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Hi. 
This is Dave Olson. 

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I'm the senior leader of Hartman
church located in Ankeny Iowa. 

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I hope the following message, 
challenges and courage's and 

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ultimately changes you. 
Thanks for joining us. 

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I know there's some people have 
wondered why? 

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Why did you why did you paint 
the background black? 

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Why, you know different people 
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forth. 
Well one of the reasons we 

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invested the money in this was 
that our live broadcast really 

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had a hard time catching the the
speakers on the on the stage and

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so there's a lot of busyness 
behind us. 

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It wasn't as bad live but on the
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busy. 
And and then the lighting if you

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noticed that there I would step 
into places and I would 

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disappear whoever was up here 
and that's not good if you're 

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having trying to do a live 
broadcast for people to 

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disappear while they're 
speaking. 

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And so also the new lighting 
also captures the color very 

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well on on broadcast because we 
really do feel like in the 

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coming days online church and 
and frankly satellite locations.

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Where we just pipe in video is 
going to be what God's going to 

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have us doing. 
Believe in the coming days that 

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there's I believe there's no 
more crisis on the horizon. 

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I'm a good news preacher, but 
I'm telling you, I believe that 

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there's going to be some 
challenging times ahead and I 

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believe that hard times for the 
world provide opportunities for 

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the church and we want to be 
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We want to seize those 
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get the word out. 
So we're preparing for that with

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the setting, but there's also 
another dimension to that and 

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that is the whole idea of 
creativity. 

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Creativity is an expression of 
the nature of God, it really is.

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I was thinking about this story 
so I looked it up this morning. 

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I had heard this sometime back 
and I said about a thousand 

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years ago, Prince Vladimir the 
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He was known as he was a pagan 
Monarch in Kiev had decided that

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he needed to find a one religion
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And so he sent these delegations
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Looking for the The religion 
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Russia and they, they went to 
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found, you know, they 
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religions. 
They found some that were very 

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mystical, they found some that 
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exercise, great power and fear 
in the people, there were some 

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that were very logical 
religions, but there was a 

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delegation that came back from 
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Constantinople and they came 
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They said the beauty of 
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They said, they took us to the 
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philosophy and the, the the 
worship of Christianity was what

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gripped them so much. 
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took us to where they worship, 
we can never forget the beauty 

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of that place and what was going
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They said we understood that God
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The interesting thing was that 
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Christianity and to Russia, 
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Christianity is going to be our 
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And for many centuries, 
Christianity was in Russia was a

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stronghold. 
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Christianity. 
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has been tremendous Revival that
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particular even Bill buyers that
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He's Add some powerful Ministry 
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Kiev, he's got some tremendous 
stories of God visiting that 

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Nation, but I find it 
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What attracted them was not the 
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Aesthetics of Christianity, the 
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Now, I don't know about you, but
I don't often think from that 

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perspective, about the beauty of
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through Through another route, I
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desperation from a broken life. 
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beauty of Christianity, that is 
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And God is the great Creator. 
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whole witness of scripture 
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in the beginning, God created 
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nature is God Is Creative. 
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his nature in US is that we're 
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in different ways. 
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and those gifts are to be 
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which the nature and character 
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mankind. 
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because some of us allow our 
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because they don't necessarily 
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think of, when we think of 
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operate through creativity. 
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was c.s. 
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He had this phrase, he said 
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summed up in mere words. 
That's why he gives us symbols. 

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Well, that's really interesting.
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vast, it can't be reduced to 
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But, in fact, I would propose to
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That's why part of the way that 
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through the narrative passages 
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gospels through acts, through 
much of the Old Testament, their

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story form and much of Jesus 
teaching was not over didactic 

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teaching didactic is at the idea
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teaching them truth overtly line
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principle on principle rather 
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story form because often story 
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what we already believe in 
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And so story form is one of the 
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people can learn. 
That's why, you know, writing 

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fiction that is rooted in 
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communicate truth. 
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powerful, our family with the 
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We've had this tradition, we 
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Trilogy called The Lord of the 
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And man has a guy love that, 
that movie. 

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I mean, there is so many 
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In that my poor family. 
I got to stir, they'll say Dad, 

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we know be quiet, be quiet. 
I'll see you there, boy. 

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That reminds me of this. 
Yeah, I know, Dad, just be 

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quiet. 
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allegory written by a Christian 
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And he wrote that as a not, as 
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evident in allegory of c.s. 
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know, The Chronicles of Narnia. 
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Lewis and the writer of The Lord
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They would sit around and 
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their literary Pursuits, but 
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communicate great truth through 
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Now, there is, there are streams
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That will tell you that you 
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the Tired of passages. 
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you shouldn't drive, your God, 
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or from the book of Acts, you 
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from The Narrative. 
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passages you know the Epistles 
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to really derive your Doctrine. 
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cessationists, it's cessation is
streams that will tell you that.

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The problem is they divorce 
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insightful truth. 
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the didactic passages themselves
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inspired and profitable For What
doctrine including the narrative

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passages. 
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that they tell you, you should 
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you that you can also go to the 
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And so that the experience of 
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written form, our provide us, 
tremendous insight into the ways

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of God. 
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I've been visiting a kind of 
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times lately, but this whole 
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Me, as of late, how God wants us
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Not just his Works. 
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and observe what he did in 
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understand the, why behind the 
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his counsel. 
He wants us to understand his 

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ways so that we can intercept 
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When we understand his ways, we 
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If all we understand it is 
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watch him work, but we can't 
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But when we understand his ways,
we can step into them and we can

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partner with heaven. 
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do that is reading the narrative
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The Narrative passages reveal 
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how men who moved the heart of 
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can find some valuable truth, so
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That we can be people who move 
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step in the way of God and be 
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And so it's very, very 
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But those narrative passages are
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There's some creativity to those
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allegory, there's a lot of 
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And again I said this a number 
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there's the overt primary 
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like the narrative passages, the
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the gospels is that that was a 
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and we can build our life on 
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And, but underneath the 
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that we can pull out of there. 
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are allegories that we can build
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Now, we should never have an 
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with the overt teaching of 
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Every time we pull out a 
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out of a passage, it needs to be
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passages so that we make sure 
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But God, hides himself in these 
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symbolic form. 
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Matter of fact, the early church
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very big on the typology of 
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of these Old Testament passages 
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wanting to tell us if we don't 
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God speaks through narrative and
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and God wants to work through 
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One of the you can put it this 
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Creation is God's art and art is
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But art comes in many different 
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There's different ways in which 
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through you. 
And this pulls us right into the

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hole. 
So the New Testament subject of 

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spiritual gifting. 
I find it fascinating that the 

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Apostle Paul was the one who 
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body of Christ and spiritual 
gifts, Peter mentioned spiritual

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gifts one time, but after that, 
there are no other New Testament

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authors that Speak of spiritual 
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Paul began to observe the body 
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And he recognized that there 
were certain people with certain

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spiritual abilities. 
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Lord began to show him that 
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giftings. 
It's not just that the random 

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gifts but there's categories of 
giftings that tend to show up 

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again and again and again, and 
Paul begin to categorize these 

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under the leading of the spirit 
and he began to name the what 

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those It's were and so we have 
these three different categories

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of spiritual gifts. 
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father in Romans 12, the gifts 
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Corinthians 12, and the gifts 
from the Sun, and he fission is 

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chapter 4. 
But Paul recognized that, these,

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there were patterns of behavior 
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would manifest through people's 
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And so, if we study the word, we
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patterns in our lives. 
And those those gifts are 

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Avenues through which Grace from
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touches other people, spiritual 
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My spiritual gifts are not for 
me there for you. 

