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A little bit come on, get it for
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Give it up. 
May I sing sing these songs just

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thinking about heaven and think 
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full of just gratitude for what 
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that's just happened recently 
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men's ministry. 
Yesterday I was just blessed to 

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sit at the table of guys that 
you know, people talk about 

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passion and say we passion about
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And it got to my table and it 
was just Jesus and it was really

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cool to hear. 
And there's a man of my group 

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that kind of does Celebrate 
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And he was talking about a man 
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Christian guy walked by. 
I said, hell, praying for you, 

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rich man walked by. 
I said, give you some money. 

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He said, I'm the kind of guy 
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the guy goes, why are you down 
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He's like, I've been here 
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I can help you out and just 
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I've been I'm I'm in the right 
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Amen. 
I sat next to a guy. 

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He's older guy and just 
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And he had shared his passion 
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actually see their heavenly 
Father the way Jesus wants us to

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see your heavenly Father because
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and heard and all these 
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Men find their purpose. 

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And so it was just really cool. 
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was doing there, man. 
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spiritually and numerically, and
I'm grateful for Jesus, what 

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he's doing. 
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You can kind of sense it, you 
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stuff like that. 
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It was cool I. 
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weeks ago. 
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from mid two 30s to about 270 
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and it didn't, it didn't sound 
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that's like 15% growth it was 
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glory to Jesus. 
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that have been inviting and 
sharing and loving and and our 

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team for your care. 
I know a lot. 

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We have huge team high scenes 
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Jesus and I'm thankful for our 
team and grateful for what God's

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doing. 
Amen so get up for a dream team,

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get for a life group leaders 
give those to make a difference 

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for a church just paving the way
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Just make a move. 
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Well, this week we have life 
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So what that means if you're a 
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canceling all the stuff they 
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studies or the way or just 
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And they're just making room for
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And so we'd love to see every 
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life group this week. 
We'd love to connect. 

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There's no agenda, Amen. 
We're not selling anything. 

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There's no baiting switch. 
We're not even inviting out to 

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Easter. 
We just want to get to know you.

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people of God. 
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loving. 
God, Amen and. 

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This can sense the Holy Spirit 
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last few weeks. 
I've been hanging out at this 

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little barbecue joint in the in 
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It's been been awesome. 
I got a chance to meet the owner

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a few times. 
He's there quite a bit had a 

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food truck forever. 
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city and so I got a chance. 
I've got his personal number. 

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I've been texting him back and 
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So if you show it to my grip on 
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something to come. 
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barbecue in town, Amen. 
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we have friends and family all 
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Amen. 
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sister, parents like people 
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just can't come with me. 
Hang out as soon introduce them 

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some friends. 
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So be inviting and see what God 
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There's a story in the Bible 
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somebody was invited and Jesus 
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And he had to serve her and she 
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one to know about the Messiah. 
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start relationship with Jesus 
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where everybody knew her story 
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everything about me. 
You got to meet him. 

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He's the Messiah. 
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Jesus and many of them came to 
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Amen. 
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everything. 
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That would be the miracle, the 
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Is that crazy? 
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in the New Testament by Jesus 
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because a woman that everybody 
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with Christ and went and told 
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Amen. 
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going to bring in contact. 
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The gospel goes out. 
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We have a great opportunity in 
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on your seat for life groups. 
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Find any life groups and click 
on it, get the address and just 

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show up to any of this week. 
We'd love to have you out. 

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Amen. 
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doing. 
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fullness of the gospel. 
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I'll explain all about it 
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prayer is that you'd be so moved
by heaven that would it would 

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You'd see like the fullness of 
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the board. 
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Is there any area of our life 
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gospel? 
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There's not. 
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right? 
Like many times we follow like a

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partial gospel. 
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marriage or any part of the 
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spend our money or, or is there 
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well, yeah, of course you can do
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But do we live it out? 
Do do we do we live the fullness

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of the gospel or we have a 
partial truth to what God has 

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for us? 
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and we're going to do a little 
heart surgery today, if you want

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to call it heavenly heart 
surgery, Amen. 

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Little heart surgery. 
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words we speak. 
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in Luke chapter 6, verse 45. 
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what good things out of the what
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So this is a good person, right?
A good man, good things has good

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stored up in his heart. 
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out of the evil stored up in his
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For the mouth speaks what the 
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is full of, like what, what the 
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and the criticism and the anger 
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downs or the, OR the 
compliments, all are flowing 

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from your, your heart. 
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hearts at you, just look at what
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that we say and we share. 
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have fallen to the trap that we 
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about salvation and that church 
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Many people would don't say 
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that we preach the gospel to the
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Bible to church. 
It's just done by so many groups

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of churches. 
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church. 
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salvation, but it really doesn't
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everything. 
You just don't add the gospel. 

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You don't put like the ice in 
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everything's great. 
The gospel infiltrates every 

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molecule of that cake, 
infiltrates every part of your 

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marriage, every part of your 
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finances, every part of your 
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every fabric of your being. 
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So I'm going to look through 
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We might have some words that 
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I hear there's all times as a 
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through them and God will just 
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So #1 where it's about death and
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And there's so many times we're 
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lose a friend or fan member 
somewhere close throughout a 

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funeral. 
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never see them again. 
There's many people have this 

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this bleak reality that people 
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oblivion like we'll never know 
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I've been to many funerals of 
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that were atheists and would 
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exist. 
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It's the victory. 
It's it's the final victory and 

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there's this great confusion 
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you're face to face. 
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like to, it's just we try to 
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like just a sense of death or 
around death and we just make it

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They would just take him out 
back and and literally put him 

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in the pickup truck and drive 
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It was just just normal 
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And here we have these funeral 
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don't even show up at all, like 
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sneak in the back and then 
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People say this, I'll never talk
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I'll never hug them again. 
I've heard this one quite often 

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and it it's, it's so natural. 
I can see myself saying this, 

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but I wish I had more time. 
I just wish I had more time. 

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Like we want this here and now 
to last forever, but the reality

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is you don't have to wish for 
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If they know Jesus, you will 
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Amen. 
That's good news. 

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Like, I really get excited 
because I've been to a lot of 

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funerals as a pastor. 
I've seen small caskets. 

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I've seen families in car 
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I've seen five kids that died at
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I've seen generations that are 
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I've seen every person. 
Every type of person. 

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There's a pastor. 
I'm like, thank you, Jesus. 

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This is in the end, Amen. 
That this is just a partial 

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truth, like, well, yeah, we 
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what I have time. 
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death is defeated, Amen. 
That the death that happens in 

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our body is just a temporary 
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And that Jesus rose again and 
shaped death where it's just not

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the end of the story. 
And one day we're resurrected 

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So I started thinking about this
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And you might have heard this 
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You may have heard ashes. 
The ashes. 

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Dust to dust. 
What a poor representation of 

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the Gospel. 
That's actually the curse from 

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dust. 
Who came from dust. 

