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Now enjoy this message, but this is what I would encourage you
with When you're doing your devotional reading, When you're
doing your prayer time, when you're coming to church This
year, 2024, as we leave 2023 and enter into 2024.
This year when you're doing your devotional reading, your prayer
time, your praise time, when you're coming to church, be all
in. Don't go through the routine.
Pastor Marquess is talking about the fresh start through the Holy
Ghost, right? He was giving him inspiration or
a word in season for us. But listen, your routine's going
to be the same if you don't change your routine.
One definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and
over again and expecting a different result if you're doing
the same. Thing as you.
Did last year and it wasn't working last year.
Guess what? It's not going to work in 2024.
So when you come, you really need to draw.
Everybody, eyes on me. Focus.
Turn to your neighbor, say. Focus.
Turn the other one, say focus. Say in 2024, I'm going to stay
focused. In Luke chapter 8, there was a
woman with issue of blood and she had needs, right?
The Bible says she was hemorrhaging or bleeding for 12
years. She had going through the same
routine, doing the same thing over and over again.
But guess what? Nothing was changing.
It just kept getting worse. There's hope in the Kingdom of
God. She heard about the Messiah.
She heard about Jesus. And all of a sudden something
sparked on the inside of her. And this is my prayer for us.
Something should spark on the inside of you today that I want
to do something different. 2024, what is the plan you have for
me? God in 2024, when she heard the
Messiah was there, she heard about his goodness, His
faithfulness, his healing power. And she said, I'm tired of being
in the same position, the same place, the same results.
I need a fresh start. I need a new season.
And she did something that nobody else did.
The Bible says Jesus was making way down the street when she
heard he was there in her town. And there's they said there was
a crowd around him, so much so it was shoulder to shoulder.
But she and her condition said I got to get to him.
There was a desire, there was a craving, there was a demand.
She said if anything's going to change, I need truth.
And so she pressed and squeezed and navigated through the
crowds. And we got to get some things
out of our way. This week may have been heavy.
You been man walking. Get it out of the way today so
you can receive when you do your devotional.
Don't come in with confusion, distress, distraught,
depression. Get it out of the way.
So what you can press into the word of God.
And so she touched the hem of the Messiah, of truce garment.
And all of a sudden, instantly that's how quick it happens.
Church. Instantly the blood had stopped.
Her season had changed, but guess what?
That just doesn't fall on you like ripe cherries off of a
tree. You could be around Jesus just
like the crowd was around him, but didn't get what they needed
because they didn't press in. In John chapter 4, the woman at
the Well, Jesus said if you would have known the gift of
God, you would have would have asked.
So what's he saying? If you would have made a request
that you made a demand upon me? And guess what?
She pressed in. So my context for you in 2024 is
press in. These were theater seats at one
time. But this isn't entertainment
anymore. You are coming on Sundays not to
be relaxed in your seat, but to get a download of instruction to
equip you for your purpose in this vision.
It shouldn't be. I left and that was a good
sermon. It's a life changing message
that fueled me for what God has in store for me.
And we serve a great God who's got great things in store for
his great people in 2024. Amen.
But you got to draw. You got to draw.
Listen, I I guarantee you whoever Pastor O has ministered
in any layer of leadership at Anchor Faith Church, whatever
assignments. He gave me an assignment this
morning. We take this very seriously.
We study, we pray. We seek God from from infants to
elderly. Whatever we're doing in
ministry, we want God there. But there can be a hindrance to
what's being downloaded and parted if you're not drawing.
Hello. So a lot of what's said.
Guess there could be a pool, there could be a draw.
That whatever you need, if you draw on the anointing, it can
come to you today. But if you're going to sit there
thinking about whatever else, you may not get much.
Amen. But if you say, Lord, I want all
that you have for me, God's going to speak to you today.
Amen. So I want to talk to you about
Kingdom and advancement today. Kingdom advancement and to be
advancing in the Kingdom we need to know some in Christ
realities. Amen.
Our mode, our motto for Anchor Fay Church is always advancing,
and there's some things that will hinder advancement in your
life. We've already covered those
doing the same thing you were doing last year that wasn't
getting any results. That's a hindrance to your
growth in God, right? How far do you want to go with
God this year in advancing with him?
The outcome is completely up to you.
I want to start off in Matthew chapter 13.
This is a parable that Jesus spoke, but it really sets the
principle for everything the Word of God does in our life.
You could say it's one of the parables of all the parables
because in this we find how the word of God goes in operation
and can be stalled out or hindered in our life, or can go
on to produce, produce great things in the life of those that
receive it, embrace it and do it.
So in Matthew chapter 13, verse #1 it says on the same day Jesus
went out of the house and sat by the sea, and great multitude
were gathered together to him. So they got into a boat and sat,
and the whole multitude stood on the shore.
Then he spoke many things to them in parable saying, Behold,
A sower went out to sow, and as he sowed some seed fell by the
wayside. The birds came and devoured
them. Some seed fell on Stony places
where they did not have much earth, and they immediately
sprang up because they had no depth of earth.
But when the sun was up, they were scorched, and because they
had no root, they withered away, And some seed fell among thorns,
and the thorns sprung up and choked them.
But other seed fell on good ground, and yielded A crop, some
a hundredfold, some 60, some 30. He who has ears to hear, let him
hear. And the disciples came and said
to him, Why do you speak to them in parables?
And Jesus answered and said to them, because it has been given
to you to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of heaven, but to
them it has not been given. For whoever has to him more will
be given, and he will have abundance, but whoever does not
have even what he has, will be taken away from him.
Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do
not see and hear, and they do not hear, nor do they
understand. And then then the prophecy of
Isaiah is fulfilled, which says, hearing, you will hear and shall
not understand, seeing you will see and not perceive.
For the hearts of this people have grown dull, and their ears
are hard of hearing, and their eyes they have closed, lest they
should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, unless
they should understand with their hearts, and turn, so that
I should heal them. Verse 16 But blessed are your
eyes, for they see and your ears for they hear.
For surely I say to you that many prophets and righteous men
desire to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what
you hear, but did not therefore hear what the parable of the
sower says. When anyone hears the word of
God in the Kingdom and does not understand it, then the wicked
one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart, that he
who received the seed, that is, he who received the seed by the
wayside. But he who received the seed on
the Stony place is to see who hears the Word, and immediately
receives it with joy. Yet he has no root in himself,
and he endures only for a little while.