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Your spiritual gifts are not for
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They're for me. 
And so I receive a gift of grace

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through your life and you 
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my life, and that's what makes 
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That's why when Paul speaks of 
the body, the the context is 

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always spiritual gifts. 
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spiritual gifts, the context is 
the body, they're one in the 

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same context because what, 
assigns, you your role in the 

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body of Christ. 
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We're not a bucket of Knuckles. 
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One type of member of the body. 
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We are the body of Christ. 
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elements of God's character that
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through the grace gifts upon us.
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hospitality, that is a spiritual
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gift of hospitality. 
A matter of fact, scripture says

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that an elder must be 
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exercising that Mark of maturity
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be an elder, And that Holt the 
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the Greek word that we translate
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It's Philo where we get the 
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the City of Brotherly Love. 
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brotherly affection, warm 
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people have a fear of strangers.
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time I lay down in my recliner 
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But anyway, it's it literally 
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It's exactly the opposite of 
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people at arm's length, it's 
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door and draws people in And so 
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family. 
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literally means in the Greek and
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individual, or an elder in the 
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eyes, that were always looking, 
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in this house that they are 
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gospel because God is always 
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daughters and it begins with 
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And I expressing the gift of 
hospitality releasing that Grace

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from our through our life, that 
they feel welcomed those few 

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moments when they're around us. 
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is very, very important and it's
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the character of God. 
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people are not hospitable than 
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and character of God that is 
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Missing they are misrepresenting
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gift of hospitality is a way 
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his nature and express it 
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And so it's a way for you and I 
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My wife is has got a gift of 
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I'm telling you. 
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full of different decorations. 
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next few days has we're going to
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I don't know what she's 
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is a master at it and I mean our
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hanging everywhere and the big 
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I came, I was walking through 
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With my cup of coffee, I looked 
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fireplace. 
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these little twinkly lights and 
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But she loves to do that, 
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makes them feel welcome. 
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that is an expression of God's 
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When I became the pastor, the 
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Well, matter of fact, before I 
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before we became the pastor's 20
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And we were a part of another 
church in the region and helping

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out there, and Pastor Callaway. 
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and asked, if we'd come and 
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And so I was going to, no, 
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by this time is what it was. 
He had resigned, and he had 

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pulled me aside and said, Guy to
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And I thought man, I've got 14 
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I've got a lot invested in this,
I need to hear from God, and so,

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I set told my boss, I said I'm 
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three days and I was going to 
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committed to a three day fast. 
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already have my answer, I was so
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already committed to two more 
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So, but as I'm praying about it,
the Lord spoke to me very 

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clearly. 
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He said, he said, it needs to 
be, I know this sounds very 

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Unspiritual at first hearing too
many of us because of the way we

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think of spirituality but he 
told me it needs to be clean, 

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uncluttered and classy, that's 
what he said. 

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That we want a spirit of 
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the through this house because 
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he does everything decently and 
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And what God does Steve Jobs was
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and one of the things he did as 
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beauty. 
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still have the old boxes from 
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because they can't bring 
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The, the packaging is so 
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They think I'll use it somehow 
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How many of you have a box of an
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I see. 
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Steve Jobs merged function and 
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Well, what Steve was doing was 
what God already did Francis 

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Schaeffer, the great Theologian 
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He's gone to be with the Lord 
but he was a brilliant thinker 

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and he pointed out how airplanes
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beautiful. 
He said you can't create an ugly

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plane that will fly. 
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ugly but the fact is the 
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for it to be able to match the 
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Dynamics it in and of itself is 
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Because in nature functionality 
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when things no longer function, 
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I was thinking about this very 
thing as we're watching that 

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great Christmas Trilogy, Lord, 
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I mean, some of those enemies. 
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There was watching us last night
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was talking about one of these. 
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She said, his head looks like 
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I mean these ugly horrendous 
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Because they understood evil 
defiles, and it makes things 

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ugly and righteousness makes 
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Beautiful. 
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speak of the beauty of holiness.
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Beautiful it redeems. 
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condition, its original purpose,
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And if we're to be the people of
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different ways. 
God will bring Beauty through 

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our lives. 
Some people, it's through the 

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beauty of music. 
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It's not a mistake that the 
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worship leader of heaven and he 
has harnessed music for great 

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evil but music can also bring 
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Every one of us have experienced
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said, and the spirit of God 
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presence of the Lord. 
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to music. 
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ways, different forms of 
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us, and express himself to us. 
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the nature of God. 
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beings are creative because we 
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The first time in scripture want
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matter of fact. 
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The first time in scripture, the
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spirit of God being upon 
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Is in regards to an artisan. 
It's in regards to an artist a 

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Craftsman, the spirit of God 
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That's fascinating, that's in 
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Now, we already had, we've 
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to be with the Lord without 
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We already have Abraham. 
We already have Joseph. 

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We already have all these 
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Book of Genesis. 
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and God is going to erect a 
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Do we hear him use the phrase? 
I have put my spirit Upon him. 

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Here it is verse 1 of Exodus. 
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The Lord said to Moses CI of 
called, by name bezalel, the son

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of URI, the son of Earth of the 
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filled him with the spirit of 
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First time that phrase that that
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scriptures. 
And what is he filled him with 

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the spirit of God, for, with 
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knowledge and all craftsmanship?
He Anointed to be creative. 

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I think more of us need to get a
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We need to get a grid work for 
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God being upon us with all 
intelligence, You should Stand 

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Out Among all the other people 
at your job, because the spirit 

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of the Lord dwells within you. 
You are the person with the 

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answers for that company. 
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scripture. 
Joseph gets thrown in prison. 

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Next thing, you know, he's 
running the prison. 

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Why? 
Because the spirit of God was 

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with him. 
You see it again and again that 

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a man's gift will make a room 
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Great Men proverb says But we 
need to cooperate with that 

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gift. 
And we must not Reserve gifts to

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what I'm doing or what the 
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This morning there is spiritual 
gifting to communicate through 

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words. 
The teaching of the word, there 

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are spiritual gifts to lead 
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far beyond that. 
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gifts for Council to be the 
answer to to be that person of 

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hospitality that makes People 
feel wanted whenever they come 

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around you, and that is part of 
the anointing. 

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And so, we see this with 
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So he says, I have filled him 
with the spirit of God. 

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And with the ability, and 
intelligence and knowledge, and 

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all craftsmanship, why to devise
artistic designs to work in 

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gold, silver, and bronze, and 
cutting of stones for setting 

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and carving wood into work in 
every craft and behold. 