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at a funeral. 
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Like, OK, yeah, we died because 
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I don't know who wrote this. 
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medieval, you know, liturgy. 
I don't know who did it, but ash

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to ashes, dust, dust. 
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dust and from dust again, we 
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from dust once again. 
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that's a fullness of the gospel.
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just given a partial gospel like
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That dust is the end of the 
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and twinkling that we are 
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immortal. 
Think about eternity that you 

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have this time in relationships 
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We talked about this before you 
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We talked about sharing coffee. 
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I'm going to call her out today.
It was Hannah was out by the she

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she didn't want me to stand up. 
Hannah. 

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Come on, Hannah. 
Come on. 

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Hannah. 
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I was like, how are you doing? 
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I said we will, they'd be coffee

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in heaven, Hannah. 
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We get to dine together. 
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spend eternity adventures and 
hiking and, and just spending 

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quality time with each other. 
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what we could ever imagine. 
But a lot of times we think it's

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bleak and it's, it's destitute 
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There's a person asked us a few 
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people in heaven if we have 
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know what they look like? 
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There's a book I'm reading by 
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Heaven and every story of 
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So this isn't in the gospel, but
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and come back. 
Is it that they've gone and 

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there was family members and 
friends waiting for them as they

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That's a pretty cool picture. 

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Amen. 
That, that, that you're not 

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going to go like, hmm, I wonder 
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Like Jesus is, they're watching 
this great cloud of witness is 

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seeing us from heaven and is 
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things of earth. 
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It's a family reunion, Amen. 
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I just want you to know that the
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get are going to come at the 
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I mean, the full embrace of 
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of God's redemption. 
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right now, this is the worst it 
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Like this world. 
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this isn't that fun, right? 
Like we strive and we have 

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burdens. 
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life. 
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You know, many times we wonder 
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We wonder what like, goodbye has
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Like goodbye forever. 
Like, do I believe I'll see you 

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Like in your heart? 
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whatever words, but like, what 
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And Diane, she was at her 
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she came just found this amazing
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This poem is about all the 
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Forms we buy. 
And it came up with a really 

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good word and it was the words 
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And it was like, OK, this is 
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in this moment, like I don't 
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It's terrible. 
It was never meant to be this 

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way, by the way. 
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fall into the curse. 
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It feels so unnatural because it
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And just sign R, like if it has 
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this way. 
I'm going to see you again. 

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And her grandma knows Jesus. 
She's watching this right now, 

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Amen. 
And we're going to see her 

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we hope in the resurrection of 
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You can study this in the 
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great word. 
You know, if you're not ready to

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say goodbye, I would say don't 
Amen. 

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Don't say goodbye. 
You're not saying goodbye. 

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I mean, this feels like eternity
when you have separation of some

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of you loved, you know, but if 
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whatever, you. 
Get all eternity. 

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You're going to spend with that 
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That's good news. 
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The world needs to hear this 
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By the way, this is not what's 
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funeral. 
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hundreds and hundreds of 
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I've seen people killed on the 
way to funerals, legit in car 

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accidents, like in ministry, you
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death. 
And thank God it's not the end. 

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Let's use it. 
Let's, let's build our life on 

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the entire gospel, not just, 
well, I know Jesus, but my life 

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is terrible. 
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we know what's coming. 
There's a whole complete side to

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it. 
We wrote a core value when we 

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launched our church. 
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because I came out of a really 
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of this, this core value that 
says always only Jesus, somebody

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say always only Jesus, always 
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The gospel is center of every 

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It's always only ever been Jesus
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He is a sustainer in the 
solution to everything. 

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We don't preach the gospel, the 
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church. 
We preach the gospel in every 

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area of our lives through the 
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center of all things. 
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center, including any idol of 
man and even this Rico salty the

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Bible itself. 
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center except for Jesus. 
I know if you've been to a 

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church that they preached the 
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the new God. 
You've been to those type of 

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churches where like they just 
know all the rules, but they 

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don't really love. 
There's no grace. 

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And we, for whatever reason, and
maybe it's just because we are, 

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we have a lot of people that 
come to our church that come up 

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some pretty salty places. 
And they, they come with a lot 

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of a lot of a lot of hurt that 
they came and like, fathom the 

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fact of like talking to the 
Heavenly Father because they've 

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been wounded so much by 
honestly, church. 

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There are people that have been 
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and you know, you know the 
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How many guys know that the 
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presence of God? 
Like the goal is not to know the

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Bible with the goal is to be 
transformed into, into the what 

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the Bible is into the license of
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And so if you know the Bible and
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couple things I'll say about 
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One, Satan knows that you're a 
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Jesus. 
Satan knows every part of the 

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Scripture enough to twist it, 
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The demons know it as well. 
The Pharisees knew the Bible 

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that they, they knew it so well 
they created laws on top of the 

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Bible so they they looked more 
holy. 

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They were actually the least 
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Jesus never condemned anybody 
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Like to know the Bible without 
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sin. 
It's still a sin of apostasy, 

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right? 
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right though those be on that 
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They'll say, Lord, Lord, we cast
out these demons and great 

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miracles in your name and 
they'll say depart from me. 

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I did not know you work of 
iniquity like you knew all about

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me here, but you didn't know me 
here. 

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It's been said that the greatest
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is 13 inches right. 
So I want to encourage you guys 

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like our church. 
It's it's it's not enough to 

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memorize a verse. 
It's not enough to open the 

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Bible and do your Bible say this
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Amen. 
Like you're not earning your way

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to God by some kind of 
flatulence and being like torn 

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down because you just don't give
a good enough because that's 

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where that religion goes. 
But the point of it is that you 

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would trust Jesus and it'd be 
the Holy Spirit would do 

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transformational work and we 
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I think a lot of churches over 
time have taken the pruners from

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the Father's hand and pruned 
people instead of letting God 

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prune people. 
Like we just set the table, 

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Amen. 
We plant seeds, we water and the

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Holy Spirit, God the Father 
shows up and he says, we're 

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going to cut that out of your 
life. 

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We're going to we're going to 
show you a better way. 

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Thank Dee Jesus. 
I'm, I'm a sheep. 

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I'm not, I'm not the guy holding
the shears, Amen. 

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You don't want me pruning your 
life, Amen. 

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Dying says, Amen. 
I've tried lookout this. 

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Let the Holy Spirit do its work,
Amen, But let get into God's 

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presence like you. 
You should feel better when you 

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read this scripture. 
There is there's there's no con 

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nation, but there's conviction. 
Like there's no shame. 

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But I think a lot of times, like
people, I know what it is. 

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If if they don't show up to 
church and feel bad for going, 

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it's not church. 
That's crazy to me. 

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I found somebody that's been 
there before, right? 

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It's just, it's just weird to 
me, like the there's a goodness 

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of God and the kindness of God 
and the grace of God is what 

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draws people and what shapes 
people. 

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This is not a religion, Amen. 
It's a partial gospel just to 

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preach the Bible and not 
actually know God deeper every 

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time. 
So second area marriage and 

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relationships. 
And this is partial gospel, but 

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you hear this a lot. 
And then we we struggle through 

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this. 
If you're married, there'll be 

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two seasons, right? 
But you'll say our marriage is 

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beyond repair. 
You've been in those seasons 

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where it's like, this is just 
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Like we were in a pit or people 
never change. 

