 --> 01:11:01,760
That's neat right there. 
There's some stuff that the 

956
01:11:01,760 --> 01:11:05,200
father says to the son. 
What we doing today? 

957
01:11:06,560 --> 01:11:10,920
Because the son is the soul 
winner, because the daughter is 

958
01:11:10,920 --> 01:11:13,440
a worshipper, there comes a 
point in the relationship where 

959
01:11:13,440 --> 01:11:18,200
he says, what we doing OK, y'all
want to go have worship in the 

960
01:11:18,200 --> 01:11:19,440
park? 
Let's do it. 

961
01:11:19,560 --> 01:11:21,280
It ain't always well, let's pray
about it. 

962
01:11:21,280 --> 01:11:24,320
And God, I woke up in a dream 
and God said we, we should, I 

963
01:11:24,320 --> 01:11:27,560
saw, I saw us in a park 
somewhere around a lot of trees.

964
01:11:27,680 --> 01:11:31,000
I think that's the Lord saying 
it's time for a concert in the 

965
01:11:31,000 --> 01:11:33,760
park. 
That's, that's that's hard. 

966
01:11:33,760 --> 01:11:39,200
That's a hard relationship. 
What if every time your husband 

967
01:11:39,680 --> 01:11:41,960
said I want to go out to dinner 
and you like let me pray about 

968
01:11:41,960 --> 01:11:46,000
it. 
Can I just come home and say, 

969
01:11:46,000 --> 01:11:48,120
Hey babe, I don't care what you 
wearing we going to dinner 

970
01:11:48,120 --> 01:11:48,840
tonight. 
Let's go. 

971
01:11:51,720 --> 01:11:54,040
Can can we do spontaneous stuff 
in our marriage? 

972
01:11:57,080 --> 01:11:59,280
Have you ever had friendship 
where y'all were just sitting 

973
01:11:59,280 --> 01:12:06,560
around and somebody was like, 
hey, we should go to let's go. 

974
01:12:08,360 --> 01:12:12,120
But then every time when God is 
like he's, he's, he's put his 

975
01:12:12,120 --> 01:12:15,960
grace on somebody or some people
and those people really what, 

976
01:12:15,960 --> 01:12:18,720
what's the point of walking with
God if you always got to stop 

977
01:12:18,720 --> 01:12:22,400
and get clarity? 
Ain't, ain't he clarity? 

978
01:12:25,040 --> 01:12:28,520
Ain't he clarity? 
So if I'm walking with him, it 

979
01:12:28,520 --> 01:12:31,960
comes a point that everything 
that I'm doing he's interested 

980
01:12:31,960 --> 01:12:34,680
in and everything he's doing, 
I'm interested in. 

981
01:12:35,480 --> 01:12:39,520
We're one. 
That's why he says abide in me, 

982
01:12:39,680 --> 01:12:42,360
my word, abide in you. 
We going to roll together and 

983
01:12:42,360 --> 01:12:44,600
anything you ask, I shall give 
it to you. 

984
01:12:44,600 --> 01:12:46,680
Why? 
Because now you only want what I

985
01:12:46,680 --> 01:12:48,520
want. 
I want what you want because you

986
01:12:48,520 --> 01:12:57,360
what you want is what I want. 
You don't get married and be 

987
01:12:57,360 --> 01:12:59,400
like, hey, you want. 
You want to have some kids. 

988
01:13:00,880 --> 01:13:03,160
It's kind of assume we get 
married and we're going to start

989
01:13:03,160 --> 01:13:04,000
a. 
Family right? 

990
01:13:05,760 --> 01:13:08,760
Yeah, some of y'all like I 
don't, I don't know. 

991
01:13:10,000 --> 01:13:16,760
OK, well, you know what I'm 
saying. 

992
01:13:16,760 --> 01:13:18,720
It's like, let's assume like we 
get married with starting a 

993
01:13:18,720 --> 01:13:20,680
family that's just kind of and 
then you just get married and 

994
01:13:20,680 --> 01:13:25,680
you go to work, right? 
And you, it is not like if you 

995
01:13:25,680 --> 01:13:27,160
about to get married this 
morning, you just like. 

996
01:13:27,280 --> 01:13:30,800
Do you want to start a family? 
And just like, let me pray about

997
01:13:30,800 --> 01:13:34,040
that. 
Let me, I don't know, let me get

998
01:13:34,040 --> 01:13:35,600
clarity if I want to have kids 
with you. 