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I have appointed with him a holy
herb. 

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The Son of a Hisham ack of the 
tribe of Dan and I have given to

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all able men. 
The ability that they may make. 

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All I have commanded of you. 
So God said, I commanded you to 

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make something and now I've 
gifted men and women to pull it 

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off. 
And if you read through this, 

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passage, what what God is, 
speaking to Moses about is a 

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beautiful place to worship and 
God even dead are designated how

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they were to make the incense so
that the smells would be 

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inviting to people as they come 
in that they would they would 

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encounter these smells within 
the temple and those smells will

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reserved for temple. 
Use and God knew that people 

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would want to replicate them 
because of the It was a certain 

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recipe for that fragrance and he
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the Lord. 
People can't use this recipe in 

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anything else other than worship
of me. 

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And if they do they need to be 
separated from the people of 

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God. 
They're going to be kicked out 

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of the church, so to speak. 
To me that's that's fascinating 

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that God, cared about the smell 
the fragrance, the carvings the 

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colors, the weavings, all of 
that was to enhance the worship 

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of him. 
Now, all of us know that you can

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get so caught up in the 
trappings and lose the Lord in 

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the midst of it. 
It was sometime back, we were in

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a in a meeting. 
I don't even remember the 

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setting, but I remembered a 
story. 

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I'd heard many, many years ago. 
And it was of a Russian prince. 

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Not the same one that I spoke of
earlier. 

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But it was a Russian prince that
was born and and that the royal 

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couple had longed for an air and
had tried to get pregnant tried 

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to get pregnant. 
Finally, she conceived a child 

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in this little baby was born. 
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big celebration because this 
would The heir to the throne 

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this newborn baby and so they 
invited a lot of the aristocracy

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to come to the capital to the 
palace and they were going to 

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celebrate the life of this child
and and it was very cold, of 

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course, it was rush. 
It was that time of year and so 

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they were all putting their big 
fur coats in this one room and 

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they were just celebrating. 
And finally, someone said, well,

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where is the baby? 
Can we find it? 

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And lo and behold the baby had 
been buried underneath? 

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The Furs and was killed. 
And in the all the celebration, 

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the baby was lost underneath the
celebration. 

451
00:27:47,900 --> 00:27:51,000
It's a vivid reminder that that 
can happen in churches. 

452
00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:56,600
We can go get so into having the
coolest song and the most 

453
00:27:56,600 --> 00:28:01,300
creative way to speak a sermon 
that we lose Jesus and it all 

454
00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:04,700
And we've always got to be 
careful of that. 

455
00:28:04,700 --> 00:28:11,500
Jesus has to be the center, but 
the fact is that Jesus wants to 

456
00:28:11,500 --> 00:28:14,700
be worshipped in every way 
possible. 

457
00:28:16,100 --> 00:28:21,100
I appreciate John coming up here
and times he will, he will paint

458
00:28:21,100 --> 00:28:24,000
or draw. 
Well, we worship and that is a 

459
00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:27,300
form of worship. 
And he's, he's capturing the 

460
00:28:27,300 --> 00:28:31,300
heart of God in a picture. 
I've known of people to get 

461
00:28:31,300 --> 00:28:37,600
healed looking at pictures God 
will come through the at the, 

462
00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:42,200
the Avenue of our creativity, 
and we've got to be careful that

463
00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:46,500
we don't lose the Christ child 
underneath the trappings of our 

464
00:28:46,500 --> 00:28:53,500
celebration, but the fact 
remains that in scripture, God, 

465
00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:58,500
dictated to Moses, he wanted to 
be worshipped in beauty beauty, 

466
00:28:58,500 --> 00:29:01,100
that would Hanson enhances 
worship. 

467
00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:08,500
And we want to be a church that 
cultivates people expressing who

468
00:29:08,500 --> 00:29:11,700
God is through the grace on 
their life. 

469
00:29:12,100 --> 00:29:17,100
Whether it's an ability to sing 
an ability to draw, you know, 

470
00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:19,600
Brad Strickland built some stuff
for us. 

471
00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:23,800
I think some of these trees. 
He's using his gifts to build 

472
00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:26,700
things and all of that is 
worship. 

473
00:29:28,100 --> 00:29:31,600
We've got to come against the 
lie that says there's the sacred

474
00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:36,600
and then there's the secular as 
if we divide life into two 

475
00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:39,300
forms. 
Well, we do our our sacred thing

476
00:29:39,300 --> 00:29:42,100
on Sunday and we might even come
on Wednesday night and do a 

477
00:29:42,100 --> 00:29:45,500
little sacred stuff, but the 
rest of the week is dedicated to

478
00:29:45,500 --> 00:29:49,600
the secular the, you know, Make 
a check. 

479
00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:52,100
So we can spend a check so we 
can make a check. 

480
00:29:52,100 --> 00:29:57,300
So we can spend a check and then
we die. all of life is sacred, 

481
00:29:57,900 --> 00:30:02,800
all of life is his Faith this 
morning when you got up here and

482
00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:05,600
how you transition, it was 
exactly what I was feeling. 

483
00:30:05,900 --> 00:30:10,600
I felt like Jesus wanted to 
claim his Dominion of fresh this

484
00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:15,500
morning over our lives. 
When we sing that song, yours is

485
00:30:15,500 --> 00:30:19,400
the kingdom. 
It's not talking about some far 

486
00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:23,900
off, Place known as the kingdom 
of God. 

487
00:30:24,100 --> 00:30:27,700
When the scriptures talk about 
Kingdom, the Greek word is bass 

488
00:30:27,700 --> 00:30:30,500
Alia, and it literally means his
right. 

489
00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:36,500
To rule, it's not a place. 
It's not a realm, it's his rule.

490
00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:40,400
It's his legal right to exert 
his authority. 

491
00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:44,500
And when we cry that out, were 
declaring his right to rule over

492
00:30:44,500 --> 00:30:46,200
our life. 
It's an expression of our 

493
00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:50,300
surrender to him. 
Yours is the kingdom, and he 

494
00:30:50,300 --> 00:30:53,400
wants to lay claim to every 
facet of our life. 

495
00:30:55,100 --> 00:30:59,100
There are areas of creativity 
that some of you have yet to 

496
00:30:59,100 --> 00:31:01,900
surrender, to Jesus. 
Not out of, not out of 

497
00:31:01,900 --> 00:31:05,900
unwillingness be, but out of a 
lack of value, for what God has 

498
00:31:05,900 --> 00:31:10,300
placed within you. 
There are ways that God can flow

499
00:31:10,300 --> 00:31:14,400
through you, through your 
creativity, and your abilities 

500
00:31:14,900 --> 00:31:20,200
that you need to recognize. 
I don't know why, but Heartland 

501
00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:24,800
has attracted a lot of 
chiropractors, as of late, the 

502
00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:26,600
last few years, we got a lot of 
chiropractors. 

503
00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:30,500
I'm telling you the grace of God
and healing can flow through the

504
00:31:30,500 --> 00:31:34,100
hands of a chiropractor and the 
hands of a masseuse. 