When tribulation or persecution arises because of the Word,
immediately he stumbles. Now he who receives seat among
the thorns, He is He Who hears the Word.
But the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches
choke the Word, and it becomes unfruitful.
But he who received the seat on good ground is He who hears the
Word and understands it. And indeed he brings forth
fruit, some 100, some 60, some 30.
How far do you want to go with God in 2024?
Some of you are going to. Bring forth fruit.
The question is how much fruit do you want to bring forth?
You want to be a 30 fold Christian, a 60 fold Christian
or 100 fold Christian. Now listen, if you do statistics
on this when the seed is sown, 4 things happen.
Only one of those is the result of the devil.
We could say 25% of an unsuccessful, unsuccessful
Christian life is because of the devil.
Two other things, and we'll say this the culture.
Say culture is the culprit. Say it again.
Culture is the culprit. Two of those things, one had no.
What fertile ground? It was shallow, that's why I
said you got to be all in. You got to be all in, You got to
press in, the other one says. Guess what?
The deceitfulness of riches and the cares of life.
So statistically, 50% of unsuccessful Christian life is
because of the culture that were around.
You know, when the Israelites came out of Egypt through the
wilderness to come in a Canaan land, God said to destroy the
nations around you, lest you're given to their culture.
You can get sucked in to the way that the world does things and
myths with all that God has in store for you in 2024, but thank
God there's some. And I pray we have a good amount
of some at Anchor Faith Church. I pray we have a good amount of
some at Anchor Faith Church that says Lord break up the fertile
to the ground that that's hard and just break it up.
I want to have reception of the word of God.
Get the stones get the rocks get the weeds out of the way Father.
And I want your seed implanted and impregnated in my.
Heart because I want to bring forth fruit this year and some
are going to bring 30, some are going to bring 60 this year and
some are going to bring 100 where?
Are you in that statistic? Hallelujah.
Are you going to do the things necessary to bring forth fruit
as a hundredfold Christian this year?
So the Kingdom is always advancing.
The question is, are you advancing with what God is doing
through this vision and body and anchor?
Faith. Church and Acts, Chapter 20,
verse #24. This is the Apostle Paul.
And I'm. I had the opportunity to do a
funeral on Friday, and obviously, we see the end of one
life at that funeral. You know, death does not scare
me. I say death, You're dead.
Why'd I say that? Because I'm in Christ.
Yes. Hallelujah.
So I'm not waiting for eternal life.
I have eternal life right now. So death.
Guess what? You're dead.
But you know, this person obviously lived out their life,
and there's an obituary describing the reputation, the
character, and the worth of this life.
I bring that up because the next example I'm giving you is just a
big picture summary. You know, at some point there is
going to be death in the sense of you're going to separate from
this physical. Body.
Your spirit Man's already alive eternally.
The Bible says to be absent from the bodies.
To be what? Present with the Lord.
You know I have a lot of eternal life right now in my spirit.
But if this body passes away, which it will, it says this
corruption must put on what incorruption?
Corruption means I'm subject to death, decay and will die.
Incorruptions means I'm not subject to death, decay and will
not die. So my spirit man is immortal.
It's not subject to death. Decay or will die, Paul said.
This outward man is perishing, yet this inward man's being what
renewed day by day. Amen.
So this obituary point out the,
the worth, the character, the life of this individual.
But it gives you, you know, it's a it's a sombering moment at
that point because you realize that there is going to be a
point if the Lord does not return, that you're physically
this body's going to wear out. Amen.
I pray cancer doesn't take you out.
I pray you live the fullness of your days.
Do you know it's God's will for you to live the fullness of your
days? There is no reason that you have
to be taken out by illness or disease.
Now your life may not have the duration of others, because you
may be a martyr for. Christ.
But you still fulfilled the will of God in health and wholeness.
Amen. And that there are the The Bible
says in Proverbs the curse Causeless does not come.
Meaning there's a cause for the curse, and we're going to look
at one in Christ's reality today.
It's going to set you up for 2024 to move some mountains.
Are you ready for mountains to be?
Moved, but I want to go to Paul's.
I'm not. He's still alive, so it's not as
obituary, but it is his near end of life's statement.
As he's fulfilling his ministry. He gets a word as he's on his
missionary journeys that there's going to be persecution, there's
going to be tribulation. But guess what?
He's not that one statistic. That tribulation of persecution
is going to get him off the will or plan of God.
He was determined, resolved and firm that I'm going to complete
God's plan for my life. And the and the word of God said
when you go these towns, there's going to be, it's going to be
hard outwardly. But you know what Paul said
about that In Acts 2024? He said None of these things
move me, nor do I count my life dear to myself so that I may
finish my race with joy and the ministry which I received from
the Lord Jesus to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.
There's a race that we need to finish with joy.
There's a race that God has assigned to you that you need to
finish with joy. Not sadness, not depression, not
well. I barely got along and
completed. No, God said.
You're going to live out the fullness of your days, and
you're going to fulfill the ministry if you surrender and
submit to His will. In Hebrews chapter 12, verse #1,
the passion translation says this.
As for us, we have all these great witnesses who encircle us
like clouds, so we must let go of every wound.
That is pierced us in the sin we so easily fall into.
Then we will be able to run life's marathon race with
passion and determination, for the path has already been marked
out before us. Hebrews 12 is referring back to
Hebrews 11 about this Great Hall of fame of faith, all these men
and women of God that did great exploits for the Kingdom.
But he's saying As for you, there's a a race before you.
It's not a Sprint, it's a marathon.
But you got to throw off some stuff, get some mountains out of
your. Way.
So what? You can fulfill the course and
the plan that God has for you. So let's go to Ephesians chapter
one. To advance in your race with
Christ, you need to know some in Christ realities.
What does in Christ realities mean?
I don't watch much at all secular TV shows.
Matter of fact we were with some friends and family in in
Oklahoma and one of them and said hey, have you ever seen the
office? I said no.
I go to an office on Mondays, but but in these TV shows, they
have what they call reality TV shows.
Let me say this. Truth and reality are
synonymous. And these reality shows are not
reality. They're drama Mamas in front of
the camera, they put on a. Show It's really reality is not
a matter of show. Reality is an actual being or
existence of anything. Reality is truth.