999
01:13:43,920 --> 01:13:45,400
What what would what would you 
say? 

1000
01:13:49,080 --> 01:13:52,920
See, the point of walking with 
God and maturing is to take the 

1001
01:13:52,920 --> 01:13:54,840
transactions out the 
relationship. 

1002
01:14:06,480 --> 01:14:09,240
One of the ways the enemy 
destroys culture is through 

1003
01:14:09,240 --> 01:14:14,680
subcultures. 
He thrives in subculture. 

1004
01:14:18,200 --> 01:14:21,440
Subculture. 
There's, there's a lot of extra,

1005
01:14:21,440 --> 01:14:29,840
there's a lot of sideshows. 
There's a there's, we're part of

1006
01:14:29,840 --> 01:14:31,560
the culture. 
We're just adjacent to it. 

1007
01:14:33,560 --> 01:14:38,480
I need the community. 
But I don't necessarily need the

1008
01:14:38,480 --> 01:14:44,840
anointing on the House. 
I need a word, but I don't need 

1009
01:14:44,840 --> 01:14:48,760
pastoring. 
Well, well, let's not look at 

1010
01:14:48,760 --> 01:14:53,520
the He gave. 
Jesus died, He rose, and he gave

1011
01:14:53,520 --> 01:14:57,080
5 gifts to grow to church. 
Neither. 

1012
01:14:57,080 --> 01:15:01,120
One was a pair of church. 
Parachurches are great, but I 

1013
01:15:01,120 --> 01:15:04,640
would I would be very careful 
when the leaders of parachurches

1014
01:15:04,640 --> 01:15:07,920
aren't rooted in a church 
because there's a lot of 

1015
01:15:07,920 --> 01:15:14,760
churches a parachurches that are
birthed out of church hurt or 

1016
01:15:15,080 --> 01:15:17,080
because their gifts weren't 
being used. 

1017
01:15:17,080 --> 01:15:19,240
They decided to go start this 
thing over here. 

1018
01:15:19,400 --> 01:15:22,320
And a lot of times what you 
gather is a lot of other church 

1019
01:15:22,320 --> 01:15:38,280
hurt people. 
So we need the fear of the Lord 

1020
01:15:40,560 --> 01:15:43,440
in this hour. 
Matthew 11. 

1021
01:15:44,120 --> 01:15:47,960
And in this next experience, EJ,
you'll pick up where you left 

1022
01:15:47,960 --> 01:15:50,400
left off. 
I'll pick up where I left off 

1023
01:15:51,440 --> 01:16:01,240
and write this down. 
There's no wind without a word, 

1024
01:16:05,000 --> 01:16:08,920
and there's no word without a 
wind. 

1025
01:16:12,600 --> 01:16:18,800
He said Ezekiel, you prophecy to
the Spirit. 

1026
01:16:19,320 --> 01:16:28,520
The wind ain't just coming. 
You got to call it and and and 

1027
01:16:28,520 --> 01:16:31,440
love quest. 
We didn't pulled heaven down. 

1028
01:16:31,440 --> 01:16:35,480
We didn't we didn't we didn't 
did all kinds of prophetic and 

1029
01:16:35,640 --> 01:16:38,640
illustrated and we didn't we 
didn't laid. 

1030
01:16:38,640 --> 01:16:41,840
We didn't snot it on the floor. 
We didn't we didn't mean we we 

1031
01:16:41,840 --> 01:16:44,400
had went in. 
We didn't shut Sundays down had 

1032
01:16:44,400 --> 01:16:46,600
church every day. 
We didn't fast for 40 days. 

1033
01:16:46,720 --> 01:16:49,320
We didn't fast for 75 days. 
We fast for three days. 

1034
01:16:49,520 --> 01:16:51,080
We didn't we didn't worship 
long. 

1035
01:16:51,080 --> 01:16:53,240
We didn't worship short. 
We didn't went into Jackpool 

1036
01:16:53,240 --> 01:16:54,720
Plaza. 
We went to art gallery. 

1037
01:16:54,720 --> 01:16:56,880
We didn't went to Seattle. 
We didn't went to Aquamento. 

1038
01:16:56,880 --> 01:16:59,200
We didn't went to Kelowna. 
We didn't, we didn't, we didn't 

1039
01:16:59,200 --> 01:17:01,800
went to Abbyss fur. 
We have carried it around. 