505
00:31:34,700 --> 00:31:36,200
Do you feel the glory? 
When I said that? 

506
00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:38,500
Hallelujah, a good massage, 
Hallelujah. 

507
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:42,700
But there's that that's just one
expression. 

508
00:31:42,700 --> 00:31:46,600
God, God can flow through us. 
And we need to understand that 

509
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:52,000
if you're gifting your ability 
is not public speaking or public

510
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:56,400
singing that doesn't leave you 
outside the camp as a spectator.

511
00:31:57,200 --> 00:32:01,200
A mere Pew potato get it Tater 
spectator few potato anyway. 

512
00:32:01,500 --> 00:32:06,800
It doesn't it doesn't have a 
hook won't dad jokes from the 

513
00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:09,700
pulpit it doesn't it doesn't 
leave. 

514
00:32:09,900 --> 00:32:13,300
A view on the outside merely 
watching what's going on. 

515
00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:18,100
Every one of us have gifts in 
our life that God put within us,

516
00:32:18,300 --> 00:32:20,700
and he wants to express himself 
through us. 

517
00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:24,900
And he wants to give you 
creative ideas. 

518
00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:29,900
To do things in new ways and 
express him and and fresh 

519
00:32:29,900 --> 00:32:32,400
perspectives that people haven't
seen before. 

520
00:32:33,900 --> 00:32:38,600
And it's part of the nature of 
God to be creative and he has 

521
00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:43,700
put that within us, you know, 
children are very, very creative

522
00:32:43,700 --> 00:32:48,500
from birth. 
There are ways that they measure

523
00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:53,700
creativity and a child as 
opposed to, you know, more of 

524
00:32:53,700 --> 00:32:59,200
the the the logic versus the 
more intuitive creativity and 

525
00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:02,100
they find that little children 
are very creative but they begin

526
00:33:02,100 --> 00:33:04,700
to lose that as they. 
Begin to move up through the 

527
00:33:04,700 --> 00:33:09,800
ranks of our educational system.
I personally don't believe 

528
00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:12,700
that's because they were 
intended to lose that and that 

529
00:33:12,700 --> 00:33:15,400
there's some more creative 
people out there and some are 

530
00:33:15,500 --> 00:33:17,800
less creative. 
I believe that our educational 

531
00:33:17,800 --> 00:33:21,300
system has a tendency to kind of
work that out of people and 

532
00:33:21,300 --> 00:33:24,100
there's some stubborn people. 
Some free thinkers that tend to 

533
00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:30,500
hold to their creativity and 
spite of it, refer to Faith 

534
00:33:30,500 --> 00:33:32,300
here. 
Again, this morning I've always 

535
00:33:32,300 --> 00:33:37,400
been so intrigued by her and her
sisters, her mom and dad raised 

536
00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:41,200
them and Such a unique way and 
they're all very creative. 

537
00:33:41,500 --> 00:33:45,400
They really are and expresses 
itself through their Hospitality

538
00:33:45,700 --> 00:33:49,000
as well as the way that they 
operate in music and a lot of 

539
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:53,000
other ways. 
I believe one of the reasons 

540
00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:55,000
they were able to retain that is
because of the way they were 

541
00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:59,600
educated. 
And we want to maintain that in 

542
00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:01,600
our children. 
Those those of you that are 

543
00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:04,700
homeschoolers, make sure that 
you continue to cultivate the 

544
00:34:04,700 --> 00:34:08,000
creativity in your children 
because that is an expression of

545
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:10,400
the nature of God. 
And it doesn't matter if they 

546
00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:14,500
have artistic ability and than 
the narrow sense in which we 

547
00:34:14,500 --> 00:34:18,800
usually think that's that God 
will reveal himself through 

548
00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:22,100
their creativity. 
In other ways, they may be the 

549
00:34:22,100 --> 00:34:26,400
creative person that finds new 
ways to do Computing or new ways

550
00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:28,400
to build Bridges. 
Has or whatever. 

551
00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:31,699
But we want to pull on heaven 
and allow his grace to flow 

552
00:34:31,699 --> 00:34:34,699
through our lives. 
I'm telling you this stuff is 

553
00:34:34,699 --> 00:34:39,100
important because what happens 
when we don't have a vision for 

554
00:34:39,100 --> 00:34:43,199
this, then we don't bring the 
kingdom to the decision-making 

555
00:34:43,199 --> 00:34:47,500
table. 
We're limited to our own 

556
00:34:47,500 --> 00:34:50,400
understanding and our own 
intellect and we keep our 

557
00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:55,400
Christian stuff for church. 
We expect God to show up in 

558
00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:59,300
worship, through spiritual gifts
in worship time, but we don't 

559
00:34:59,300 --> 00:35:03,100
expect him to show up through 
spiritual gifts in the boardroom

560
00:35:03,500 --> 00:35:06,000
where we have a word of 
knowledge or a Word of Wisdom 

561
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:09,400
that we can become the answer to
the problem, and God can push us

562
00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:11,800
to the Forefront, so that we can
serve. 

563
00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:17,300
Well, And so I'm telling you 
creativity. 

564
00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:21,100
Is an expression of the nature 
of God. 

565
00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:26,000
In the beginning God created and
what he created were, other 

566
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:29,000
creators. 
That, that is part of our 

567
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:32,000
nature. 
And if we ignore that, if we 

568
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:36,800
stifle that, we literally stifle
part of the character of the 

569
00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:40,600
nature of God. 
The church should be the one 

570
00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:44,000
with the answers and we should 
be the one that a writing the 

571
00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:50,100
best stories. 
See, writing the best songs and 

572
00:35:50,100 --> 00:35:54,100
let me just say it not. 
Every story has to be overtly 

573
00:35:54,100 --> 00:35:58,500
Christian to come from God 
anymore than every song has to 

574
00:35:58,500 --> 00:36:02,400
be overtly about Jesus to 
communicate truth. 

575
00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:08,500
Because an allegory comes in and
gets around your defenses. 

576
00:36:08,700 --> 00:36:13,000
By speaking, about truth, and an
emotional way that can grip your

577
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:14,600
heart. 
And you find we've all 

578
00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:18,400
experienced the negative side, 
the evil side of that, maybe 

579
00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:21,000
you're more holy than me. 
But there have been times where 

580
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:25,900
I've watched a movie, and I find
myself rooting for something 

581
00:36:25,900 --> 00:36:29,100
that I would never condone. 
And I catch myself thinking, I 

582
00:36:29,100 --> 00:36:32,600
need to turn a channel. 
I just endorse that behavior. 

583
00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:35,100
Especially being a guy, kill 
him, kill him, you know, it's 

584
00:36:35,100 --> 00:36:38,400
like I'd kill that guy who ho ho
that's not me. 

585
00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:44,100
It's that spirit of God because 
I was taken in by a story, The 

586
00:36:44,100 --> 00:36:48,700
Power of story, The Power of 
creativity, the power of symbols

587
00:36:48,700 --> 00:36:51,800
in the power of typology and and
narratives. 