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Just in general, like I've just 
given up on people. 

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I mean, you, you may have a 
class of people that may be 

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Republicans, that may be 
Democrats, right? 

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And you're thinking, oh, this is
too far, you know, and you 

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wouldn't like say it, but you 
may say it right in private or 

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this relationship is just too 
broke. 

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I mean, there's too much water 
to the bridge. 

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We, we can never go back. 
It's just too difficult. 

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We can give up on God's grace 
and God's restoration and his 

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resurrection power. 
I met a man probably two months 

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ago and. 
Opportunity to pray with him. 

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He was in a real difficult 
season. 

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I can't give you all the 
details, but he was separated 

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from his wife and not because 
they wanted to be, but there was

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like a legal thing happening. 
I've never seen it before. 

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It was crazy. 
But he couldn't be home and 

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there and it wasn't, it was just
a, it's a dynamic and I, I 

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can't, if I told you, you might 
go figure it out. 

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So there's a dynamic and he 
can't be home. 

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But then his wife started 
cheating on him and he was 

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sitting there and, and we're 
talking, he's got tears in his 

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eyes and he's, I don't know what
to do. 

451
00:20:04,320 --> 00:20:06,800
Like I might, I may file, I have
to file divorce today or 

452
00:20:06,800 --> 00:20:08,400
tomorrow. 
And I just don't know if I 

453
00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:11,840
should sign the papers or not. 
And I was like, listen man, I 

454
00:20:11,840 --> 00:20:15,160
cannot give you. 
Any direction, but I will pray 

455
00:20:15,720 --> 00:20:17,800
that the Holy Spirit makes it 
clear to you what you should do.

456
00:20:18,520 --> 00:20:19,880
Like should you sign or should 
you not? 

457
00:20:20,160 --> 00:20:22,040
Because biblically he has every 
right to sign the paper. 

458
00:20:22,640 --> 00:20:25,280
Like, you know, adultery. 
There's there's grounds for 

459
00:20:25,280 --> 00:20:26,560
divorce in the Bible, by the 
way, right? 

460
00:20:26,960 --> 00:20:28,400
Abuse, adultery, of course, 
death. 

461
00:20:28,400 --> 00:20:36,360
That's a good. 
But I will say, if you have been

462
00:20:36,640 --> 00:20:40,520
through marriage and God didn't 
bless your divorce, there's 

463
00:20:40,520 --> 00:20:45,040
still the grace of God because 
sometimes we jump the gun and 

464
00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:47,400
we're not who we're called to be
in that season and we're so 

465
00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:48,760
bitter and all those things that
blows up. 

466
00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:50,560
But God's grace covers that. 
Amen. 

467
00:20:51,440 --> 00:20:53,440
But I do think with maturity, we
get stepped in and say there is 

468
00:20:53,440 --> 00:20:54,880
resurrection power. 
Maybe there's a chance. 

469
00:20:54,880 --> 00:20:57,600
And this band was just so great,
so gracious, like he did not 

470
00:20:57,600 --> 00:21:00,200
want to, but he moved forward 
because he's just so tired of 

471
00:21:00,480 --> 00:21:04,200
walking through the season. 
He, I saw him again and I talked

472
00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:05,400
to him. 
I said, hey, what's God doing? 

473
00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:07,760
He said, look, I've showed up. 
I talked to her. 

474
00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:09,560
I said, look, I got these 
papers. 

475
00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:12,600
I don't want to deliver these 
papers, but I can't keep doing 

476
00:21:12,600 --> 00:21:15,400
this. 
And his wife was like, I cannot 

477
00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:19,880
believe, like I put myself in 
the situation, like I've totally

478
00:21:19,880 --> 00:21:21,880
screwed up. 
Like, I don't know how I could 

479
00:21:21,880 --> 00:21:24,520
ever bring your stuff back. 
Of course, he had a plan, right?

480
00:21:25,120 --> 00:21:30,200
Ditch the side project, right? 
Like he had the thing and he 

481
00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:32,760
laid it out. 
In the last few weeks, they've 

482
00:21:32,760 --> 00:21:35,320
been working together and he 
didn't file divorce. 

483
00:21:35,320 --> 00:21:38,640
And I thought, man, what a great
picture of like the patience of 

484
00:21:38,640 --> 00:21:42,520
God in the resurrection power of
Christ and desiring what Jesus 

485
00:21:42,520 --> 00:21:46,120
can do, Amen. 
And I'm every season is a 

486
00:21:46,120 --> 00:21:47,680
different thing, right? 
So I'm not giving you like a 

487
00:21:47,800 --> 00:21:50,080
catch all, like what you should 
do in all the pieces, but just 

488
00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:52,640
giving room for God. 
And when people come to me and 

489
00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:54,800
they're like, Sean, should I get
divorced? 

490
00:21:55,320 --> 00:21:57,880
And then they're like, I was 
like, have you given Jesus every

491
00:21:57,880 --> 00:21:59,560
opportunity to restore this 
relationship? 

492
00:22:01,280 --> 00:22:04,000
Right now? 
I think I've counseled people to

493
00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:07,560
be divorced because I think that
grace has been given far enough.

494
00:22:08,680 --> 00:22:11,520
Just be honest with you. 
There's a there's there's but 

495
00:22:11,520 --> 00:22:15,720
it's between them of God, 
obviously right, but give grace 

496
00:22:16,280 --> 00:22:19,520
and listen to the Spirit of God.
And if you've messed up, no like

497
00:22:19,520 --> 00:22:23,560
learn and next time like be wise
as best you can and sometimes 

498
00:22:23,560 --> 00:22:24,960
you do all the right things that
doesn't work out. 

499
00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:27,960
I get that seen it. 
But let's be the men and women 

500
00:22:27,960 --> 00:22:31,800
of God's calls to be Amen. 
And so the better confession is 

501
00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:33,280
this about marriage. 
Nothing is beyond the 

502
00:22:33,280 --> 00:22:35,240
restoration power of Jesus. 
Amen. 

503
00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:39,320
And God specializes in 
rebuilding what sin destroyed. 

504
00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:42,760
That's his specialty, not ours. 
We are terrible at rebuilding 

505
00:22:42,760 --> 00:22:44,920
things. 
If you're like me, he goes bad 

506
00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:48,200
the worse and the more I try the
worse it gets. 

507
00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:51,840
You could ask Diane, anybody 
been around me. 

508
00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:53,240
It's like just stop working on 
it. 

509
00:22:53,240 --> 00:22:57,000
Like just let Jesus just trust 
God in this less of you and more

510
00:22:57,000 --> 00:22:59,160
of him. 
So third year I'll share is 

511
00:22:59,160 --> 00:23:02,560
personal failures in the sin. 
This is where we like to really 

512
00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:05,240
have a partial gospel. 
And I've lived this and many of 

513
00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:07,320
you live this, but you'll say 
stuff like this. 

514
00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:12,760
I'll always struggle with this. 
They'll always be this way. 

515
00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:17,000
It's just who I am or I'm gone 
too far. 