1040
01:17:01,920 --> 01:17:08,240
The wind is about to blow. 
The worst thing you can do is do

1041
01:17:08,240 --> 01:17:13,920
all of that and not be ready for
the tornado you pulled on. 

1042
01:17:17,040 --> 01:17:18,960
How you gonna start a fight then
run? 

1043
01:17:30,240 --> 01:17:38,120
Matthew 11, he says it's 
responding to the word time. 

1044
01:17:39,120 --> 01:17:42,720
It is a time to throw yourself 
fully at Jesus. 

1045
01:17:44,560 --> 01:17:53,880
Not one foot fully, not nothing 
man, not withholding, nothing 

1046
01:17:54,520 --> 01:18:01,920
complete undone this. 
This is what he did say. 

1047
01:18:04,920 --> 01:18:10,400
EJ, there's a lot. 
Look at the world that we are 

1048
01:18:10,400 --> 01:18:12,680
in. 
I want you to really hear what 

1049
01:18:12,680 --> 01:18:23,260
I'm about to say. 
There's a lot of tired people in

1050
01:18:23,260 --> 01:18:25,260
here. 
When I say tired, I'm not 

1051
01:18:25,260 --> 01:18:26,380
talking about you need some 
sleep. 

1052
01:18:27,340 --> 01:18:35,600
I I need some sleep. 
Your soul is tired and that's 

1053
01:18:35,600 --> 01:18:37,720
what the world is meant to do. 
Wear us down. 

1054
01:18:38,880 --> 01:18:41,440
If you If you spend three to 
five hours on Instagram, you're 

1055
01:18:41,440 --> 01:18:47,360
so tired. 
If you spend all day day 

1056
01:18:47,360 --> 01:18:49,440
dreaming about what's next, 
you're so tired. 

1057
01:18:50,680 --> 01:18:53,280
If Jesus is not the main thing, 
your soul is tired. 

1058
01:18:54,560 --> 01:18:57,920
Only thing that can keep your 
soul from being tired is Jesus 

1059
01:18:57,920 --> 01:18:59,240
being the main thing in your 
life. 

1060
01:19:03,040 --> 01:19:13,380
Matthew 11 says this. 28, come 
to me. 

1061
01:19:19,960 --> 01:19:21,040
It's crazy, huh? 
EJ? 

1062
01:19:22,280 --> 01:19:24,400
We got this. 
This is what we say to this is 

1063
01:19:24,400 --> 01:19:31,200
what we say to him. 
What? 

1064
01:19:31,200 --> 01:19:34,520
What if we kind of changed our 
exhortative moments versus 

1065
01:19:34,520 --> 01:19:36,280
inviting him here like he ain't 
here. 

1066
01:19:37,680 --> 01:19:39,760
And then our exhortation was, 
Lord, we're here. 

1067
01:19:45,080 --> 01:19:47,240
We're waiting for you. 
We're here. 

1068
01:19:48,320 --> 01:19:50,480
He's here. 
What are you doing to be aware 

1069
01:19:50,480 --> 01:19:53,640
of His presence? 
Come to me. 

1070
01:19:54,520 --> 01:19:58,200
It's an invitation for you. 
He's pursued you by way of the 

1071
01:19:58,200 --> 01:20:03,920
cross. 
How dare us keep on asking Him 

1072
01:20:03,920 --> 01:20:07,680
to do this and do that for us 
when a lot of the things we're 

1073
01:20:07,680 --> 01:20:09,840
asking Him to fix, we didn't 
start with Him. 

1074
01:20:11,560 --> 01:20:13,560
We just need Him to bail us out.
Savior. 

1075
01:20:14,200 --> 01:20:15,640
He's not Lord. 
If he was Lord, you wouldn't be 

1076
01:20:15,640 --> 01:20:17,080
in the mess you were in the 
first place. 

1077
01:20:20,400 --> 01:20:27,760
Come all you. 
Not pastors, not just the 

1078
01:20:27,760 --> 01:20:28,720
leaders. 
All you. 

1079
01:20:30,320 --> 01:20:34,360
Not the world, all you. 
Not just the mentally ill. 

1080
01:20:34,360 --> 01:20:39,760
All you, not the ones you can 
point out be like they need 

1081
01:20:39,760 --> 01:20:44,640
Jesus, you do too. 
All you who labor and are heavy 

1082
01:20:44,640 --> 01:20:50,360
laden and overburden you see 
overburden you. 

