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Welcome to the Illuminate Church
podcast. 

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We hope today's message is 
encouraging to you. 

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We are in a series called 
Community and we are learning 

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about special, deep, blessed 
subjects under Community as new 

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family. 
It's amazing to see that God's 

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preparing for us a new family 
that we can join and feel like 

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family. 
We learn about sit at the table.

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I love to sit at the table so we
can eat, but it's so good to 

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have this time and to learn that
there is room for me and for you

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that God's working on this. 
I love to have this time with my

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family and we can talk and eat 
and having time to get it so 

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good. 
Sit at the table. 

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We also learn about mission, 
that we can use God's calling us

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to make disciples in our 
community. 

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And it was so special. 
And last Sunday, I need to tell 

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you, I was a little bit afraid 
because Pastor Tim came with a 

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knife and he said don't run, OK?
I trust in you, Pastor. 

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I'll be here. 
I can see Jesus coming to 

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receive my life, you know, but 
he he was teaching us about how 

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we can do not give up with the 
challenge that we see in the 

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community and we can keep going 
and working and allowing God to 

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work in our lives. 
So it's so special. 

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And I need to to tell you, yes, 
the calling for community is for

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you. 
The calling for community is for

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you. 
It's easy to think, no, it's not

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for for me, but it's for you. 
The calling for community is for

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you. 
It's from the Lord. 

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Lord he loves you and he's 
working on this to restore our 

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experience with community. 
And you know, me and my family, 

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we we start attending Ilum Lake 
Church in January 2016, ten 

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years ago and we came from 
Brazil. 

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This is the why I have this 
wonderful accent. 

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I can't speak here easy 
Portuguese, but we came from 

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Brazil because my son was in 
need of a medical treatment and 

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we didn't have that in Brazil 
when we moved to US for that. 

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And we were trying to have the 
things done here. 

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And he see the healing and go 
back to Brazil. 

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This one was my goal and we came
in 2013 and 2016. 

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We came to Illuminate Church and
I need to share with you I I was

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coming to church, but I was 
missing my community in Brazil. 

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They speak Portuguese. 
I was missing my community. 

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I was missing my friends, I was 
missing my church. 

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But I was here. 
I was at the church and 

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everything. 
Wow. 

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The pastor is amazing, the 
worship is good, So many good 

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people, my God, But I was 
missing my community. 

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Are you understanding me? 
I was missing my my friends, my 

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language, my jokes. 
I have a lot of jokes in 

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Portuguese. 
You cannot imagine. 

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I love jokes. 
I'm learning some in English and

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I try nobody left so but you 
know, I love, but I I was 

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missing. 
I was missing this. 

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I want, I am extra an 
extroverted person. 

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You know, I like to be in a 
place and talk with everybody. 

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You know, I like that. 
I, I, I talk with people. 

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My wife says, why are you 
talking with them? 

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They are here. 
But coming to church, I was 

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waiting. 
I was enjoying the service, 

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receiving the message, crying 
when I when I was understanding 

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the message. 
But at the end of the service, I

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was looking for my car, you 
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finishing, I was like going to 
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And for me, I was like afraid of
someone talk with me. 

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I was, I was missing community, 
but I was afraid to have 

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community because it was not my 
people, was not my language, not

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my jokes. 
And I remember many, many, many 

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times I was going to my car and 
someone just came and said, hey,

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how was your week? 
And I didn't understand what 

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they said. 
I said, oh thank you, God bless 

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you. 
And I was feeling like what a 

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guy I am, I am not good for 
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And I, I was feeling rejected. 
Everybody was loving me, my 

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family, respecting, trying to 
connect. 

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But I was like, oh, I cannot 
even understand what they are 

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saying when they how was my 
week? 

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I was answered, thank you. 
So one day we were here and one 

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couple came to me and my wife 
and they said, oh, we would love

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to have a coffee with you this 
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Can we can we have the time this
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And I was like and my wife, my 
wonderful wife, she said yes, 

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sure. 
How can can we have coffee with 

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them? 
I can't drink the coffee, but I 

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cannot talk. 
Then see that my wife she said 

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yes and you were crazy. 
How can we get together and talk

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with them? 
It's going to be so terrible. 

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It's not work. 
It's you know, do are you 

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understand? 
OK, this is English for me. 

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So Sita said yes. 
And the day that we had to met 

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the couple, I drove to the place
and I parked my car close to the

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coffee shop. 
And when I parked my car, I told

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Celia, Celia, please send them a
message saying, oh, we cannot 

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today. 
Let's find another day. 

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You know the enemy lying and ask
you to lie. 