588
00:36:51,800 --> 00:36:56,800
And all of that is a way that 
God wants to come in and speak 

589
00:36:56,800 --> 00:37:01,000
to his people. 
And so we want to be a people of

590
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:03,400
Excellence. 
We want to be a people of 

591
00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:10,900
creativity, we want to pave the 
way for this next Generation to 

592
00:37:10,900 --> 00:37:15,800
be more creative. 
And so you may think well the 

593
00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:17,400
stage I don't know if I like it 
black. 

594
00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:21,400
Well it's it's a way to make the
way for more creativity. 

595
00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:23,900
Amen. 
And it's going to give us a 

596
00:37:23,900 --> 00:37:30,000
better picture when we when we 
do our live broadcasts, our 

597
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:36,000
livestream, Let me just throw a 
couple of other thoughts out to 

598
00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:39,500
you before we, we close here 
this morning. 

599
00:37:40,300 --> 00:37:43,000
It's interesting that in the 
beginning, God created, when God

600
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:45,300
created the heavens and the 
Earth we've talked about this 

601
00:37:45,300 --> 00:37:49,100
before God created them 
simultaneously because they were

602
00:37:49,100 --> 00:37:51,900
never intended to function 
separately. 

603
00:37:52,300 --> 00:37:54,900
We are created to be Spiritual 
Beings. 

604
00:37:55,500 --> 00:37:57,900
Most of us understand God, 
created the heavens and the 

605
00:37:57,900 --> 00:38:00,200
Earth, we say, well yeah, God 
created the Earth for man. 

606
00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:01,900
But what were the heavens for 
himself? 

607
00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:05,300
No, Solomon said, even the 
heavens, the highest Heavens 

608
00:38:05,300 --> 00:38:09,200
cannot contain them. 
God was already in existence 

609
00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:13,700
when he created the heavens. 
I've heard people preach this 

610
00:38:13,700 --> 00:38:16,000
and I think I have two, I've had
to repent. 

611
00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:20,100
That the spiritual realm, the 
heavens are more real than the 

612
00:38:20,100 --> 00:38:23,300
earth because their Eternal, and
the Earth is temporary, but 

613
00:38:23,300 --> 00:38:26,300
that's not true because the 
heavens had a beginning. 

614
00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:29,300
Now, what was God's existence 
before? 

615
00:38:29,300 --> 00:38:31,900
I don't understand it, that's 
beyond my pay grade, okay? 

616
00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:34,900
I don't know what God was doing,
how, what he was occupying 

617
00:38:34,900 --> 00:38:39,400
before that, but I can tell you 
this, that in the beginning, God

618
00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:42,200
created the heavens and the 
Earth he created. 

619
00:38:42,300 --> 00:38:46,100
Them simultaneously and he 
created them both for you. 

620
00:38:46,100 --> 00:38:50,500
And I that we are to be beings 
that are engaging both the 

621
00:38:50,500 --> 00:38:53,200
Physical Realm, and the 
spiritual realm all the time. 

622
00:38:54,900 --> 00:39:00,600
So God created a habitation for 
man but then when God turns 

623
00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:05,500
around and anoints man for 
creativity, it's so that man can

624
00:39:05,500 --> 00:39:07,400
create a habitation for the 
Lord. 

625
00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:12,300
And in a very real sense, 
creativity is the Avenue through

626
00:39:12,300 --> 00:39:16,900
which God and habits us. the way
that God is released from us, is

627
00:39:16,900 --> 00:39:21,700
through the various forms of 
spiritual, gifting And so you 

628
00:39:21,700 --> 00:39:24,800
need to understand that you can 
create something that God will 

629
00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:29,700
inhabit your gift when exercised
under the anointing is an Avenue

630
00:39:29,700 --> 00:39:34,900
through which God can come. 
It's a whole nother subject, dig

631
00:39:34,900 --> 00:39:37,000
it out for yourself or maybe 
we'll get into it some other 

632
00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:40,500
time. 
But let me close with one other 

633
00:39:40,500 --> 00:39:43,500
observation from, this passage, 
listen to what it says. 

634
00:39:44,100 --> 00:39:46,900
I have filled him with the 
spirit of God, with the ability 

635
00:39:47,200 --> 00:39:50,400
and intelligence and knowledge 
of all craftsmanship to devise 

636
00:39:50,400 --> 00:39:54,000
artistic design to work in gold,
silver, and bronze, and cutting 

637
00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:55,800
stones. 
For setting carving wood to 

638
00:39:55,800 --> 00:40:00,400
work, with every craft whether 
we put a premium, whether we put

639
00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:06,300
an emphasis of value on those 
things, God clearly did So much 

640
00:40:06,300 --> 00:40:10,700
so that the spirit of the 
Living, God partnered with the 

641
00:40:10,700 --> 00:40:14,500
frail, human being to accomplish
those things. 

642
00:40:16,700 --> 00:40:20,100
And then he did this and behold,
I have appointed with him. 

643
00:40:20,400 --> 00:40:24,800
A holy herb. 
He gave him a partner in his 

644
00:40:24,800 --> 00:40:28,600
creativity. 
My brother Christopher and I 

645
00:40:28,600 --> 00:40:32,300
were discussing this in the last
few days, it was interesting. 

646
00:40:32,300 --> 00:40:37,700
He was we were looking back on 
when Christopher first met. 

647
00:40:37,700 --> 00:40:41,800
Bob Phillips, one of our former 
pastors Bob was pastoring, down 

648
00:40:41,800 --> 00:40:46,200
in Houston and Bob, we had, we 
had observed Bob's Ministry from

649
00:40:46,200 --> 00:40:49,400
afar for many years. 
I bought some of Bob's books and

650
00:40:49,400 --> 00:40:53,800
tapes. 
I mean back, 25 30, 35 years 

651
00:40:53,800 --> 00:40:57,100
ago, I went to Times Square 
where Bob was cope. 

652
00:40:57,200 --> 00:40:59,300
Pass room with David Wilkerson 
and bought. 

653
00:40:59,300 --> 00:41:02,100
Some of his material was just 
really impacted by it. 

654
00:41:02,100 --> 00:41:05,500
So when we got a chance to meet 
Bob, it was a it was we were 

655
00:41:05,500 --> 00:41:08,900
honored to do that and Bob came 
to Heartland to hear lave 

656
00:41:08,900 --> 00:41:12,000
Heartland, he and Lathan wanted 
to meet and so he came when 

657
00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:14,800
Randy Clark was here. 
And and Bob, and I really 

658
00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:17,600
connected heart to heart and I 
asked Chris Bryce, did you get a

659
00:41:17,607 --> 00:41:19,100
chance to meet? 
Bobby said? 

660
00:41:19,300 --> 00:41:22,100
Yeah but he said, frankly it was
awkward. 

661
00:41:22,100 --> 00:41:24,400
I don't think we really have. 
There's not a connection there. 

662
00:41:24,900 --> 00:41:26,700
It was. 
You ever met someone you really 

663
00:41:26,700 --> 00:41:28,700
wanted to meet He felt awkward 
about it. 

664
00:41:28,800 --> 00:41:32,100
Am I the only one you go up 
there and you think that was 

665
00:41:32,100 --> 00:41:34,200
awkward, you know? 
Why did I say that? 