Reality is something intrinsically important.
We don't want to live in fantasy land.
As believers, we have hope. We have the word of God.
But we're not living in fantasy land.
We're not living in unrealities. We want truth.
Something that's intrinsically important, right?
So these are in Christ realities.
What does that mean? When you're born again, your
spirit man, which was separated from God, becomes a new creature
in Christ Jesus. The Bible says old things have
passed away. All things have become new.
So now I enter into a living, vital relationship with Jesus
Christ. But just 'cause you're in that
relationship, are you actually in Christ?
I'll put it this way when you get married to your spouse.
You enter into a relationship, but you realize there's a legal
side to that and there's a vital side to that.
Legally, you went through the ceremony before an ordained
minister for those of you that are believers and in front of
witnesses and family and friends through the ordained.
Minister words are spoken, a covenant is made, and legally on
paper before the Kingdom and then civilly right through Saint
Johns County. If that's the county you got
married and it's recognized legally, right?
But you realize that that doesn't mean it.
Makes a house a home. There's a vital side.
Vitality means life to actually enjoy the legal side.
Of the marriage covenant are you with me?
So I legally could be married, but my marriage is in shambles
because I don't have vitality or life in it.
Maybe you're not in Christ, and what what I say in Christ is
you're born again, but you realize you have a soul and a
body. 1st Thessalonians 5 says that that your whole spirit,
soul and body be preserved blameless until the coming of
Lord Jesus Christ. So you are a spirit.
You have a soul. What's your soul, your mind,
your will, and your emotions? When you become a new creature
in Christ, guess what? Your mind, your will, and your
emotions don't change like that. And guess what?
Your flesh does not change quickly.
What do you do when you're training up a little baby the
right way? If they're reaching for the
outlet, this is what we did. We would say no.
If they continue to reach for the outlet, guess what?
Put your seatbelts on. We would smack their hand.
Say that's good parenting, not good parenting is.
Oh, that's cute. No, because I don't want my baby
getting shocked. So guess what God does when you
get born again, He's going to tell you no to some things.
Don't do that. Then you may get some words from
the pulpit and you feel like you got your hand slapped.
Say Hallelujah. Say God loves me so much He will
tell me no and give me a little spanking.
Hallelujah. Just smile, Amen, Amen.
So the word in in means this. It's a preposition that denotes
a fixed position in place, time or state.
That's what the Greek definition of it is.
The Merriam Webster says in defines a as a function word,
not passive, functional to indicate a position or a
location. So my challenge for you as we
enter, come out of 2023 into 2024, are you going to be in the
vital side, not just the legal side, but the vital side of your
walk with God for this year? That means I'm not moved.
I'm firm, I'm resolved. I'm determined to stay in.
I'm not going to be moved, Paul said.
None of these things move me. I'm not going to be moved out of
position. I'm going to stay vitally in
him. When I go to church, I'm going
to be all in. I'm not just going to wait for
this sermon. Pastoral says it like this.
The first sermon you get on Sundays.
Really, let me We should back up to 930 corporate prayer and be
all in not just the legal side. I did my duty, but I'm coming in
to receive and to participate. But he said the first sermon is
actually worship. A lot of us sometimes are
waiting for it to get over so the sermon can start.
But you need to be what all in, in every phase of service be all
in, in your devotional reading. For those of you that listen on
audio, I'm going to spank your hand right now.
You get so busy Hallelujah because I'm guilty of this too.
Doing things. You don't really receive
everything that's being said because you're doing something
else when the narration is going on.
Hallelujah. But be all in when you do your
devotional reading Hosea chapter 4 verse number let me actually I
want to go to Ephesians chapter one.
This is 23 verses I'm going to give you this and the word in in
the New Testament is mentioned over 2700 times.
So do you think it's important to be in Christ?
Absolutely. I just want to point out some
highlights because I want to really quicken you or challenge
you as you're reading the Bible this year.
Look for that term in because we're talking about in Christ
realities or being in truth or being in something important
that's going to break you out of the routine or the mountain
you're facing so you can go on to fulfill the plan that God has
for you. So Ephesians, chapter one man,
he talks. I'm just going to highlight some
of the things he talks about being in Christ in and verse one
he says we're faithful in Christ.
Verse three says we're blessed in heavenly places in Christ.
Verse four says we're chosen in him before the foundation of the
world, that we should be holy and blameless in love.
Verse six says we're accepted in Him.
Verse 7 says we're redeemed in Him.
Verse 8 says we abound in wisdom and prudence in him.
Verse 9 says there's a purpose in him.
Verse 10 talks about the fullness in him or the
dispensation of the fullness of times.
Verse 11 says we have an inheritance in him.
Verse 13 says it's in Him we trusted and in Him we are
sealed. Verse 15 says we have faith in
Him. Verse 16 says we pray in Him.
Verse 17 says there's wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of
him. Verse 18 says there's an
inheritance again in him. Verse 23 says he fills all in.
All that's just one chapter of in him realities.
So as you're reading here's a good goal.
We need goals going in 2024. Look for those in Him realities.
The Holy Spirit will quicken what you need in this season of
your life. There's so many wonderful and
precious promises and truths in the word of God.
He will speak to you about what you need to be in vitally to see
breakthrough this year and fulfill the plan that God has
for you. Hosea, Chapter 4, verse #6 says
this. My people are destroyed from a
lack of knowledge because you have rejected knowledge.
I will also reject you as my priest because you've ignored
the law of God. I will also ignore your
children. What is it that you don't know
that you're not in that's hindering you?
What is it that you don't know that you're not in that's
hindering you? What are you not have the
knowledge of that you're not in that's hindering your race?
His people what destroy destroyed for a lack of
knowledge. In in Luke Chapter 11, verse
#52, Jesus says this woe to you experts in the law, because
you've taken away the key to knowledge.
You yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those who
were entering. What is it that you're don't
know about God that you're not in that's hindering the race for
you? They took away the key of
Knowledge, these religious people, and it kept them out,
but it kept others out. So ignorance will keep you in
darkness, which will keep you in bondage.
Hallelujah. There are dumb Christians.
Hallelujah. I don't mean that derogatory.