1083
01:20:50,360 --> 01:20:53,720
You carrying stuff you don't 
need to be carrying overburden. 

1084
01:20:54,640 --> 01:20:57,520
Some of y'all don't look 
overburdened spiritually you. 

1085
01:20:57,520 --> 01:21:01,600
Overburdened and I will cause 
you to rest. 

1086
01:21:01,640 --> 01:21:04,240
I will cause you to rest, but I 
first need you to come. 

1087
01:21:05,880 --> 01:21:09,000
I will ease and I will relieve, 
and I'll refresh your soul. 

1088
01:21:10,480 --> 01:21:12,880
I will relieve and refresh your 
souls. 

1089
01:21:14,040 --> 01:21:16,120
Take my yoke. 
Uh oh. 

1090
01:21:18,120 --> 01:21:25,760
It's a trade, not an addition. 
If you trying to keep yo yoke 

1091
01:21:25,760 --> 01:21:27,800
and add his yoke it's not going 
to work. 

1092
01:21:28,640 --> 01:21:31,160
His yoke only fit on available 
necks. 

1093
01:21:34,400 --> 01:21:37,800
Take your chain off. 
Take take my yoke up on you and 

1094
01:21:37,800 --> 01:21:39,080
learn. 
That's the second. 

1095
01:21:39,080 --> 01:21:45,560
Part Wow, learn of me so it's 
not just help me Lord, but if 

1096
01:21:45,560 --> 01:21:47,840
you're going to walk with him, 
you got to learn his pace. 

1097
01:21:49,480 --> 01:22:00,400
You got to learn how he moves. 
But I am gentle and humble in 

1098
01:22:00,400 --> 01:22:03,400
heart. 
You will find rest. 

1099
01:22:05,080 --> 01:22:07,600
This is the one thing that 
everyone in the world's looking 

1100
01:22:07,600 --> 01:22:10,400
for. 
We need million. 

1101
01:22:10,480 --> 01:22:12,800
We we trying to be millionaires 
because if we think it's going 

1102
01:22:12,800 --> 01:22:15,080
at the end of millionaire, it's 
going to be rest. 

1103
01:22:15,080 --> 01:22:17,680
We trying to get married because
we think at the end of marriage 

1104
01:22:17,680 --> 01:22:20,840
is going to be rest. 
We, we, we doing all these 

1105
01:22:20,840 --> 01:22:27,400
things is ultimately your soul 
is crying out for a place of its

1106
01:22:27,560 --> 01:22:34,040
original intent to live. 
Your soul knows it is not being 

1107
01:22:34,040 --> 01:22:39,920
nourished properly. 
The world does not have your 

1108
01:22:39,920 --> 01:22:47,440
soul's best interest, he said. 
And recreation and blessed quiet

1109
01:22:48,040 --> 01:22:51,520
for your souls. 
For my yoke is wholesome, 

1110
01:22:51,680 --> 01:22:55,280
useful, good, not. 
Harsh, hard, sharp or. 

1111
01:22:55,280 --> 01:23:02,280
Pressing but comfortable, 
gracious, pleasant and my burden

1112
01:23:02,280 --> 01:23:13,520
is light and easy to be born. 
Then he tells us, carry our 

1113
01:23:13,520 --> 01:23:16,520
cross. 
It's almost like we got this 

1114
01:23:16,520 --> 01:23:19,280
picture of like following Jesus 
and walking Jesus is one of the 

1115
01:23:19,280 --> 01:23:20,400
hardest things to do in the 
world. 

1116
01:23:23,920 --> 01:23:30,160
It is, but it's also the most 
rewarding for your tripart. 

1117
01:23:30,160 --> 01:23:35,680
Being the cross leads to 
wholeness. 

1118
01:23:37,760 --> 01:23:42,080
The flesh leads to destruction. 
That's why you must crucify. 

1119
01:23:44,240 --> 01:23:47,160
That's why you must be equipped.
In the next experience we're 

1120
01:23:47,160 --> 01:23:51,240
going to find out that there's 
no peace without order. 

1121
01:23:53,240 --> 01:23:57,840
So true perfecting is God re 
establishing order in our lives.

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And order comes before peace. 
So there's no way to get the 

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peace that transcends all 
understanding without God's 

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order. 
And there's no way to get back 

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to God's order without 
perfecting. 