666
00:41:34,200 --> 00:41:38,800
It was one of those. 
And so the next night there, the

667
00:41:40,700 --> 00:41:43,600
front of the sanctuary was right
in front of these two, weird 

668
00:41:43,600 --> 00:41:47,400
little holes on the wall here 
and this was what was known as 

669
00:41:47,400 --> 00:41:50,200
The House of Prayer back here 
and so Randy Clark was going to 

670
00:41:50,200 --> 00:41:53,300
do an impartation time. 
All the leaders went in the back

671
00:41:53,300 --> 00:41:56,200
room and Randy starts praying 
for him and Christopher gets a 

672
00:41:56,200 --> 00:41:58,700
word for Bob. 
Filner Philips gives that word 

673
00:41:58,700 --> 00:42:01,300
to Bob. 
They fall into each others arms.

674
00:42:01,400 --> 00:42:03,000
And Bob said, I love you so 
much. 

675
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:05,700
We're connected gears my my 
business card. 

676
00:42:05,700 --> 00:42:09,500
Let's stay in touch and they 
became Inseparable in the 

677
00:42:09,500 --> 00:42:11,000
spirit. 
Christopher and Bob, it was 

678
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:13,600
weird. 
The day before, you know, 

679
00:42:13,600 --> 00:42:15,500
there's no connection is kind of
awkward. 

680
00:42:15,500 --> 00:42:18,600
I frankly, he was saying and 
insinuating. 

681
00:42:18,600 --> 00:42:19,900
I don't know if I want to talk 
to him again. 

682
00:42:19,900 --> 00:42:23,300
It was so awkward and now 
they're fast friends. 

683
00:42:23,300 --> 00:42:25,800
They would he'd travel down 
there and visit Bob. 

684
00:42:25,800 --> 00:42:30,100
And they were just became 
Connected together. 

685
00:42:30,500 --> 00:42:34,200
So Christopher one day calls Bob
and I thought, man, he felt 

686
00:42:34,200 --> 00:42:38,000
prompted to call him calls him 
and Bob said, hey, I'm just just

687
00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:40,400
left one meeting a stepping into
another meeting with a bunch of 

688
00:42:40,400 --> 00:42:42,500
ministers. 
Did you need anything know how 

689
00:42:42,500 --> 00:42:43,600
you doing? 
I'm doing good. 

690
00:42:43,600 --> 00:42:46,200
And well, Chris from glad you 
doing good, I'll call you next 

691
00:42:46,200 --> 00:42:47,200
week. 
Love you. 

692
00:42:47,400 --> 00:42:49,700
Hangs up. 
And as soon as he hangs up 

693
00:42:49,700 --> 00:42:52,500
spirit of God falls on 
Christopher and tells him, this 

694
00:42:52,500 --> 00:42:53,800
is what I want to do in the 
meeting. 

695
00:42:53,800 --> 00:42:56,100
Boom, boom, boom, boom. 
Bob's meeting a Christopher's 

696
00:42:56,100 --> 00:43:01,000
like He just told me he's, you 
know, busy lord said call him. 

697
00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:03,800
So he calls a bob picks up and 
he said, Bob all, I'm telling 

698
00:43:03,800 --> 00:43:04,800
you is that the Lord just told 
me. 

699
00:43:04,800 --> 00:43:06,400
This is what he wants to do. 
Boom, boom, boom. 

700
00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:10,300
Next week, Bob calls him and 
said I released everything you 

701
00:43:10,300 --> 00:43:12,800
said it was powerful. 
God did ever all four things. 

702
00:43:12,800 --> 00:43:14,200
You said he was going to do in 
those meetings. 

703
00:43:14,500 --> 00:43:16,300
Matter of fact, I told the 
people I don't know what the 

704
00:43:16,300 --> 00:43:19,200
problem is a connection between 
Houston and Ohio, but I had to 

705
00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:27,000
get the message via Iowa. 
And the other thing, Christopher

706
00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:29,800
told Bob was that there's a 
connection between you and lafe 

707
00:43:29,800 --> 00:43:33,600
headland. 
And there's still that 

708
00:43:33,600 --> 00:43:35,700
connection with Christopher and 
life. 

709
00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:38,200
Christopher was when we were in 
Colombia. 

710
00:43:38,200 --> 00:43:39,800
This last time, I'm going 
somewhere with this. 

711
00:43:39,800 --> 00:43:41,700
Okay, follow me. 
I'm going to I'm going to share 

712
00:43:41,700 --> 00:43:44,500
with you seriously, a very 
valuable principle. 

713
00:43:46,900 --> 00:43:50,600
We were in Colombia and I I'm 
in, I'm down the hall in my 

714
00:43:50,600 --> 00:43:52,100
hotel room and I hear 
Christopher. 

715
00:43:52,100 --> 00:43:54,400
I know his sound. 
I could tell he was getting 

716
00:43:54,400 --> 00:43:57,200
touched by the Lord problem was.
So did everybody else in the 

717
00:43:57,200 --> 00:44:00,100
hotel? 
It's a Sunday afternoon. 

718
00:44:00,100 --> 00:44:02,800
He's got his noise cancelling 
headphones on. 

719
00:44:02,800 --> 00:44:06,600
I hear this. 
Oh oh Jesus. 

720
00:44:08,900 --> 00:44:12,200
So I listened to that for about 
10 minutes, so I forgot I want 

721
00:44:12,200 --> 00:44:14,900
in on it, you know, he's going 
to wake everybody up. 

722
00:44:14,900 --> 00:44:17,300
I can't sleep, I might as well 
get on and I'd pound on the 

723
00:44:17,300 --> 00:44:18,900
door. 
He didn't open the door yet his 

724
00:44:18,900 --> 00:44:25,100
nose cancelling head phones on. 
Well, what it was, was, his wife

725
00:44:25,100 --> 00:44:29,000
was in a meeting with life. 
And in passing, when life was 

726
00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:32,800
leaving, he just said Beth, he 
said, there's a lot of doors 

727
00:44:32,800 --> 00:44:36,100
about to open for Christopher. 
There's a shift coming and 

728
00:44:36,100 --> 00:44:37,800
there's doors going to be into 
open. 

729
00:44:38,200 --> 00:44:40,300
So two days later. 
She texts. 

730
00:44:40,300 --> 00:44:44,100
Christopher Christopher's in his
hotel room, after a very busy 

731
00:44:44,300 --> 00:44:48,000
week of ministry. 
And he's trying to watch on his 

732
00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:51,300
phone, the Vikings game, which 
they did win, by the way glork. 

733
00:44:51,300 --> 00:44:55,900
I felt the anointing anyway. 
He is soon as he reads this, the

734
00:44:55,900 --> 00:45:01,100
spirit of God falls on him. 
So here he is Days. 

735
00:45:01,100 --> 00:45:04,700
Later through a text gets this 
word in the spirit of God falls 

736
00:45:04,700 --> 00:45:05,800
on him. 
He's visited. 