I don't mean that to slam anybody, but I say that to
encourage you to get an education.
Hallelujah. There are dumb Christians you
can come out of stupidity. Hallelujah.
Sorry.
I'm thinking of Reverend John George right now.
If you've ever experienced his ministry with us at Anchor Faith
Church, I forget exactly how to say that's two kinds of stupid.
Or he has a saying about stupidity.
But guess what? God wants you to come out of
ignorance. Ignorance is an absence of
knowledge. Listen, foolishness is you don't
want to learn. Ignorance is you don't know.
So the Bible. Talks some proverbs about
scorners, those that make fun of truth.
Foolish people, those that don't want to learn.
One verse in prover says you're stupid if you don't want to
learn. Titus Clay quoted it to me when
we're serving in kids a couple years ago.
But ignorance means there's an absent of truth.
So what do you need to know this year in Christ to have
breakthrough and have a fresh season?
The keyword in Luke 1152 is you want to enter in.
That's. And I didn't even realize when I
read this verse and I got an impression or an inspiration to
my spirit. When Pastor Marcos is leading us
in worship, not everybody's entering in.
So you need to enter in. There's some things you need to
know in order to enter in. Now I want to look at one in
Christ's reality that's really going to help launch you in a
2024. So this is examination time.
This is a serious time, a somber time for evaluation.
You know, at work for those that work for a company, guess what
they do? They do annual evaluations to
meet your job description. Right?
Evaluate what's a job description.
This is what you're supposed to be doing when we hired you on.
And guess what? There's usually a scale, whether
one through 5, one through 10, you know, satisfactory.
Unsatisfactory needs improvement.
So I'm asking you to evaluate your life.
Hey man, there's and guess what about there's a two way
conversation with God and an evaluation.
Guess what? You get to give some input back.
As the employee, you know God doesn't mind you asking them
questions now he'll give you the answer.
It's now. Don't be foolish and not receive
what he said because that's going to keep you in the same
God, how do I get out of the situation?
Oh, you need to serve your wife. Nah, so stay in the same boat in
2024. Or do you want to breakthrough?
Do you want to enter in to all that God has for you?
So as I'm going over this one in Christ reality, I want you to
really evaluate, Lord, where do I fit in at or how does this
speak to me or in what areas maybe is this hindering my
advancement? Now listen, there's blatant sin,
sins of Commission, right? We talk about pornography, drug
addiction, spousal abuse, that kind of stuff.
But there's also sins of omission.
You just know what to do, but you're not doing it.
And so when I say evaluation, it's not that you're in some
blatant sin, but it's oh, I just need to tweak that.
That's all I had to do. And all of a sudden bam, what we
call breakthrough because you surrender and you submit to what
God's saying about being in him. So I want to open up with Luke,
Chapter 17 verses one through 5. The Bible says this.
This is Jesus speaking to his disciples.
Let me say that again. This is Jesus speaking to his
disciples. Let me ask you this question.
Are you a disciple of Jesus Christ?
Raise your hand real proud. If you're a disciple of Jesus
Christ, I'll raise it because I'm sweating.
I had to shed my coat. I was like, it's cold outside
and all the put my have my coat on.
All of a sudden it's I'm hot. So he's speaking to who?
Us. Now listen to what he says.
Are all things possible with God.
But listen what Jesus says about this.
It's impossible that no offenses should come, but woe to him
through whom the offensive come. It would be better for him, if a
Millston were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the
sea, that he should offend one of these little ones.
Take heed to yourself. If your brother sins against
you, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him.
If he get sins against you seven times a day, and seven times in
a day returns saying, I repent, you shall forgive him, the
apostles said, Lord, increase our faith.
Hallelujah, they said, increase. You better add what you're
asking me to do. You better put some.
More in me. Because this seems like a
difficult saying. All things are possible with
God, but Jesus said it's impossible.
Offenses will come. Impossible means it can't be
undone. It can't be changed.
It can't be altered. It's going to happen, right?
Listen, I like Peter and all of this sanguinish because he was
all in. Jesus said when he went to wash
their feet, Peter's like, no, Lord, don't do it to me.
He said if you if I don't do this, you have no part with me.
So Jesus said, Lord, give me a whole bath.
Wash everything Lord. So I can see Peter talking to
Jesus when because we get the we get this account in Luke, but in
Matthew we get Peter side of the story.
So I can just see Peter in all of the sanguinness talking to
Jesus about this because he was all in.
He's the one that was in the boat and he said, Lord if that's
you bid me to what come you know out of 12 disciples he's the
only one that was all in. He said I want to do something
impossible in 2024. Well and that day.
So Peter in Matthew chapter 18 he says this about this account.
Peter came and said, Lord, I could see him pulling him aside
and say Jesus, I just when you said if he comes seven times a
day, I got to forgive him seven times a day.
Let me talk to you about this Jesus, He said Lord, how often
if my brother sins against me should I forgive him?
Jesus answered. Peter said up to seven times.
Jesus said I did not say up to seven.
I say up to 70 * 7. Peter's mind was blown.
Was that the OMG? I'm not savvy when it comes to
technology, by the way. If they're bad dad jokes, please
forgive me. I got yesterday and I didn't
bring it with me because I got goals on jokes every year.
I may double up this year and do six.
I actually got a calendar from a friend that had dad jokes.
I'm not saying any. My wife's shaking her head, but
he said up to 70 * 7. Now I did the math on this
because that's 490 times in a day, so I just did over 24 hours
and that's about every 3 minutes.
But I thought, Lord, we sleep and usually you're not thinking
when you're sleeping, So let me deduct 7 hours from that on
average. And that came down about every
two minutes say Lord, increase my faith that says somebody's
hurting you, done you wrong, disappointed you talk bad about
you perceived wrongs. Really it's not saying every two
minutes, it's saying be in a perpetual state of releasing or
it will hinder your journey. Let's look at Mark Chapter 11
verses 20 through to 26. Reverend Randy brought this up
on Wednesday night as he ministered on.
Faith and I want to read this from two different translations.
The message says it like this, starting in verse 22 of Mark 11.
Reading through verse 26, it says Jesus as a matter of fact.
Embrace this God life. Or we could say this in Christ
reality, right? Really embrace it.
Be all in and nothing will be too much for you.
This mountain, for instance. Just say go jump in the lake.