516
00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:20,600
It's a real interesting thought.
I think Satan is so good. 

517
00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:23,520
Like he'll throw a lure and 
you'll bite on it and he'll just

518
00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:25,760
start reeling in. 
He'll hook you and he'll just 

519
00:23:25,760 --> 00:23:29,160
drag in and he'll throw another 
one and you hook it and it just 

520
00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:32,560
knows the same way He'll do it 
over and over and over and he'll

521
00:23:32,560 --> 00:23:34,080
do your entire life if you let 
him. 

522
00:23:34,360 --> 00:23:36,680
What's interesting about saying 
these truths, it's a real 

523
00:23:36,680 --> 00:23:38,840
partial gospel. 
What you're really saying is I 

524
00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:43,800
know Jesus paid for every part 
of my sin and I'm not good 

525
00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:47,400
because of who I am good because
Jesus is, but I have to earn it 

526
00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:49,960
still. 
And so I, I know what you're 

527
00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:54,240
saying, but I have to somehow 
prove the fact I deserve to be 

528
00:23:54,240 --> 00:23:57,000
loved by you. 
And So what you're ultimately 

529
00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:03,760
doing is, is that you're paying 
on the cross yourself instead of

530
00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:06,560
trusting Jesus. 
So you're paying twice. 

531
00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:09,600
Does. 
That make sense, Like you're 

532
00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:11,560
like, you know, I know you're 
crucified and you died for 

533
00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:13,240
everyone of my sins. 
You wiped Far East from the 

534
00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:14,400
West. 
I know you love me. 

535
00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:17,760
You're not counting your sins 
against me, but I have to go on 

536
00:24:17,760 --> 00:24:20,240
that cross and earn it. 
There's like a deep 

537
00:24:20,240 --> 00:24:24,160
perfectionism there. 
There's a deep like insecurity 

538
00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:28,960
driving us to pay twice and you 
may say stuff like I'm too ugly,

539
00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:32,440
I'm worthless, I'm not enough or
I'm afraid or there's deep 

540
00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:36,320
insecurity or doubt or this 
unhindered drive to become 

541
00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:38,800
somebody because you have to 
prove yourself a validation. 

542
00:24:39,360 --> 00:24:43,720
Am I preaching today? 
It's literally just it's in our 

543
00:24:43,720 --> 00:24:48,520
soul and say nose like if I can 
just captivate your need for 

544
00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:53,520
penance and for flagellation and
for you to earn this yourself, I

545
00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:56,640
will just keep you in that cell 
your entire life. 

546
00:24:57,440 --> 00:25:00,720
And it's just what he does. 
This is the enemy's tactic. 

547
00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:04,840
And the gospel truth is that he 
creates new people and it says 

548
00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:09,800
this in the 2nd Corinthians 517.
Therefore, if anyone is in 

549
00:25:10,600 --> 00:25:14,160
Christ, like if you know Jesus, 
you're a Jesus follower. 

550
00:25:14,360 --> 00:25:21,160
The new creation has come and 
the old has gone and the new is 

551
00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:24,240
here like you. 
You're a new creation like God 

552
00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:29,360
didn't like just sprinkle some 
Jesus on you, but the gospel 

553
00:25:29,360 --> 00:25:33,400
does not add Jesus to your life.
The gospel is well, Jesus saved 

554
00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:35,120
me, so I'm I'm going to earn it 
still. 

555
00:25:35,120 --> 00:25:36,400
So I'm going to be a good 
person. 

556
00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:37,720
I'm going to say the right 
things. 

557
00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:39,280
I'm going to do the right 
things. 

558
00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:40,320
I'm going to treat people the 
right way. 

559
00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:41,880
I'm always going to be the right
thing. 

560
00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:44,160
I'm going to strive for 
perfection. 

561
00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:47,880
When when you pray, did you say 
Lord bless my perfect effort? 

562
00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:51,240
Now I'm saved. 
Did they prayer that ever? 

563
00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:54,880
But we act like that, right? 
Like there's a difference 

564
00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:56,280
between perfection and 
confession. 

565
00:25:57,360 --> 00:26:00,640
Amen. 
You confess, Lord, I am not 

566
00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:04,520
good, but you are. 
You are good. 

567
00:26:04,520 --> 00:26:07,040
So you got to finish the entire 
sentence. 

568
00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:09,360
But you're a new creation. 
Jesus didn't just he didn't 

569
00:26:09,360 --> 00:26:11,520
sprinkle in your life. 
Matter of fact, you're not even,

570
00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:13,560
you're not even a good person 
becoming better. 

571
00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:17,160
Somebody may have thought that 
your best life now, right? 

572
00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:19,840
Like you're just a good person 
and you just do some more good 

573
00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:20,960
stuff. 
That's not it. 

574
00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:24,080
The gospel is that you were 
dead. 

575
00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:29,920
Hello, dead. 
And you were what, now? 

576
00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:32,240
Alive to God. 
Amen. 

577
00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:35,040
There's not a single party 
that's not alive. 

578
00:26:35,560 --> 00:26:39,240
Like your soul and spirit were 
resurrected through Christ. 

579
00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:42,000
And so when you look down at 
yourself and you treat yourself 

580
00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:45,000
poorly or you're walking through
insecurity and fear, you're 

581
00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:48,800
giving a lot of glory to 
yourself and not to the gospel. 

582
00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:52,040
Let me just be real honest. 
Amen. 

583
00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:54,640
And if you ever walked through 
the seasons, like we, we could 

584
00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:58,520
play that same record over and 
over and over and over and over.

585
00:26:58,560 --> 00:27:00,800
So I can only expect like walk 
and like, I'm never going to 

586
00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:02,760
struggle. 
But I want you to walk out here 

587
00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:05,880
knowing the gospel truth. 
Like I don't want you to live in

588
00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:07,960
a partial truth. 
The Bible says he picks our feet

589
00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:12,080
out of the miry clay and he sets
them on a rock and he puts a new

590
00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:16,320
song on her heart. 
And we start what those terrible

591
00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:19,080
version, but we start dancing. 
We started dancing. 

592
00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:20,720
I don't know about you, but we 
need some more Christians 

593
00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:21,520
dancing. 
Amen. 

594
00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:25,000
I mean, it's like we got saved 
with my reclay set on the rock. 

595
00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:31,080
And it's like just a terrible 
and we sit in this mopey, broken

596
00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:34,480
position and we never get our 
eyes back on Jesus. 

597
00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:37,720
And somebody told you along the 
way, I don't know who told you 

598
00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:40,360
that you weren't good enough. 
Like who told you that? 

599
00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:43,480
Like who who told you that you 
would not measure up? 

600
00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:45,480
Who told you that you had to be 
good enough? 

601
00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:47,600
Forgotten to love you. 
Who told? 

602
00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:48,920
I'm Willie. 
Who told you. 

603
00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:53,720
I mean, maybe in your dad. 
That is my story. 

604
00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:55,720
I've never heard the words my 
dad. 

605
00:27:55,720 --> 00:27:56,800
I love my dad. 
All my heart. 