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OK, so I, I was just obeying the
enemy with my pain, with my 

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shame, with my, I was afraid to 
be rejected because I could not 

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understand anything. 
Not my people. 

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I was planning to go back to 
Brazil for my, my community, you

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know, So when I said that to see
if it just send a message to 

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them. 
And when I just finished that, 

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the couple knocked at the door 
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Hey, we're here. 
Terrible. 

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Then I said, OK, it's going to 
be terrible. 

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Then we went to the coffee shop.
We ordered the coffee and we 

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went to the table. 
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table, Celia, my wonderful wife,
she said to them, you know, 

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please forgive us. 
I need to ask you to speak 

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slowly because when you say we 
cannot understand, so if you 

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please help us, we don't speak 
the language so well. 

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So if you can speak slowly and 
also forgive us, maybe for sure 

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we will ask you to repeat 17 
times the same word because we 

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cannot understand. 
It's hard. 

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I was feeling like, Oh my God, 
it's so easy to speak 

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Portuguese. 
Then she said that and they said

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no, no problem. 
I believe they said that. 

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I didn't understand, but they 
said no, no, no problem, it's 

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OK. 
And you know what happened? 

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We were there at the coffee 
shopping for three hours sharing

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life, laughing. 
They were laughing more than me 

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because every word, wrong word 
you know, but we were laughing, 

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we cried, we prayed, they go, 
they gave to us prophetic words.

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It was amazing. 3 hours there 
and I, when I was leaving the 

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coffee shop with Celia, we just 
said what just happened, what 

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just happened here. 
And I need to tell you that 

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event just changed me and Celia 
and launched, launched us to be 

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open for community, to be open 
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And it was so important that 
today we, me and my wife, we are

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different just because of the 
community relationship developed

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under God's principles. 
You, you, you can, you can make 

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some noise. 
So this is what God has for you 

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and for your family. 
Amen. 

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So the community under God's 
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today the message is essentials 
for community, essentials for 

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community. 
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So essentials means something 
absolutely necessary, something 

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absolutely necessary, 
indispensable and fundamentally 

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important. 
Something absolutely necessary, 

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indispensable or fundamentally 
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So when we think about 
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we need to find, we need to be 
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So the birth of community 
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So he designed community. 
He designed that Genesis chapter

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2, verse 18. 
If you need a Bible, please just

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raise your hand. 
The ushers will bless you, you 

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give you a Bible. 
Just raise your hand like this. 

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And it's amazing for you to have
the Bible to read your Bible. 

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Every time you read your Bible, 
something's going to happen. 

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It's amazing. 
It's the word of our God. 

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Amen. 
So Genesis chapter 2, verse 18 

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says the Lord God said it's not 
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So it's a clear message even in 
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It's not good for the man to be 
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It's not good to be alone. 
So God, sometimes he lead us for

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quiet time with him. 
We go to our bedroom or we go to

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a quiet a place alone and he 
will talk with us, He will teach

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us. 
But His desire is not for us to 

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have a lifestyle alone. 
He designed us for community. 

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He said it's not good to be 
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So this is His plan for our 
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It's essential to understand 
everything. 

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Connect with community. 
Start with God's plan. 

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So the plan for community is 
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Amen. 
Are we together on this in 

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English? 
Amen. 

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So many times the enemy works 
leading us for isolation and the

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plan is just break, just steal 
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So I know sometimes it's good to
learn to, to listen God in a 

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quiet place or a quiet time, but
it's not from the Lord to have a

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lifestyle with isolation because
of pain because you don't speak 

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the language or whatever. 
I I believe you are 

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understanding what God is trying
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So community means relationship 
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cultural belief or common sense 
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Have you ever heard that you're 
like pointing to you the person?

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Oh no, no, So people are not 
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Maybe you heard if there are 
people there's problem, it's not

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in the Bible. 
We have seen, we have seen 

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saying this everywhere, learning
like a passage on the Bible, but

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it's not in the Bible. 
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problem, It's a lie. 
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He said for where two or three 
gather in my name, I will be 

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with them. 
So the original plan, the 

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original design is the opposite.
The original design is if there 

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are people, there is God. 
If there are people, there is 

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God. 
It's an opportunity for God to 

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show up. 
Can you, can you work with me in

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your mind to receive this truth?
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If there are people, there is 
God. 

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One. 
No, no, no, no, no. 

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You're you're speaking 
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I'm trying English. 
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If there are people, there is 
God. 