No shuffling or Hemming and hauling, and it's as good as
done. That's why I urge you to pray
for absolutely everything, ranging from small to large.
Include everything as you embrace this God life and you'll
get everything. You'll get God's everything.
And when you assume the posture of prayer, remember it's not all
asking if you if you have anything against someone,
forgive, only then will your Heavenly Father be inclined to
also wipe your slate clean of sins.
The passion translation says it like this.
Jesus replied, Let the faith of God be in you.
Listen to the truth. I speak to you.
Whoever says it's mountain with great faith and does not doubt
mountain, be lifted up and thrown in the midst of the sea,
and believes that what he says will happen.
It will be done. This is the region reason I urge
you to boldly believe. For whatever you ask in prayer,
be convinced that you have received it and it will be
yours. And whenever you stand praying,
if you find you carry something in your heart against another
person, release him and forgive him, so that your Father in
heaven will also release you and forgive you of your faults.
But if you will not release forgiveness, don't expect your
Father in Heaven to release you from your misdeeds.
Man, if you're not in forgiveness, you're going to
have a frustrating prayer life. You have really bound the
omnipotent, all powerful, mighty God from working on your behalf.
And you think, Lord and evaluate your life.
Why are my prayers seem hindered?
This is one of the first places I would check.
You know there's things that can hinder your prayer life.
First, Peter, 37 says, husbands, treat your wife with honours the
weaker vessel, lest your prayers be hindered.
There's another hindrance, but this one is one.
I would definitely start off with an evaluation.
If you feel like or seems like your prayers are bouncing off
the ceiling and coming back down to you, am I in forgiveness now?
The term mountains means obstacles or hindrances or
things that are in your way that prohibit you from advancing
their barriers. But the Strongs says of
mountains are symbolic of countries or people.
So just for relational, we'll go with people.
What person may you be harboring something against that's
offended you? That's a mountain in your way of
advancement this year? Hallelujah, you're the Bible
says you're to forgive them. This is not a invitation.
God doesn't give invitations. This is not a birthday party
where I can either accept or decline your invitation.
God gives commands and commands are either obeyed or disobeyed,
and if you're not experienced God's best or pathway for your
life, then you're not really lining up with his command.
He didn't give Moses A10 suggestions, and there's even in
the Old Testament. If you followed those, there's
guess what? There's a blessing in keeping
with the truth in God now. Forgive means this.
To drop it, release it, let it go, to send it away.
To let it depart, to give it up and don't keep it any longer.
It's really a separation. So when I forgive somebody, I'm
dropping it, I'm releasing it, I'm letting it go.
I'm separating from me. I'm sending it away.
It's not part of me. The love of God is greater.
Hallelujah.
So it's so important to forgive. I want to look at 4 studies in
forgiveness for you. We need to be in forgiveness #1,
#1. And most people run to this.
It's it's God's forgiveness towards me, right?
And this is proper. This is right obviously if if
sin is missing the mark of God, right?
So any sin is missing the mark of God, whether it's Commission
or omission. If you're not forgiving
somebody, guess what? You're in sin.
So what do you need? Is there a remedy?
Is there a solution? Is there hope?
Yes, in Christ there is. Matthew chapter 3, verse #1
through 2 says this. In those days, John the Baptist
came preaching in the wilderness of Judea, saying repent, for the
Kingdom of heaven is at hand. You know, the very first
declaration publicly about the Kingdom was repent.
So when I come to God for forgiveness, guess what's the
first thing is repentance. You know what repentance means?
It means a change of mind, a reversal, a change of direction.
It means you were thinking one way.
Now you've completely reversed that, and you're thinking along
the line with the Word. The flesh will say they did you
wrong, take vengeance, But God's spirit said no side with my
word. Repent of that thought and go to
Matthew 5, it says. Pray for them if they speak
against you, if they persecute. You.
If they are talking all manner of evil against you, you know
the sons of Thunder. When persecution came against
Jesus, they said, Lord, should we caught down fire from heaven?
These people are bugging me, Lord.
They're talking about me posting stuff up on Facebook, Instagram,
Instacart. There's another bad dad joke for
you. Just making sure you're all
awake. The Bible says what?
Not to get back on there and counteract what they're saying,
but what? Forgive them, the Bible said to
What if you get slapped on one side of the cheek?
What? Thank you for strengthening my
love walk. Right now my love muscles are
getting really big is what you should see and say.
So repent is the first one. Listen, there's works of the
flesh. Galatians chapter 5, verses 19
through 21 says this. Now the works of the flesh are
evident Now Galatia, this is written to a church.
Let me read this. They are adultery, fornication,
uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contention,
jealousy, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambition, dissensions,
hearsays, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the
like. Of which I tell you before, just
as I also told you in time past, those who practice such things
will not inherit the Kingdom of God.
Why do I bring this up? Because Paul wrote this to the
church, the next verse tells them what they should get out of
and tells them what they should be in The in Christ's reality is
the fruits of the spirit, which the first one of that is love.
But he said these are works of the flesh.
So even though I'm born again, guess what?
My mind and my body can say some things to me.
My mind could say eat Donuts. I got Peppermint York patties
for Christmas. I also got chocolate covered
cherries. I know that's an acquired taste,
but I like them now. I learned last year, right
before I got my annual blood work done, that I was a fool,
'cause I think I got three boxes of chocolate covered cherries
and I ate them all before I did my blood work and my doctor
called and said your glucose is up.
Have you changed anything? Yeah, I was foolish 'cause I had
junior mints too, but that's a work of the flesh.
Guess what? This year I repented of that I
had blood work again this week. And guess what?
I really tapered back. So I expect the doctor reports
say, oh, your glucose is back. Yeah 'cause I learned to say no
to some things and yes to others, right?
Hallelujah. Why'd I bring up works of flesh
'cause it's anything in your life.
And listen, I'm not being legalistic.
Are you? With me?
I'm not putting a restraint on you.
I'm not prohibiting you. But there are certain things you
can do physically that'll hinder your purpose.
And for me, eating too much sugar for too long can affect my
health, and I can't blame that on God.
That's a work of the flesh. You know your taste buds will
talk to you. I mean, you don't get real
excited about spinach, Not usually.