606
00:27:56,800 --> 00:27:58,160
I love my dad. 
But I've never heard the words. 

607
00:27:58,160 --> 00:28:00,600
I love you, son. 
I'd walk through that. 

608
00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:06,200
Amen. 
Thank you, Jesus, that I can 

609
00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:08,680
have a heavenly Father that 
loves me fully. 

610
00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:11,040
That was hard to do. 
That took some years of 

611
00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:13,360
stripping away with insecurity 
and fear like, but you know 

612
00:28:13,360 --> 00:28:15,280
what? 
I, I, I could just look at the 

613
00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:18,320
gospel and know this is better. 
And I, even though I didn't get 

614
00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:20,120
the words from my father, I get 
the words from God. 

615
00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:24,280
I have to trust God with that 
like and, and, and for years. 

616
00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:25,840
It's like you have to replace 
your earthly father. 

617
00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:27,680
You have the, your earthly 
father with the heavenly Father.

618
00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:31,520
Like, I don't want to replace 
him, right, But I want to, I 

619
00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:33,480
want to know who my father is in
heaven. 

620
00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:35,520
You know what the words are 
spoken by the Father to the Son 

621
00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:37,640
are in the Bible. 
Let me know you'll you see it 

622
00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:40,120
twice in the New Testament. 
You see it once the baptism and 

623
00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:41,280
once the mountain change 
figuration. 

624
00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:42,360
You know what the Father said to
the Son? 

625
00:28:42,360 --> 00:28:48,000
You guys remember this for this 
is my Son, whom I'm what well 

626
00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:55,000
pleased and I love him. 
This ownership, this proud 

627
00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:59,160
moment and love. 
That's the words of the Father, 

628
00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:01,000
Amen. 
If you got somebody speaking a 

629
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:03,520
word in your life and it brings 
shame and combination, those 

630
00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:06,480
words are not from God. 
That is not from God. 

631
00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:09,840
That is a small person making 
themselves feel big at your 

632
00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:11,840
expense. 
That's not from God. 

633
00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:14,560
And you need to be careful about
what you LED in your heart. 

634
00:29:14,560 --> 00:29:16,840
And you, when you're young, you 
don't know any different, but 

635
00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:18,680
you get older, you get a choice 
to say, was that from God or was

636
00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:21,000
that from man? 
Was that gospel? 

637
00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:24,280
Or was that just somebody's best
effort or maybe their worst 

638
00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:26,880
effort? 
And anybody that has words over 

639
00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:30,720
you has power over you. 
And there's no greater power in 

640
00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:32,240
your life than the resurrection 
power of Jesus. 

641
00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:34,240
And some of us had to get real 
serious about the words we put 

642
00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:37,120
in our life because you can't 
lead somebody where you've never

643
00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:39,000
been. 
If you cannot truly love 

644
00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:42,440
somebody, it's because you can't
love yourself because the gospel

645
00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:44,840
has not taken effect deep enough
in your life. 

646
00:29:45,360 --> 00:29:47,240
Chase it down, brother. 
I took all the time and I 

647
00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:48,760
fellowed Jesus. 
I said, you know Jesus, you need

648
00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:50,760
to get in this Bible. 
And you swim to the depth of 

649
00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:52,680
God's grace. 
You'll swim for eternity and 

650
00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:56,160
you'll never see the bottom. 
That's how you love yourself. 

651
00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:58,520
Amen. 
This is not a self help gospel 

652
00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:00,960
by the way. 
Just do a little better. 

653
00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:04,520
Change up your life, clean up 
your mess, then God will bless. 

654
00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:07,400
That's not it, Amen. 
You did not help yourself, The 

655
00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:10,880
ball says when we were yet 
helpless, Romans 5-6, Christ 

656
00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:12,760
died for us. 
There is nothing good in you 

657
00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:15,840
that could help yourself. 
So we all can obey, Amen. 

658
00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:18,760
We all can humble ourselves. 
We can look and say, Father, 

659
00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:21,640
just teach me. 
Forgive me for being so blind. 

660
00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:24,360
And we've, we've learned these 
things, we've learned these 

661
00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:25,960
patterns, but now we need to 
change that for the next 

662
00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:26,640
generation. 
Amen. 

663
00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:29,480
Here's what happens ultimately 
with all what I'm saying with 

664
00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:32,960
insecurity and fear and all 
these things on us is Jesus. 

665
00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:37,280
He unlocked the cell and we're 
still sitting at thinking we're 

666
00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:40,480
captive. 
I just believe today, and every 

667
00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:42,800
time you preach the gospel, it 
would just be amazing if 

668
00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:45,400
somebody would just look up and 
just walk out of the cell a 

669
00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:51,120
little bit and go, wow, that's 
what freedom tastes like, Amen. 

670
00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:53,800
Because we get used to where 
we're at. 

671
00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:56,800
I just believe that God has 
called us to step into his 

672
00:30:56,800 --> 00:30:59,360
presence and feel His goodness. 
I mean, you don't have to do 

673
00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:00,520
anything. 
He's like knocking on the door 

674
00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:02,280
of a heart. 
That's to Christians, by the 

675
00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:04,240
way. 
If you open the door, he'll dine

676
00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:05,640
with you. 
And you with me should just be 

677
00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:07,280
in the presence of Jesus today. 
That enough, Amen. 

678
00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:11,800
Just go do some battle in your 
heart for the things of God. 

679
00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:14,760
Romans 81 says there's now no 
condemnation for those who are 

680
00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:18,400
in Christ Jesus. 
Amen, no condemnation. 

681
00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:21,320
So when you say you're not good 
enough, I got to major up, I got

682
00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:22,920
to achieve things. 
I need validation. 

683
00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:24,760
I've got to be somebody. 
I don't have numbers, followers,

684
00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:29,240
popularity, all these why are 
are you enough for Jesus down 

685
00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:31,960
the cross for you, you're 
enough. 

686
00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:35,480
Amen, because of Jesus, he loved
you. 

687
00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:39,600
You don't have to be anymore. 
You don't have to be better. 

688
00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:43,400
You have to clean up your mess. 
You just got to embrace the 

689
00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:46,880
grace of God. 
That's real life church, by the 

690
00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:49,360
way. 
I went to church for a long 

691
00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:50,520
time. 
I never heard that message. 

692
00:31:52,440 --> 00:31:54,360
There's no air of your life 
that's off limits to God. 

693
00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:55,560
He's in no limits to God. 
Amen. 

694
00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:58,680
He turned sin into forgiveness, 
shame into dignity, broke 

695
00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:00,800
relationship into 
reconciliation, working into 

696
00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:02,640
purpose, suffering into glory 
and death in a life. 

697
00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:05,600
That's the gospel. 
He'll do it for you. 

698
00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:08,120
He did it for us. 
The Bible says that Jesus is the

699
00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:09,800
Lord of every single thing in 
your life. 

700
00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:13,520
Ephesians 19 to bring unity to 
all things in heaven on earth 

701
00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:17,240
under Christ. 
It's the fullness of the gospel.

702
00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:20,160
It's not you just get saved and 
and OK, it works out. 