737
00:45:06,800 --> 00:45:10,400
So Christopher was telling me 
what happened when he got 

738
00:45:10,400 --> 00:45:12,200
touched. 
So he said, yeah I talked to 

739
00:45:12,200 --> 00:45:14,500
Levi other day and life. 
I told him what happened in 

740
00:45:14,500 --> 00:45:17,500
Colombia as soon as we started 
talking about spirit of God. 

741
00:45:17,500 --> 00:45:23,400
Came on me again. 
We began to talk about how we 

742
00:45:23,400 --> 00:45:27,000
need to play very close 
attention to those 

743
00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:31,600
relationships. 
Some of you have relationships 

744
00:45:31,600 --> 00:45:35,500
with people that when you get 
together and you start talking 

745
00:45:35,500 --> 00:45:41,200
about Jesus, he shows up there's
an added dimension of his 

746
00:45:41,200 --> 00:45:46,900
presence that marks those 
meetings between you and those 

747
00:45:46,900 --> 00:45:50,600
people, and it's consistent. 
There may not be every time but 

748
00:45:50,600 --> 00:45:53,600
you recognize what? 
When when I talk to them when we

749
00:45:53,600 --> 00:45:56,200
get together, there's something 
of the Lord about. 

750
00:45:56,200 --> 00:45:58,400
I get a phone call from them or 
I get a text. 

751
00:46:00,400 --> 00:46:04,200
I would propose to you that 
that's what this passage is 

752
00:46:04,200 --> 00:46:09,500
talking about. 
That bezalel had the spirit of 

753
00:46:09,500 --> 00:46:12,700
God, come on him. 
But God said, I also put my hand

754
00:46:12,700 --> 00:46:14,300
on another guy to partner with 
him. 

755
00:46:15,900 --> 00:46:20,400
And there are times where God 
will give you Partnerships in 

756
00:46:20,400 --> 00:46:23,900
your creativity and whatever 
you're called to and we need to 

757
00:46:23,900 --> 00:46:27,800
pay very close attention to 
those relationships because 

758
00:46:27,800 --> 00:46:30,600
those relationships are highly 
significant. 

759
00:46:31,700 --> 00:46:36,300
When I was just when I just got 
and saved, I was barely, barely 

760
00:46:36,300 --> 00:46:37,800
saved. 
Barely out of Teen Challenge. 

761
00:46:37,800 --> 00:46:41,900
I was a 19 year old kid, and I 
went to this little bible school

762
00:46:41,900 --> 00:46:45,500
with 14, students, little 
school, and just south of st. 

763
00:46:45,500 --> 00:46:48,800
Louis Missouri. 
And I needed to work to get my 

764
00:46:48,800 --> 00:46:50,500
wife through school. 
So I was working in their 

765
00:46:50,500 --> 00:46:55,900
daycare and in their kitchen at 
this church, And the lady I 

766
00:46:55,900 --> 00:46:58,900
worked for she was, she ran the 
kitchen. 

767
00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:02,600
She began to disciple me and she
would give me these David 

768
00:47:02,600 --> 00:47:04,900
Wilkerson newsletter. 
She say you, sit down, I'll wash

769
00:47:04,900 --> 00:47:06,500
the dishes. 
You need to read this boy. 

770
00:47:08,100 --> 00:47:10,200
And that lady became my 
spiritual mother. 

771
00:47:11,800 --> 00:47:15,600
And there were so many times 
where she would say things to 

772
00:47:15,600 --> 00:47:19,200
me, and the spirit of God would 
come upon me or we, I'd be 

773
00:47:19,200 --> 00:47:21,400
crying out to God about 
something and we'd meet for 

774
00:47:21,400 --> 00:47:25,000
coffee and she would answer all 
my spiritual questions. 

775
00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:27,300
Just, I wouldn't even ask him. 
She'd say, you know, I was 

776
00:47:27,300 --> 00:47:29,500
thinking about this the other 
day and every question I had 

777
00:47:29,500 --> 00:47:33,400
been answering there was such an
anointing that would come again.

778
00:47:33,400 --> 00:47:36,400
And it wasn't till years later. 
She told me, she said, they'll 

779
00:47:36,400 --> 00:47:39,000
she had two daughters and she It
asked the Lord for a son, and 

780
00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:41,300
the Lord said, I'll give you one
and when I arrive lord said 

781
00:47:41,300 --> 00:47:44,700
that's the sun I promised you. 
That lady. 

782
00:47:44,700 --> 00:47:50,400
So invested in my life. 
But it was marked by the spirit 

783
00:47:50,400 --> 00:47:52,400
of God. 
There was a partnership in the 

784
00:47:52,400 --> 00:47:53,700
spirit. 
We're still in touch. 

785
00:47:53,700 --> 00:47:55,200
Got a text from her this 
morning. 

786
00:47:55,500 --> 00:47:58,600
Happy New Year. 
She's my mama. 

787
00:48:00,800 --> 00:48:04,000
And there are relationships that
some of you have, when you guys 

788
00:48:04,200 --> 00:48:06,600
begin to talk, it's, it's very 
close. 

789
00:48:06,700 --> 00:48:10,300
It's like when Mary went to see 
AB Elizabeth, you remember 

790
00:48:10,300 --> 00:48:13,400
Elizabeth was pregnant and and 
and I want to say it was the 

791
00:48:13,400 --> 00:48:16,800
sixth month of Elizabeth's 
pregnancy. 

792
00:48:16,900 --> 00:48:18,900
Mary has a visitation from an 
angel. 

793
00:48:18,900 --> 00:48:21,200
So what does she do? 
She goes looks up someone else 

794
00:48:21,200 --> 00:48:24,200
that had a visitation someone 
else sets carrying a 

795
00:48:24,207 --> 00:48:27,400
supernatural thing and when she 
walked in her baby jumped, 

796
00:48:28,400 --> 00:48:33,100
There's people in your life that
when you begin to talk about 

797
00:48:33,100 --> 00:48:36,600
your baby or they talk about 
there's years jumps because 

798
00:48:36,600 --> 00:48:40,300
there's something connected and 
what she was caring would 

799
00:48:40,300 --> 00:48:42,600
prepare the way for what Mary 
was carrying. 

800
00:48:43,500 --> 00:48:47,300
There's these Partnerships that 
God will bring in your life that

801
00:48:47,300 --> 00:48:51,300
will enhance the gifting on your
life and you need to be aware of

802
00:48:51,300 --> 00:48:52,800
it. 
You need to have an awareness 

803
00:48:52,800 --> 00:48:55,800
because it will take you farther
down the road. 

804
00:48:56,000 --> 00:48:59,900
You will never have all Need 
just between you and Jesus. 

805
00:49:01,500 --> 00:49:04,000
There are going to be 
significant relationships that 

806
00:49:04,000 --> 00:49:07,400
God will put in your life and it
will be marked by the spirit of 

807
00:49:07,400 --> 00:49:11,200
God that when you discuss things
when you meet there, there's 

808
00:49:11,200 --> 00:49:14,000
there's a life that's imparted, 
there's Revelation, that's 

809
00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:17,000
imparted, there's understanding 
that's imparted. 