But you know, you get some Ben and Jerry's ice cream or
something, or some banana cream Chip and Joanne Gaines recipe
and your taste buds will talk to you.
But those little things. Guess what if God, if the Holy
Spirit's dealing with you, you know, early my walk, there was
no dealing man. It was McDonald's other things.
But as I've gone on with God, guess what?
He's kind of said for the purpose and your health to be
there, you need to taper this. And if I don't do that, guess
what? It's sin.
And if I repent of that, I reverse it.
Oh, I can't think like that anymore because I got a purpose
in Christ. I need to be well and strong for
that purpose. I need to.
I need to go to God. And what?
Ask for forgiveness? First Corinthians chapter 6,
verses 9 through 11 says this. This is from the amplified.
Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit or
have any share of the Kingdom of God?
Do not be deceived, neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters,
nor I adult adulterers, nor effeminate by perversion, nor
those who pract or participate in homosexuality, nor thieves,
nor the greedy, nor drunkards. No revelers whose words are used
as weapons to abuse, insult, humiliate, intimidate, or
slander, nor swinders, will inherit or have any share in the
Kingdom of God. Such were some of such were some
of you before you believed, But you were washed by the atoning
sacrifice of Christ. You were sanctified, set apart
for God, and made holy. You were justified, declared
free of guilt in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the
Holy Spirit of God, the source of believers, new life and
changed behavior. I bring up these two things from
Galatians in first Corinthians because if you fail or fall in
anything, whether it's Commission or omission, you need
to get right with God. It's not hopeless.
It doesn't that mean that change can't, can't come.
It doesn't mean you're stuck in a rut or in a grave.
What God is saying. It's time for you to repent of
what you were doing. That's against my will and my
word and get up and get on. Matthew 38 says this from the
amplified produce fruit that is consistent with repentance,
demonstrating new behavior that proves a change of heart and a
conscious decision to turn away from sin.
So if you blow it in any arena, I'm giving you 2 scriptures #1
for forgiveness that God has towards us first.
John 19 says if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to
forgive our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Unconfessed sin is unforgiven sin.
Confessed sin is forgiven sin which leads to the cleansing
power of God. Proverbs 2813 says he who covers
his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and forsakes
them will have mercy. So for all that God has for you
in 2024, stay right with him #2 Forgiveness towards family.
Hallelujah. I want to look at one man as a
case study. Joseph Genesis 37, verses 18
through 19. Now before I read this, you got
to understand that God gave Joseph two dreams.
He told both of them to his family, who was ecstatic about
it. They were really excited that he
had a dream from God. I'm being really sarcastic right
now. They hated him.
His brothers hated him because of the dreams and their father's
favoritism towards him with the coat of many colors.
So they were upset with him. The father sends the boys out to
do some shepherding and he wants to check on them, so he sends
Joseph to see what their status is.
And so we picked this story up in Genesis 37, verses 18 through
19. Now, when his brother saw Joseph
afar off, even before they came near to him, they conspired
against him to kill him. They said look to, they said to
one another look, the dreamer is coming.
And then so they wanted. His family wants to do him
wrong, right? They're out to get him.
They're not excited about his dream.
They literally want to take him off the planet.
And so they're discussing what to do.
They put him in a pit. The birders, the brothers, most
of them really had murder in their heart.
They really wanted to kill him. They were.
They were premeditating a plan. This is a dysfunctional
relationship and I know in some of our families we have
dysfunction. Hallelujah.
Just look straight ahead if your family's with you.
No elbows. But thank God for Reuben,
because Reuben had enough wherewithal to have some
compassion, said let's not kill them, let's sell them right.
So for money, for money there could be money issues in family.
For money they decide to sell them.
We find that in Genesis 37 verses 25 through 28 when they
the brother sat down to meal. They lift up their eyes and
look. There was a company of
Ishmaelites coming from Gilead with their camels.
Bearing spices bomber on their way to carry them down to Egypt,
So Judah said to his brothers. What?
Profit is there if we kill our brothers and conceal his blood.
Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our
hand be upon him for his our brother and flesh.
The brothers listen, and then they end up selling Joseph to
these traitors who took him to Egypt.
So Can you imagine? Can you imagine Joseph in this
story? He goes at his father's request
to check on his brothers. Brothers, apprehend him, don't
greet him, throw him into a pit. He's waiting anxiously what is
going to happen with my life? And then not only that, but
distance relatives were involved in this story.
This points back to Abraham who had a promise from God, whose
wife got impatient and said I'm going to give you a concubine,
an Egyptian concubine, and I want you to go into her because
God said this is going to happen.
And so guess what happened out of that Hagar gave birth to
Ishmael, which is a relative of Joseph, a distant relative.
So not only his immediate family but distant relatives, he got
sold to them who took him and actually sold him to into in
Egypt. Can you imagine the frustration,
the disappointment, the discouragement, the anger that
would want to well up in you? Listen, we deal with things with
family, but I don't think anybody's room to the point that
you were apprehended and taken to a different country and sold.
So how bad do you really have it?
And then spent 13 years? Think about that.
We read the Bible sometimes from Genesis 37 to 50.
Is the life of Joseph really and the patriarchs?
But we read it pretty quick within our 234 day span.
But this is 13 years to meditate, reflect, and review.
I know that Joseph forgave. Why do I know that?
Because he would have never got to the purpose according to the
word of God, the destiny, if he had harbored ill will in his
heart. And how do I even know this?
Further, because he would if vengeance was in his heart after
he spent time in Potiphar's house was wrongly accused again,
God just kept giving him opportunity after opportunity to
exercise his love muscle. And it wasn't God doing it.
The devil is working through people, but in the ultimate end,
God was glorified, if you handle it right.
So when his brothers come back to him because there's a famine
and they thought he was dead, I like it because Joseph kind of
toys with him a little bit. He sends him away but puts the
platter in and oh, you stole from me.
I feel like he was still wrestling a little bit, right?
Like I could if I wanted to. I mean, they were nervous of the
brothers, and he's probably having a little bit of fun
thinking I got him sweating. But ultimately he said I'm not
going to do what I could, which is actually execute him or put
him to death. How do I know that?
Because he didn't do it. But in Genesis 50, when his
father, we have Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, when Jacob passed
away, he was able, out of forgiveness, listen to end up
saving his whole family. You want to save your family?