703
00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:23,120
It's like, no, he wants every 
part of your life to be under 

704
00:32:23,120 --> 00:32:26,120
him and then God changes your 
life. 

705
00:32:27,080 --> 00:32:28,480
Last thing is culture in the 
world. 

706
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:33,400
And you might think about this 
because I mean, if you very he 

707
00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:35,280
pushed the news out on us a 
little bit earlier. 

708
00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:38,880
It's a little bleak. 
It's a little interesting, a 

709
00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:41,480
little bit like, I don't know 
what's happening, but hopefully 

710
00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:42,920
this is right. 
Is this even true? 

711
00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:45,560
Can I trust what I'm reading 
right now and be at that point 

712
00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:48,520
yet with AI just kind of 
wondering, like, did that happen

713
00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:50,160
or not? 
But you might say the world is 

714
00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:53,240
too far gone. 
Is this is too hard. 

715
00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:55,960
The culture is hopeless. 
You know, the city will never 

716
00:32:55,960 --> 00:32:57,720
come to Christ. 
I've seen pastors. 

717
00:32:57,800 --> 00:33:00,760
My city is too hard to reach. 
Just difficult. 

718
00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:04,440
I'm like, yeah, if it was easy, 
you know, Satan's got a hold of 

719
00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:06,240
it. 
Nothing will ever change. 

720
00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:08,080
You've been in that spot. 
Just kind of like give up on it.

721
00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:10,840
Just seems like, Nah, the world 
is just this and that. 

722
00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:13,080
And we almost like keep the 
gospel to ourselves, like do 

723
00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:15,680
like, you know, communal living 
and this like, hey, I'm not 

724
00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:18,440
going to go out, you know, at 
night, like we're staying close.

725
00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:22,280
I will say this about this. 
God is not finished, and neither

726
00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:25,280
are we. 
God is not finished with the 

727
00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:27,440
culture in the world. 
We're still here, Amen. 

728
00:33:28,320 --> 00:33:31,640
And so we're not finished there.
There's a purpose to why we're 

729
00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:33,000
still here. 
We don't, we don't like the 

730
00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:34,520
mess. 
We don't understand everything 

731
00:33:34,520 --> 00:33:36,200
that's going on. 
One day we will. 

732
00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:39,040
But God has called us right now 
to be salt and light and 

733
00:33:39,040 --> 00:33:41,960
ambassadors for Christ and be 
the hands of feet in Jesus and 

734
00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:43,800
the only Bible that most people 
are ever going to read. 

735
00:33:44,360 --> 00:33:48,240
He's called us to to be into the
culture and not of the culture, 

736
00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:51,160
to shine a light into the 
darkness, which by the way, it 

737
00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:54,360
doesn't take the you don't, you 
don't remove darkness, you add 

738
00:33:54,360 --> 00:33:56,160
light. 
Right. 

739
00:33:56,840 --> 00:33:57,880
And there's a reason you're 
here. 

740
00:33:57,880 --> 00:34:00,000
And there's people who need to 
know Christ and be encouraged in

741
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:03,240
Christ to build up the church, 
those new Jesus, and to reach 

742
00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:06,000
those new Jesus if you're not 
living under that umbrella. 

743
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:07,480
It would be pretty hopeless and 
bleak. 

744
00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:08,719
There's really no reason to be 
here. 

745
00:34:09,199 --> 00:34:11,280
But God has called us to step 
out into our culture, and if 

746
00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:15,000
he's not giving up, then neither
have we, Cautions 119 says this.

747
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:20,280
For God was pleased to have all 
his fullness dwell in him, which

748
00:34:20,280 --> 00:34:24,159
is Jesus. 
So every bit of God is in Jesus 

749
00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:30,320
and through him to reconcile to 
himself what all things, every 

750
00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:34,239
single thing is reconciled to 
Christ, whether things this is 

751
00:34:34,239 --> 00:34:37,760
interesting on earth or things 
where in heaven. 

752
00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:42,800
Every single thing by making 
peace through his blood shed on 

753
00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:46,920
the cross, Jesus reversed the 
curse. 

754
00:34:47,040 --> 00:34:49,719
Amen. 
He made right every single wrong

755
00:34:49,719 --> 00:34:52,520
and everything is going to be 
reconciled to Jesus. 

756
00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:55,199
And so the resurrection of Jesus
not just about saving souls, 

757
00:34:55,199 --> 00:34:57,720
it's about resurrecting and 
recreating all of creation. 

758
00:34:57,960 --> 00:35:01,680
So you think about people and 
systems and economy and nations,

759
00:35:02,120 --> 00:35:04,560
like everything is under the 
resurrection power of Christ, 

760
00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:08,000
Amen. 
It's the fullness of the gospel.

761
00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:10,760
So the question I'd like to ask 
today is how big is your gospel?

762
00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:14,200
Like, how effectual is your 
gospel? 

763
00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:17,080
Like is there anything that you 
put and said, man, that's a 

764
00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:19,720
partial gospel? 
Like maybe the gospel you 

765
00:35:19,720 --> 00:35:22,000
believe in and maybe you preach 
is smaller than the gospel that 

766
00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:24,400
Jesus died for? 
Like do you have full 

767
00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:25,800
confidence? 
Like there's parts of my life 

768
00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:26,960
that don't look like Jesus, but 
they can. 

769
00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:29,120
And I know you've been to 
battle. 

770
00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:31,200
I know I can see the wounds, 
I've seen the tears. 

771
00:35:31,520 --> 00:35:33,680
I've been in counselors, I know 
who I'm talking to. 

772
00:35:34,080 --> 00:35:36,320
I've been there. 
But we got to step up to the 

773
00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:39,320
plate. 
Like the gospel is effectual, 

774
00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:41,640
Amen. 
If you apply it, there's always 

775
00:35:41,640 --> 00:35:44,600
healing. 
God always changes the parts of 

776
00:35:44,600 --> 00:35:47,680
you allow him to change. 
And it's a it's a fight every 

777
00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:51,000
day for I'm crucified to Christ 
no longer I live, but Christ 

778
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:52,720
live to me and he crucifies 
himself. 

779
00:35:52,720 --> 00:35:56,840
How often, daily, daily you make
a choice. 

780
00:35:56,840 --> 00:35:59,640
You're follow Jesus, you 
champion the power of Christ. 

781
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:01,800
One day it's going to make 
perfect sense. 

782
00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:04,000
It may not be tomorrow or today,
but it will one day. 

783
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:05,880
Amen. 
There's a day coming when. 

784
00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:08,400
We're going to see. 
The resurrection of the dead, 

785
00:36:09,240 --> 00:36:10,720
the word dying, we're going to 
present heaven. 

786
00:36:10,720 --> 00:36:13,360
Then God does new creation or 
new heaven, new earth, and 

787
00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:15,800
there's a day where the our 
bodies come out of the tomb. 

788
00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:19,880
It's called the rapture and we 
go dust from dust to dust from 

789
00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:22,040
dust again. 
And there's a resurrection day 

790
00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:23,960
and there's a battle that's 
going to be fought and we're 

791
00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:27,080
going to see Jesus face to face 
and we're going to go to war. 