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OK, 123 Amen. 
This is what the Bible says he 

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planned. 
When 2 gather, when two or three

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gather in my name, there is God.
So if there are people, there is

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God. 
God's presence is with you 

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wherever you go. 
God's presence is with you 

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wherever you go, John 738 says 
Whoever believes in me, as the 

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Scripture has said, look at 
this, I like this. 

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Rivers of living water will flow
from within them. 

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Again, whoever believes in me, 
as a scripture has said, rivers 

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of living water will flow from 
them, Rivers of living water, 

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rivers of living water. 
So when you, when you meet 

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people, the plan of God is 
rivers of living water flowing 

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from them. 
Are you not excited river? 

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This is the plan because when we
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Jesus, the Bible is saying 
reverse river is not like a drop

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river. 
The Bible, the Bible is not me, 

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the Bible if was me, I was 
oceans or you know, but rivers 

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of living water rivers. 
This was the plan of God. 

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Rivers of living water flowing 
you have no control rivers of 

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living water there's no way for 
problems to come rivers of 

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living water. 
This is the why if there are 

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people, there's God rivers of 
living water the problems. 

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Look at this the problems in a 
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If you are, if you are like 
these rivers of living, just 

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believe in God, Rivers of living
water will flow from you. 

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So Can you imagine the problem? 
The problem is there and the 

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rivers are coming. 
What happened with the problems?

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It's easy to understand. 
God wants to invite us for his 

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community the way He designed 
that. 

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Can you say Amen for that rivers
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So because of you, your 
community, the gathering you are

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in will receive rivers of living
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Amen. 
So can we imagine we have some D

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groups, discipleship groups, 
They go for some coffee shopping

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to to get together. 
Coffee shops, coffee shop, not 

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coffee shop. 
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OK, thank you. 
So they go to these places 

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better and they're reading the 
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A group of four or five men or 
women, they're reading the Bible

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together and you know what 
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We have like a lot of 
testimonies, people were they 

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are eating, They are not like 
inspecting the restaurant, you 

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know, they're eating, which is 
amazing. 

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So they're just eating. 
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five guys praying, reading the 
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It's usual for people come from 
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happened here? 
Rivers of living water, you 

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know, so there's a calling for 
community. 

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I don't know what's happening 
around, but rivers of living 

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water. 
So this is the calling for me 

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and for you. 
When you work with your family, 

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there is God. 
When you go home today and you 

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have lunch, there is God. 
When you go to work tomorrow, 

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are you working tomorrow? 
Say yes, please. 

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OK. 
But when you meet your 

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coworkers, there is God. 
This is the plan. 

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Maybe you were thinking, oh, 
tomorrow there is many things to

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do. 
I have problems tomorrow to 

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solve. 
I know we have a lot of things 

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to do. 
It's amazing. 

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But the main thing is when you 
meet people tomorrow at your 

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job, wherever you go, there is 
God. 

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If you enter in a Uber, you know
what's Uber? 

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He's driving, driving at I4, He 
needs prayer, he needs rivers 

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and rivers and rivers and 
rivers. 

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Are you understanding? 
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what's what's going to happen? 
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Is it you? 
Is it you who will overflow 

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rivers of living water? 
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This is the calling. 
So in your family there is God, 

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in your with your coworkers 
there is God. 

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We have places here we call 
Disney and people can spend like

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2 hours waiting for some 
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And when you were two hours 
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Rivers of living water, rivers 
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This is the plan, this is the 
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This is essential. 
You know when you were in the 

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church, with the church 
community there is God. 

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So maybe look at this, maybe we 
experienced gathering without 

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God and we saw people like 
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it's not because of the people. 
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God's presence. 
Are you with me? 

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So maybe the lack of God's 
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Have you ever seen someone 
laughing and you don't know why,

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but he's in the room and he's 
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They don't know why. 
This is just a picture that what

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could be rivers of living water.
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It's essential that we show up 
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It's essential it will change 
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So how could we gather without 
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How could we gather without 
God's presence if we carry his 

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name, John? 
Jesus said that in John one 

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verse 12 and 13. 
Yet to all who received him, to 

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those who believe in his name, 
he gave the right to become 

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children of God. 
He gave the right to become 

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children of God, children born 
not of natural descent, nor of 

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human decision or a husband's 
will, but born of God, born of 

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God. 
So no, my last name is Arnezi 

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because my father is Arnezi. 
So I am Arnezi because my father

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is Arnezi. 
Actually, my father is Valdemir 

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Arnezi, so I am Vladimir Arnezi 
because my father is Vladimir 

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Arnezi. 
A lot of creativity in the 

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family. 
So Vladimir Arnezi, you know, 

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But my actual name is Vladimir, 
Child of God. 