Walk in forgiveness with him. It'll open up doors to minister
to them. You want your family to be
unsaved? Just harbor Real will walk in
vengeance. You walk in forgiveness.
It'll give you an opportunity to minister.
Does that mean that we condone or put or agree with everything
they're doing? No, it's wrong.
But the same way that God had mercy on me and saved me, I want
to see that hand extended to them and pulled up out of the
pit. Now they said, listen, the
brothers were really nervous because they they realized that
their father passing away Joseph may want to take vengeance on
him. So in Genesis 50, verses 15
through 21. Joseph's brothers saw their
father was dead, they said. What if Joseph carries A grudge
against us and pays us back in? Full for the wrong which we did
to him. So they sent word to Joseph,
saying, Your father commanded us before he died, saying, you're
to say to Joseph, I beg you, please forgive the transgression
of your brothers and their sin, for they did you wrong.
Now please forgive the transgression of the servants of
God, of your Father. And Joseph wept when they spoke
to him then Then his brothers went and fell down before him.
In confession they said, behold, we are your servants, your
slaves. But Joseph said to them, Do not
be afraid. Do not be afraid.
Am I in the place of God? Vengeance is his, not mine.
As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for
good. In order to bring about this
present outcome, that many people be kept alive as they are
to this day. So now do not be afraid.
I will provide for you and support you and your little
ones. So be comforted.
He gave them encouragement and and hope, and spoke with
kindness to their hearts. I want to say this about before
we get to the third one. Genesis 49 is a beautiful
picture. Keep on going to family because
you need goals in 2024. You need spirit, soul, body,
family, goals, financial and social goals.
But Genesis 49 is a beautiful picture because it's at the end
of Jacob's life. He has his twelve sons with him,
but he prophecies over each son before he passes away.
I think that should be an end of life goal for every parent in
the home. What word are you going to leave
to your kids at the Lord Terrace of their destiny in the earth?
But he said about Joseph. In chapter 49, verses 22 through
24, it says Joseph is a fruitful bow, a main branch of the vine,
a fruitful bow by a spring, a well, a mountain.
Its branches run over the wall, influencing others.
Why did I bring that up? Because any barriers, any
hindrances, anything that somebody does that's a
trespasser or wrong answer. I like what Jacob said about
Joseph cuz a vine doesn't let a wall stop it.
Vines are tenacious. You pull a vine.
I put some vines at my old Oakbrook house, cuz they were
growing up, the windows and up, and I put them down and guess
what? Within weeks and months they
started growing back. And that's what Jacob said to
Joseph. You're like a vine.
Nothing's going to stop you if you walk in.
Forgiveness, any mountain, any barrier and a hint that you're
going to overcome. Doesn't matter if people try to
uproot you, try to discourage you, you can overcome anything.
Third Point, forgiveness towards religious people.
Hallelujah. I want to look at Stephen as a
case study for this in Acts chapter 6, verses 8 through 15,
and I believe Pastor Earl preached on this several
Wednesdays ago. Somebody did.
Maybe it was a Sunday, it was sometime in a recent sermon
somewhere. So it says in Stephen, full of
faith and power to great wonders and signs among the people.
Then there arose some which is from the synagogue of the
freedmen, and they were not able to resist the wisdom of the
Spirit by which Stephen spoke. And they secretly induced men
saying, We have heard Stephen speak blasphemous words against
Moses and God. They stirred up the people, the
elders, and the scribes. They came, and they seized
Stephen and brought him to the council.
They also set up false witnesses who said this man Stephen does
not cease to speak blasphemous words against the Holy Place and
the Law. For we have heard him say that
this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place and change
the customs which Moses delivered us.
And all who sat in the council looking steadfastly at Stephen
saw his face as the face of an Angel.
Now religious people are going to talk bad about Kingdom
people, people that are going after truth.
But guess what? We still need to forgive.
Forgiveness creates an open door of an opportunity to still
minister life to people. I know when I was growing up, I
didn't grow up in a charismatic, Pentecostal tongue talking
church. I grew up in what you call
liturgical church or a traditional church.
I'm not going to name the denomination, but we went to
church every Sunday. And listen, I got born again in
1997, really redeemed because a friend of mine was persistent.
He would not let go of one to see me saved.
And that changed the course of my life.
He he was hounding me in those days.
He kept calling, was relentless. Finally I surrendered to his
determination and we went to a thing called the divine
revelation of hell. And that scared the hell out of
me. It was at the Columbus
Convention Center, and I thank God I got plugged in a wonderful
church. You know, God is good.
He just plugs you into the right place.
Thank God for Anchor Faith Church and the churches I've
been a part of because they were real churches.
But I did have ABC before church experience, before a real church
experience. And I I grew up and I remember
when I was sitting in 1997 in a in what I call a real church,
one that taught this, the Bible just taking notes.
And I remember being so frustrated, not at the message,
but where has this been my whole life?
And it reflected me back to how I grew up.
And I was like, I got mad. I spent all that time I was
going to hell and thinking I was going to church.
And never once at this church was there an altar call to
repent, to give your life to the Lord.
So you could imagine I was like, I could have missed it.
Matter of fact, the church I grew up in, I had to confess my
first sins before the minister. And I was young, but they got
it. They thought that you had to go
before a I'm kind of giving away some things, probably, and
confess your sin. Well, the Bible says if you
confess your sin before I can go before I confess, confess my
wrong to you. That's scriptural, but it's not
exclusive. I can go before the throne of
God right now. So I remember I was so scared
when they opened up that little divider, first time ever doing
it. That's made-up something.
I lied about my sin. So it was like a a double sin.
But you know, that came back up like it kind of got me mad.
These are the people that were supposed to be the experts,
these Pharisees, these scribes, these sad you CS and they're
supposed to be bringing the word.
But it brought no deliverance. It brought no redemption.
I brought no change. Life, it was routine.
It was religious. It was a cycle, was the same
thing over and over, but no real vital life.
I didn't know about Christ. I wasn't in Christ.
But thank God. Guess what I forgave and let it
go. I can go right now to that.
We'll call denomination with no ill will.
I'll say this as we come to the 4th point.
You know you have ought against somebody if you see them.
I'll just go with Walmart in the aisle and they didn't see you
turn the corner and you buck out of the corner aisle before they
see you right now some of you do it because of time restraints
and you know that person's a talker.