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So in the next experience, we're
going to look at God's call to 

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peace. 
But as much as you want his 

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peace, you will never reach it 
without maturity, without him 

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being enough. 
You will never experience this 

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peace, Father, we thank You that
you love us enough to correct, 

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01:24:50,960 --> 01:25:01,240
to realign, to challenge us. 
Lord, you sent your only son. 

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That death would not hold me 
because it couldn't hold you. 

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01:25:13,120 --> 01:25:19,120
That sin, the wages of sin, 
could not keep me because it 

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couldn't keep you. 
You shed your blood. 

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01:25:22,920 --> 01:25:26,280
You gave us your spirit. 
You left us your word. 

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01:25:26,880 --> 01:25:34,600
You gave us your name. 
May your bride rise in this 

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01:25:34,600 --> 01:25:37,480
hour. 
The Remnant. 

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That you are. 
Calling. 

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01:25:38,880 --> 01:25:42,760
May they hear you now. 
Many called, few chosen. 

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01:25:47,680 --> 01:25:50,520
May the laborers be plenty in 
this hour. 

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01:25:54,760 --> 01:26:02,400
Lord, expose our blind spots. 
Lord, may we not be one of the 

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elect that is drawn away. 
But we prophesied to the Spirit.

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Of life we prophesied to the 
wind, and we say blow. 

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01:26:17,360 --> 01:26:20,360
We're not asking you to hold off
the blowing blow. 

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01:26:25,480 --> 01:26:30,360
Come now when we cry out for 
revival, Lord, we also are 

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crying out to be exposed. 
It's not just for for legs to 

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01:26:36,400 --> 01:26:39,840
grow and gold dust to be 
sprinkled and and and goosebumps

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01:26:39,840 --> 01:26:44,320
to pop in for us to just just 
just simmer in your presence and

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01:26:44,360 --> 01:26:47,040
say, oh, that was a good night. 
The Lord was here. 

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01:26:47,200 --> 01:26:51,520
No revival is for 
transformation, starting with 

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your house and then it bleeds 
into the church, into the 

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01:26:54,720 --> 01:26:59,200
streets and culture is impacted 
by a transformed bride. 

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01:27:00,920 --> 01:27:09,680
Change us Jesus wind blow. 
No, don't just heal us. 

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That's just about us. 
Change us. 

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01:27:15,800 --> 01:27:19,240
Because what I do know is I 
could still be dealing with an 

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ailment and and be changed at 
the same time, but I am not 

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01:27:25,080 --> 01:27:30,760
waiting for healing. 
In order to be transformed. 

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01:27:32,600 --> 01:27:38,320
The truth sets me free. 
The sun makes me free indeed. 

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01:27:39,520 --> 01:27:47,440
So while I'm waiting. 
May I look more like you while 

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I'm waiting for blank. 
May I draw nearer to you? 

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01:27:54,080 --> 01:27:58,640
May I cast my cares upon you. 
May I delight in you first. 

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01:27:59,120 --> 01:28:02,480
May I seek? 
You first, may I love you first 

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and. 
All these cares will be added. 

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May we have ears to hear. 
Those that have ears to hear, 

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01:28:20,680 --> 01:28:25,880
let them hear. 
Those that have eyes to see, let

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01:28:25,880 --> 01:28:31,920
them see. 
And I challenge you to keep 

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eating the meat if you got to 
start at the milk. 

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01:28:38,400 --> 01:28:45,680
Keep drinking, keep growing, 
keep leaning in, keep pressing, 

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01:28:46,520 --> 01:28:51,160
keep hungering and thirsting. 
Keep desiring, keep delighting. 

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01:28:53,000 --> 01:28:59,360
Lord, give us eyes to see in 
this hour, please. 

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01:29:11,960 --> 01:29:17,320
Loose the grips of mammon over 
our lives. 

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01:29:18,680 --> 01:29:25,760
We cannot serve 2 masters within
the busyness of our lives. 

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01:29:25,760 --> 01:29:28,400
May we not neglect our body? 
A. 

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Lot of times. 
When we get busy, we don't eat 

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01:29:33,480 --> 01:29:38,520
well. 
We eat fast food, we don't got 

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01:29:38,520 --> 01:29:44,560
time to sit down and eat a 
hearty meal something of 

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01:29:44,560 --> 01:29:51,000
substance. 
May your church get back to the 

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main thing, it's winning souls, 
making disciples that influence 

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01:30:00,960 --> 01:30:03,840
Vancouver and the rest of the 
world. 