792
00:36:27,240 --> 00:36:29,760
And I want to talk about the 
resurrection day and and it's 

793
00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:31,800
better than me created. 
I've been reading this book, 

794
00:36:31,800 --> 00:36:35,480
like I was saying, but he has 
this great passage he wrote 

795
00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:38,280
about this and this is the 
fullness of the gospel. 

796
00:36:39,120 --> 00:36:41,880
So here's a little flavor of the
resurrection day and just stay 

797
00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:44,080
with me. 
It's going to be a a few pages. 

798
00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:46,360
So. 
The Babel cry of 100 million 

799
00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:48,720
warriors erupted from one end of
heaven to the other. 

800
00:36:49,240 --> 00:36:51,760
There was a war on the narrow 
isthmus between heaven and hell,

801
00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:55,200
a planet called Earth. 
The air was filled with the den 

802
00:36:55,200 --> 00:36:58,040
of combat. 
The whales of oppressors begin 

803
00:36:58,280 --> 00:37:00,600
begins. 
Or being slain in the jealous or

804
00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:04,280
sorry joyous celebrations of the
oppressed, rejoicing that at 

805
00:37:04,280 --> 00:37:07,920
long last their liberators had 
arrived. 

806
00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:09,600
Sorry, the lights are great up 
here. 

807
00:37:10,520 --> 00:37:14,040
Some of the warriors sang as 
they slew, singing, swinging 

808
00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:17,240
swords to hew the oppressors 
with one arm with the other, 

809
00:37:17,240 --> 00:37:18,840
pulling victims up on their 
horses. 

810
00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:21,720
The long arm of the king moved 
with swiftness and power. 

811
00:37:22,080 --> 00:37:25,840
The hope of reward that kept the
sufferer sane was vindicated 

812
00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:27,920
last. 
No child of heaven was touched 

813
00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:30,160
by a sword that day, for the 
universe could not no longer 

814
00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:33,000
tolerate the shedding of one 
more drop of righteous blood. 

815
00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:36,160
Heaven released fury. 
Earth bled. 

816
00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:39,000
It was the old world's last 
night. 

817
00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:42,600
Amen. 
At the lion's nod, Michael 

818
00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:44,920
raised his mighty sword and 
brought it down upon the great 

819
00:37:44,920 --> 00:37:48,000
dragon, It's muscles bulging at 
the strain. 

820
00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:51,160
Michael picked up the evil twin 
and cast the rhythming beast 

821
00:37:51,160 --> 00:37:54,040
into the great pit. 
The mauler of men, the hunter of

822
00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:57,600
women, the predator of children,
the persecutor of the righteous 

823
00:37:57,760 --> 00:38:00,600
shrieked in terror. 
The vast army of heavens 

824
00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:03,520
warriors cheered. 
The battalions of Karis, which 

825
00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:07,160
means grace, gazed upon the 
disseminated faces of the earth,

826
00:38:07,720 --> 00:38:09,240
the scorched soil of the Old 
World. 

827
00:38:09,560 --> 00:38:13,280
Nothing had survived the fires 
of this Holocaust of things. 

828
00:38:13,640 --> 00:38:17,600
Nothing but the King's word, his
people, and the deeds of gold 

829
00:38:17,600 --> 00:38:20,000
and silver and precious stones 
that done for him. 

830
00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:21,880
During the long night since 
Eden's twilight. 

831
00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:24,640
Soldiers dropped their weapons 
and the crippled tossed their 

832
00:38:24,640 --> 00:38:27,880
crutches, and they ran. 
The blind opened their eyes and 

833
00:38:27,880 --> 00:38:29,600
saw. 
They pointed and shouted and 

834
00:38:29,600 --> 00:38:32,560
danced, throwing their arms 
around each other, for each knew

835
00:38:32,880 --> 00:38:36,040
that any now left on earth were 
under the King's blood and could

836
00:38:36,040 --> 00:38:38,720
be fully trusted. 
The king gathered children upon 

837
00:38:38,720 --> 00:38:40,800
his lap and wiped away their 
tears. 

838
00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:44,200
The sound of a great multitude, 
like the roar of rushing waters 

839
00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:47,680
and the loud peels of Thunder, 
shouted Hallelujah for the Lord 

840
00:38:47,680 --> 00:38:51,320
God Almighty rains, lest rejoice
me glad and give him glory. 

841
00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:54,160
For the wedding of the Lamb has 
come, and his bride has made 

842
00:38:54,160 --> 00:38:56,680
herself ready. 
All eyes turn to the King. 

843
00:38:57,040 --> 00:38:59,880
The entire universe fell silent,
anticipating his words. 

844
00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:05,360
I will turn the wasteland into a
garden called paradise, the king

845
00:39:05,360 --> 00:39:07,760
announced. 
I'll bring here the home I've 

846
00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:11,320
made for you, my bride. 
There will be a new world, a 

847
00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:14,440
life filled blue-green world, 
greater than all that's ever 

848
00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:16,720
been. 
The shall lands are mine again, 

849
00:39:17,040 --> 00:39:20,560
and I shall transform them. 
My Kingdom has come, My will 

850
00:39:20,560 --> 00:39:23,400
shall be done. 
Winter is over and spring is 

851
00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:26,320
here at last. 
A great roar rose from the vast 

852
00:39:26,320 --> 00:39:28,680
crowd. 
The King raised his hands upon 

853
00:39:28,680 --> 00:39:32,120
seeing the scars, the crowds, 
the cheering crowds. 

854
00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:35,200
Remember the unthinkable cost of
the great celebration. 

855
00:39:35,520 --> 00:39:37,200
Warriors slapped each other on 
the back. 

856
00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:40,200
The delivered hugged at their 
deliverers, enjoying a great 

857
00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:42,720
reunion. 
There was once that once parted 

858
00:39:42,720 --> 00:39:46,600
from them, the multitudes or 
innumerable began to sing the 

859
00:39:46,600 --> 00:39:49,440
song for which they've been 
made, a song that echoed off a 

860
00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:51,560
trillion planets and 
reverberated in quadrillion 

861
00:39:51,560 --> 00:39:54,680
places and every nook and cranny
of the creation expanse. 

862
00:39:55,080 --> 00:39:57,600
Audience and orchestra and choir
all blended into one great 

863
00:39:57,600 --> 00:40:01,880
Symphony, a grand cantata of 
rhapsodic melodies sustaining 

864
00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:04,040
harmonies. 
All were participants. 

865
00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:07,360
Only one was the audience, the 
audience of 1. 

866
00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:10,160
The smile of the King's approval
swept through the choir like a 

867
00:40:10,160 --> 00:40:13,440
fire across a dry wheat field. 
When the song was complete, the 

868
00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:16,760
audience of 1 stood and raised 
his arms, then clapped his 

869
00:40:16,760 --> 00:40:19,720
scarred hands together in a 
thunderous applause, shaking 

870
00:40:19,720 --> 00:40:22,520
ground in the sky and drawing 
every corner of the cosmos. 