But Hallelujah, that's a 20 minute conversation.
Nope, I'm not even buying what I needed.
I'm going straight home and then you can ask God for forgiveness
about your impatience after that.
All right, 4th 1:00, but I forgave Amen.
I do want to say with Stephen, I'm not going to read it, but
they can reference it up there in Acts Chapter 7 verses 54
through 60. He gives a great sermon.
In Acts Chapter 7, A Great Powerful sermon on the
redemption in the Lord Jesus Christ and Messiah.
Now guess what? After he got on speaking, the
religious people were not excited that he just preached to
them. They were mad and they end up
killing him as they were stoning him.
Though he makes his powerful words, he said Father forgive
them. Ignorant people don't know.
Foolish people won't learn. Religious people won't learn, he
said. Forgive them.
They are fools. They don't know what they do.
And then it said he saw Jesus standing.
The reason Jesus stood because he said that's my boy, he's
Listen, eternity is too long to live with unforgiveness.
One thing you want to settle before you die is ought with
anybody. Eternity is too long to live
with unforgiveness. Listen, Stephen got it right and
released those religious people and he had a glorious entrance
with Jesus standing to greet him.
Last point we talked about for God's forgiveness towards us,
forgiveness towards family, forgiveness towards religious
people. Last thing I want to cover is
forgiveness towards our self. And I want to use the Apostle
Paul in this illustration. Why?
Because Paul, we can find him overlapping Stephen's story, the
one that was just killed from the religious people in Acts
Chapter 7 verse 58 it says and they cast Stephen out of the out
of the city and stoned him. And the witnesses lay their
clothes, laid Stephen clothes at the feet of a young man named
Saul. In Acts chapter 8, verse #3
asked for Saul. He made havoc of the church,
entering every house and dragging off men and women,
committing them to prison. Acts Chapter 9 verses one
through 2 says Then Saul still breathing threats and murder
against the disciples. The Lord went to the high priest
and asked for letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus,
that if he found any who were of the way, whether men or women,
he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.
As as Saul journeyed, he came near Damascus.
Suddenly a light shone around him from heaven He fell to the
ground and heard a voice saying, Saul, Saul, why are you
persecuting me? And And Saul said, Who are you,
Lord? The Lord said, I'm Jesus, whom
you're persecuting man. He took it personal when there
came persecution against the Church.
But Saul is Paul. When we find in Acts 13, not
only do you have a change of heart and a change of name, you
can't see yourself as you were. You need to see yourself as he
sees you in him. But we see a change of name.
But he asked her letters to Damascus.
Do you realize Damascus is about 150 miles north of Jerusalem?
Listen, they didn't have cars in those days.
You know, the average journey I read was usually about 9 to 19
miles depending on what you had, if you had a donkey or if you're
going by shoe sandals. So he was determined to kill
believers right? Now let's go to 1st.
After the conversion, he becomes the apostle Paul. 1st
Corinthians. 15 verses one through 10 says this.
Can you imagine after he got redeemed, what the devil tried
to bring up about his past? Not only have you now listen, he
was pretty self-righteous, but the devil could have brought up
you helped incite the murder of Stephen, you brought havoc on
the churches, which means ruin and destruction.
And then you were getting letters to Damascus to make your
way to a town that's 150 miles away to persecute other
churches. Can you imagine the devil
replaying that in his mind? Now listen to what he says in
Corinthians, though after he spent some time in the Lord, he
says. Now, brothers and sisters, let
me remind you once again of the good news of salvation, which I
preach to you, which you welcome and accepted, on which you stand
by faith. By this faith you are saved,
reborn from above, spiritually transformed, renewed, and set
apart for his purpose. If you hold firmly the word
which I preach to you, unless you believed in vain, just
superficially and without complete commitment.
For I passed on to you as a first importance which I
received, that Christ died for our sins according to that which
was the Scriptures foretold, and that he was buried, that he was
bodily raised on the third day, according to that which the
scriptures foretold, that he appeared to Cephas, which is
Peter, and the 12 After that he poured, He appeared to more than
500 brothers and sisters at one time, the majority of whom are
still alive, but some have fallen asleep.
Then he was seen by James, then by all the apostles, and last of
all, as to 1 untimely, prematurely, traumatically born,
he appeared to me also Listen to what Paul says about himself,
for I'm the least worthy of the apostles, and not fit to be
called an apostle, because at one time I fiercely opposed and
violently persecute the Church of God.
But listen to his resolve and forgiveness.
But by the remarkable grace of God, I am what I am, and his
grace toward me was not without effect.
And in fact I worked harder than all the other apostles, though
was not I. But the grace of God is
unmerited favor and blessing with which was with me.
I close with this Philippians chapter 3 and and many of us
know this verse. Pastor Marcus, you can come, but
I want to read it in context of what the Apostle Paul lived
before he came into Christ. Philippians, chapter three.
We all say and quote this verse a lot, but we need to think in
terms of what he came out of and what he came into.
So verse 12 says, not that I've already attained or I'm already
perfected, but I press on that may I may lay hold of that for
which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me.
Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended, but one
thing I do. What's he do?
Forget those things that are behind, and he reaches forward
to those things which are ahead. I press toward the goal, the
prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
It's important that you forgive yourself, he said.
One thing I do, I forget those things that are behind.
You know, Satan's called the accuser of the brother.
And I'm sure that Satan tried to bring up to him like a replaying
a movie scene over and over again what he did to Steve and
what he did to the church. But he said this one thing I do
forget what lies behind. If you're going to reach all
that God has for you in 2024, you need to be a person that
forgives and let goes of what happened in 2023 or prior.
Why is this so important? Last scripture, Galatians
chapter 5, verse #6 says that faith works by love.
One translation says faith is energized by love.
Another translation says faith is made operative through love.
You're never going to have a strong faith if you don't have a
strong love walk. Romans 117 says the just shall
live by faith. If we're to live by faith, we
got to make sure we live by love 'cause our faith is only going
to work in proportion to our love walk.
And your faith and your love walk are not going to be strong
in 2024. If you're not in forgiveness,
'cause if you're not in this in Christ Reality, then you're not
in love and ultimately you're not in faith and ultimately
you're not going to please God. Cause faith please is God.
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