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When we believe, when we receive
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child. 
So how can we show up without 

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God's presence? 
Just receive that. 

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So this is the calling that 
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And I, I want to ask you, 
please, just to introduce 

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yourself for someone close to 
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So nice to meet you, my name and
and you say your name, child of 

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God. 
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Find someone, say nice to meet 
you. 

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My name is your name, child of 
God. 

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Amen. 
Just the name, not the weak, 

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just just the name. 
OK, so you are children of God 

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and every gathering, every 
community that you are in, God 

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will show up. 
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God will show up. 
So let's receive the true 

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embrace the calling and our 
God's name because it's 

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essential for our communities. 
It's essential for our 

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community. 
So what with that in mind, I 

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want to share with you 4 
essentials things and practical 

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ways that we that every great 
community we need, you need. 

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The first one is health is 
essential. 

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Health is essential. 
Mark Chapter 11 verse 25 says 

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when and when you stand praying,
if you hold anything against 

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anyone, forgive them so that 
your Father in heaven may 

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forgive you your sins. 
So Jesus was teaching him to 

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teaching everybody to teaching 
us today, forgive him. 

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If you hold anything against 
anyone, forgive them. 

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So remember that you are child 
of God. 

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So the community depends on our 
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Are we together? 
The community depends on our 

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behavior. 
So it's essential for you and 

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the community you are in to 
practice, to be open to forgive 

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others. 
So to receive health, we need to

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give our angryness to God. 
Forgiving others and give means 

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give. 
So all the angryness, all the 

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pain is forgive. 
We need to give. 

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This is what God is saying. 
This is what Jesus was teaching.

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We need to give it that. 
That thing cannot belong to us 

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anymore. 
You know, the person did 

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something and God said I will 
take it, give to me. 

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Don't carry this. 
So we know when we do not 

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forgive, it becomes heavy over 
our shoulders, shoulders so not 

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healthy and under this 
anointing. 

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I I just want to to share with 
you it's it's a decision. 

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Maybe you heard that before. 
It's a decision. 

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We cannot carry this. 
We need to give. 

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You know, English is new for me 
in in Portuguese, the word 

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forgive is perdom is is 
different. 

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But when I was reading this and 
talk with some some guys at the 

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church, the word forgive became 
so big for me like forgive, I 

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need to give. 
I cannot have this for me. 

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I need to give. 
I need to give if you, if again,

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if you hold anything against 
anyone, forgive. 

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Forgive. 
We need to practice this. 

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We cannot carry this. 
It's not healthy for you. 

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It's not healthy for community. 
Are we together? 

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So under this anointing, let's 
just forgive. 

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If you are thinking about 
someone who did something 

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against you, that is it's in 
your, it's in your heart, in 

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your feelings, Just forgive just
for can we pray now? 

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Just close your eyes. 
If if someone's coming to your 

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mind, let's give to the Lord. 
So Lord in Jesus name, you are 

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here, you are teaching us, it's 
your word. 

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It's hard, we feel pain, we feel
sometimes unfair with the things

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that happened, but we are in 
your house, we are listening, 

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your voice, your word, and we 
want to give to you, we want to 

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forgive. 
So Lord, that situation, what's 

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going to happen belongs to you. 
We give to you in Jesus name, 

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Amen. 
Amen. 

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The second essential is 
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Humility is essential. 
Philippians 2 verse three and 

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four said do nothing out of 
selfish ambition or vain 

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conceit. 
Heather in humility, value 

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others above yourselves, not 
looking to your own interests, 

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but each of you to the interests
of the others. 

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So what was happening here? 
Paul was writing a letter to for

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the Philippians because they, 
they, they were under 

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persecution. 
And he wrote that saying, hey, a

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lot of agitation were happening.
A lot of things are, are, are 

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coming against you. 
So I'm, I'm giving you 

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instructions. 
So in humility, value others 

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above yourselves. 
And the word humility comes from

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the Latin word humilis. 
Look at this humilis, which 

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literally means on the ground, 
on the ground and what Paul was 

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saying and he was inviting for a
new perspective. 

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So we can see people with a new 
perspective from the we'll see 

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the the complete picture you see
from the ground. 

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So on the ground I will see. 
So humiliate means a new 

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perspective and it's essential. 
It's essential to see people 

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with the new perspective. 
So humiliate is essential. 

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Can you say Amen for that? 
So a new perspective. 

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The third one is honor is 
essential. 

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Romans 12/10 says be devoted one
another in love, honor one 

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another above, again above 
yourselves. 