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Starting with knowing your love,
getting rooted in your love and 

1181
01:30:14,160 --> 01:30:17,680
being equipped so we can do the 
work. 

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01:30:19,520 --> 01:30:24,520
But may the work never take 
place of our relationship. 

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01:30:29,320 --> 01:30:36,120
May we be a people quick to 
repent in Jesus name, Amen. 

1184
01:30:36,120 --> 01:30:37,560
Just lift your hands right where
you are. 

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01:30:41,800 --> 01:30:53,370
I want you to just take the next
3 minutes and open your own 

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01:30:53,370 --> 01:30:59,650
mouth and begin to pray. 
I know there's a few people in 

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01:30:59,650 --> 01:31:04,450
here that allowed the Lord to 
really get into the soul of 

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01:31:04,450 --> 01:31:07,810
their hearts. 
If that's you, I ask you and I 

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01:31:07,810 --> 01:31:13,010
challenge you, you could stand, 
you can kneel, but I'm asking 

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01:31:13,010 --> 01:31:18,360
you in this hour to just respond
because the enemy comes. 

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01:31:18,360 --> 01:31:22,600
The Bible says immediately to 
steal the Word, and you cannot 

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01:31:22,600 --> 01:31:27,200
afford to give the enemy any 
more ground. 

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01:31:28,440 --> 01:31:33,120
So if that's you in this room 
and you know for a fact that the

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Holy Spirit has done something 
in your heart, respond by 

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01:31:37,080 --> 01:31:39,480
kneeling or lifting your hands 
or standing. 

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01:31:40,120 --> 01:31:43,600
But we need you to respond to 
the Word of the Lord. 

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01:31:44,240 --> 01:32:40,440
Take a few moments. 
The. 

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The. 
The. 

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Holy Spirit, we need the fear of
the Lord like never before. 

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01:36:02,360 --> 01:36:10,720
Just lift your hands. 
Holy Spirit, bring us the fear 

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01:36:10,720 --> 01:36:46,680
of the Lord. 
But I pray we never lose our 

1202
01:36:46,680 --> 01:36:57,000
wonder, restore our wonder. 
Sons and daughters, fix your 

1203
01:36:57,000 --> 01:37:05,640
eyes on the 1:00. 
Take your eyes off the waves, 

1204
01:37:06,480 --> 01:37:16,080
off the winds, Arise, shine. 
Fix your eyes on Him that you 

1205
01:37:16,080 --> 01:37:20,280
may have perfect peace. 
Garrison. 

1206
01:37:22,080 --> 01:37:30,480
His peace protects your mind. 
So, Lord, we ask that you, by 

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01:37:30,480 --> 01:37:43,240
your miracle work and power, fix
the breaches in our Garrison. 

1208
01:37:46,480 --> 01:37:52,680
May we partner with You to 
protect our minds from the lies 

1209
01:37:52,680 --> 01:37:57,880
of the enemy. 
May we protect our minds and 

1210
01:37:57,880 --> 01:38:01,760
cover our brothers and sisters 
from the accuser of the brethren

1211
01:38:02,520 --> 01:38:18,400
that has come to divide. 
Or may your children get serious

1212
01:38:20,960 --> 01:38:29,120
about our Father's business. 
May we not be OK with this 

1213
01:38:29,120 --> 01:38:32,120
unity. 
May we not be comfortable with 

1214
01:38:32,120 --> 01:38:46,810
murmuring and complaining? 
It was eyes to. 

1215
01:38:46,810 --> 01:38:51,610
See like never before in Jesus 
name, Amen. 

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01:39:06,040 --> 01:39:08,280
Thank you so much for tuning in 
to this week's sermon. 

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We pray you were challenged, 
equipped and encouraged. 

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01:39:11,840 --> 01:39:13,800
Make sure to follow us on all 
platforms. 

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01:39:13,800 --> 01:39:17,880
That's love quest intl church. 
We out here for real. 

1220
01:39:17,960 --> 01:39:20,240
We're really doing it. 
That's Facebook, Instagram, 

1221
01:39:20,240 --> 01:39:23,480
YouTube and TikTok. 
You can find us anywhere you 

1222
01:39:23,480 --> 01:39:25,760
need to find us. 
But until next time, you know 

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the drill. 
You know the motto, get your 

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love fixed man and we'll see 
y'all real soon.