810
00:49:17,000 --> 00:49:19,800
When Christopher and I were 
talking about this, I thought of

811
00:49:19,800 --> 00:49:23,000
this this one leader that it 
doesn't attend here than in the 

812
00:49:23,000 --> 00:49:26,400
region, and when we get on the 
phone, it's like I told him, I 

813
00:49:26,400 --> 00:49:29,100
said, I'll get inside. 
I don't usually have I get off 

814
00:49:29,100 --> 00:49:31,400
the phone and I write down what 
I said because It's like man. 

815
00:49:31,400 --> 00:49:33,400
I never thought of that. 
I need to remember that. 

816
00:49:36,100 --> 00:49:40,800
And I took note of that because 
there's something about that 

817
00:49:40,800 --> 00:49:42,800
relationship that is very 
important. 

818
00:49:43,500 --> 00:49:45,700
There's a Synergy that begins to
happen. 

819
00:49:47,400 --> 00:49:50,000
And you need to be aware of the 
relationships that God puts in 

820
00:49:50,000 --> 00:49:52,000
your life. 
Because one of the, one of the 

821
00:49:52,000 --> 00:49:56,200
primary resources that we need 
to learn to Steward really. 

822
00:49:56,200 --> 00:50:01,200
Well, are those key 
relationships There's, there's 

823
00:50:01,200 --> 00:50:06,100
that such a thing, as stewarding
and growing, a key relationship 

824
00:50:06,200 --> 00:50:09,300
guard. 
Those things because often our 

825
00:50:09,300 --> 00:50:12,600
Destinies are connected. 
There's something that they 

826
00:50:12,600 --> 00:50:15,800
carry that we're going to need 
down the road. 

827
00:50:16,600 --> 00:50:18,900
There's something that they're 
going to impart to us and vice 

828
00:50:18,900 --> 00:50:23,900
versa. 
Our callings in our Destinies, 

829
00:50:23,900 --> 00:50:28,000
in our, what God's hand upon 
her, life are connected with 

830
00:50:28,000 --> 00:50:30,300
other people, and we need to be 
aware of that. 

831
00:50:30,300 --> 00:50:32,900
Because if we're not aware of 
it, we can miss it. 

832
00:50:32,900 --> 00:50:35,600
We can neglect. 
Those very, very important 

833
00:50:35,600 --> 00:50:37,800
relationships. 
So, let's land it there. 

834
00:50:37,800 --> 00:50:39,500
It's five. 
After once you go ahead and 

835
00:50:39,500 --> 00:50:42,700
stand, I want to pray over you. 
This morning, I'm going to ask 

836
00:50:42,700 --> 00:50:46,500
you to Bow your head. 
Father, we're asking you right 

837
00:50:46,500 --> 00:50:49,300
now. 
Lord, that you would highlight 

838
00:50:50,100 --> 00:50:53,100
those. 
Those significant relationships.

839
00:50:54,600 --> 00:50:57,000
As feel prompted from the Lord 
this morning. 

840
00:50:58,300 --> 00:51:01,500
We need to be aware, some 
relationships are seasonal. 

841
00:51:03,300 --> 00:51:06,000
You can actually outgrow a 
relationship. 

842
00:51:06,000 --> 00:51:09,600
It doesn't mean you need to end 
the relationship, but the role 

843
00:51:09,600 --> 00:51:13,800
shift. 
There are times there are, 

844
00:51:13,800 --> 00:51:17,400
sometimes there's people that 
you were fathered by you end up 

845
00:51:17,400 --> 00:51:20,200
fathering because they did a 
good enough job to make it. 

846
00:51:20,200 --> 00:51:26,200
So, and we need to understand, 
we need to know the signs of the

847
00:51:26,200 --> 00:51:27,900
times and therefore, know what 
we should do. 

848
00:51:27,900 --> 00:51:32,800
You know, the context of that 
passage the sons of Isaac are 

849
00:51:32,800 --> 00:51:36,700
understood that they needed to 
throw themselves behind the 

850
00:51:36,700 --> 00:51:40,300
davidic regime and say goodbye 
to the Saul regime. 

851
00:51:40,700 --> 00:51:44,100
That's what the context is. 
It was, who are we going to 

852
00:51:44,100 --> 00:51:47,000
follow in this season? 
Who are we going to throw our 

853
00:51:47,000 --> 00:51:51,700
gifts behind And there are times
where God will bring new 

854
00:51:51,700 --> 00:51:55,000
relationships into your life 
that are significant. 

855
00:51:55,000 --> 00:51:58,200
And there's others that aren't, 
as significant anymore, doesn't 

856
00:51:58,200 --> 00:52:01,600
mean you have to neglect those 
relationships, but you need to 

857
00:52:01,600 --> 00:52:05,700
be aware that God will bring 
important relationships in your 

858
00:52:05,700 --> 00:52:08,900
life and when you understand 
them, you can move in. 

859
00:52:08,900 --> 00:52:13,000
You can transition into that new
season much quicker by pulling 

860
00:52:13,000 --> 00:52:16,500
on those relationships because 
in those relationships are 

861
00:52:16,500 --> 00:52:19,200
resources that God wants to 
release to your life. 

862
00:52:19,400 --> 00:52:22,000
Sometimes it's Revelation, 
sometimes it's other things. 

863
00:52:22,600 --> 00:52:26,300
And so father I ask God that you
would brood over us and Lord you

864
00:52:26,300 --> 00:52:28,800
would make us aware. 
Father asked for a heightened 

865
00:52:28,800 --> 00:52:32,700
sensitivity. 
God, unawareness of those key 

866
00:52:32,700 --> 00:52:38,600
relationships for this season. 
Lord that we would understand 

867
00:52:38,900 --> 00:52:43,200
our personal time and our 
corporate time and therefore 

868
00:52:43,200 --> 00:52:48,200
know what we should do. 
Now Lord, we just dedicate this 

869
00:52:48,200 --> 00:52:54,300
this year to you, as we stand on
the threshold of 2023, we thank 

870
00:52:54,300 --> 00:52:56,800
you for your goodness to us and 
Lord. 

871
00:52:56,800 --> 00:53:01,800
We thank you that regardless of 
the tumult that is lies before 

872
00:53:01,800 --> 00:53:03,300
us. 
Lord. 

873
00:53:03,300 --> 00:53:08,800
We stand strong in you. 
You are our Rock, are strong 

874
00:53:08,800 --> 00:53:14,600
tower, And Lord, we ask that in 
the coming days that we would 

875
00:53:14,600 --> 00:53:19,400
shine we would be the bright and
Shining answer to those around 

876
00:53:19,400 --> 00:53:25,200
us in Jesus name, amen, thanks 
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877
00:53:25,200 --> 00:53:27,700
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878
00:53:27,700 --> 00:53:30,300
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879
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880
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881
00:53:34,700 --> 00:53:12,600
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882
00:53:12,600 --> 00:53:17,000
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883
00:53:17,000 --> 00:53:21,600
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884
00:53:22,300 --> 00:53:25,200
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885
00:53:25,200 --> 00:53:27,700
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