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So the word honor is connect 
with the word, the word esteem. 

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The word esteem, which lead us 
to care about others, to think 

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not just to open the door like 
honoring someone, but to to pay 

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attention where their souls are,
where their feelings are. 

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Can you imagine this community 
when we practice essentials, 

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where their feelings are, when 
their emotions are So honor 

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those needs. 
So have you ever stopped 

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everything just to pay attention
Someone what's happening in our 

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family and our kids in the place
that we work, what's happening 

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and stop and think what's going 
on with our friend, with our 

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neighbor, you know, so honor is 
essential. 

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Relationships will be completely
different when we just stop and 

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ask someone, can I pray for you?
I, I, I believe my face speaks a

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lot and I like it because I 
don't need to speak English my 

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face, you know, so but it's easy
to see when something is not 

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good with me because you are you
understanding so many 

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situations. 
I have people come and say, Hey,

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are you OK? 
Because this is saying I'm not 

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OK. 
I love this means a lot. 

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They're paying attention on my 
soul. 

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So owner is connect with steam 
and this is essential. 

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Can you imagine this week you're
practicing this how it's going 

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to be the community, how we're 
going to be the relationship. 

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The last one is honesty. 
Honesty is essential. 

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Ephesians 4 verse 15 says 
instead speaking the truth in 

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love, we will grow. 
Look at this we will grow to 

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becoming every respect the 
mature body of him who is the 

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head that is Christ. 
So speaking the truth in law. 

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Pastor Tim talk about this last 
week a little bit and was so 

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special and I know it's 
something this is something not 

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so easy to speak the true in 
law. 

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Maybe we try and we receive 
something so a lot good 

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experience, but the Bible is 
calling us to speak the truth in

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love. 
This ingredient change 

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everything. 
Maybe you know people who says 

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everything, brah, you know, can 
you feel love, brah, but the 

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ingredient is speak the truth in
love. 

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This is what God has for me and 
for you and when and we have 

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people when practice that when 
they add love, the language 

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change the hearts open easily 
for that. 

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So when we decide to practice 
honesty in this way, we open the

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door for a mature community for 
the Bible said that for a mature

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community. 
So for essentials, we talk today

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for community, health, humility,
honor and honesty. 

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And before we we finish that 
message, I just want to reveal 

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with you something so essential.
We need to be a child of God. 

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Reverse, reverse. 
This is the plan. 

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This is the plan. 
So I want to invite you to pray 

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with me because the Bible says 
John 112. 

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Look at this. 
Yet to all who did receive him, 

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to those who believe in his 
name, you know, next week we 

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will celebrate what Jesus did 
for us. 

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But you know, could be like some
history, but the Bible said 

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Jesus said when I receive there 
is their history. 

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Now the history is my I received
that reason for for me, Valdemar

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Anezi, I received that for me. 
So we, we can go through next 

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Sunday. 
We can go through the, the 

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history of Jesus going to the 
cross and resurrecting the third

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day. 
But the Bible says when I 

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received that this is for for 
me, for me. 

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I will go home. 
I will drive with that history, 

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I will receive that, and I will 
believe that He is alive for me.

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I can be different today because
He did that. 

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When I receive and I believe, I 
become a child of God. 

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Well, I want to pray now and I 
ask you to pray with me. 

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Just believing and receiving 
what Jesus did. 

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So let's do it together if you 
can close your eyes. 

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And I asked everybody to repeat 
with me. 

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Jesus, this morning I received 
what you did for me. 

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I believe you are alive for me. 
And today I give my life to you.

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I want you walking with me and I
decide to walk with you so I 

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receive you, Jesus as my Savior 
in Jesus name, Amen. 

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Amen, Amen. 
So I just want to give you the 

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opportunity to say that you did 
that prayer today for the first 

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time in your life. 
So I will count to 3, and I will

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ask you to raise your hand after
I count to 3 because we have 

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something for you. 
This is a special day. 

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So this is special. 
I received, and I believe if you

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did that prayer for the very 
first time, I will count to 

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three. 
I just want to raise your hand. 

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Amen, 123, Amen. 
Amen, Amen. 

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Praise the Lord, praise the 
Lord, I see your hand over 

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there. 
Hallelujah, Hallelujah. 

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I want to pray, I want to pray. 
Lord, thank you for this 

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morning. 
Thank you for the opportunity to

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receive and believe. 
And I ask you, rivers of living 

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water coming overflowing for 
each one here we pray in Jesus 

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name, Amen. 
God bless you. 

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Thanks for joining us today. 
We hope God is speaking to your 

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heart through this message. 
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