871
00:40:23,440 --> 00:40:27,760
His applause went on and on, 
unstoppable and unstopping. 

872
00:40:28,360 --> 00:40:31,560
Every one of them realized 
something that with undiminished

873
00:40:31,560 --> 00:40:34,200
clarity. 
In that instance, they wondered 

874
00:40:34,200 --> 00:40:37,000
why they had not seen it all 
along, what they knew in that 

875
00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:38,880
moment, and every fiber of their
being. 

876
00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:43,280
Was that in this person, in this
place where all they'd ever 

877
00:40:43,280 --> 00:40:45,480
longed for and all they ever 
would? 

878
00:40:47,160 --> 00:40:47,880
Pretty good. 
Amen. 

879
00:40:49,080 --> 00:40:50,240
There's a resurrection day 
coming. 

880
00:40:50,760 --> 00:40:52,960
You may not understand 
everything about heaven and all 

881
00:40:52,960 --> 00:40:55,640
the things of God. 
There's a man of God that wrote 

882
00:40:55,640 --> 00:40:56,760
this. 
His name's Tom Albright. 

883
00:40:56,760 --> 00:40:58,120
It's actually Tony Taylor's 
grandpa. 

884
00:40:58,560 --> 00:41:00,520
He wrote a little devotional to 
heaven a few weeks ago. 

885
00:41:00,880 --> 00:41:02,360
He said my children were very 
small. 

886
00:41:02,360 --> 00:41:05,120
When they would hold my hand, it
was too big for them to get a 

887
00:41:05,120 --> 00:41:07,280
hold of. 
So they grasped my finger and 

888
00:41:07,720 --> 00:41:10,640
that's all they needed. 
No matter that they knew nothing

889
00:41:10,640 --> 00:41:13,160
of my their dad's ability or 
bind. 

890
00:41:13,680 --> 00:41:17,160
They had a hold of daddy and 
such as the grasp of my God in 

891
00:41:17,160 --> 00:41:20,080
heaven. 
I have a hold of him and more 

892
00:41:20,080 --> 00:41:22,840
importantly, he has a hold of 
me. 

893
00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:26,480
That's good, Amen. 
You don't understand every piece

894
00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:28,240
of it and the Bible really ends 
in Revelation 21. 

895
00:41:28,240 --> 00:41:31,960
Five says, behold, I'll make all
things new. 

896
00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:35,560
That's a good word, Amen. 
That's the full gospel that's 

897
00:41:36,080 --> 00:41:38,680
going to happen one day. 
You guys believe that that 

898
00:41:38,680 --> 00:41:41,880
picture, that feeling, this is 
all we ever needed. 

899
00:41:42,080 --> 00:41:44,760
It's all going to make sense. 
Thank you Jesus. 

900
00:41:45,280 --> 00:41:48,880
So Father, we come before you 
God, I pray for our church God 

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that we would have the full 
gospel. 

902
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God will come part every part of
our lives, God, whether it's our

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marriage or it's our inner 
thoughts of the secret sins of 

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self God, of the brokenness that
we walk through. 

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God, I pray that we strengthen 
us today through your gospel. 

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How many today say in our house 
to say, I want the fullness of 

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the gospel? 
I've been leaving a partial 

908
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gospel, but today I want the 
fullness of the gospel, the 

909
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fullness of Christ. 
I want to know him in the power 

910
00:42:15,520 --> 00:42:18,400
of his resurrection and the joy 
of his suffering. 

911
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I'll know all pieces of Christ. 
That's you. 

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Just put your hands out in front
of you and say, Lord, just touch

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me. 
God, I surrender to you Again, 

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there's parts of me, there's 
words I've been speaking, 

915
00:42:28,960 --> 00:42:30,760
there's lies I've been 
believing. 

916
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My identity's been wrapped up 
too much in me or too much what 

917
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somebody else has said. 
God, don't put my identity in 

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you. 
Am I marriage in you? 

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No, I hope in you. 
Oh, I believe by other people in

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you. 
God set my mind and my heart on 

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eternity. 
God on heaven. 

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I'll pray for one more group of 
people that's those of you today

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that recognize that you need 
Jesus, but the gospel has not 

924
00:42:52,280 --> 00:42:57,360
touched you yet that you're a 
Sinner stranded in sin and need 

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00:42:57,360 --> 00:43:02,480
the gospel to bust open the 
gates of hell, the gates of sin 

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in your life and step into Jesus
into his presence. 

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The first time the Bible says 
that Jesus became sin and do no 

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sin that you might become the 
righteousness of God that says 

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you make confess you the mouth 
you believe that Jesus down the 

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cross for your sins that you 
rose again that you be saved and

931
00:43:17,040 --> 00:43:20,920
forgiven and made new today if 
you need Jesus, if you need 

932
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heaven, you only get there 
through Jesus is the only way in

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the Bible and his grace. 
Jesus loves you enough to save 

934
00:43:29,200 --> 00:43:33,720
you from your sin and give you 
life now that lasts for eternity

935
00:43:33,720 --> 00:43:35,680
through heaven. 
So you even need Christ? 

936
00:43:35,680 --> 00:43:37,120
I've been looking around. 
If that's you need a star 

937
00:43:37,120 --> 00:43:38,800
relationship with Jesus, we 
should raise your hand high. 

938
00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:40,640
So I need Christ. 
Today I'm not going to call you 

939
00:43:40,640 --> 00:43:42,160
and make it weird because I need
Jesus. 

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00:43:42,600 --> 00:43:44,560
Come on, see your hand to be 
able to I need Jesus today 

941
00:43:45,160 --> 00:43:50,440
relationship with Christ. 
There's no shame they'd be 

942
00:43:50,440 --> 00:43:52,040
coming for a season. 
You're like, man, I don't know. 

943
00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:54,480
Today you can know see your hand
as well. 

944
00:43:55,920 --> 00:43:57,600
If that's you just call it to 
your father. 

945
00:43:57,960 --> 00:44:01,000
Father, thank you so much for 
sending Jesus. 

946
00:44:01,440 --> 00:44:04,080
You did for me what I could 
never do in a million lifetimes.

947
00:44:04,080 --> 00:44:07,960
God, thank you for loving me 
when I was unlovable thus far 

948
00:44:07,960 --> 00:44:09,720
from you. 
God, forgive me for building my 

949
00:44:09,720 --> 00:44:13,080
life and myself, my own power, 
my insecurity, my fear if I've 

950
00:44:13,080 --> 00:44:14,920
wandered this world, but God, 
I'm coming home. 

951
00:44:15,760 --> 00:44:18,360
God, thank you for loving me. 
God, I pray forgive me for my 

952
00:44:18,360 --> 00:44:19,760
sins. 
God, I trust, redeem the cross 

953
00:44:19,760 --> 00:44:21,680
with me. 
I believe in you Jesus, and I 

954
00:44:21,680 --> 00:44:24,680
pray this in Jesus name. 
And the church said, hey man, 

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00:44:24,680 --> 00:44:26,040
give up. 
Give some glory to God today. 

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00:44:26,040 --> 00:44:27,880
Amen. 
Let them know you love them. 

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